#2979: Karen Hardin

More prophets and intercessors! There’s plenty of them, and every single one really qualifies for an entry here. Karen Hardin is an an intercessor, literary agent, co-founder of the City-by-City prayer movement, and author, who, with her husband, Kevin, leads Destiny Builders and leads prayer teams in DC – and yes, she has the ears of leaders: In 2019, for instance, she met with White House staff and reported that “they expressed great concern for the increased attacks and threats against [Trump] and have called for a corporate Esther fast from Nov. 2–5” (we won’t try to assess the accuracy of her report; we are reluctant to ascribe credibility to anything she says). Her output has otherwise appeared in WND, Charisma Magazine, The Elijah List and similar deranged conspiracy outlets.

 

Politically, Hardin is MAGA, and she was no fan of the Biden administration; in 2021, for instance, she warned that a new Holocaust was “being ushered in by the Biden administration which will affect every American personally.” Meanwhile, she imagines that Trump is a proper spokesperson for God; in 2019, for instance, she reported from the National Prayer Breakfast that Trump’s “spiritual growth” was obvious: Trump “shared several scriptures and they flowed out of him not as from a speech, but from the heart. He was familiar with them. He knew them.” Her conclusion is, in other words, based exclusively on what she wishes were the case. Otherwise, Hardin is an incessant spreader of conspiracy theories, and has for instance asserted that the January 6, 2021 Capitol storming was a false flag event carried out by Antifa and BLM.

 

An although she believes in the power and accuracy of prophecies, she has an escape hatch for when they fail: many “prophetic words are contingent upon the follow-through action of the recipient. If we don’t receive the word and act upon it, then it remains unfulfilled. It’s not that the prophetic word was off. It’s that the recipient did nothing to partner with the word to bring it to pass.” In other words, if the prophecy didn’t come to pass, the blame belongs on people who didn’t do their part, so you’ll never, in fact, find an example of a false prophecy.

 

Diagnosis: Fully unmoored from reality and floating freely in a fantasy realm characterized by fundie rage and paranoia. Don’t listen to anything she says.