(LifeSiteNews) — Candace Owens told Tucker Carlson that she speaks the truth so boldly even amid threats to her life because as a Christian she doesn’t fear death.
Owens is known for challenging individuals, ideologies, and narratives that hold sway in society — from Zionism to the psychoanalytic movement of Sigmund Freud to the circle of officials surrounding Emmanuel Macron.
Because Owens takes on some of the world’s most powerful actors, one of Carlson’s listeners asked whether she fears that people want to harm her. She immediately clarified that she knows this is the case after a man admitted earlier this year to making death threats against her due to her comments about a late rabbi.
“Do I fear it? No, because I don’t fear death. I think that is the true challenge of being a Christian,” the Catholic convert said during an interview with Carlson on Friday.
She said she posed this question to herself when she saw so many self-described Christians refraining from speaking the truth or even saying what they “know to be false” out of fear of losing their job.
“I asked myself this question when there are so many people who purport to be Christians, and they won’t say things that they know are true or they say things they know to be false because they’re fearful of losing their jobs,” she continued.
“If you’re behaving in a certain way or not saying something because you’re fearful of something like the moment right now — do you believe in the afterlife? Do you believe in Christ?”
She asked whether Christians realize that their goal is not just to get a paycheck but rather their bigger goal is to “get into Heaven.”
She knows this means that “no matter what” — even if she is killed — she will be OK.
With this outlook, Owens has followed in the footsteps of her husband, who “says the number one goal is to get everyone into Heaven.” Her husband, George Farmer, who is himself a Catholic convert, helped inspire her conversion to the Catholic faith last year.
During the Friday interview with Owens, Carlson marveled that after heavy persecution from the media and commentators for many of her remarks — and even for her proclamation that “Christ is King” — she is not just surviving but thriving.
While not everyone emerges as unscathed and successful as Owens did from her persecution, her response still stands: She wants observers to take away from her story that “It isn’t worth your soul to tell a lie.”
An example of a “temptation” from “Satan” today, in her view, would be the offer of being left alone if “you just pretend you don’t see what’s happening in Gaza.”
“We’re all being tested right now. And a lot of people are failing that test. But a lot of people aren’t,” she went on.
Owens believes that money’s power as a carrot or stick of control is why influential people “want you to be attached to money.”
“There’s no truth in these people. Money is the only motive. It’s their only real power,” she continued. She expressed hope that her listeners understand that there is an authority “way higher” than that.
“When you commit yourself to truth … What is Jesus? Jesus is the Way and the Truth and the Life. I think that once you get through that temptation, you are rewarded if you do the right thing, if you do the moral thing, if you do the principled thing.”
