As I’m sure most of you had heard, Charlie Kirk, renowned conservative activist, was killed. Assassinated would be the more appropriate word for it.
This man was very outspoken about his faith and his beliefs and was incredibly good at debating others that disagreed with him in a respectful way. He didn’t want to degrade them, but gave them facts and truth that made them think.
Well, as you can imagine this can upset people a lot. Especially in their beliefs. Their truth is questioned. And that’s a lot of what Charlie did. He asked them questions and then listened to their answers so that they could try and persuade him to their side. Sometimes, they made him think, but most often he had logic and facts that he would ask them in return and people would get very upset because they didn’t have the answers to back up their beliefs.
On Wednesday, September 10, Charlie was shot while speaking at a college campus in Utah. Unfortunately, it took his life.
Now, as my husband pointed out, it’s good to see both sides of the political aisle overall coming together and condemning this action. Violence because you disagree with one’s point of view is not the answer.
Even my liberal friends on my Facebook feed have been putting out posts on thoughts and prayers for his family. He leaves behind a wife and two children.
Not everyone is coming together on this, however, as my college daughter first pointed out. Several people in one of her classes were celebrating this death and as it should be, she was very upset about this.
They were celebrating someone dying. Being assassinated. Shot in cold blood. Because they disagreed with his politics, with his belief, they were celebrating his death.
Then my other daughter came home from high school and was talking about all the posts her classmates put up about how they have no empathy for this tragic death. Some were saying because of his stance on the war in Gaza, he deserved it and it didn’t matter that he had a family that witnessed his assassination because of all the kids in Gaza that are losing family members in a war zone. Others are saying that they hope his kids never follow what their father said. And even others are saying because he actively spoke against trans people he got what was coming to him.
This brings the same question I had in my previous blog. What is happening in our society? Have we gone so far that we have such a hatred for our fellow man that we actually celebrate their death? That you can’t even have a debate because if you disagree, that other person deserves to be murdered?
When did it become okay to kill someone just because you disagree with them?
To have no empathy for a family now torn apart? For the kids growing up without a father? For a wife that no longer has her husband? All because they didn’t believe the same as you they deserved to be gruesomely killed?
We are not called to be the same. God made us uniquely different. That means we will have different thoughts and attributes. He made us with the ability to choose what we want to believe.
Charlie Kirk believed in Jesus and in everything he did you could see that. He was courageous to speak truth even in the midst of attacking. I remember watching him do a podcast where it was 20 liberals against 1 conservative. He spoke with conviction and grace even when people were so angry with him for his beliefs.
Someone said that he should’ve seen this coming. There were so many outspokenly against him.
And maybe he did. He knew there was a risk. Especially with doing it out in the open like that. But here’s the thing.
He did it anyway.
Because talking to people and professing truth as well as his faith was important to him. He was working to make an impact on a world that is falling far from God fast. As Christians, we should do likewise. We should speak truth. Even when people are against us, we should do it anyway.
I read this on Instagram not long after Charlie was killed and felt it was good to remind us of.
5 Truths We Must Hold To When The Wicked Attack
- Evil will not silence the truth.
- Violence cannot stop God’s purposes. Stand firm.
- Life is fragile, eternity is forever
- Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed, so we must live all out for Christ today. Live ready. Live like eternity matters.
- Christians cannot cower.
- Darkness will not drive us into hiding. Speak truth with boldness
- Pray with faith, stand with courage
- Christians don’t wring their hands – they lift them in prayer. Now is the time for prayer, courage, and uncompromising truth.
- Do not become the evil you seek to eradicate.
- Jesus repeatedly warned against using evil and sinful tactics to eradicate evil and sinful men.
Let’s learn to be like Charlie. Hold on to the truth, speak it with salt and grace and never back down from our convictions and beliefs. Let’s be salt and light to those around us.
“If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas – not run away from them or try and silence them.” Charlie Kirk
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