On the murder of American Christian Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk. Photo: facebook.com/realCharlieKirk
On September 10, the world was shaken by footage from the United States, where a sniper killed young Republican politician Charlie Kirk.
For most Ukrainians, the name may mean little, but in America Kirk was a highly popular and influential figure who played a major role in securing Donald Trump’s victory.
Kirk was a blogger whose podcasts attracted up to 750,000 viewers daily. His social media reach exceeded 100 million people per month, and Axios included him in its list of the “Top 10 Most Engaged Twitter Accounts in the World.”
He founded the student organization Turning Point USA, which gathered more than a quarter of a million members.
In his speeches, Kirk defended Christianity, the family, and traditional values. At the same time, he sharply and reasonably criticized LGBT propaganda, transgender ideology, COVID restrictions, abortion, and the artificial promotion of Black Lives Matter – in short, all the “sacred cows” of the liberal globalist world. And there is no doubt, the article insists, that this was precisely why he was killed.
At the moment of the fatal shot, Kirk was speaking about the inadmissibility of male transgenders competing in women’s sports.
Kirk was also a deeply devout Christian who spoke openly about his faith.
“I have been a Christian for almost my entire life, and it is the most important thing in my life,” he said in one interview. “The most important thing for me is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and trying to get people to speak openly and honestly again about their faith. I am simply struck by how some people are afraid to share their faith in Jesus Christ, in God, in the Bible and the truth of the Bible – and that is why I am a Christian.”
“Jesus defeated death so that you might live,” Kirk wrote in one of his final posts on X before his murder.
Symbolically, Kirk was killed on the eve of the Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist. Of course, any comparison with the great prophet would be inappropriate, yet both the Forerunner and Charlie Kirk were slain for rebuking the sins of this world.
Why do we in Ukraine write about Kirk?
Because in our country, with each passing day, those grow stronger who embody everything Kirk fought against – and who killed him. Those who forcibly impose their “values” here while banning the Church. Those who present themselves as democratic and humane lambs, but in truth prove to be spiteful and merciless wolves.
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