Herschel Walker Compares Himself To Jesus And Suggests He Had Mental Problems

During a recent event, Republican senate candidate Herschel Walker went on a rant about how Jesus was persecuted and suffered, and he then made the outrageous claim that if HE (Herschel) suffers from a mental illness then Jesus probably does, too. This made absolutely no sense, and the crowd at the event was just as confused as the rest of us. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this bizarre event.

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During a recent event, Republican Senate candidate, Herschel Walker, um, somehow managed to compare himself to Jesus Christ and then suggested that Jesus also had a mental disorder. So here is Herschel Walker explaining all this, hopefully better than I just did, although it's Herschel Walker. So he probably isn't. But anyway, listen to Herschel Walker and his thoughts on Jesus and how he is like Jesus, here it is.

And Jesus forgave. And what so great about it when Jesus was headed to the cross, when you were bearing this cross, think of every angel in heaven was so upset with us down here, what we were doing today that the, the, the holy one, they could have came down here and destroyed us all. And Jesus said, no, I got this. And he sacrificed for us. And that's what I said. That is the ultimate, ultimate price anyone could pay. And I remember, um, after I left the hospital, pastor Tony Evans is my pastor that was in Dallas and me to, uh, to speak in front of 1500 ministers. And I told them, I said, uh, I'm never gone through anything. My holy father had gone through. And I said, if I have a mental problem, Jesus Christ must have a mental problem. And they ain't like that. And I cause you know, they got that doctorate as well. And you know, I do have an honorary doctor, which is the same thing I reckon. But anyway, uh, they told me you have to suffer trauma to go through mental problems. I said, Jesus Christ was nailed to a cross and that's not a lot of trauma. So I said, there's nothing that you are gonna go through. That Jesus had gone through.

So Herschel Walker says, if I have a mental problem, then Jesus Christ has a mental problem. Now in the Bible, there's, there's no indication that Jesus, um, had mental health issues. Um, maybe they left it out. I don't know I wasn't there, but for Herschel Walker, there is actually a book that details his fight with mental illness, a book that he himself wrote about having dissociative identity disorder. So Herschel Walker has openly admitted that he does have mental health problems. So when he says, if I have 'em, then Jesus has 'em. Well, we know he has 'em. So he is saying that Jesus has mental health problems flat out now, Herschel Walker's mental health issues, right? That dissociative identity disorder should not in and of itself, exclude him from holding public office. What should exclude him from holding office is that his particular affliction leads him to fits of violence and rage.

And that of course is coming from his ex-wife who at one point claims that Herschel Walker threatened to murder her a claim, by the way that Herschel Walker does not deny. He says, I'm glad that this information is now out here. Cuz it came out just a couple weeks ago. I'm glad it's out there. You know, so people can see that, that I'm not like that, but we have no proof that you are not like that anymore. You know, forget for a moment, all the sentences you attempted to string together in that clip that made absolutely no sense. Forget for a moment. The fact that you compared your honorary PhD to actual real doctors saying it's pretty much the same thing. Maybe it was a joke. Maybe it wasn't, but either way it's the violence in Herschel Walker's history that raises the biggest red flags.

And here he is trying to compare himself to Jesus. Now, as far as we know, there was one fit of rage from Jesus in the Bible. And that's when he kicked the money changers out of the temple,