Lindsay Clancy faced a demon and lost, then society followed.
The more I read about the case, the more I’m convinced it was no mere epic of a drugs, a failed medical system, and neglect, but something far more sinister.
The prevailing theory adored by Clancy defenders, inside and outside of court, is that she experienced a psychotic episode induced by postpartem depression and could not control herself. She wanted to die and wanted to take her children with her because she was detached from reality and out of control.
But the prosecution rightfully argued she was in full control and planned out the events carefully. She sent her husband out of the house to a place far enough away that she had the precise amount of time it would take to murder Cora, Dawson, and Callan and attempt to take her own life before he returned, even with the slow death of asphyxiation. Then she took each one to the basement, methodically executed them one by one, and afterward, slit her wrists and jumped from a second story window.
The facts are clear: Yes, she was depressed and on psychiatric medications, but she was fully in control. Retained agency the whole time and premeditated the murders. Guilty.
So why all the obsession over her and not over the 3 precious lives she removed from this earth?
Because this whole case goes beyond human sin, mental illness, Big Pharma, or simple neglect. It links to mass deceptions we all witness time and again. 9/11, Covid, Charlie Kirk…you name it. Demons are dancing on graves…
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“Kill Your Kids So They’ll be Safe”
Patrick Clancy testified that Lindsay had been in a slow decline since the birth of Callan. He did all he could to help, including hiring a nanny 3 days a week to assist at home with the children and household chores, and to help Lindsay prepare to return to work as a labor and delivery nurse.
Going into that horrid day, she was already weak, drained, drugged, and still struggling with the postpartum issues.
The planning evidence shows she had likely been considering the murders for some time. She just hadn’t gone through with them. Which tells me she resisted or was waiting for the opportune moment.
Either way, Lindsay admitted that on the day, after sending her husband out to get takeout and pick up a prescription, she heard a male voice say repeatedly, “This is your last chance. You have to kill your kids so you can kill yourself.”
She says the voice was disembodied and insisted that if she didn’t carry out her plans, she and her children would not be “safe.”
The Catholic priest who interviewed her did not conclude demonic influence, but I think that was poor judgment because all the signs I’m seeing point to spiritual oppression.
1) Lindsay suffered through postpartum issues
2) Despite taking prescriptions and seeking psychiatric care, those issues did not abate (they actually got worse)
3) The voice arose in the exact instant where she should have and was likely resisting (what mother in her right mind wants to kill her children)
4) It promised a benefit (”safety”) with no clear picture of what that benefit would look like (ye shall be as gods)
5) It pushed her with urgency
6) She selected to strangle her kids with exercise bands to exact a slow death (she watched the suffering of the innocent and still kept at it, relished in the death)
7) The voice ceased the instant Cora, Dawson, and Callan were dead
To be clear, she wasn’t possessed and still had agency, so she is guilty of the murders (in the eyes of God if not of men).
But the signs of demonic oppression are all there. And they ominously resemble Screwtape...
Wormwood’s Dilemma
For those who may not have read The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis has a senior demon Screwtape direct a lesser demon Wormwood on how keep a human soul away from Christ (dubbed the Enemy). And letters 1, 7, 8, 18-19, 22, 26, 28 all factor into the Clancy case.
L1: Keep the patient inside the fog of his or her own mind. He or she must not experience pressure as anything other than the self. Clancy’s deteriorating state.
L7: Practice a policy of “concealment.” Should a demon act outright, you get terrorism. Hide, and you get materialism. Mix of both at the right times will keep humans trapped in their own minds, skeptical of the supernatural while suffering. Clancy’s deteriorated state combined with the direct voice at the exact moment of her crime.
L8: Humans live in peaks and troughs. Demons must use the troughs to keep humans in despair and thinking that the Enemy (God) is far away and does not care. Most certainly describes Clancy’s state.
L18-19: Corrupt natural affections for spouse and children so that “love” becomes possessive, anxious, and demands control of the beloved’s fate, i.e. “kill your children so they will be safe.”
L22: Plague the human subject with ugly and annoying noise. Like a “kill” command on endless loop in the mind.
L26: Convince the human that he or she is being “unselfish.” Frame a horrific act as sacrifice. “You’re saving the children, not harming them.”
L28: Double down on safety at all costs. Humans will do anything to feel safe and, in safety, more easily forget the Enemy. You can already see where this one is going: “If you do not do this, neither you nor the children will be safe.”
You’re thinking we shouldn’t base everything about demons on a novel, and I agree. We’ll get to Scripture in a moment.
But Lewis did his theological due diligence. He wasn’t just making up Screwtape from pure, disconnected imagination. Every page and letter is a warning based on actual study of demonic movement in the world from a Christian perspective.
And you can’t deny how well the glove fits over Clancy.
Then there’s the issue of the legion of women gleefully riding to her defense...
Wine Moms or Witches?
Despite atheists wanting to claim dominance of our culture, in the U.S. astrology, tarot, affirmations, manifestations, occultism remain a formidable force. Because humanity will always worship something.
In fact, 90% of U.S, adults are syncretistic, as in they mix together religious beliefs. Including atheists.
And women in particular fall prey the most to both syncretism and the occult.
35% (at least) engage in astrology; for women ages 18-49, that’s 43%
Highest belief among those with “nothing in particular” as their religious label (36%)
Women scored higher on “spiritual and mental forces” (psychic contact, future-telling, soul travel).
Youth across the board (boys and girls ages 13-25) 51% have used tarot card or practiced fortune-telling in some sense.
The fortune-telling business itself racked up $2.5 billion in 2024 with 105,000 jobs across the U.S.
Another important stat to note is LGBTQ adults. 54% consult astrology and 33% use tarot.
Women and the LGBTQ are the most involved in occult practices. All these stats come from recent Pew, Gallop, and Barna surveys.
Let’s also not forget that many women in America have murdered their own children through abortion whether involved in the occult or not, desensitizing us to the mass execution of the innocent.
Spiritualism is alive and well, people are messing around with forces they don’t understand, slaughter becomes second nature, mass confusion overtakes the land, and Satan laughs as massive crowds gather to defend a murderer.
It’s easy to limit the problem to TikTok because it has encouraged such occultism at scale of late, but the root goes much deeper.
Footage of the crowds of women who came to support Lindsay Clancy at the courthouse were mostly postmodern Boomer and millennial feminists. And as we learned over just the past couple days, the jury itself had 7 such women who admitted on video to going out of their way to push a “not guilty” verdict despite the trial evidence and would have succeeded had it not been for one black man who held out because he examined the evidence and saw Clancy as guilty. A man they are now doxing and reviling because he didn’t fall in line.
Several of the women from the panel, all older feminists, scoffed at him for “not being able to get past the fact that Clancy viciously murdered her three children.” As if he was the problem and that idea shouldn’t ever be entertained.
The screeching of the banshees is reminiscent to “don’t hate Muslim” criers after 9/11 and the rampant celebration by leftists after Charlie Kirk’s murder. You’re just “Islamophobic,” “homophobic,” transphobic,” “anyphobic” they blare, all while Western values and westerners are wiped from existence in the name of “equity and inclusion.” Which is to say Christian values.
Because the only faith system you’re not allowed to tolerate is Christianity and anything or anyone associated with Christianity.
Straight from the demonic playbook...
Principalities and Powers
Long ago, God warned us against the occult in Holy Scripture. Called it an abomination.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12: “10 There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer 11 or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, 12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD.”
Solomon also warned us in Proverbs 6 God hates these 7 vile evils:
“16 There are six things that the LORD hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
19 a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers.”
And Paul:
1 Corinthians 6:9-10: “9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
Galatians 5:19-21: “19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Ephesians 5:3-6: “3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. 5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.”
1 Timothy 1:8-11: “8 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, 10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, 11 in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.”
These abominations are the breeding ground for the demonic. Satan feasts upon their sight, yet we shut our eyes to all of it. Welcome every single abomination with open arms. And then wonder why Western nations suffer.
You engage in these sins, comfortably rebranded as “taboos,” thinking they’re just harmless actions. No harm, no foul. Live and let live. And the next thing you know you’re cutting yourself, screeching at the top of your lungs, a threat to society, like the Gerasene demoniac, living among the tombs, detached from reality, unable to be chained, comfortable with death and despising life:
Mark 5:1-20: “They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. 7 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.” 8 For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” 9 And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” 10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12 and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” 13 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.”
Women in particular are more susceptible to deception, not because they are less intelligent but because of their heightened sense of emotion and innate design to nurture. Why do you think Satan went after Eve instead of Adam? Because he knew he could get her to imagine and lust after a world where God doesn’t exist and she could be the sole empowered ruler of the cosmos. To idolize herself and covet. Without questioning the risks.
Once detached from reality, she would be capable of and do the unthinkable. Entertain even the most egregious lie. Until dragged herself and everything she loved into the horrors of sin and death.
And the same M.O. can be seen everywhere around the U.S., not just with Clancy…
9/11, Covid, and Charlie Kirk
Demons dance on graves. It’s fortuitous that the whole Lindsay Clancy debacle is still happening in the same week as we remember 9/11 and the murder of Charlie Kirk because the mass deceptions of our age are all exposed in equal measure.
“Mutilate your body to change your gender”
“Kill your kids so you will be safe”
“It was all the Jews. They’re evil”
I tag on Covid as an added bonus: “Stay locked up. Fear your fellow man. Wear your mask. Don’t go to church. Only use the drugs we, the State, tell you to. Be a good prisoner.”
All these are claims detached from reality with no evidence and pure speculation.
The idea that the Jews are the ultimate bogeyman flared up after Charlie Kirk was murdered because of Candace Owens. And her minions continue to cling to her words like flies despite her being proven a fraud.
Tyler Robinson murdered Charlie Kirk, without doubt, and did so because he was a deceived supporter of transgenderism. Had a transgender roommate he was in an intimate relationship with, participated in Discord servers where mutilating the body to make it match feelings (aka “gender affirming care”) was discussed alongside destroying “transphobes” (Charlie in particular), planned out the assassination in detail, was caught on camera fleeing the site of the crime (identified from family members who recognized him in a split second), confessed multiple times to doing the crime of his own volition, and his prints were all over the murder weapon. Everything listed here was presented at the trial hearing.
There is also the fact that leftists, most of them women and/or “transgenders,” leapt for joy and celebrated viciously just like Lindsay Clancy’s supporters. Only worse, because they made shrines and images, imitated the assassination over and over again, and partied with such glee Satan himself blushed.
But oh, it was the Jews. They did it. Despite not a shred of evidence, it was more certainly them.
We see the same deception play out with 9/11. Whenever it comes time to remember what the Muslim terrorists did to this country, the anti-Jew mobs come out of the woodworks screeching, “It was Mossad!”
Never mind that Al Qaeda openly confessed when not in U.S. custody, from their own homeland, that they committed the terrorism.
Here are several verified confessions from chief Al Qaeda voices. Someone shared them on X, and I verified that they are real video and soundbite recording when these Al Qaeda members we outside of U.S custody:
- Bin Laden, 2006: “I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers with those raids.”
- Bin Laden, 2004: “We had agreed with the overall commander, Mohammed Atta, that he complete all the operations within twenty minutes.”
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 2002, a year before his arrest: “We began planning the two raids on Washington and New York two and a half years before them.”
- Ramzi Binalshibh, 2002, months before arrest: “This is not just a single hijacking operation, but four.”
- Ahmed al-Haznawi, Flight 93 hijacker, 2001, martyrdom video: “But the truth is as you have seen: we have killed them outside America, thanks to Allah, but today, we shall kill them in their homeland.”
- Zawahiri, 2008: “We have declared more than once, with the utmost clarity, that we were the ones who carried out not only the destruction of the Trade Center but the Pentagon as well.”
Investigators also collected multiple verified lines of evidence alongside these confessions showing Al Qaeda to be the assassins: visas, flight schools, bank wires, phone/code contacts, the Hamburg apartment (where operations were coordinated), Mohammed Atta verified as tactical lead.
There were intelligence failures on the part of the U.S., like multiple failures to get the hijackers on watchlists when they were flagged as suspicious multiple months prior to 9/11, but no tangible evidence whatsoever of Mossad’s involvement.
But because something on video when the towers were attacked didn’t look right and a couple anti-Jew conspiracists joked about how “Hey, wouldn’t it be interesting if Mossad was involved,” suddenly you can’t trust the actual evidence. Totally illogical, and also why New York now has a Muslim socialist mayor who celebrates Islam all the time and laughed while at the 9/11 memorial while the names of victims were read off as their loved ones wept. And why unvetted Muslim immigrant men of fighting age have invaded our country, tried to invoke Sharia law, raped our women, and openly mocked, derided, and threatened far worse on these United States.
As for Covid, you can’t get a more blatant example of a socialist globalist control experiment than that.
Miracle drugs like Ivermectin, which won a Nobel Prize because of how well it cures all sorts of diseases, became anathema, and “the experts” lambasted anyone who dare defend it. Churches were labeled nonessential, while liquor stores, nightclubs, and drag queen story hours got labeled essential and were allowed to stay open. Again, anyone who resisted, lambasted. You had to stand six feet apart at all times, where your mask like a good slave, see your loved ones through paned glass, and pretend it was all normal, despite the fact that it violated just about ever constitutional right imaginable.
All in the name of “safety.”
See where this is going?
Demons want you to believe the unverified, do the unthinkable, ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears, comply, comply, comply, give into the absurd, and don’t ask question. Because when you’re detached from reality, you’re blind to your own evil nature, to the real enemies (Islam, socialism, demonic influence), and capable of setting the whole world ablaze.
What are you to do?
Submit to the Eternal King
Jesus Christ is the only way past sin, death, and the demonic. The Truth of all reality. And we got where we are now because the world hates him and those who follow him, yet instead of standing strong upon him as our firm foundation and refusing to bend, we let them worship sin and death. Elevate the themselves as gods. Even joined in the revelry.
“Compassion.” “Empathy.” “Live and let live.”
Except Jesus isn’t inclusive or tolerant of evil. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by him. And anyone who refuses him will be judged.
The ultimate exclusive claim of all time.
The principalities and powers, the gods (demons) of our age, know Christ and his devoted children are the only ones who can stop them, so they’ve gotten us addicted to comfort, to oneness with the debaucheries of the unrighteous. And until we break through the malaise, destroy all our idols and high places, nothing will change. Period.
Lindsay Clancy’s evil merely exposed the deception. You have to act.
As Paul said in Ephesians 6:10-18:
“10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. 14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. 16 In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; 17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.”
Paul gives these commands after first detailing the importance of the Christian family, one man and one woman, united together in mutual submission to Christ, who have children and raise them into a bold new generation of faithful warriors.
That IS the battle plan. Restore what God has joined, even if in imperfect union, focused on faithfully living out the biblical values of the cross in modern life at the foundational level. Selfless, sacrificial servanthood. In the nuclear family.
Two made one flesh, united in Spirit with the King of kings and Lord of lords, is a force no darkness can overcome. The father of lies, Satan himself, may come to steal, kill, and destroy, but he can in no way defeat those who love Christ, love truth, love each other, and live out their love with courage, refusing to bow to whatever is popular in their age.
Kill the sins of your day, kill the occult, or you yourself will be see death.
You’re in a cosmic battle, whether you like it or not, and the prize is your soul.
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Child sacrifices must stop
Such a powerful article! I believe this too! I have felt there was something demonic about this case!