THE "ANNE FRANK FINDS JESUS" GUY ALSO RETWEETED QANON, NATURALLY

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports:

The Republican nominee for Congress in Texas’ 7th district is a self-proclaimed history buff, but his take on Anne Frank is not one that most historians would endorse.

Johnny Teague, an evangelical pastor and business owner who won the district’s primary in March, in 2020 published “The Lost Diary of Anne Frank,” a novel imagining the famous Jewish Holocaust victim’s final days in the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps as she might have written them in her diary.

The kicker: In Teague’s telling, Frank seems to embrace Christianity just before she is murdered by the Nazis....

“I would love to learn more about Jesus and all He faced in His dear life as a Jewish teacher,” Teague’s Anne Frank character muses at one point, saying that her dad had tried to get her a copy of the New Testament. Anne’s father Otto Frank, who in real life did survive the Holocaust, seems to have been spared a tragic fate in Teague’s telling because of his interest in learning about Jesus.

Later, Anne does learn about Jesus through other means, reciting Christian psalms and expressing sympathy for Jesus’ plight.

By book’s end, Anne is firm in her belief that “every Jewish man or woman should ask” questions like “Where is the Messiah? ... Did He come already, and we didn’t recognize Him?”

Unsurprisingly, the account for a previous Teague congressional run retweeted QAnon messages:

Teague, on his since-deleted [2020] campaign account, had retweeted content explicitly promoting QAnon, including retweeting a video of QAnon supporters taking an oath supporting the conspiracy theory. He also retweeted a false conspiracy theory pushed by some QAnon supporters that John F. Kennedy Jr. is secretly still alive even though he died in a plane crash. Teague has since claimed to Grid News that “QAnon material shared by his campaign’s Twitter account was posted by a campaign manager and that he ‘had her take it down,’” though he added that “I am sure QAnon are good American loving citizens.”

Well, at least he didn't write a novel in which Anne Frank finds Q.

Fortunately, he's running in a district the Cook Political Report rates as D+13; Cook doesn't consider it a competitive district.

The JTA story tells us that Teague has a typical Texas Republican's views on energy policy, but filtered through his own version of Christianity:

The candidate’s top issues on his website include “Close the Border,” “Eliminate Property Taxes” and his belief that fossil fuels are divinely ordained: “If you believe in a Creator and that everything is here for a purpose, then you have to realize that fossil fuels are not an accident. At the very beginning of time, God knew we would need automation and industry, so in His Wisdom, He gave us the fuels that we would need.”

I guess Teague doesn't believe God made, y'know, the sun.