Former Fox News host Glenn Beck appeared alongside fellow conservative media icon Tucker Carlson for an event in Salt Lake City, Utah, over the weekend, where he shared his experience with the spiritual negativity that allegedly impacted him while he worked at the conservative news network.
Beck sat down with Carlson for an hour-long discussion as part of his ongoing national tour. While sharing his experience working at Fox News, Beck explained how he came to the conclusion that one must reject vanity and the idolatrous relationship with fame and success that often comes along with a celebrity-like status. However, it is important to note that Beck is of the Mormon faith, not Christianity.
Kicking off the conversation, Beck suggested that Carlson was one of “the only two survivors of Fox News.” At another point during the discussion, the former host illustrated the “intoxicating” nature of being such an influential television personality. “When I was at Fox, it was like you could feel the White House move,” Beck added. “I could feel the impact, and that’s pretty intoxicating. It’s so dangerously intoxicating, and I could feel it, and I didn’t like it and I left.”
He continued, “I should say, I didn’t like it because part of me really liked it,” to which Carlson chimed in, “Exactly.” Beck also claimed that Fox News attempted to blackmail him in very threatening ways, even alleging that the network hired someone to go through his trash.
“I think fame and fortune is battery acid to the soul,” Beck said, further detailing his experience. While he admitted that the prospect of fame was intensely alluring, Beck realized deep down inside that he would lose his soul if he continued to pursue the path he was on.
“I walk to the window — and I can still feel the cold glass on my forehead — and I leaned against the window, and I put my head there, and I’m looking down at the city, which is just intoxicating — if you like that kind of stuff, it’s intoxicating,” he said. “And I looked down, and I’m like, ‘How can this be your plan?’ And I heard internally, I heard, ‘If you don’t leave now, you will not leave with your soul.'”
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“The next day, I went in and tendered my resignation,” he said. “If it wasn’t for my alcoholism and, quite honestly, my baptism and redemption, there’s no way that I would have survived Fox,” he said, pointing out what led him down a path of redemption.
The Christian Tribune recently reported on another powerful moment during the Tucker Carlson nationwide tour in which Russell Brand delivered a powerful prayer agains the “dark and demonic forces” that permeate through society.
“I pray in your name that the forthcoming election be an opportunity for unity, for America and for Americans, for forgiveness and for grace; that the dark and demonic forces that appear to operate at the level of the state — the deep state and the corporate and global world — experience your light, Lord,” Brand said during the prayer.
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