There he stands, Charlie Kirk. In heaven, surrounded by the apostles Peter, Paul, Andrew and others, who (like Charlie himself) were all murdered because of their faith in Christ. Martyrs for the Word of God.It is one of thousands of images created by AI following the horrific murder of conservative Christian activist Charlie Kirk. One that stood out for me.
That Kirk’s murder is a massive scandal needs little explanation. But was he murdered for his faith in Christ, as you can hear everywhere? Based on everything we know now, the answer to that is most likely no. The shooter himself came from a Trump-voting Mormon family.
Still, it is conceivable that people see Kirk as a martyr for the faith. That is because he never made a secret of his faith; in almost every speech, he called on his listeners to give their lives to Jesus. His faith was number one for him.
The same goes for his views on British colonialism (that made the world ‘decent’), the theory that white Americans are deliberately replaced by others (which he saw as accurate), Martin Luther King (a ‘terrible person’) and a long list of other views going around in right-wing America and especially in the circles around President Trump. Those views cannot be called Christian, but what was Christian and political were intertwined in Charlie Kirk’s case.
In this, Kirk showed himself to be a typical Christian nationalist. That is someone who connects his country’s national identity with the Christian faith, and expects the nation to defend Christian culture and values.
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