Tucker Carlson becoming disturbingly metaphysical as he circles dangerous pseudo "Christian" gurus.
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxK3Vh-yeA_uhpbpo07vA_p_aCz-uO05xK
> Reading the Epstein files is like reading an esoteric text. It’s difficult to interpret fully. But what’s obvious, is the fixation on blood, genetics, human sacrifice and ritual sex. These are ongoing motifs throughout human history. From the Canaanites, to remote African tribes, to Epstein. What is really going on? Father Stephen De Young has an interesting answer:
> This isn't a coincidence.
> You're going to embody and participate in something spiritually. And as Christianity has been lost in Western countries, we should expect more and more of this evil to come intruding back in, because that's the only other option.
> Ancient people weren’t performing these rituals because it didn't work. They were having some experience. Something was happening there.
[Evidently it didn't otherwise everyone would be using it still and there would be engineering manuals; hell it doesn't even work in Africa even though widely practiced even under the umbrella of Christianity and Islam. He is suggesting that a recent (i.e. 2000 yo) Jewsih sectarian movement from West Asia is keeping actual Lovecraftian intrusions at bay? Highly unlikely!]
> When you read just purely pagan sources, they're kind of honest about it. We've received “the classics” through the enlightenment, which means we purge all the not just anything supernatural, but even religious elements. There's still people publishing books talking about how Plato and Aristotle were not religious.
> Because the figures of the enlightenment recast the ancient philosophers as versions of them. Since they had rejected the religion of their time, well, clearly, someone like Plato or Aristotle couldn’t have accepted the religion of theirs.
> Aristotle's school was in a temple of Apollo. They were on board.
> In Plato's dialogues, Socrates talks about how he has this demon, the spirit that dwells within him and whispers wisdom to his soul.
[Bad & retconned wordplay. The ancient "daimonion" is the inner voice. "In Plato's dialogues, Socrates says that he experiences a divine sign (daimonion) that warns him against certain actions. He regards it as a spiritual guidance from the gods, but it does not impart wisdom or instructions."]
It's Christians who come along and finally say that's a bad thing. And then post-Christian enlightenment people say, “Oh, well, that's silly.”
[Absolutely not. Romans frowned on dark magic, and evidently so did Jews]
But they're very honest about it. I mean, ancient authors realized what's happening at the Bacchanalia. The actual bacchanalia is people being possessed by the Bacchae, by these spirits, and participating in drug and alcohol induced orgies in public at these feasts.
[It's called a "rave"]
These spirits are possessing them, taking possession of them, taking over their body and participating in these things. That's what they say they were doing.
This is what happens when we not only don't find our full humanity in Christ, but give up our humanity in favor of something else. That twists and distorts our humanity.
I said on my podcast, not long after the full Epstein files got released, “Well, we now know that the world is run by demon worshiping pederasts, sort of like it has been since the Roman Empire.”
Christians were able to operate during that time. So, I think it's good to be free of some of our delusions. Not being aware of the spiritual world or ignoring it or denying it doesn't make it stop existing. It's like walking through a minefield under fire and just denying that there's a war happening. You're just going to end up being a casualty of the spiritual warfare and things that are going on all around you that you refuse to see.
