In more ways than one. Tucker Carlson publicly states that he was physically attacked by a demonic force:
In a just-released video interview, Tucker Carlson recounts how he suffered a bloody attack by a demon while asleep in bed – an event that he says led him to purchase and read and reread the Bible.
“It was a transformative experience,” the renowned podcast host said.
“I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs in the bed … and mauled. Physically mauled by a demon,” Carlson said, “or by something unseen that left claw marks on my sides.”
Carlson said that now, a year and half later, the marks on his sides are still visible.
“I woke up. I couldn’t breathe. I thought I was going to suffocate,” he explained. “I had these terrible pains on my rib cage and on my shoulder.”
Uncertain about what had just happened, Carlson walked into the bathroom, flicked on the light, and saw that he had “four claw marks on either side, underneath my arms and on my left shoulder. And they were bleeding.”
“I’m not from a world where things like that happen. I never heard of anything like that happening before,” he emphasized, but “I knew it was spiritual immediately.”
“I’m not from a faith tradition that talks about things like that or even acknowledges their existence,” Carlson said. “I’ve never heard anybody say anything like that in my whole life.”
“The next morning, I woke up and thought, ‘That was the weirdest dream I’ve ever had.’ And then I saw blood on my sheets and realized that was not a dream at all.”
It’s always a shock for any individual to realize that the spiritual world described in the Bible isn’t a metaphor, it isn’t a conceptual model, and it isn’t an invention of Man. It’s real, it’s powerful, and it’s why Jesus Christ is absolutely necessary; there isn’t one single other religion that even begins to address the observable problem of material evil the way that Christianity does.
Which isn’t to say that all other religions are entirely false. Some of them worship demons, others worship fallen angels, and a few worship the god of this world himself.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
– Ephesians 6:12