09/18/2025
Alright man. What happened to Charlie Kirk is a tragedy. Full stop. Murder is always wrong. Period. No caveat.
That being said, I used to live in Arizona, where Kirk lived. People I love and I have been faced with the direct consequences of his ideology and ethos for years. We’ve been abused, harassed, and had guns pulled on us. His work helped make political discourse and civic engagement more violent, more dangerous, more troublesome.
I have not and will not celebrate his death, nor will I stand idly by while there’s a concerted attempt to sanitize his life and life’s work. I stayed quiet for the most part because it was about someone losing their life, and I don’t have nuanced words about that.
But when you attempt to make someone who sowed nothing but division a martyred saint, that’s an affront to my faith and my Savior that my convictions simply won’t permit to go unaddressed.
Death does not absolve one of what they did and said in life, and any living soul who TRULY believes in a resurrected savior, who truly believes we’ll give an account for the things we do and say on this Earth to a brown skinned, risen Savior, won’t absolve those deeds either.
Unfortunately, violence in America is politics as usual.