Candace Owens, a case of 'do what I say, not what I do'

For those of us who have Catholicism at home like an old piece of furniture that has always been there, watching American mega-influencers like Candace Owens "discover" the faith is like watching someone inherit a thousand-year-old relic and use it to open beer bottles

It is funny and at the same time a bit frustrating to watch Candace become the Vatican’s biggest fan, but with a translation problem from Latin to English that feels like a joke. She has taken all the concepts, put them through a marketing filter and the result is a kind of "Catholicism 2.0" that looks more like a season of American Horror Story than the religion we know

The first mistake is her use of the phrase "Christ is King." For a normal Christian, that is a short private prayer. For Candace it is a hand grenade. She throws it into a Twitter fight, waits for it to explode and when everyone is shocked, she puts on a lace veil and says: "How can the truth offend you?" She has turned a prayer into a weapon to win political debates. It is the ultimate "holy hit": she uses God as a bulletproof vest so no one can tell her that what she said is crazy. If you disagree with her, it’s not that you don't like her politics, it’s that you "hate Christ." It is a cheap magic trick that only someone with zero humility could do with such pride

Then there is her idea of "biblical femininity" which would be hilarious if people didn't believe it. Candace now acts like the defender of the submissive woman who stays home and lets the man lead, while she is actually one of the most dominant, rich and bossy women in public. There is nothing biblical or quiet about a woman who makes millions shouting on a podcast and fighting with all her male bosses. She is a CEO playing the role of a "tradwife" for people who want order, but she doesn't even go into the kitchen to make coffee. It is a case of "do what I say, not what I do": she enjoys all the power of the 21st century while selling the chains of the 12th century to other women

But the real mess happens when she mixes the Bible with tinfoil hats. Candace has moved from "facts and logic" to seeing satanic rituals in every corner. She even uses the Book of Genesis to explain why man never went to the Moon. It is the Inquisition TikTok version: a world where anything she doesn't understand is a "spiritual war" and where crazy conspiracies are proven by her own reading of the Bible

In the end, what is fascinating about her is how she uses religion as a hiding spot for amorality. She puts on a robe of extreme morality not to be a better person, but to be untouchable. She turns faith into a bunker so she can attack and divide people without being criticized

I guess in the end, the only way she is an exemplary Catholic is in her dogma: that absolute feeling that the rest of the world is stupid and only she has the Truth

It’s a shame that, with so much dogma and so many crosses, she forgot that grandpa’s furniture also had a small drawer for humility