Ruth Sherlock reports from Houston: Ruthie Morris is a guitarist in a Houston church and a diehard Christian. Seen through her eyes, the world seems a truly frightening place. She came to support Ted Cruz, she said, speaking from the presidential candidate’s rally in Texas last night, when she realised that Barack Obama was out to “destroy America”. “I knew it was bad when I found out that he was a Muslim,” she said. But, when she learned about Obamacare, his programme for socialised medicine, she said: “This guy is a nut”. Mr Obama, she said, was part of an evil plot by “high level” organisations, which she said included the United Nations, to bring down America through a system of “forced socialism”. “If you want to kill a country that is what you do,” she said, explaining that small businesses wouldn’t be able to survive. Meet RuthieMorris, a religious #Texas supporter of #TedCruz who believes the #UN will soon storm the #US @Telegraph pic.twitter.com/5twZBikR6V — Ruth Sherlock (@Rsherlock) March 1, 2016 Ms Morris said she feared an invasion by the United Nations: “But UN troops cannot come here,” she said. “People are moving to Texas in droves to start small business. We are the number one state that Obama hates, and I pray to God to protect us.” These may seem the ramblings of a person in a fringe conspiracy movement. But Ms Morris was only espousing – if a relatively extreme – version of beliefs that are held by many social and religious conservatives in Texas. The fear of the United Nations is so widely held that Mr Cruz deemed it appropriate to include it in his appeal to voters last night America was “one Supreme Court justice appointment away” from the country’s sovereignty being “given up” to a United Nations world power, he said. In churches across this state pastors and prophets, as some of the preachers are called, espouse an apocalyptic vision of the future that has many Americans fearing that this election is a turning point for the very survival of the world.