Tucker Carlson

No.

To endorse the murder of civilians, which is a war crime, but more important, it's a moral crime.

You can't kill people who have committed no crime, who did nothing wrong.

You can't murder the innocent.

You can't kill kids and women.

And yet Franklin Graham is up there

standing at the podium, praying for that.

Now, how do you do that?

Well, by quoting something called the Book of Esther, which is in the Christian Old Testament, a controversial book for a long time.

Martin Luther thought it shouldn't have been there, but it is there.

And it's the story, among other things, of a genocide of Persians.

Oh, yeah.

75,000 Persians.

Not just people who committed crimes, but people who were Persian, and that's why they were killed.

And it's in the Book of Esther, which you should read, because it's interesting.

It also happens to be, maybe not coincidentally, the only book in the Christian Bible, Old and New Testaments, that doesn't mention God.

There's no mention of God in the Book of Esther.

Now, there are all kinds of theologians, and this has been a debate for 2,000 years, and there are...

People who argue that the book of Esther implies the presence of God, God's plan unfolds in the book of Esther, fine.

Hardly a theologian, not going to debate it.