{"id":141033,"date":"2025-11-04T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141033"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:04:24","slug":"mark-tooley-tucker-carlson-is-resurrecting-christianitys-ugly-tradition-of-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141033","title":{"rendered":"(Mark Tooley) Tucker Carlson Is Resurrecting Christianity’s Ugly Tradition of Antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tucker Carlson\u2019s platforming<\/a> of antisemitic social influencer Nick Fuentes, who proclaims \u201cChrist is King<\/a>,\u201d evinces the reemergence of antisemitism in American Christianity. For the last 85 years, World War II and the Holocaust have made antisemitism publicly unacceptable in American Christianity, prior to which it was often acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, at the 1924 Methodist governing General Conference, the church\u2019s prominent Prohibition chief, Clarence True Wilson, blamed the \u201cfilth\u201d of films and theater on Jewish \u201cdegenerates, all of one race but of no religion, who have corrupted everything their filthy hands have touched for 2,000 years.\u201d He warned: \u201cNo nation that has let them control its finances but has had to vomit them up, sometimes with bitter persecutions, to get the poison out of their system.\u201d Wilson faulted German Jews for their \u201ccontrolling interest in our liquor traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audience for Wilson\u2019s remarks included hundreds of Methodist leaders plus the church\u2019s bishops. Yet there\u2019s no record that his speech was controversial. Wilson continued as head of the denomination\u2019s Washington, D.C. office on Capitol Hill for another 11 years. Methodism<\/a> was then America\u2019s biggest Protestant denomination. And its political influence was such that it was the main force responsible for persuading America to adopt Prohibition<\/a>, with Wilson its chief advocate. So his anti-Jewish speech did not come from a marginal figure and likely represented the views of millions of Protestants, many of whom joined in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan resurgence, which made Jews, along with Catholics and Blacks, its chief targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Christianity, and America, have been blessed that antisemitism across 85 years has mostly been taboo. But the memories of World War II and the Holocaust are fast fading. And revisionism about both, promoted by Carlson and Fuentes, among many others, is increasingly common. Human nature being what it is, demons once expelled often return and must again be exorcised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>

Antisemitism, in subtle & blatant forms, likely will grow in American Christianity. Discerning American Christians must prepare to counter it. The argument against it is not complex & comes directly from our Savior: Love thy neighbor as thyself, without exceptions.\u2026<\/p>— @markdtooley (@markdtooley) November 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>