Honest response to Charlie Kirk...

Ok... Let me post something non-satirical and honest about this #CharlieKirk incident. I post provoking things to make people think but today, let me say something authentic... 

Charlie Kirk was a human being, an imager of God. In a world of justice, no human would be killed, no human would be stolen from, no human would be destroyed. His death is tragic, because he's a human being and all death is tragic. 

Charlie Kirk was not, however, godly. His rhetoric was evil, divisive, and dangerous. His speech was racist, misogynist, and he belittled anyone who wasn't a white Republican male. His ideas were both awful and hideous to society, and, completely counter to The Way of Jesus in every conceivable way that matters.

But his rhetoric is a symptom of a larger problem that goes back a long time. 

1. Humans do evil shit. Given. In that sense it's a problem that goes back for the 500,000 (+/-) history or hominids. Charlie Kirk did evil. The man who killed him did evil with his mouth. The man who killed George Floyd did evil with his actions. The other MANY shootings in 2025 did evil. Evil abounds. 

2. More specifically, Fundamentalist Christianity, which reads the biblical texts through an over-simplified and illiterate lense is the more recent issue, this roots in the enlightenment, and really gains a twisted version around the scopes monkey trials. Literate Bible readers don't insist the earth is young, nor do they rip sentences out of the biblical texts that align with their modern worldview as proof texts while they ignore texts that directly contradict their chosen narrative. 

3. Even more specifically the Moral Majority of the 1900s led to the one thing every biblical author was unanimous about being evil, blending The Kingdom of YHWH with wordly empire building. Anyone fighting for a "Christian Nation" is by definition at odds with e the entire thrust of the biblical authors message. 

The Republican Party claims to be godly while supporting ungodly policies across the board. Even their anti abortion policies, while originating in a basic truth "life is special" has become the party of death in how this issue is handled and executed in red controlled governments. Even that golden cafe is now an abomination to God. 

The healing of the USA will be dependant on US American White Evangelicals repenting for the sin of syncretism and Republican idolatry. As long as they cling to these types of rhetoric, they will remain both the largest source of evil in the USA and the primary enemy of The Way of Jesus. 

The fact most of them will balk at this statement, as I would have not that long ago, is why I don't expect the USA to survive much longer. Empire is always judged and brought down. A new empire rises. 

Until the US American Church becomes primarily obsessed with caring for the poor, needy, imprisoned, immigrant, orphan, stranger, and widow as the primary characteristic of the group, until we are known for how we love with reckless abandon, ESPECIALLY if the 'other' doesn't look, sound, or speak like us, and especially if they disagree with us... Then we are reprobate. 

This includes me. While I have become radically in love with human beings in general, I find myself so appalled by the worldview of my former people that I am angry when they spew their hateful rhetoric and claim it is God's. This anger, which I believe is of God and is prophetic, must be tempered by love. Someone loved me en6to challenge me without speaking down to me, and I haven't done the same. 

I speak to my former people of The Right the same way they taught me to speak to The Left when I was among them. 

They'll spee vile evil and then act affronted if I return a fraction of it their direction. I did the same when I was them. The way I speak to The Right Now is how they taught me to speak, they can dish it but cannot take it. 

But that too is evil. I should be loving my enemy, which at this point is White Evangelicals and MAGA, as I want them to love the world. 

I will most likely fail to do this well for the foreseeable future.... But I think I'm going to work on it. 

Selah

 Darrell

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