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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed he was “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep, leaving claw marks on his body, which he says are still visible. Carlson described waking with intense pain, bleeding claw marks, and an overwhelming urge to read the Bible. He recounted the experience as confusing yet transformative, adding that while he doesn’t expect others to believe him, the incident profoundly impacted him.

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago

Cheating on his wife for sure

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago
[-] irish_link@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

If this is true, what did he do to deserve this. This doesn't just happen to a good god fearing person. So I guess the real question is, what did he do to deserve this.

This doesn't just happen to a good god fearing person. Why would this happen if he DIDN'T deserve this. Clearly he lost favor with the good lord and has opened himself up to the devil to be possessed by a demon.

[-] MellowSnow@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

As someone who was raised in a very evangelical household: the (non)-answer is that it happened to him in order to tempt him or test him or some shit. If it happens to a non-god-fearing individual, it's deserved, otherwise it's God's plan all along. Because moving the goal posts is just way too easy.

The real answer is Tucker Carlson is either actually insane or hardcore grifting, but I'm probably preaching to the choir here going down that rabbit hole lol.

[-] irish_link@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I figured my comment would be countered with “justification” as to why. Not you but your explanation and yea preaching my friend.

[-] agnomeunknown@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

No you see he is like Job in the Bible!!! He's so righteous God is testing him with demons!!!!

-his fans probably

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Job has to be one of the more disgusting stories in the Bible... It was the one that I read/was taught about in church as a teen that first made me go "wait a second...".

From the first time I heard that story, it never sat well with me, and not a single adult was ever able to give me a satisfactory explanation for why it was OK for god to straight up destroy this poor man's life (a man who was already super dedicated to this god), including literally killing his innocent family, over some petty bet with the actual devil.

That really opened my eyes to what the OT god really was in that book, and I did not like what I saw.

[-] irish_link@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

True. I know there will always be a justification and it would be a hard fight to change the minds of those who are being grifted.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This all obviously ridiculous but... I grew up with a family that 100% believed in spiritual warfare. My parents were more willing to believe my brother was possessed than to believe he needed psychiatric help. My Dad had the church elders pray over me when I had whooping cough, asking God to cast out the demon that had so obviously latched onto my 10 year old lungs. I regularly saw people at my church who would claim to have seen fantastical things.

Tucker is simply appealing to his base. The mass groups of people who truly believe they are warriors for Christ engaged in a life and death struggle for the soul of the whole world. There are thousands of them and they believe you and I as unbelievers are at best, unwittingly helping the enemy and at worst, willful vessels of the literal devil.

I wouldn't be shocked if Tucker Carlson 100% believed what he's saying. The groupthink in those circles is difficult to break out of.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago

Too bad it didn't kill him

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 15 points 1 day ago

He’s such a cunt. Fuck that guy.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Weirdo. Through and through.

[-] jwt@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

I can't believe I almost ate a non-existent onion.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed he was “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep, leaving claw marks on his body, which he says are still visible.

next time he shouldn't use teeth and make sure you cup the balls, Mr. Carlson.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 365 points 3 days ago

At the time, Carlson says, he was asleep in bed with his wife – and four dogs.

I have an alternate theory about those claw marks...

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 120 points 3 days ago

Even Fido has had enough of his shit

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 92 points 3 days ago

I watched that video, and had he just stuck to being suddenly awake and having claw marks I would have thought there was something odd. But he led with having four dogs in the bed, so when he said he had claw marks...dear lord, he's either trying too hard to play to some niche audience, or he's really that stupid. At least make the story sound plausible...we know you can lie, why didn't you just leave off some details here to sell it better.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 87 points 3 days ago

Ever since he got kicked off Fox, he's been making the pivot to the hard right audience, which includes the narrative that they're in a spiritual war against the literal devil.

It's the same conspiracy-laden bullshit that Alex Jones pushes.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 62 points 3 days ago

It's Jon Stewart's fault. Tucker never recovered from that jab about the bow tie.

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[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 83 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hey, Christians who believe in demonic possession: How come it's only y'all getting possessed and not my heathen, atheist ass who literally invites the demons in?

[-] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’m not sure if this was a literal invitation, but I’ll poke my head out.

It depends on how you interpret scripture. I was raised in a “non-literalist” faith, and some of these beliefs have come to interpret references to “demons,” and what not, being misconstrued as mental illnesses. I believe Richard Dawkins coined the phrase “God of the Gaps” which is not too dissimilar to what is happening in this case.

So the non-faithful, along with the faithful, could still be afflicted, technically, however I’m fairly confident mental health treatment may be better for them over “driving out the demon” so to speak. Though some denominations would call it heresy for me to say that. Lmao.

As for Tucker… I’m skeptical he cares for the Word. He certainly doesn’t act as though he does, in my view.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm actually surprised I haven't been hit with a "you're already going to hell, why would the demons possess you?" from the literalist theists that might be on Lemmy, to be honest.

[-] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe — such a line of thinking confuses me, and I’ve seen some stuff online similar to that before. It’s simply not helpful nor Christlike. In my view, one’s faith shouldn’t be wielded self-righteously and in judgment of others.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

As I understand it, Carlson wasn't much of a man of faith before this either.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I guarantee he still isn't

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

More to the point, then. 👍

[-] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago

Your atheist ass is inviting people in you say?

[-] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago

Only demons are invited in this atheist ass

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Get me riled up and I can be quite fiendish

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[-] noxy@yiffit.net 5 points 1 day ago

do the demons have large knots?

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Why do you think they're invited in?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 day ago

I got that dog in me.

The dog is Cerberus.

[-] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Colombian here - as you might know, most people here are catholic.

A bit of story.

My mother says her eldest brother was like the evil on earth. He raped her younger sisters, used to beat up all of them – his younger brother grew up with serious mental issues because of that, and now we are having issues trying to get him into an asylum because, again, third world problems - stole the house and land of their parents (which wasn't a lot, but left my mother and her sisters with nothing when their father died) and even treated violently my grandmother. I never got to know my grandparents because they died when my mother was young.

So my mother says one night my grandmother was really ill and this person (I have never seen him, not even in pictures) arrived home and beat her up and went to sleep. Then allegedly "the spirits" ("las almas") came when he was asleep and beat him up so hard he screamed and woke everyone up - like they could see how "the spirits" lifted him across the room and hit him violently, but never could see any of those "spirits".

A few weeks or months after that my grandmother died and all of my aunts had to get miserable jobs trying to survive and this bastard still showed up from time to time to steal the few bucks they could earn.

Eventually all of them (except my uncle) got married and all of them but the elder sister never saw him ever again.

Now I'm atheist and don't believe in this kind of stuff, but the saying is that "the souls" do that kind of thing to really awful people. So if Carson's incident is true (and if "the souls" exist and are able to do that), now you may have a possible explanation for that.

[-] 58008@lemmy.world 101 points 2 days ago

How to explain away the signs of rough gay sex to your wife.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How to explain away the signs of rough ~~gay~~ beastial sex to your wife.

FTFY

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 111 points 3 days ago

Tucker Carlson and JD Vance had rough normal gay guy sex and he's getting ahead of any story and saying it was demon assault.

I can also take part in conspiracies

[-] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

Tucker made the mistake of dressing up as a couch for Halloween.

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[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago

People are saying it's the dogs, but given that it's Tucker Carlson I think it's far more likely that he's just flat out lying.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I dunno. If anyone has the servants of darkness hanging out at their home, it's this guy.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If forced to wager, split money between affair and prostitute. Longshot: beaten up by old school influencers.

Tucker Carlson fights his demons. I would give this show a chance even though I really hate the guy. If he does a whole Spike from Buffy arc... It could work. [Sarcasm]

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago

"I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled." ... "I have no idea what happened."

lol

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