Former Fox News Channel host and current X interviewer extraordinaire Tucker Carlson pulled no punches during a recent gala fundraiser at the Cleveland Marriott, thrown by the Center for Christian Virtue. During the event, Tucker spoke about both Christianity and abortion, describing how Christianity has been warped and why we need to take a different view of abortion.
Particularly, he argued that abortion is more or less the same thing as “human sacrifice,” a term he used to describe abortion, and said that the very notion of it is so antithetical to the normal human drive to have kids and extend one’s bloodline to future generations that it must have been planted in the minds of unsuspecting people by “outside forces.”
Making that point, Tucker told the gathered gala audience, “It’s not a natural human function to want to kill your own children. Actually that’s an idea an Impulse that was introduced. Outside forces are acting on people at all times throughout history, in every culture on the planet, to convince people that if they sacrifice their children they will be happy and safe – and that’s exactly what this is.”
In another comment on the abortion issue, Tucker said that those promoting anti-family values are the enemies of normal people, as, in his view, “the point of life is to have children and to watch them have grandchildren.” He said, “Anyone telling you don’t have children, kill your children, is not your friend, is your enemy.”
Continuing, Tucker went on to argue that the fight over abortion and like issues represents a spiritual battle, with one side arguing for natalism and having children and another arguing for abortion as the pathway to joy. Left out, but equally important, is the pro-abortion contingent that use it as a way to keep young women economically “productive” at work instead of rearing children and living lives of joy and tradition.
Relatedly, Tucker targeted the Episcopal Church in which he grew up, arguing that it has bent fully to the demands of the woke world and no longer stands for Christianity, much less Christian virtue. He said it “crumbled around us and became this very aggressively Pagan institution.”
In addition to commenting on those hot-button culture war topics, Tucker unleashed on the political parties that dominate American politics and discourse, saying that whereas the old parties were “at least pretending to try to improve the lives of the people who voted for them,” these are not.
In another comment on the abortion issue and the sorry state of affairs as shown by the issues the parties are pushing, Tucker said, “When you wind up in an election with the two top ballot initiatives are one encouraging people to kill their own kids and two encourage their kids to do drugs, who’s benefiting here?”
It is unclear if Tucker meant the comments as an attack on former President Donald Trump, who argued that Republicans should take a softer stance on abortion because it’s a loser of an issue electorally, or if Tucker was just discussing a subject about which he cares deeply. Watch Tucker here:
Abortion has gone from being tolerated to celebrated. What kind of sick people would tell you that killing your baby is a pathway to joy? pic.twitter.com/ohaYtnITPr
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 25, 2023
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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