{"id":383942,"date":"2021-04-03T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=383942"},"modified":"2021-04-03T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T17:56:26","slug":"theyre-enslaved-tucker-carlson-warns-against-americans-increasingly-replacing-religion-with-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theyre-enslaved-tucker-carlson-warns-against-americans-increasingly-replacing-religion-with-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re Enslaved\u2019: Tucker Carlson Warns Against Americans Increasingly Replacing Religion With Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftheyre-enslaved-tucker-carlson-warns-against-americans-increasingly-replacing-religion-with-politics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=383942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/og-default.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News host Tucker Carlson soberly observed Friday that politics is replacing religion as Americans increasingly fall away from faith, which is a trend he claimed is enslaving people into lives of despair.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Fox News hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino about the recent Gallup poll noting that U.S. church membership has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-church-membership-dips-below-50-for-first-time-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declined below 50 percent<\/a>, Carlson <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6246251901001?playlist_id=903354961001#sp=show-clips\">noted<\/a> such a trend has \u201cnever happened, so far as I know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the result of a long-term trend,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the result of a liberation movement, a liberation movement that sought to liberate Americans from the constraints of traditional religion. And like all liberation movements in this country, at a certain point it becomes the opposite of what it purports to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre people really more liberated than they were when they believed in God?\u201d Carlson asked. \u201cAre they less anxious? Look, everyone dies in the end. And if you don\u2019t acknowledge that or provide an explanation for what happens after you die, then people are filled with existential dread, with anxiety. And maybe drug abuse skyrockets, and so do suicides and hopelessness, and all the conventional signs of despair like the ones we\u2019re seeing now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, actually, people aren\u2019t liberated by fleeing from meaning, from God, from religion,\u201d Carlson concluded. \u201cThey\u2019re enslaved. Look at the country!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the number of religious adherents is dropping across all faiths in the U.S., Hemmer played a clip from Carlson\u2019s new Fox Nation show \u201cTucker Carlson Today,\u201d during which he interviewed British author Douglas Murray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole sense of what is important in our society has changed radically and in an ugly direction,\u201d Murray said. \u201cIt makes everything political. It wants to politicize everything. It wants to politicize art. It wants to politicize poetry. All of the things that were meaningful in our lives have been picked up and spun through this cycle of politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson agreed with Murray\u2019s assessment, adding, \u201cYou can\u2019t have a society without meaning. We\u2019ve never had a mass secular society in human history, obviously it doesn\u2019t work. We\u2019re replacing that hole where meaning should be with politics and it\u2019s driving everyone crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a March 2020 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/life\/tucker-carlson-interview-good-talking-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Spectator<\/a>, Carlson described the U.S. as \u201cthe first really large-scale experiment in secular democracy ever. You can say the Soviet Union was secular, but really it wasn\u2019t. It was a religious cult based on, you know, <i>Das Kapital<\/i>. They were still a very religious country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson\u2019s opinion echoed that of conservative British journalist Peter Hitchens, who is the Christian brother of the late atheist author Christopher Hitchens. During a 2016 panel discussion in Moscow, Idaho, regarding the increasingly dysfunctional U.S. political climate, Hitchens <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0mH_-lHM4so?t=371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed<\/a>&nbsp;what he described as \u201ca troubling feeling that I\u2019ve had for some time, which is that politics itself\u2014modern politics itself\u2014is a form of idolatry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hitchens went on to say he believes \u201cthat we have made a religion out of politics, that we have ascribed to government power and state power things which ought to be ascribed elsewhere, and that we are now reaping the reward of that mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-church-membership-dips-below-50-for-first-time-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Church Membership Dips Below 50% For First Time: Poll<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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