The Assassination of Charlie Kirk

Note: Since originally posting this blog, it is reported that the alleged murderer has been taken into custody. For every university professor, news reporter, and opinion writer who alleged that loving God and country is somehow 'fascist', or that upholding morals and free speech and engaging in honest debate is somehow 'hate', you provided the seeds of hate to reap a murder. I pray you look in the mirror and don't like what you see. For what comes out of your mouth is flowing from your own heart. (Luke 6:45)

We are mourning the death of Charlie Kirk who went to be with the Lord September 10, 2025, and we pray that God comfort his wife and young children, and all those mourning with them, as only God can. Charlie's assignment here is done as God called him home. We grieve, but not as those who have no hope. (1 Thessalonians 4:13) Jesus is the resurrection and the life, and anyone who believes in Jesus will live even though he dies. (John 11:25) It is appointed unto every man to die once. (Hebrews 9:27) Charlie is receiving his reward, what each of us lives for, what each of us looks forward to. Scripture says our days are numbered. (Psalm 90:12) If September 10, 2025 was to be Charlie Kirk's last day on this earth, what a way to go. Being martyred for one's faith, especially. And busy doing what God called him to do until God took him home to his heavenly reward. Praying as many or more are impacted by his death as his life. What the enemy meant for evil, we can all pray that God will use it for good. (Genesis 50:20) We are comforted because being absent in the body, he is present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8)

The world is emptier today.

The shot to Charlie Kirk's neck is such imagery of the intent to silence him. To silence us. But what the assassin did, instead, was release an army of truth tellers and prayer warriors influenced by him and the same God who created him. While the intent may have been to silence, martyrdom has the opposite effect upon those who personally know Jesus Christ as our Savior and give our lives to walk with Him daily - we become even more fearless. We are already crucified with Christ, so we have nothing to lose and everything to gain. (Galatians 2:20)

The assassination of Charlie Kirk was a direct assault on the United States of America, our way of life and the values we hold dear that are the fabric of this nation - the right to life, liberty, and property, with the liberty of free speech being at the forefront. It was an attack on liberty itself. It was an attack on all of us as Americans.

Charlie Kirk modeled rational, reasonable, and respectful debate. Anyone who says otherwise has either never heard him or is lying. Whoever and whatever motivated someone to pay an assassin, or to be filled with such hate to take him out felt threatened by truth. They felt so threatened by the power of words that they used actual violence. It was a single shot with a perfect aim from the same playbook as the attempt on the President from a rooftop, and as far as we can tell, the shooter escaped while everyone was still gasping. So, what was so threatening about Charlie? If those who disagreed with him have an equally rational argument that can be defended, why take him out?

Two days before his death, in a text to a friend Charlie quoted 1 Corinthians 16:9, "For a great and effective door has opened to me, but there are many adversaries." Charlie knew the threat. He went courageously into the battle for the minds of American young people that have been indoctrinated and brainwashed to hate America.

To be clear for those who like to use every tragedy for the political grab of power to seize the guns of honest, law abiding citizens by the government, so a totalitarian regime such as communism can take over, leaving the citizens defenses against the tyrannical takeover, it's not the fault of the gun. It's the fault of the one who pulled the trigger and the one paying for the bullet. Violence is perpetrated by people; guns don't shoot themselves, Crooks and the government will always have guns, the only debate is whether law-abiding citizens should have them to defend themselves. One need only to listen to the demons protesting in the House of Representatives over a simple request to pray for Charlie's family to know this is as pure of a struggle between good and evil as it gets. It's not both sides of the isle at fault, here. There are clearly a bully and the one being bullied. Much like Charlie to the assassin, it's the American people being bullied. And President Trump has been standing up to the bully, taking the brunt of it for the American people. Trying to right all the wrongs inflicted is a monumental task few men would be equal to. But I digress.

The fact is Charlie Kirk modeled rational, reasonable, and respectful debate that when combined with the facts is a winsome, winning combination. It's difficult to argue with logic, even when people want to be illogical. And it's powerful to call people out on their false assumptions. More importantly, it points to the wisdom of Scripture to speak the truth with love. He genuinely focused on and cared about those he was talking to, and when someone knows you care, they can hear you. (1 Corinthians 13) And he had a gift for reading people and their body language - he was focused on them. What was particularly remarkable about Charlie was the amount of verbal attack he could take without taking personal offense. Self-restraint is powerful. He knew who he was talking to, and he didn't allow it to deter him from being respectful and forthright regardless of how the other person was behaving. To everyone who knew him, Charlie was a good man. Yet, because he saw himself rightly before God as a sinner in need of a Savior, he approached others in equal humility to their evil and need of a Savior.

Scripture never gives us an excuse for treating another person badly. Despite the cartoons teaching otherwise, we should never cheer when someone gets the horrible consequence we think they deserve. (Proverbs 24:17) If someone is our enemy, we are to love them, and if they have a need, we are to personally meet it. (Luke 6:35) If someone demands something of us, we are to give them more than they asked. (Matthew 5:41) If someone has harmed us, we are to go to them and gently reprove them with the hope of reconciliation. (2 Timothy 2:25) And so far as it depends on us, we are to be at peace with everyone. (Romans 12:18) We are to pray for our leaders - whoever they are - so we can live peaceful, quiet lives. (1 Timothy 2:2) This stands out against the dark cruelty of an evil world. (Philippians 2:15)

It is utterly tragic that the hatred for our ideals are being attacked by our enemies who have infiltrated within the country to the point of bloodshed. The vitriol has to end. Those calling names and making false claims like "threat to democracy" (the United States is not a democracy, it is a Constitutional Republic) must take responsibility for not only the assassins they pay, but the violence they promote. Those against taking criminals off the streets - what could their motivation be? The answers are pretty clear. Thankfully, for these few years, the law is still on the side of Americans with Americans in leadership to enforce them.

If this had been a non-conservative who had been assassinated, there would be riots and burning in the streets today. But that's not who real Americans are. That's not who conservatives are. We debate. We have rational conversations. We contact our Representatives to change bad laws. We trust law enforcement to do their job in apprehending suspects to bring the perpetrators to justice in a court of law. We expect our President to enforce the laws. We are law-abiding and freedom loving. We may disagree with you, but we don't hate you because you disagree with us. We are primarily peaceful people. We let you do your thing and just want to be left alone to do ours. Unfortunately, letting you do your thing has allowed this to happen.

You have spread your vitriol for us. You have maligned our President. You have attacked our values. You have spewed your hate. You have shown contempt for truth. You have dared to lie about reality and been surprised when we don't buy what you're selling. And now, you've resorted to overt violence. You want civil war so you can conquer us. And frankly, given the slaughter of innocent children that we are quite complacent to allow to happen, this is often how God removes His blessing to allow a nation to be destroyed.

We are rightfully grieving and angry when someone like Charlie Kirk is shot. This is a pivotal moment of how we will respond. But how many Charlie Kirks did God give us, and we didn't even allow them to make it to their first birthday? Do you think God mourns for their lives? They were cut off from the living. Their inheritance among us was stolen from them. They didn't get a chance to get married and have their own children. I'm not downplaying the tragedy of Charlie Kirk's death but rather elevating the death of every Charlie Kirk being killed in Colorado every day. There are dozens of children unnecessarily tortured to death every day in Colorado. Why are we so okay with that? Where is their debate?

It's not the end of democracy that should concern us (especially since we are a Constitutional Republic), but rather, it is liberty at stake. We only have the rights we use. We have been so self-limiting of our liberties by keeping our mouths shut in the face of injustices. We have not exercised our religious liberty in the workplace and classroom. We have not called out evil. Nor overcome evil with good. We have worshipped the idols of self, wealth, and health and called doctors our priests, and our investments that are funding our enemies, we have called our security, instead of the one true God who created us. We allow our children to be taught the false religion and mythology that they evolved from lower life forms and then wonder why they act like animals. We have desired comfort and pleasure over the hard work and bravery of leading our homes, our neighborhoods, and our communities to teach our children what is real and true. Instead, we've been glad for the babysitters and been content to delegate all parental responsibilities to others while we lose the next generation. Our money has gone to colleges to undermine everything we believe. And our school board members are content to slap each other on the backs and call parents terrorists for wanting to protect our children from pornography and being groomed for sex trafficking.

We have to stop. We have to reassess what is really important and at stake here. The status quo isn't good enough anymore. I can only imagine Charlie's prayers. And what is remarkable about God in how He uses what the enemy meant for evil to use for good, is that I believe through his death, Charlie's prayers are being answered. The outrageous claims that for speaking his mind somehow Charlie brought about his own death is not only preposterous, it is dangerous. Every journalist or commentator who even hints at that needs to be fired. You don't have to agree with everything he said to agree that he did not commit a crime and should not be denied life, liberty, or property without due process of the law - that is liberty defined by our U.S. Constitution. So, to hint that anyone should be executed without trial is supporting a heinous crime against humanity.

The hate rhetoric has to stop. Truth is not hate. Love is not hate. We cannot allow Christian patriots to be villainized. Disagree, sure. Vitriol, no. And we cannot engage them at that level. Hatred does not overcome hatred. Only good overcomes evil. And that's not a fairy tale wishful thinking. That's what Scripture instructs, "overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21).

Does that mean that you never have to go to war against your enemies? No. Does that mean that you let criminals run in the streets and people who fund, hire, and carry out an assassination should not be brought to justice? No. So what does it mean?

It means that we take the model that Charlie Kirk leaves as his legacy to continue open, honest, respectful debate. That we don't stoop to the level of those who call names like on some kindergarten playground. And that we also boldly and calmly refuse to allow ourselves to be villainized and marginalized. We don't have to be pansies just because we are Christians. Jesus turned over tables and called the religious leaders of his day a brood of vipers. He was also without sin. So, something about calling things out as evil and turning over tables is not sinful. And something about it threatens the enemy.

Maybe we need to take back our liberties of free speech, religion, and the press. And pray so the demons yell and cannot stay in the room. Maybe we take the example of an imperfect man who was brave, so that all of us together refuse to cower, refuse to surrender, and refuse to be silenced. Not just because of him, but for the generations he was trying to reach. And who need us now.

“I pray for every single person to be able to find the same sort of redemption and meaning and connection that I have had, have right now. There’s a great comfort in actually knowing that you’re completely and totally depraved and an awful person and knowing that you have to accept a Savior because of that,” Kirk said. “It’s actually the most comforting thing in the world.” - Charlie Kirk

According to TCT news: "In a recent podcast interview, Charlie Kirk was asked how he would want to be remembered if he died. He responded, "I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith in my life."

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Related Scripture:

“Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!” (Revelation 12)