Fox Information host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday made the outlandish comment that secular societies, based mostly on nothing greater than his observations, are “at all times probably the most oppressive.”
Carlson’s sweeping declare got here on the tail finish of a section by which visitor Jason Whitlock claimed that a part of the explanation why Canadian truckers have resorted to protesting vaccine mandates is due to the autumn in church service attendance within the nation.
“What’s happening in Canada with the truckers is dangerous, however we have now the identical fashion issues happening right here in America: the opposition to the left and their secularization of American society [and] the demonizing of freedom,” stated Whitlock, who's the host of a TV present on the conservative Blaze community.
“All of this—freedom, alternative, and self-determination—all of that goes hand-in-hand with Christianity, Tucker,” a breathless Whitlock asserted. “And when you go have a look at Canada, and within the Nineteen Fifties and Sixties…like 65 % of them went to church commonly on Sundays. They dropped that all the way down to about 10 % now.”
In 2019, based on a state-sponsored examine launched final 12 months, 23 % of Canadians stated they participated in a bunch non secular exercise a minimum of as soon as a month. Thirty % did their very own non secular or religious exercise a minimum of as soon as per week.
At one level, Whitlock drew a comparability between the trucker protest and the lethal Jan. 6 rebellion on the Capitol, even claiming that “they assassinated” rioter Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt was shot by a Capitol police officer, who was absolved of any wrongdoing, as she and others tried to breach the Home chamber.
Whitlock then urged that “these of us who love freedom, alternative, self-determination and Jesus Christ” ought to control the protests in Ottawa. Carlson responded: “It’s humorous that secular societies have a really robust time preserving human rights. They speak about human rights continuously, however they're at all times probably the most oppressive societies, I've observed.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resolution to invoke the nation’s Emergency Act in response to the protests towards public well being measures has drawn loads of ire from Carlson, who declared on Monday’s broadcast that Canada has change into a “dictatorship.”