Did Fox Fire Tucker Carlson because of his Christian Faith?
For Christians Carlson was not the fight in the dog--he was the dog in the fight!
“There is nothing new under the sun”! This expression is one of those sayings that should have come from Homer, Shakespeare, Poe, Twain, or Dante. Yet the idiom comes from Solomon—Yes, King Solomon, according to God, the wisest human to ever live (1 Kings 3:12). Solomon would later write: What has been what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9.
Solomon, the Son of David, would write about the Vanity of vanities,”! Solomon liked that word vanity; he used it thirty-eight times in Ecclesiastes as he wrote about life “under the sun.” The term means “emptiness, futility, vapor, that which vanishes quickly and leaves nothing behind.” From the human point of view (“under the sun”), life does look useless. It is easy for us to get pessimistic. When Solomon wrote the assertion, he highlighted the recurring nature of human life on Earth.
Since the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Satan, and his minions have tried to cancel all great messengers of “The Carpenter”! After Tucker Carlson’s unexpected firing, many speculate why Tucker Carlson was fired. Speculations range from exposing the Twitter Files, questioning the 2020 election results, revealing the January 6th videos, or honestly reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story and subsequent cover-up. Indeed, reporting on these stories does not rise to the level of canning one of modern America's most famous political and cultural commentators. These stories were not new in any circles.
According to The Post Millennial Article Link PM, a source from Vanity Fair revealed that Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch reportedly eliminated Tucker Carlson from Fox News following a Friday speech that “contained religious” overtones. The source revealed to Vanity Fair after Tucker's Prayer Talk that Murdoch “decided to remove Carlson following comments made during Carlson's speech at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary gala on Friday night.” During the speech at the Heritage Foundation, Carlson dared to tell the audience that politics had become a battle between "good" and "evil" and said the answer to this was "prayer." Tucker rightly sees the current battle not as a culture war but a spiritual war for the ages! Indeed, a battle between “good and evil”!
Vanity Fair would report, “That stuff freaks Rupert out. He doesn’t like all the spiritual talk,” the source told the outlet. They would further write that—"Carlson laced his speech with religious overtones that even Murdoch found too extreme, the source, who was briefed on Murdoch’s decision-making.” While some have speculated that Murdoch is an atheist, probably the fairest way to describe Murdoch is agnostic. Based on Murdoch’s past, his motivations are worldly popularity and money. It’s that simple and that hard. Tucker Carlson was becoming a “too” Christian for Fox News and must be eliminated.
Carlson had become a messenger for the Carpenter’s people; you know, that nasty-smelling “Born Again” Christian who lives in rural communities and the suburbs of the American heartland. Who believe in Genesis chapter one that God created Men to be Men and Women to be Women in His image, and believe that coaches and students can pray publicly. Tucker spoke out for the poor, the minorities, and the persecuted. And those Mothers and Fathers that did not want boys showering with girls. Regrettably, Tucker filled a gap many Pastors and Christian leaders did not have the guts to fill.
He would dully and consistently call out weak-kneed feckless face Christian leaders like David French and Russel Moore. At the same time, Tucker would get nightly death threats and gut punches with monotonous regularity. While French would call drag queens “blessings of Liberties,” meanwhile Moore at Christianity Today was busy integrating the enneagram into the Gospel. Tucker stood in the breech while other Christian mouthpieces were eerily silent or cozying to the world!
Tucker Carlson spoke nightly about the spiritual war of good versus evil, not caving to the world. Megan Basham nailed it on Twitter when she described Carlson speaking boldly at the Heritage Foundation: “The world is fine with talk of faith when it is soft and toothless. It is the faith that recognizes acts as good and evil that offends them.”
Christians need bold men speaking from loud platforms, and Tucker had become that guy, wittingly or unwittingly speaking truths. And the cultural Marxists had had enough, and Murdoch bowed to the world. As Solomon said: “There is nothing new under the sun”! Fox and Robert Murdoch bowed to the vanities that the wisest man in the world wrote about in the Old Testament. The world has been bowing to vanities for thousands of years.
Indeed, it’s nothing new to cancel Christian platforms; Paul said it best: See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. Colossians 2:8
Like it or not, Tucker Carlson has become the standard barrier for highlighting the biblical fights of good versus evil over the past several years. While Carlson was no Pastor or Evangelical influencer, he amassed a loyal following from conservative Christians. Why? He wasn’t the fight in the Dog—He was the Dog in the Fight!
And you will be hated by all, for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
Mark 13:13