Any President that claims to be a Christian, & yet places the Presidency before his faith, will be a failure at both.
 Obama  makes my point.
 Per the Declaration of Independence.
" We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--"
 That pesky Bible, with it's insidious " thou shall not kill, & thou shall not steal", you are on to something Jamison, that is truly sinister.
 I will not address the mellow-dramatics, other than to say there is zero evidence of Cruz looking to create a " Church of America", or anything even remotely absurd.