Charlie Kirk
The world has lost a giant, and his name was Charlie Kirk.
We live in a world of silent cowardice. There are cities in America today where a woman can be raped on the subway in broad daylight and bystanders will say nothing. It is a world where selfishness and iniquity have caused the hearts of many to grow cold, as the Bible warns in Matthew 24:12. It is a world where wickedness unobjected to has strangled principled discourse. People have stifled the voice of conviction in their personal lives for so long that it has subdued independence and courage in the public square. Put simply: people who are cowards in their personal lives will be cowards in their public lives.
Under the best of circumstances in such a world, it would be difficult for anyone to stand up in the public square and voice their opinion, even if that opinion is a majoritarian position.
But it takes supreme courage to enter public territory where one holds a minority opinion and engage in public dialogue with those who hate everything you stand for. When Charlie Kirk went to a public university to speak on the Bible, the sanctity of life and marriage, or how it is impossible for men to become women, he was entering territory where he knew his opinions were hated and would be misrepresented. He knew he was going to be threatened and vilified. He knew there was a risk to his life. But he went anyway.
Whether you agreed with him or not, liked him or not, whether he was right about everything or not, it is necessary to somberly consider and lament the killing of such a man. We mourn the loss of rare species of animals and insects, flora and fauna. Billions are poured into the fight to save threatened animals. But the rarest of all things in this wicked, cold-hearted world is the principled and courageous human being. The silencing of a principled man, killed for the express purpose of censoring his voice, is a tragedy of infinitely greater magnitude than this foolish, dissipated generation realizes.
We live in a world where closeted podcasters voice their opinions from the comfort of their living rooms. Most have never faced a big crowd, let alone a big hostile crowd. Let’s face it. Some of the most brazen and cocky online personalities who bark the loudest from their private apartment cocoons would soil themselves at the prospect of standing at a microphone surrounded by hundreds or thousands of actual people. Especially real hostile people.
But Charlie Kirk was not only courageous, he respectfully dialogued with the people who screamed at him, insulted him, and hated him. In a world of polarization and cancel culture, and naked, open hostility, Charlie was measured and polite.
A perverse generation of leftist students celebrates the loss of Charlie Kirk. They bask in it. They do not realize that they are rejoicing in the loss of that rarest of blessings: someone who cared enough to come speak to them despite their hostility. And who will go now?
The ultimate censorship is murder. Cain killed Abel to silence his conscientious and courageous, principled speech. The Bible records the deaths and persecution of the prophets, every one of them censored and punished for speaking the truth. Isaiah sawn in two, Jeremiah thrown into the pit, Elijah hunted by wicked Jezebel. The apostles faired no better. Peter crucified, James killed with the sword, Stephen stoned, Paul beheaded.
The blood of righteous Abel cried unto the Lord from the ground, and “he, being dead, yet speaketh” – Hebrews 11:4. Does the blood of Charlie Kirk cry less loudly?
It takes courage to speak in the face of hostile crowds, but it is not only courage which drives a person to take such a risk. It takes conviction. A love of the truth. And yes, a love of people.
The world has lost a giant. And it is right to mourn the passing of such a man.
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On December 9, 2025, Charlie Kirk’s last minority opinion will be published posthumously.
The book is on a subject he felt to be infinitely more important than mere politics. It is on the subject of the ancient and forgotten seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible, and is titled, “Stop in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life”.
A Christian world which has embraced the papal falsehood of Sunday sacredness will soon hear the thoughts of a martyr on the sacredness of the seventh day of the fourth commandment. These are doubtless words that the conservative right, and proponents of Project 2025 need to hear. These are words which the left, who have rejected Creator God and Redeemer need to hear. It is another sign of the times.




 
  
 