Admittedly, I'm not a huge follower of Candace Owens' podcast. However, lately she has been gaining considerable attention and been targeted by an organized smear campaign for insufficient loyalty to the Conservative-Industrial Complex and its Official Narrative. Since the highly-publicized murder of Charlie Kirk last September, Candace steadfastly has rejected the talking-points and tenaciously exposed the corruption going on within Turning Point USA.
So, two days ago, Candace released a documentary on Kirk's domestic partner Erika Kirk. I haven't seen it, but podcaster Jimmy Dore released some of the reaction to it. As usual, the same Christian Conservatives mobilized within the Megachurches to attack Candace by accusing her of, well, being in league with the Devil.
If this all sounds like these people are reading off a script, they are. As Dore pointed out, a leaked e-mail from a TPUSA to their toadies in the Media reads as follows:
"Urgent: Shut down Candace's latest smear. Action needed tonight!
"This isn't journalism, it's pure evil. demonic slander against a widow still in mourning. Charlie's name and legacy is being smeared, dragging Charlie's name and legacy through the mud for clicks...We've seen this pattern before, but this time it's personal and it has to stop.
"Talking Points---Use these verbatim or close variations:
"1: Candace Owens is evil. Pure evil.
2. This is demonic. Straight up satanic-level attack on a widow and her kids.
3. Candace is a demon obsessed with destroying Charlie's family.
4. How can any real Christian stay silent while she attacks Erika Kirk like this?
5. She's not 'asking questions,' she's conducting a witch-hunt."
The article goes on with instructions on trolling, and getting Candace's video shut down, which is very much like TPUSA has been doing since the beginning.
Podcaster Dan Bongino came out with what probably was the most visceral reaction. Bongino was disgraced from his post as Deputy FBI Director earlier this year for his egregious blundering in handling various Psyops, including the Kirk Murder. Since then, he's been especially outspoken and aggressive trying to ingratiate himself back into the Party's favor. Bongino went into full rage-mode threatening Candace Owens with the very fires of Hell. I think that we can all surmise the types of people that this smear-campaign is designed to reach.
This is the truly disturbing part of all of this. It is yet another example of how American Christianity has been hijacked to serve political ends. The types of people represented by Charlie Kirk, Doug Wilson, and Dan Bongino are one step away from bringing back Mediaeval levels of religious intolerance. In the aforementioned clip, Bongino doesn't sound materially different from the kinds of accusations made by Inquisitors during the Dark Ages. TPUSA has always been deeply connected with Peter Thiel's Rockbridge Network, which is aimed at building just such a political Church and its leadership are admitted admirers of the Dark Ages.
Another noteworthy thing about the MAGA Megachurches involved in these affairs is their readiness to throw out accusations of demonic influence (and Thiel's own seeming obsession with the Antichrist is of the same stripe). Not only are would-be (and actual) totalitarian movements frequently inspired by the occult, the demonic fury in which they carry out their policies gives them away as to where their inspiration actually comes from. Zionism---including so-called Christian Zionism---is a prime example of this in action.
Mystics, theologians, and philosophers of all major Western faiths envision Heaven as place of freedom and activity where all live in harmony according to a love of God while angels watch over them. Hell, in contrast, is depicted as a hierarchy where demons rule---not out of love---but out of sheer force and they obey Satan---not out of loyalty or devotion---but out of fear of him and other infernal spirits which have powers over others. The latter description sounds much more like a depiction of the type of society that our postmodern 'Christian Right' desires than the former does, as anyone can plainly see.
Sadly, though, too many American Christians choose not to see. What is going on against Candace Owens is simply Cancel Culture of a type even worse than the Woke Left version because it hypocritically poses as a Christian movement.
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