St. Candace Owens preaches heresy on Aaron Bushnell

By flunking basic Catholic teachings on suicide, Owens proves she is a Jew hater first and a Christian second.

Tibetans hold a protest vigil for those that have self-immolated.

Note: I am not a Christian, and do not have any insights on the proper way to live a Christian life. Please consult someone more knowledgeable on those matters.

Much has been made of James Lindsay’s personal war against the figures that he calls the “Woke Right”. Personally I am not enamoured of the term and would prefer something neater, and he struggles to actually capture its definition. But sometimes one can only observe what is coming out of the mouths of that sector of the political right and nod at how they twist away from their previous political and religious principles in order to accommodate their narrow prejudices, settle scores, or attain greater power. If there is any person who fits that profile to a tee, it’s Candace Owens.

Since her well-publicized break with the Daily Wire in 2024, Owens has stridently attempted to claim her place as the queen of the Christians who reject “Judeo-Christian values”, and done numerous segments or entire episodes of her show on nefarious Jewish connections to things like Kemal Ataturk the founder of modern Turkey, the USS Liberty (because, of course), and the murder of Mary Phagan. In fact in the last example Owens falsely labeled Phagan as a Catholic victim of a Jewish murderer, Leo Frank. The always brilliant

Wittmayer

did a thorough rebuttal in February of the new revisionist trend of agreeing with the original trial verdict or Frank being guilty.

Well Candace Owens crossed the line from revisionist provocateur to outright sacrilege when she tweeted this.

With this tweet Owens, who brands herself as a devout Catholic including sporting a paid endorsement for Hallow, a Catholic prior and devotional mobile app, was in effect endorsing USAF Airman Aaron Bushnell’s act of suicide. In the wake of that tragedy last February I warned that this was yet another iteration of the derangement in American youth and condemned both the people glorifying his action and those mocking it for comedic value. As someone with a close family member who has attempted suicide, I can assure you that it takes a major toll on the family and people around the person who commits or attempts suicide. When it it has fit her agenda Owens has shamed Chrissy Teigen for encouraging a woman to commit suicide, and in 2018 did a long 11 minute retrospective on the tragic suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, claiming that there was a “gap between their public persona and their private persona”.

This was all before her Catholic conversion, and since then she has wrapped herself in the cloak of piety, claiming that Christians need to unite while attacking Dr. Jordan Peterson, raging when Christian humour website Babylon Bee cracked a joke about her and claiming they were mocking the Virgin Mary, and attacking Christian Zionist influencers for being subservient to Israel. However with her tweet about Aaron Bushnell Owens essentially strays away from Catholic beliefs on suicide which are recorded in the Catechism of the Faith:

2280 Everyone is responsible for his life before God who has given it to him. It is God who remains the sovereign Master of life. We are obliged to accept life gratefully and preserve it for his honor and the salvation of our souls. We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of.

Furthermore there is a special issue with holding up figures who committed suicide as role models:

2282 If suicide is committed with the intention of setting an example, especially to the young, it also takes on the gravity of scandal. Voluntary co-operation in suicide is contrary to the moral law.

Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide.

While the second principle doesn’t necessarily apply in its entirety to Owens’ statement, it could be construed that her retrospective was in praise of Bushnell’s example. And since he is not known for anything besides his suicide, there is no other reason she would be highlighting him. And since another protester committed the same act only a few months later with much less attention. It is this type of rhetoric that shows how the Free Palestine craze has gotten more than a few of these influencers to bastardise their core beliefs in order to please their radicalised audiences.