Charlie Kirk & Our Civil War

Charlie Kirk was assassinated yesterday in a horrific scene. Dad sent over a text earlier in the day and quickly a video was online about him getting hit, it looked bad. A few hours later President Trump announced his passing.

I’m really sickened and upset at not just his death, but where we’ve come as a country. Charlie was a fine man. He stood boldly for his faith in Jesus, his country, and truth even when it was hard. He was the full package with honesty and integrity, courage and conviction, intelligence and eloquence. He was a rare man for our time who could articulate difficult ideas, especially for young people. He could contend intellectually with the best. Love him or hate him, he was talented.

He was a young husband and father to small littles. He was only 31, just nine years younger than me. I’m still in “littles” mode. 

There are many people out there doing political action, but not as many who can do it as well as he did. He motivated the young generations and challenged them in the lion’s den by showing up at college campuses, confidently tackling the hardest issues of our time — by and large, the leftism antithetical to American ideals.

I’m sad and sick at what all of this means, and we need to see that this is bigger than what meets the eye. The shooting has a very eerie similarity to the attempt on President Trump. There are videos of a person up on a rooftop, 200 yards away. This wasn’t some emotional or mentally ill reactionary; this was planned and organized. Somebody planned his assassination and wanted him quiet. Nick Freitas said it best: they didn’t kill him because he was loud or right, they killed him because he was effective. The same forces after Trump.

Some have argued that guns are the problem. Weapons are the means by which evil executes its plans. But they are also how one defends from evil. Evil or mentally unstable people will find the means. Organizational actors will always have them. If you take away the defense from good people — the only ones who would actually follow such laws — then we fall into a trap.

Our problem is a spiritual and cultural one, manifesting in the violence perpetrated against the good and innocent. This showcases the depravity that attacks our schools and our civic leaders.

This was the hydra of the left: no matter what face you put on it. And that hydra is demonic. This is the spiritual war of Ephesians 6 being played out in the political battleground; it is just one of the fronts. 

We didn’t just lose a good man. This is another shot in the modern Civil War. I was expressing to Ani my inner thoughts on this last night. The cold spiritual and cultural Civil War has gone hot, and we have not woken up to it yet. I’ve been seeing too many voices filled in chats and from people I know on Facebook who have been celebrating Charlie‘s death, saying he got what he deserved. Nobody deserves that on either side of the aisle in a normal society, in our American society. Freedom of speech, to articulate a cause is available to every side here. But we’re seeing a lot of ghouls show up, gloating.

This is cultural, with 48.6% for Musk and 55.2% for Trump of left-of-center respondents saying it would at least be somewhat justified to assassinate in a poll from NCRI. In addition, since May 2020, 522 Catholic Churches have been attacked with a spike in response to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade. The map below is from https://catholicvote.org/tracker-church-attacks/

And in France

The leftists have figured out that intimidating those who speak for truth means that if you challenge their position, they will draw blood. If you can’t win with ideas and legal means, the blueprint of the leftist/Marxist is to kill. They’re the first to want to take our guns away but the first to use it against the opposition. They will hide behind the craziest of their pawns to do it, but cheer on from behind their screens. To understand history is to understand where this mindset has come from. We’re far from Democrats and Republicans.

This is the leftist/Marxist heritage. This goes back to the French Revolution, the ugly counterfeit to the American. This is where the term left of the aisle comes from. The radical Jacobins that occupied the left side of the aisle of the National Assembly wanted to throw away the old ways and replace with the Cult of Reason. They killed anyone who was in the way, including eating their own as we’ve seen the Democratic Party do. Progress. To progress from faith and God-given monarchy. France had problems, which made it susceptible to an evil and hostile takeover. Much like today.

Follow that heritage through Marx and Engles to the Russian Revolution, where the Whites contended with the Reds. Or the nationalist Shen Kai Shek versus the communist Mao in China. I pray that our resistance is stronger here in the USA.

This is playing out slowly; the sins of Russia as explained at Fatima have taken a long time to fester under our roof, but we’re still in the beginning stages of this.

This isn’t just criminal, this is a war. It’s a spiritual and cultural war for the hearts and minds of all of us. The only weapons that we really have to win it are prayer and people of action. 

We’re living history. And it’s good versus evil. This is why people need to get back to Church and understand our rightful founding as One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All. The enemy within, needs to be vanquished. The violence and assassination culture perpetrated needs to be addressed by the left not cheered on. We all weep for the victims of violence, for the schools victims, for churches, for leaders like Charlie.

As Edmond Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

The same leftists who marched priests and nuns to the guillotine in the 1790s, or massacred Russians by the millions in the middle of the night in the early to mid-20th century, or who perpetrated the Great Leap Forward and claimed 65 million Chinese lives for not conforming, will not find that playbook successful here.

Prayers for Charlie and his family, for our country. I pray for peace. Shame on the ghouls that celebrate. Reflecting what John Paul Jones said aboard the Bonhomme Richard in 1779, “We have not yet begun to fight.”