Daily Wire CEO Blasts Candace Owens Over ‘Christ Is King’ Refrain: ‘You Are a Blasphemer and an Antisemite and a Piece of Crap’

Jeremy Boreing, the CEO of The Daily Wire who announced Candace Owens’s departure from the outlet last Friday, blasted his former employee for using the phrase “Christ is King” to justify her descent into overt anti-Semitism over the last few months.

The refrain first gained attention last fall when Owens used it amidst a row with her then-colleague Ben Shapiro. She has since fallen back on it a number of times in order to justify her advancement of various anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

It has been useful to her in that many have defended here by wondering how the phrase — an uncontroversial assertion in Christianity — can be anti-Semitic.

“I’m asking this sincerely. I’m a student of life. I’m not that smart. There are many things I do not know. This is a sincere question without snark or sarcasm or trolling. How is saying ‘Christ is King’ anti-semetic [sic]? When did this become true? Is it true?” wondered Jason Whitlock.

Boreing took a shot at answering Whitlock’s query.

“How is saying ‘Christ is King’ antisemitic? The same way anything becomes antisemitic – when it is used for the purpose of expressing antisemitism. It’s like asking ‘how does a shovel become a murder weapon?’ When it is used to murder someone. This isn’t hard. A shovel is not innately a murder weapon. Saying ‘Christ is King’ is not innately antisemitic. It’s all about how a thing is used,” began Boreing.

He continued:

Saying ‘Eat some cornbread’ is not racist if I say it to my three-year-old when she is refusing her dinner. If I start saying it as a response to X posts by black commentators I don’t like, it has taken on a meaning beyond what is innate. In other words, it is connotatively racist, not denotatively racist. So too ‘Christ is King’ may be antisemitic in connotation while not in denotation when it is being used to express antisemitism.

When did this become so?

It has always been so.

Is it so?

Yes. Innately.

Additionally, saying ‘Christ is King’ for an evil purpose – like using it as a weapon to express your hatred or disdain for the Jews – is a grave sin. It plainly violates the Third Commandment “Thou shall not carry forth the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.”

Surely if I rape and murder someone – like Hamas did on 10/7! – and all the while I shout at them ‘Christ is King,’ – or ‘God is Great!’ – we would agree that I have committed three grievous crimes, not two. Rape? Yes. Murder? Yes. But also the great crime of implicating God in the first two crimes.

So one must be cautious how one uses the Name of God. God will not be mocked. Invoking Him in vain self-promotion, or to troll Jews, or to attack your political rivals is to carry forth His Name in vain.

Jesus Christ is King, sure enough. King of Heaven and of Earth. King of Jew and Gentile alike. Yet a bruised reed He will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not smother. So don’t use His Name as a cudgel to bash those in whom the Light of God yet flickers.

If you do, you are a blasphemer and an antisemite and a piece of crap generally, and the fear of the Lord is clearly not in you. It will be, though.

Owens’s ex-colleague Andrew Klavan, a secular Jew who converted to Christianity, had previously condemned Owens for using the phrase on Friday after The Daily Wire and Owens parted ways, accusing her of “quoting Scripture like Satan does in the Bible.”