The Spiritual War That Awaits Us
There were many beautiful moments from that epic memorial in Glendale, Arizona, none more affecting than when Erika Kirk, a symbol of Christian female courage, looked to the heavens, tears streaming from her eyes, to forgive her beloved husband’s assassin. And so many others — Secretary of State Marco Rubio proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ as few preachers can, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller vowing that our tears would become “fire in our hearts,” President Trump, himself a target of left-wing violence, reminding us as he stood behind a glass wall, “The gun was pointed at him (Charlie), but the bullet was aimed at all of us.”
Charlie was the greatest apostle for Jesus Christ perhaps since St. Paul. That is why, to my mind, the most prophetic words spoken at that memorial came from the lips of Ben Carson, pediatric neurosurgeon, prominent black conservative, and man of faith.
“Our rights come from our Creator, not from our government,” he reminded us. And he called out the leftist institutions that have indoctrinated children and made sexual perversion seem normal. Countering this Social Gospel with Biblical Gospel, he said, is the only way to save the country. “And remember,” he added, “we cannot be the land of the free unless we are also the home of the brave.” To challenge Satan takes courage.
For decades now, many priests and preachers have cowered, fearful of anything that might seem political. It is as if the Devil owns their tongues. Worse, others have embraced openly the very perversions that are crushing our culture.
The Left’s ideologies — critical race theory, transgenderism, the cult of abortion — all stand in opposition to God. And all of them embrace violence in the service of their cause. That’s why Leftists burn cities, obstruct ICE arrests, celebrate murders. In Marxism, the ends justify the means. In Christianity, we are all children of God.
In his A Letter to the American Church a few years ago, Eric Mextaxas argued that, unlike the church in Germany as Hitler came to power in the 1930s, the American church must now summon its courage to oppose a Social Gospel “at war with the ideas of family and marriage, and with the idea of America as a force for good.”
Ever since the 1960s — with Catholic liberalization under Vatican II, the secular separation of church and state under Lyndon Johnson and the Supreme Court’s ruling that prayer be removed from public schools — churches have hesitated to declare these truths. Instead, they burrow their heads in their bibles to find interpretations that allow for illegal immigration, drag queens and abortionists. Nowhere was this abject fear more apparent than during the pandemic, when churches bowed to government edicts that they close their doors, even as liquor stores were declared “essential businesses” and mass protests were allowed to fill the streets.
Now, as violence against Christians escalates, it is clear we are in a spiritual war between the Left, which bows before the Gospel of Secular Perversion, and the Right, which embraces family and faith, freedom and country. No one did more to walk into this chasm, to seek converts to the Bible in the name of the USA, than Charlie Kirk. As Erika said at the memorial, his greatest cause was “to revive the American family.”
That is why the Left is unhinged at the outpouring of love for him, why they are doubling down on hatred and violence. So many young Americans are taking the time to watch Charlie Kirk’s videos, and they are emerging to say he was not, as the Left portrayed him, racist or transphobic or misogynist. Their posts are a joy to see.
The Left killed Charlie not because he was a saint to us, but because he was effective at winning us to the side of God. His ministry is a threat to their power over culture. Theirs is a dog whistle for violence, abetting a permission culture of killing.
At the Ashland County Fair in Ohio, the local Democrat Party organized a booth in which it handed out buttons that said, “Is he dead yet?” a reference to Trump.
In Sacramento, a 64-year-old man shot up an ABC station. Police found a calendar reminder on his fridge saying, “Do the next scary thing.”
In an online assault against CNN’s Scott Jennings, since deleted, lunatic Keith Olbermann, starving for media oxygen, wrote, “You’re next, Mother-F****er.” You can see the froth form on their lips, salivating for violence.
Few have been braver in this fight against evil than those trying to de-transition from teenage mutilations, who speak painfully of their experience to reclaim the gender God gave them. Watch as Chloe Cole debates a leftist radical at a Charlie Kirk rally, about her medical complications, and her fears of not being able to bear children.
Breitbart’s Alex Marlow said that Charlie’s memorial will forever make God part of our politics. Let us all stand and celebrate, in a rousing hosanna to Charlie.