Charlie Kirk: The Assassination of Our Better Angels

Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we have seen all manner of responses on the sliding scale of welcomed to wicked. We have heard the scripted “no place for political violence” call echoed largely by people who have been all in on a marketing campaign that required their party to act tough, threaten, incite, and swear like sailors in front of cameras at every opportunity.

 

But I think the most interesting and ironic appeal is the one to “our better angels.” Everyone stay calm, keep cool…I pray our better angels will prevail.

Usually said by people fearful of the lesser angels in the GOP. To whom are they hoping the angry and hurting take their rage?

 

Because we had a guy who valued dialogue, respectable open debate, and non-violent communication. And they murdered him. Now they’re left with the rest of us…and I for one, am feeling less skilled, less patient, and less inclined every single day.

They killed one of our better angels when they killed Charlie Kirk.

 

As I have actively solicited clips of his comments people most objected to, what I have found is that in context there was hardly room to object.

 

He said black women have small brains and are taking the place of white people…

Correction. He said Ketanji Brown-Jackson, who Biden committed to hire as a DEI hire and who then pretended to not know what a woman was, because she wasn’t a biologist in her confirmation hearing. I daresay, I don’t disagree. Kirk’s comments were not inclusive to the whole of minority women, they were in context of a conversation about three specific women and the impact of DEI on the now lowered standard of good and qualified.

And here, I must object. Vehemently. Because Kirk left out Maxine Waters. And various members of the “Squad.”

 

He was transphobic!

Except that I watched hours of Kirk’s responses on the issue of gender and transgender issues. By the standard of the mob, we are all transphobic. Everyone who sees this ideology running in contrast to God’s ordained design for man, woman, or marriage–yep, you too–is deserving of finding their name on a “kill list,” according to the left. Charlie Kirk had too much hate? Is that now code for “didn’t believe man can nip, tuck, and talk himself into being a woman?”

 

He wanted to end the Civil Rights Act. 

Have you heard that conversation? It was interesting and thoughtful and not at all singing the praises of the Klan or white supremacy. It was a thoughtful commentary on how the welfare system has actually not served the black community well or faithfully. It was about how people have made careers pointing out or creating problems they have no intention of fixing. And it is largely minority communities who have not flourished under this system. It seems ironic that in the hunt for systemic racism, no one is willing to look under the Rock of Welfare that continues to verifiably destabilize black progress and potential. I wonder why that is.

 

We could go on and on…2nd Amendment, guns, marriage, the role of husbands and wives from a Biblical Worldview.

What we would find is that superiority and fragility make a dangerous and dark combination, one that breeds prideful incuriosity and violent hostility.

It is the toxic tonic of seeing no need to clarify, question, or verify information–while responding aggressively to anyone that would require it.

A “better angel” was assassinated for things he didn’t actually say or believe. Gunned down for snippets and soundbites of thoughts and convictions–but not the reality or entirety of them.

And the worst irony of all is this.

 

Charlie Kirk believed the cult of transgender ideology was dangerous and destructive, particularly to young people, prescribing a cycle of life that only led to greater misery, frustration, medication, and mutilation.

And they proved him right.

 

In an act of unnecessary violence and hate, the enemy proved Charlie right about the danger he feared they posed.

I believe the kids call this a self-own. I will stay with calling it tragic.

 

Charlie Kirk was gunned down by a young man, that he would have wanted to see free and whole–a young man captive to the ways of the world and the wickedness of it.

Men just like Tyler Robinson are why Kirk kept showing up on college campuses.

Who will endure that kind of environment now? Who will take one for the team if it allows them to expose the lies we have been forced to live under? Who will “take one for the team” when it now means laying down your life?

Any other better angels out there?

I believe there are.