Like his boss Joseph Farah — who repeatedly fails to see a connection between WorldNetDaily’s history of promoting conspiracies and fake news and its current life on the edge of extinction — WND managing editor David Kupelian seems not to be learning the correct lessons from his adversities.
Kupelian’s Dec. 18 column tells the story of his heart attack two years ago. He does ask the right questions one might expect from a self-proclaimed religious person: “Any halfway introspective person who experiences a heart attack or stroke (which occurs in the U.S. every 21 seconds) will tell you it’s a big wake-up call: ‘Why did this happen?’ And if you’re a spiritually minded soul, the question is even more pointed and urgent: ‘God, what are You trying to tell me?'” He then edges closer:, claiming that one thing God was telling me was that I could no longer safely continue to operate – especially at my age, in my late 60s – on the energy of stress, ego, ambition, obligation, fear of failure and sheer will power. I needed to live from the alternate fuel of grace – all the time.” Then he serves up this:
Mind you, I’ve been a Christian for many years, since I was in my early 20s, when I first asked Christ to come into my life, and I’ve lived a clean, moral life ever since. But something important was missing.
I believe God has been intending to fill in that missing something in me. By allowing me to suffer a heart attack, He humbled me, softened my heart, helped me to forgive people who had hurt me, clarified my mind and freed me from many deceptions.
Actually, that’s just Kupelian’s ego talking. A person who truly “lived a clean, moral life” would not be working for WND, which has been positively amoral in promoting conspiracy theories and fake news intended not to tell the truth but to destroy perceived political enemies.
If Kupelian is truly “freed” from the “many deceptions” he has promoted over the years, he would apologize to Barack Obama for promoting bogus birther conspiracies (not to mention his massive case of Obama Derangement Syndrome), and he would be seeking forgiveness from Seth Rich’s family for touting utterly discredited claims regarding his murder. Yet he has done neither, which makes us wonder just how “clarified” Kupelian’s mind has become post-coronary.
Indeed, Kupelian seems obiviously to the idea that perhaps the message God was sending to him via heart attack is that he needs to seek contrition and forgiveness from all the people he used WND to attempt to destroy through distortions, hate and outright lies over the past two decades, and that the “deceptions” he published at WND were his creation.
Instead, he remains clueless to the last, concluding “In the end, I’d just say that somehow God had compassion on this foolish child and stopped him once again, using his powerful, unsearchable methods to stir up my soul and pull me a little closer to Him. Thank You, God.”
If Kupelian is going to insist on maintaining that utter lack of genuine self-reflection about his life and career, perhaps God can goose him along with another “message.”