(LifeSiteNews) — Former atheist actor turned Christian cultural critic Russell Brand took a flamethrower to Big Pharma, government censorship, and global elites during a recent interview with Tucker Carlson.
Brand, who is from England, appeared in front of a live audience with Carlson in Arizona last week. It was the first in what is a 16-city tour for Carlson, who is visiting key battleground states with various political figures on the political right.
Brand is probably most well-known for being in Hollywood movies and hosting shows on MTV decades ago. A one-time Buddhist, he made headlines in January when he announced that he wears a crucifix and is seeking a “personal relationship” with God. He has since been baptized and often references Catholic as well as Protestant sources on his hit podcast Stay Free with Russell Brand.
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While most of their conversation focused on Brand’s embrace of Christianity, what Brand dubbed his “apostasy” from “materialism,” the duo also spent much of their high-energy, hour-long conversation ripping the mask off what Brand called a “satanic force” that controls the world.
“The recent Olympic opening ceremony was a good example of how despair and annihilation can come about from the bold desecration of things that we vividly understand to be sacred,” he said.
Brand has also been an outspoken opponent of COVID-19 restrictions. He explained to Carlson that global elites benefited from that particular crisis and that they will seek to use future ones to maintain their position of authority.
“The powerful appear to benefit from chaos. The more there is chaos the more there is conflict. The more there is bewilderment the easier it is to assert authority,” he said. “The clearest example we got this or a clear example was during the pandemic period where the convergence of interest included … pharmaceutical companies [and] governments.”
“That’s an example of how crises and chaos benefits powerful interests,” Brand added before predicting that “because crises are beneficial to the most powerful interest in the world [it] is likely that you will see a perpetuation of crises.”
As LifeSite previously reported, Brand started to pray the Rosary daily this past spring. He also made headlines in January when he announced that he wears a crucifix. Similar to podcaster Joe Rogan, he fights against political correctness, media bias, and wokeism, among other topics.
Brand further told Carlson he was pleased with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to throw his support behind Donald Trump. Brand echoed many of Kennedy’s campaign talking points about health and Big Pharma.
“If the military industrial complex benefits from war, you will have war. If the pharmaceutical complex benefits from ill health, you will have the perpetuation of ill health. If they require you to eat food that’s bad for you and take medicine that’s bad for you, then you find that …. instead of [being] the great[est] nation in the world, you have a kind of conveyor belt where we’re sort of turned into larvae with parasitic tubes attached to us — one end being pumped full of sugar and seed oil the other end being pumped full of needless pharmaceuticals,” he said.
Brand continued by noting that global elites speak of “diversity” but really are just imposing a strict uniformity.
“True diversity is a glory but superficial diversity” is a rotten fruit of globalist ideology, he said. “In the pandemic period … it wasn’t the diversification of wealth. It wasn’t the empowerment of people. It was the centralization of authority. It was the centralization of wealth. It was the centralization of power.”
“I can’t see in secularism any solution,” he continued. “I can’t see in politics anything other than the green shoots of possible change in the alliances that we’ve touched upon. But in Our Lord and Savior, I can see the hope and redemption that was promised us, and that will be my path.”