Aside from being offended at Charlie’s clear rebuke of sin, most hatred comes from twisted snippets of things he said. If you see someone call him a racist, look up the full clips where he is talking to people of different skin colour: “values are what matters, not skin colour” He did not care about Melanin levels and body declared there is one race: the human race.
Written as a reply to a FB post:
Hi Andrew, please bare with me – I am thinking through the issues below so they are not directed at you specifically…I trust you have broad enough shoulders to dialogue, debate or correct 🙂 (or ignore lol)
Do you think that labelling another Christians’ position as ‘polarising and vilifying’, accusing them of ‘lacking love, respect and kindness’ is not polarising in itself? Why judge and attack other Christians in this way? (Gal 5:15 / Ja 4:11)
Is it because Charlie exposed sin and called people to repentance, highlighting your inability or unwillingness to do the same? Are we guilty of being the barren fig tree? (Luke 13)
The following verse comes to mind:
Ephesians 5:11 (NLT) “Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.”
But this makes me wonder – are *we* meant to point out sin in others? If so, to non Christians or Christians?
Obviously we are commanded to judge Christians (1 Cor 5:12) but not to judge unbelievers, so is this how the attacks of Charlie are condoned? (He called himself a Christian so we can judge him?)
As a young Christian in Pente circles, it was common theology to never talk about or confront sin as this was ‘the Holy Spirit’s job’. (I see NT theology argues comprehensively against this view now).
Do you think that Charlie, by championing the nuclear family, traditional gender roles (and trying to help transgender people or social issues in his community) was judging them? I see countless testimonies where people in confused ideologies were helped by being given respectful truth: why do liberal Christians see this as so wrong? I don’t see he was judging them but giving a different perspective. Is it because the vocal minority hate him due to offence? I see Jesus confronted people with sin (ie woman at the well, rich young ruler)
As someone who was deeply ingrained with secular ideals that lead to addiction, depression and nearly killed me (literally), I see a huge need for truth to combat the dangerous philosophies that underpin our culture. That said, I want to see unity in the body of Christ, so am looking at my own response and attitudes towards Christians on the left. I find it hard to marry the Christian worldview with (for instance) the Greens, Transgender ideology, Palestinian terrorism, Unfettered immigration etc.
Am I part of the problem?
Also, why is a Christian worldview and patriotism “a strange mix”? Surely it is a desired mix, especially for a nation whose very foundation was originally rooted in this goal? Should a nation be more based in Secular Humanism or Islam ideology? One could argue the nation with no nationalism at all would crumble very quickly and be unable to sustain itself, let alone offer help to other nations / peoples?
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I think you will be very hard pressed to prove that Charlie Kirk promoted a Militant Christianity, or made claims of racial superiority or baseless claims against anyone not white. To me, these are divisive judgements that demonise a whole group of Christians as well as any traditional Americans.
We do remember what the whole American experiment was based in right?