Tucker Carlson shared why he spent 1 1/2 years studying the Bible — and holy moly.
The correct-wing TV character defined to orthodox christian author and fellow conservative Rod Dreher in a video interview printed to Dreher’s YouTube channel ― fittingly on Halloween ― that the explanation why he lastly determined to crack open the Good Guide was as a result of he was as soon as attacked by a “demon.”
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The topic was broached when Dreher requested Carlson, “Do you think the presence of evil is kickstarting people to wonder about good?”
“That’s what happened to me,” Carlson mentioned earlier than launching into his story.
In keeping with the previous Fox Information pundit, he was attacked “while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs in the bed” and was “mauled — physically mauled” whereas his spouse and canine continued to sleep peacefully.
When Dreher requested Carlson if he was attacked by a “demon,” Carlson replied, “Yeah, by a demon — or something unseen that left claw marks on my sides.”
“I was totally confused,” Carlson continued. “I woke up and I couldn’t breathe, and I thought I was going to suffocate, and I walked around outside, and then I walked in, and my wife and dogs had not woken up, and they’re very light sleepers.”
Carlson mentioned as soon as again inside his dwelling he had “these terrible pains on my rib cage and on my shoulder.”
“I was just in my boxer shorts, and I went and flipped on the light in the bathroom, and I had four claw marks on either side, underneath my arms and on my left shoulder, they were bleeding.”
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Carlson mentioned that though he isn’t significantly non secular, he “knew it was spiritual immediately,” and determined to name his assistant who’s “like, the only Evangelical Christian I know” to debate his expertise.
“And she said, ‘Oh, yeah. No, no, that happens. Yeah. People are attacked in their bed by demons,’” Carlson recounted.
Carlson expressed utter shock about his assistant’s revelation whereas speaking to Dreher recalling that his response to her was: “‘What?! What are you even talking about?’”
Carlson mentioned that though he has “very low levels of trust for Christian pastors,” quickly after the expertise he was “seized with this very intense desire to read the Bible.”
He mentioned that he determined to “read it and see what’s in there myself” with out “any study aids or anything” and freed from “other people’s opinions.”
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“So I spent a year and a half reading, and then I started rereading it, and it was a, just a transformative experience for me,” Carlson mentioned. “But I’m not, you know, holding myself out as someone from whom you could get theological advice, because I don’t know, I don’t understand any of it. But yeah, that happened.”
No matter how one might really feel after listening to Carlson’s story, the implication that Carlson’s confrontation with an evil demon prompted him to “wonder about good” doesn’t precisely take a look at.
Very lately, Carlson went on a racist tirade towards Vice President Kamala Harris throughout Donald Trump’s hate-fueled Madison Sq. Gardens rally, hosted a Nazi apologist on his X platform present, and very creepily advised that Trump must carry order to the nation by appearing as an abusive “dad” to a “hormone-addled 15-year-old daughter” and giving her a “vigorous spanking.”
