‘You Cannot Serve Both God And Money’: Candace Owens Drops Cryptic Post After Ben Shapiro Slams Her on Israel
Candace Owens posted a cryptic tweet on Tuesday hours after Ben Shapiro, the co-founder of the Daily Wire and her boss, went viral online for slamming Owens’s comments about the Israel-Hamas War.
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake,” Owens wrote, quoting Matthew 5:9.
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other,” she added, concluding, “You cannot serve both God and money.”
Owens followed that tweet up with another saying, “Christ is King.”
While the exact meaning of and intention behind her tweet is unknown it raised a lot of eyebrows given the timing.
Hours before on Tuesday morning a clip of Shapiro calling Owens “disgraceful” for her commentary on Israel began to circulate online.
“The question is about Candace Owens,” Shapiro says in the clip, adding, “I think her behavior during this has been disgraceful, without a doubt.”
While some of Shapiro’s words aren’t picked up by the video’s audio he can be heard noting Owens “still works at my company.”
“I think that her faux sophistication on these particular issues has been ridiculous,” he added, calling her commentary on Israel “disreputable.”
This is not the first time Owens and Shapiro have exchanged barbs over Israel and anti-Semitism. “I think the ADL is a partisan hack organization, too. But RTing Max Blumenthal, who spends his life covering for Jew-haters and stumping for Israel’s destruction, makes the conversation significantly worse. It’s garbage,” Shapiro replied to Owens after she boosted far-left anti-Israel blogger Max Blumenthal.
“I don’t know who Max Blumenthal is, but I do know that you have my number and could have informed me in earnest. Real relationships should trump Twitter theatre. Let’s set a better example going forward,” Owens replied to Shapiro at the time.
Weeks before Shapiro had publicly said Owens was wrong to defend Kanye West, who had spewed threatening anti-Semitic rhetoric. “Let’s put it this way, if she had said what Kanye had said she wouldn’t be working at The Daily Wire. She did not say what Kanye said. Instead, she defended her friend initially in a way that I didn’t like. But that is not a fireable offense. Nor do I even have the power of firing at The Daily Wire, which is why Michael Knowles still works there,” he said in response to a question during a Young America’s Foundation event.
Owens has a long history of controversial and outlandish rhetoric including saying Adolf Hitler’s “nationalism” inside Germany was “fine” and that parents who take their kids to drag queen story hour should have them “taken away.”
