“Tucker Carlson does not believe human beings built the atomic bomb. Asked if he saw Oppenheimer: “I wouldn’t watch that crap. I wouldn’t let that into my head for one second.” “Because it’s all lies.” Max on X
Eric Metaxas on X reacts: “Tucker has lost his mind. Pray for him. Not kidding. He’s saying the stupidest things with no filter. And there’s an audience of ignorant people taking it in, not understanding how utterly stupid what he’s saying is. Pray for Tucker.”
SpiritedIrish on X responds to Metaxas: “Church Father Clement believed in fallen angels and demons. Obviously he was as insane as Tucker…and as insane as a great many of us “ignorant” Christians. In the antediluvian world, said Clement, fallen angels taught men the use of magical incantations that would force demons to obey man:
“After the flood Ham the son of Noah unhappily discovered this and taught it to his sons. This became ingrained into the Egyptians, Persians, and Babylonians. Ham died shortly after the fall of the Tower of Babel. Nimrod, called Ninus by the Greeks, was handed this knowledge and by it caused men to go away from the worship of God and go into diverse and erratic superstitions and they began to be governed by the signs in the stars and motions of the planets.” (Recognitions of Clement 4.26-29)
JD Hall on X responds to Metaxas:
OH MY GOSH!! Tucker believes in supernatural things!!!! Lol HAHaHaHa BaHAHHA. I bet he believes God created the world ex nihilo, too!!! Can’t believe HE believes things all Christians believe!
The question isn’t why believing in demonic interference in the world is mock-worthy. The question is why it’s mock-worthy to a supposed Christian like Eric Metaxas.
Let’s review the facts about Oppenheimer, and then ask if it’s insane for a Christian to believe what Tucker does, or if Eric Metaxas is just being a post-Enlightenment, sub-Christian, Socinian, anti-metaphysical, Naturalist skeptic for no reason:
First, LOTS of people have suggested Oppenheimer dabbled in the Occult. Why?? He was a lifelong practitioner of the Occult. He became deeply interested in mysticism, Occultism, and Satanism while at Harvard. He was involved with a secretive group, which he would later downplay as basically a group of nerds, who would recite “Litanies of Satan,”, which goes, “Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!” or “Oh, Satan, have pity on my misery.”
In the poem, Satan is addressed as the most knowledgeable and beautiful of angels, “Prince of Exile,” king of the underworld, comforter of suffering humanity, “lamp of inventors,” and adoptive father of those expelled from Eden. It gives “glory and praise” to Satan and asks that the poet’s soul eventually rest beside him beneath the Tree of Knowledge. Oppenheimer considered this a request directly to Satan for knowledge to invent and gain scientific knowledge – which the poem’s context.
Later, at Cambridge, he dived even deeper into outright Satanism. There, his parents had to intervene when he would undergo fits of self-harm, actually hurting himself, confessed to murders he didn’t commit, in a way that supernatural minded evangelicals would describe like episodes of demonic possession.
In 1963, four years before Oppenheimer died, The Christian Century asked him to identify the ten books that had done the most to shape his “vocational attitude” and his “philosophy of life.” That includes not only Litanies of Satan, but Abel et Caïn” (“Abel and Cain”), in which Cain is the good guy, and Le Reniement de Saint Pierre” (“The Denial of Saint Peter”), in which Peter is congratulated and celebrated for denying Christ.
I know, I know. You’re thinking “that’s not Satanist, that’s just Oppenheimer being your typical Jew.” Touché.
But it also includes overtly demonic works, including “La Destruction” (“Destruction”) concerning a demon continually accompanying and tempting the speaker. “Les Métamorphoses du Vampire” and poems titled “The Possessed One,” “The Ghost,” “The Evil Monk,” “Don Juan in Hell,” and others saturated with death, damnation and supernatural evil.
Remember the question. The works that most shaped his “vocational attitude.” He chose overtly satanic poems.
After watching the first atomic explosion, Oppenheimer’s famous line, “I am death, the destroyer of worlds,” is quote from the Hindu demon god, Vishnu. Was he quoting the demon god, or was the demon-god, taking credit?
Christians have believed for thousands of years that evil beings called the “Watchers,” the “council of gods” as Dr. Michael Heiser called it, the “Powers and Principalities in High Places” referenced by St. Paul, have given human beings technology and especially that used for death and destruction. The Book of Enoch – cited by both Jesus and His brother, Jude, in the Bible – lays that out. It’s not inscripturated, but it shaped this belief in the ancient Christian world.
That Christian belief – which Metaxas is mocking – is not just a Christian belief. It’s he’s by practically every ancient culture on earth in their tales of the Annunaki, Nephilim,, Elohim, Titans, fallen angels, Archons, and Rephaim, etc.
The idea of demon-tech is a common one for those who, unlike Metaxas aren’t baptized by Naturalist skepticism.
What’s next, mocking Tucker for believing in the Resurrection?