Charlie Kirk - A Martyr for Truth

 A couple of days ago, on September 10, America faced a serious tragedy.  A young conservative political figure, Charlie Kirk, was gunned down in cold blood at one of his speaking events.  At only 31 years of age, Charlie's death was a true tragedy.  Charlie was young, and he had a lot of great years ahead of him - now, that has been stolen by a psychopath with a gun.  While I am familiar with Charlie's work, and I have watched some of his debates on social media, he was not someone I followed regularly although I respected his work and agreed with a huge majority of his positions.  Yet, I understood how integral he was for winning back the younger generation to common sense, and I believe he sowed some very powerful seeds to do just that.  Let me now just give a few reflections on what I understood about him. 

Charlie founded a grassroots campus organization called Turning Point USA, and he did so at the age of 18.  TPUSA has over the years grown astronomically, and in many cases, it is the reason why we are seeing a positive cultural shift away from the insanity of "wokeness" and back to something more reasonable. Charlie did the conservative movement in the US a huge service by not only tackling the issues head-on with everyday people, but he did so in a way that sought to listen to the other side rather than demonizing them (which is what they love to do to us) and he always approached it respectfully and recognized the human worth of even the most vile of individuals (and in watching his videos, there were some toxic, vile people who showed up at his events).  Being a devout Christian as well, he never attempted to shy away from his faith, and he integrated it into his discourse in such a way that it made his convictions very applicable and practical.  Of course, there are always the haters - the usual suspects accused him of being "racist," or "misogynist," and in reality often it seemed that when they pointed accusatory fingers at him, their own shortcomings were reflected back in their faces.  One in particular I watched was a 70-year-old man in Montana or somewhere who didn't want to talk to Charlie - he was trying to challenge him to a fight.  Charlie rightly pointed out that the Left's issue was that they resorted to violence against anything that disagreed with their delusions, and eventually the crazy old man (who ironically claimed "the Holy Spirit" told him to do this - yeah, sure!) was booed away in embarrassment.  Another really bizarre example of an unhinged leftist who came to one of Charlie's events was an avowed satanist, who came clad in a red robe and a goats-head mask, and when he started to talk in Crowleyite backwards-speak to supposedly pronounce a curse on Charlie, Charlie didn't miss a beat - he rebuked the evil spirit in the guy in the name of Jesus Christ, and the guy walked away.  Charlie had a remarkable self-confidence, knowing who he was and also being able to communicate his positions well.  The fact that the radical Leftist does not want to talk but instead wants to eliminate anyone who disagrees with them stood in sharp contrast to Charlie, and that fact is not lost on the millions of people who recognized his gift.  However, as is the case, the Leftist will not stop at threats, and with the powerful backing of benefactors who are wannabe Antichrists like George Soros, they often resort to evil, and in the case of Charlie Kirk's assassination, this was blatant.  The sad fact is that a life was lost because the Left is essentially barbaric - they are not interested in co-existing with those they disagree with, but rather want to reshape the world in their own warped image.  However, in doing so, the Left has shot itself in its own foot this time, because people are now really waking up to how insane this garbage is.  So, who was this assassin?  Let's talk about him a moment.

Tyler Robinson is a college dropout who, even by confirmation of liberal media outlets, hated Trump and conservatism with a passion.  He was raised in a conservative family, and by all accounts was a bit of a loner who openly rebelled against his own family.  He then decided to enter into an unnatural romantic relationship with a dude who thinks he's a woman, and his general life story is essentially a huge mess of his own making.  The reports I read in the various news clips I looked at regarding this even said Robinson engraved some odd political statements on the very bullets he fired, including pro-transgenderism and Antifa slogans, and that speaks volumes about his mental state.  Fortunately, he was caught, and his own family turned him into the authorities, and even his transgender boyfriend decided to cooperate with the FBI investigation.  This kid - Robinson - has just ruined his own life by taking the life of another, and that leads to a couple of other observations. 

First, there has been an uptick in leftist violence in the past few years, going back to the George Floyd riots in 2020.  The various school shootings and other acts of domestic terrorism have a common thread running through them.  These are not Islamic militants, nor are they on the "right-wing" political spectrum.  No, every one of them identified as a transgender, or had some involvement with transgenderism, and also many of them were involved in the occult, or they were politically aligned with groups like Antifa.  Although the left-leaning media tried to paint these people as "right-wing extremists," in reality the truth always comes out, and the truth is very explicit as to who these violent criminals are.  And, even if they were considered traditionally "right-wing" in the mold of a Timothy McVeigh, in all honesty Timothy McVeigh was more like them than he was Alex Jones.  Much of the racism and segregation in this country can be traced back to the Democratic Party, and this includes groups such as the KKK, as well as leading eugenicists who promoted the same racial ideology that Adolf Hitler embraced (Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a frequent guest at KKK rallies back in the day, and those radical racists ate up her eugenics rhetoric like Skittles because it aligned with their own biases).  This in no way excuses some attitudes and occasional rhetoric that is heard at the fringes of what is considered conservatism, but the ones making that rhetoric are often anything but Christian or true conservatives as they share more in common with the political Left.  For instance, when you hear hyper-fundamentalist Protestants condemn interracial marriage, they are in reality giving sanction to a Darwinian polygenist origin of humanity that presupposes different races are in effect different species - this is an idea you see in early volkisch occultic writings like those of Lanz von Liebenfels in early 20th-century Germany and Austria, and there is nothing Biblical or Christian about it.  Some writers I have noted - in particular Jeri Massi, who makes that connection in detail in many of her books - note how oftentimes what is promoted as "fundamental faith" is actually far from Biblical faith, and again as Mark Lowry notes, the average fundamentalist preacher has the mentality "I may not always be right, but I am never in doubt!"  In other words, their own "traditions of men" have turned them into functional heretics.  True conservatism, as well as Biblical Christianity, always affirms that every human being on earth is one race, and as I tell my 11th graders I teach, it means that essentially we are all one millionth first cousins.  God created two individuals - Adam and Eve - and from them every human being on the earth has roots.  Also, the further back in our own genealogies we go, the closer we may find out we are interconnected.  This is why any form of racism - whether the KKK or modern Antifa espouse it - is evil and wrong.  It is a lie from hell, and thus demonic, because it seeks to strip human dignity away from some people to entitle others, and there is nothing Biblical, Christian, or politically conservative about that at all.  Therefore, we are one race made up of a diversity of ethnicities (and yes, Black people are an ethnicity and not a separate race, because they are still fully human).  So, the truth is we are one race, there are only two genders, and God allows a diversity of ethnicities which contribute to the rich tapestry of humanity in their own specific ways.  THAT is true conservatism, and it is also a bedrock principle of Biblical Christianity called dignity of personhood. 

Getting back to Charlie Kirk, I can attest from watching many of the events on social media he had been featured at that he embodied true Christian charity - he was always respectful of his opponents, and even though he fundamentally disagreed (and rightly so) with many of his detractors, he at least attempted to give them a place to articulate their convictions.  The failure of many of them, however, is that they were not interested in conversation - all they wanted was for everyone to be forced to believe like them, and they even had rhetoric I have heard personally that suggested that what they called "hate speech" (which means in many instances just a view they disagreed with) should be eliminated.  This is why so many of them have resorted to violence  - they burned down cities, assassinated people, and engaged in nasty physical assault against people they personally despised.  And, Charlie became the latest casualty of this insanity.  

I have a cousin I love dearly but who does have some liberal views suggest that it is Trump and his supporters who are trying to start a civil war.  I didn't engage that particular comment of hers, but I would challenge her and others to look at the overwhelming evidence of who it is who is committing violence and chaos - Trump's supporters, nor any other conservatives, are not the ones shooting up schools and assassinating people.  Trump's supporters are not the ones burning down cities and engaging in large-scale rioting.  Trump's supporters are not the ones desecrating churches and timeless works of art in museums.  However, watch the videos of these incidents for yourself and listen to the rhetoric being spouted - it is potentially dangerous.  If anyone is trying to cause a civil war, it is the political Left, and the evidence overwhelmingly confirms that.  So, to my well-meaning but misinformed cousin, I would suggest looking at the evidence for yourself. 

Thank you for allowing me to share this, and we truly pray for Charlie Kirk's widow and children as they mourn his loss.  Any taking of life of a fellow human being is tragic, but this strikes at the core of our own society.  May Charlie's death not be in vain, but may it spark conversation and a move toward sanity in our deeply fragmented and balkanized society.