By Eric Sammons, Editor, Crisis Magazine, April 30, 2024
Eric Sammons is the editor-in-chief of Crisis Magazine.
Tucker Carlson claims that “spiritual” forces are at work in the world, directly involved in events from the creation of the atom bomb to supposed alien sightings. What are Catholics to make of these claims?
Did spiritual beings help man develop the atomic bomb? Did they warn us in advance of 9/11 through Alex Jones? Tucker Carlson seems to think so, as he indicated while on Joe Rogan’s podcast recently. The three-hour conversation between the two media giants covered a whole host of topics, including the atomic bombing in Japan, the collapse of Building 7 on 9/11, and Richard Nixon’s resignation. I recommend listening to the episode—it was fascinating, bizarre, illuminating, and mind-bending all at once.
One topic to which Carlson kept returning, the thread that seemed to weave throughout the whole conversion, was his contention that there are “spiritual” or “supernatural” forces (he used the terms interchangeably) that interact with and influence our lives. …