Craige McMillan’s May 31 WorldNetDaily column began with this editor’s note:
Today WND publishes Craige McMillan’s last weekly column. Other than WND founder Joseph Farah, Craige has been a “regular” here longer than anyone else, having written commentary since February 1998. The following is his 1,232nd exclusive WND column. The editors at WND appreciate Craige’s insights, dedication and loyalty spanning more than 26 years and wish him well.
We’ve haven’t done a lot of posts on McMillan’s work, largely because he writing has tended to odd yet banal but not deviating much from standard right-wing narratives. In recent years, he embraced conspiracy theories after the 2020 election, refused to accept that Joe Biden is the duly elected president, made up his own conspiracy theory that “packet capture” data would demonstrate the election to be a fraud and Trump would return to the presidency in August 2021 (yeah, not so much). He also unironically complained about media lies and “trusted sources” while forgetting who publishes his column, and he peddled Russian propaganda about alleged biolabs in Ukraine. He spent a lot of time raging against mail-in ballots, even insisting that God opposes them despite not citing any specific Bible verse to support his view.
McMillan concluded his final column with an anti-government rant:
Governments are also heavily involved in controlling the news that reaches their citizens, and the citizens of other nations as well. And we had better include wannabe governments, too. Disinformation can destroy governments and replace them with another. We are in the midst of a massive disinformation war right now. I’m glad there are people on our side who specialize in that; at the same time I’m glad that I’m not one of them. Sometimes God saves us from things we don’t even know until much later in life were a real danger to us.
It’s not that I’m abandoning the battlefield; just that I have slowly found out that Truth can actually be conveyed more effectively through the world of fiction, rather than reality. I’m not talking about he said/she said style books; rather worlds that writers create along with the people who inhabit them. Sometimes it is more effective to show people than to tell them. Fiction is powerful because once we see something happen, even in a book, it becomes more real to us than a news narrative explaining what happened and why we should believe it. Maybe that’s why modern education has gravitated away from the traditionally great books. Modern education has been indoctrination for a long time.
Always remember, the Narrative is not the Truth. Even your enemies don’t believe the Narrative – they just want you to believe it. It will take both natural knowledge and spiritual knowledge to pick out the gems of truth in today’s world. Adam and Eve lost everything because they believed the devil’s lies over the God’s Truth. Perhaps we do well if we can simply not repeat their mistake in today’s world.
God bless, and Godspeed.
McMillan won’t tell you that he has a narrative too, but he gives no reason why his narrative should be trusted above anyone else’s.