The reality of spiritual warfare.
Along with fellow internet giant Candace Owens, political commentator Tucker Carlson has become a divisive flashpoint of constant internet outrage, concern, and condemnation from many on the Right thanks to, among other morally inverse positions, his obsessive conspiracy-mongering about “the Jews.” Seemingly overnight, Carlson went from being The Great White Hope of independent conservative media, after being fired by Fox News and taking his show solo, to driving a potentially lethal wedge deep into the MAGA movement over support for Israel. Along the way, he has supportively platformed white supremacists, Left-wing historical revisionists, and 9/11 conspiracy theorists. He has defended, if not embraced, practically every ideological threat to the West, from civilizational jihad and sharia law, to terror states Iran and Qatar, to Putin’s Russia.
This is to say nothing of fringe topics into which he has dived that have many wondering if Carlson needs the intervention of a psychiatrist, such as UFOs, chemtrails and government geoengineering, and demonic attacks.
On his internet show Wednesday, Carlson dropped a new controversy. He made the reasonable observation that demonizing one’s political opponents as “Nazis” inevitably leads to murdering said “Nazis” in the name of defending democracy against a great evil. So far, so good; the Left has adopted this as its principal strategy of “resistance” since the day Donald Trump announced his first presidential candidacy, and the result has been widespread and growing violence against the Right, including the openly celebrated assassinations of such private citizens as healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and conservative activist Charlie Kirk, not to mention failed attempts on President Trump’s life.
But then, as an example to support his point, Carlson made the jaw-dropping choice of Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hanged by the Nazis for his role in multiple secret plots to overthrow or assassinate Adolph Hitler. Carlson claimed that in participating in these efforts, Bonhoeffer had
reach[ed] the end of reason, or even Christianity. Bonhoeffer decided that Christianity’s not even – he was a Lutheran pastor – Christianity’s not enough, we have to kill the guy [Hitler]. I’m not judging Bonhoeffer, who was a great man in some ways. But that’s inevitable once we decide that some people are Nazis.
The illogic here is flabbergasting. People did not “decide” to smear Hitler unfairly as a Nazi. He literally was the proud leader of the Nazi movement. He is widely considered, except by some of Carlson’s guests, to be the very personification of evil. The saintly Bonhoeffer’s participation in the efforts to remove him from power was moral and heroic. Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas was outraged:
It’s seriously shocking he would say these things. Bonhoeffer did not advocate MURDER, which would have been sinful, but he did understand that within a just war people are KILLED. Will Tucker now condemn David for killing Goliath?
Theories abound as to why Tucker Carlson has gone off the rails: he has sold out to Qatari money; he is antisemitic; he is, like world-class grifter Owens, simply trolling for social media engagement and dollars; like some other former Fox News personalities, perhaps he never was a true conservative. Perhaps a combination of these explains it.
Tucker’s bizarre turn has been hugely disappointing for many conservatives, myself included; I have been repulsed by some of his newfound (?), controversial positions – except for one.
Just prior to this latest uproar over his misuse and abuse of Bonhoeffer, Carlson had drawn fire for repeating details of a supernatural attack he alleges happened to him in his bed in February 2023. In an extensive interview last Thursday with fellow former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, Carlson suggested the attack was in response to a positive supernatural experience he had had the day before, during which he was overwhelmed by a sudden wave of atypical, for him, empathy and love toward someone he thought he hated.
He described the moment as “profound and beautiful and unexpected,” that it obviously came from God, and that it was “twinned” with an evil experience later that night, in which he was “physically mauled” by an unseen force while he was sleeping.
Carlson said he awoke that night struggling to breathe, had a “horrible pain underneath my arms, like on the side of my chest” and found “claw marks on both sides, on right and left side on my ribs, and they’re bleeding.” --->READ MORE HERE
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'Ephesians 6 is real,' Carlson tells CP
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson confirmed to The Christian Post that he believes he was attacked by a demonic spirit in his bed while he was still employed at the network.
"Ephesians 6 is real," Carlson told The Christian Post, referencing the chapter in the New Testament that teaches mankind is engaged in warfare "against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."
Carlson also told CP that the alleged demonic attack that left him bloodied took place on Feb. 20, 2023, two months before he was unceremoniously fired from Fox News, though he added that God "wins in the end."
In a clip posted by the “Christianities?” YouTube channel, footage of Carlson went viral on X Thursday, during which he claimed he had "a direct experience" with supernatural evil.
.@TuckerCarlson: 'I Was Mauled By A Demon!'
— Scooter Downey ☦️ 🇺🇸 (@scooter_downey) October 31, 2024
Clip from my upcoming doc @ChristianitiesX pic.twitter.com/tyrK4sw3Hs
After First Things Foundation director John Heers asked if "the presence of evil is kickstarting people to wonder about the good," Carlson replied, "That’s what happened to me."
Carlson claimed that he was attacked in his bed at night by what he assumed was a demonic entity.
"I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled," he said.
"In a spiritual attack by a demon?" Heers asked.
"Yeah, by a demon," Carlson replied. "Or by something unseen that left claw marks on my sides."
Carlson said after he inspected his body following the attack, he "had four claw marks on either side underneath my arms and on my left shoulder, and they’re bleeding."
Carlson said the physical marks from the attack remain, and that it pressed him to read the Bible. --->READ MORE HERE
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