Carlson continued his erratic commentary separating himself from all things MAGA and putting his antisemitism on display last week when he took on Graham (featured bottom right). Graham was at the White House to commend President Donald Trump on his prosecution of the war on Iran and to share the gospel with the president.
The Calvin Coolidge Post posted on X how Carlson criticized both Graham and the book of Esther.
“Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, shows up at the White House yesterday to endorse the murder of civilians. How do you do that? Well, by quoting something called the Book of Esther,” Carlson said in the clip.
Carlson accused Graham of endorsing genocide because Graham referred to the book of Esther, in which 75,000 Persians died as a part of God's judgement.
The Christian Post reports how Eric Metaxas, evangelical author and conservative commentator, calls that a "satanic inversion." In an X post, he says that Carlson’s picking what he likes in the Bible while discarding the rest is mind-bendingly arrogant.
“You take a scripture, and you interpret it in a way that is antithetical to what it actually says. That's a diabolical satanic thing to do, whether you do it as an accident or intentionally,” Metaxas states.
He says Carlson is dramatically theologically ignorant and shouldn't make strong statements about theology.
“I want to say to him, ‘Excuse me, you have no business discussing the canonicity of Esther. You're out of your depth, and I'm stunned that you even would do that’,” Metaxas states.
He says Carlson and a pack of his antisemitic colleagues, who once claimed to be supporters of Trump, are making it clear whose side they're on.
“Sometimes you get moments of great clarity. One of them, for example, he has joined Candace Owens, Alex Jones, Marjorie Taylor Greene. They are not MAGA. They never were MAGA. They never were seriously for Trump. They were seriously for themselves,” Metaxas states.
