Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec was joined by Candace Owens on Tuesday to discuss ongoing attacks on Christianity, including tired claims that the phrase “Christ is King” is being used to promote antisemitism. The two pushed back against the old narrative, arguing that the controversy is a political attempt to divide supporters of President Donald Trump.
Posobiec began by emphasizing the long-standing use of the phrase in Christian tradition.
“It’s a fundamental phrase. In fact, in the Catholic Church, YOU CAN find Catholic parishes all over the place and all over the world, certainly just in city after city, that are called Christ the King parish, etc… It’s a super common phrase, you can see it in iconography all the time, depictions of the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus and he’s got a crown on his head, or in Poland there’s statues of Christ with a crown on his head,” he said.
He then asked Owens if the phrase itself was truly the source of controversy or if something larger was at play.
“Is this really what they’re upset about, this phrase Christ is King? Or is there something else going on? Because it seems to me that this happening in 2025, the same way these types of things were happening all through 2017 when Trump got in office the first time, were actually about dividing Trump’s supporters and trying to gatekeep who is and isn’t allowed to be a Trump supporter and who is and isn’t allowed to say a certain phrase. It just reminds me of all the same type of garbage,” Posobiec said.
Owens agreed, pointing out that many of the individuals pushing these claims have never been true supporters of Trump or the MAGA movement.
“It’s especially telling that the people who are doing this and advising MAGA that you have to expel these people out of MAGA have never been MAGA,” she said.
“Exactly!” Posobiec responded.
Owens continued, calling out those who previously supported Ron DeSantis and are now trying to shape the direction of Trump’s movement.
“They were the never-Trumpers who were DeSantis supporters, and when DeSantis lost, they said, ‘We like Trump now.’ You have been against Trump every step of the way, and I’m supposed to believe now that you’re writing these articles that you’re trying to divide Trump supporters… and by saying that you can be a good little Christian if you just accept that this phrase is only used by people that are bad Christians,” Owens said.
She also noted that these controversies seem to emerge during key Christian seasons.
“It’s a wacky way to try to divide us, especially because these attacks keep happening during the Lenten season, but it only strengthens our resolve. Our season of penance is our season of spiritual strengthening,” she said.
Owens added that the people pushing this narrative are the same ones who were involved in past attempts to attack Christian beliefs.
“… It’s very strange to me, but I found it suspicious that it was the exact same people involved.”
Posobiec pointed out that Lent is a time when Christians are challenged in their faith. Owens agreed, saying she refuses to be angered by these attacks.
“Both times it has backfired for the people who think they’re executing this attack as a win… It has backfired tremendously because it has awakened a lot of Christians who maybe are not so committed in their faith… and they’re going, ‘What is this? I’ve never heard of people being upset about the phrase Christ is King.’”
The discussion comes nearly a year after the phrase “Christ is King” first sparked division among Evangelicals and Christians following remarks from two Daily Wire staffers. Now, almost exactly a year later, a current and former Daily Wire figure is at the center of a new report warning that “extremist actors have co-opted Christian language” — specifically “Christ is King” — to advance what researchers claim are “exclusionary ideologies.”
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, a columnist and podcaster for Daily Wire, and the Rev. Johnnie Moore, president of the Congress of Christian Leaders, released a 21-page report Thursday from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) at Rutgers University. The report alleges that social media users, including bot networks, are manipulating the phrase “Christ is King” to promote extremist views, particularly targeting Jews.
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