Indeed
Quote:The Shameful Christian Idolatry and Fraudulent Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
A pastor I once partnered with posted an emotional video calling Kirk a “man who loves the Lord, stands on the morals and the traditional values of the Bible, and believes in Jesus and is a follower of Christ”—and within minutes of Kirk’s death, announced a public prayer vigil to pray for Charlie Kirk’s family and for “revival” to come to our nation.
And with every passing second since his reprehensible killing, the Right has worked tirelessly to turn Kirk into a modern-day martyr; a supposed unabashed lover of Jesus whose brutal murder proved he lived and died for the Lord, violently taken by the Godless Left, and crystallizing the righteousness of the MAGA movement.
I’d like to be shocked at the theological gymnastics of this, but these are the same self-identified Christians who’ve spent the last decade lionizing a vile, amoral, serial predator and court-adjudicated rapist, so the bar for sainthood is now subterranean.
I wish the tens of millions of Conservative Christians would take a few minutes from their performative, garment-rending histrionics to read or listen to Charlie Kirk’s own words, to look objectively at the agenda he spent the last years of his life promoting with his massive platform:
Kirk had claimed that passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a "huge mistake" that has now become an "anti-white weapon".
On a January 3rd, 2024, episode of his show, Kirk continued his incessant verbal assaults on women of color, saying “If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder, is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?
During an April 5, 2023, appearance at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church, Kirk said, "It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.That is a prudent deal."
In March of 2024, Kirk said on his show: The great replacement strategy, which is well underway every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.
Kirk has left a hateful, dehumanizing legacy of words that Conservative Christians are either choosing to ignore in their zeal to canonize him, or they simply share his racist, phobic, misogynist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, supremacist sentiments, and in Trump’s garish, Jesus-less remodeling of the Christian faith in America, now imagine them righteous.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the...olatry-and
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
