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by Shannara Johnson
The whole nation mourns Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old family man who loved Jesus and believed in peaceful debate with people who vehemently disagreed with him. Charlie Kirk’s conservative views, his engaging personality, and his love for the truth influenced an entire generation of young Americans and, really, young people all over the world. Many of his colleagues believed he would be president one day.
I said “the whole nation mourns Charlie,” but of course that isn’t true. Only the half with a heart that hasn’t turned to stone yet. Like me, many who weren’t even his staunchest supporters cried last night—not just because of his senseless and brutal death, but because of the cheering and mocking and celebrating by leftist lunatics on X, TikTok, and other social media outlets.
The legacy media was in there right with them. MSNBC commentator Matt Dowd said with a noticeable sneer that “hateful thoughts bring about hateful words, and hateful words bring about hateful actions,” indicating that, clearly, Charlie deserved to be gunned down execution-style because he was espousing traditional conservative opinions.
They couldn’t even let us mourn in peace. In Idaho, an outdoor vigil for Charlie was disrupted by a BLM activist pushing through the crowd on a scooter, whooping and shouting, “F*ck Charlie Kirk!” Well, he got his butt kicked. The conservative crowd wasn’t having it anymore.
But the most impactful aspect of yesterday’s events was something largely unspoken. Millions felt it, but most didn’t know how to articulate it. Some conservative podcasters called it a “true turning point” that was reached with Charlie’s murder, others called it a “tipping point.” It was something in the air that you just couldn’t put your finger on.
Here’s what I think many felt: This was not just an assassination. It was a spiritual earthquake shaking the souls of believers and all good people. It was like the fabric of reality had perceptibly shifted, like a hard line between good and evil had finally been drawn.
The first thought that came to me when I heard that Charlie had died was that the “restrainer” had been removed, this enigmatic person mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2 that would precede the man of lawlessness making himself known. I pushed it off as silly, but was it?
Some people said it was the same feeling they’d gotten after the WTC attacks of 9/11—the anniversary of which, probably not coincidentally, is today—realizing that their life would never be the same.
Some podcasters say it’s the beginning of a pushback from the conservative half of the country who are tired of taking the leftists’ bullying and condoning of violence against conservatives, white people, and Christians. Some darkly insinuated that this might be the “Archduke Ferdinand” moment that might lead to the Second American Civil War.
And, you know, all that might still be true. At some point, I’m sure, the right will feel that they’ve been pushed too far and retaliate. Worst case, this may lead to civil war, or equally bad, the Deep State may use it for its own nefarious purposes and instigate another January 6-type entrapment, which will then lead to new, tighter laws. The elites know that Americans are a stubborn, self-sufficient bunch. They won’t swallow the combo of digital ID, digital money, and total surveillance without complaints, and as we’ve seen in the past, these shock-and-awe events come in quite handy for tightening the invisible noose.
Charlie’s murder will also bring out the most volatile and extremist elements of the right, the real white supremacists whom the left sees behind every bush, but who are actually quite rare. They’ve been ramping up their activity on social media in the last year or so, fanning the flames of racism and hatred toward strangers born from fear as much as they can, calling human evildoers “demons” and “animals” in order to dehumanize. We won’t win by stooping to the level of our enemy.
But there is also an unexpected, beautiful ray of sunlight that is beginning to shine through the storm clouds.
On this fateful Tuesday when Charlie Kirk lost his life, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of Zoomers were watching attentively, with clear eyes, observing and recognizing the hidden morality play behind the events. Some were fans of Charlie Kirk, others became fans as the day went on.
It didn’t escape their bright attention that Charlie has been made a martyr because he died defending a traditional Christian worldview—a martyr much like Jesus Christ’s apostles and many of the saints that came after them. They watched and learned. And now they are getting ready to pick up their cross and follow Him. Not just Charlie, but Jesus Himself. They are preparing to preach God’s truth to the world, no matter what the personal cost to them.
As Charlie well knew, because he had his fingers on the pulse of this cohort, the Zoomers (especially the boys) have been a generation without prospects. Many can’t find adequate work after saddling themselves with crushing student loans, others who do have a job have to live three to an apartment to be able to pay the bills. Cars, houses, marriage, children—all out of reach for these young indentured servants. Zoomers are a generation that has been short-changed on meaning, purpose, and hope for the future. It took Charlie’s death to set them on fire.
What they saw yesterday live on TV was not just a political assassination. They saw the beginning of a movement of the Holy Spirit.
As we Catholics know, God works most powerfully through His martyrs. This movement could change the world as we know it. Let’s pray for the repose of Charlie’s soul and for the beginning of a massive tidal wave of traditional Christianity sweeping the country and the world, all made possible through “Turning Point USA” and the blood sacrifice of a young man who was unafraid to speak out.
God bless you!
The author is a former Hyde Park resident and candidate for the Legislature. She now lives in the Midwest, where she authors the The Stumbling Saint Substack page.
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Well said.
VIP 1,
Your anonymity indicates a lack of character. Grow up and use your real name.
Signed,
Everyone including the editor
David Davis – I contacted Allison upon submission of her comment and she agreed immediately to use her full, real name. As have many commenters, thank you all.
We need to bring healthy debate back into our classrooms. This business of intolerance of hearing the other side has in my opinion brought us to where we are today. Between intolerance and “everyone wins a trophy” young people can no longer accept alternative outcomes. Just try wearing another team’s cap to a game you’ll most likely see what I mean.
I’d just like to know what so many “disagree” with Charlie about.
That life begins at conception and thereby extinguishing the life of a developing fetus/unborn baby is murder? That’s simply reality and confirmed science. One cannot rationally “disagree”. In the USA, you can sorrowfully elect this procedure in many instances, but you cannot rationally disavow what the the act is which you are undertaking or advocating for.
That there is a definable and legal difference between an “immigrant” and an illegal immigrant or alien and that these are terms used by the federal government & its rule of law and that they always have been. Illegal immigration by aliens is unlawful. Legal immigration and its path to citizenry is not. Again, these are reality & laws and there cannot be anything to rationally “disagree” with.
That there is a litany of intrinsic differences between males and females that are to be celebrated and not denied which are differences endowed by God and again evidenced via science including but not limited to DNA. To argue the absence of these differences merely evidences the denier’s ability to comprehend reality.
That Charlie believed in and expressed the doctrine, dogma, & dictates of faith as found in the Bible, the most read & researched & affirmed ancient text and historical document of all time? There is nothing rational to disagree with there either as such is every American’s right under the Constitution’s right to religious freedom & of free speech/expression – and though the reality of God is evidenced through a myriad of proofs (search previous proofs via books by Doctor of Science/theology and physicians & by past lists of evidentiary proofs posted by me on VDC). Contrarily, there remain no “proofs” of the absence of the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible.
Finally, there always has and always shall remain a difference between right and wrong, and good and bad. Moral law exists based upon religious law & natural law & such is what our federal/state/local laws are derived from. Charlie represented & espoused such values and sadly when extremists violate these elementary truths (a cool group of intellectual & godly men once referred to them as self-evident) they are the ones whose thinking is deranged, disturbed, and disordered, not those who follow/followed them, like Charlie.
Not only did Charlie espouse basic values that built this Republic, but gave the microphone to those who disagreed with him and would listen to those arguments when made with respect, very unusual in that profession. He was respected by those in media, very much so for his age, that wished to have a civil discourse and not a match of screaming with the appearance of the loudest and most vile commentator wins the race.
They disagree because Charlie was a friend of the President, and “Orange Man Bad”.
“In an interview on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, the US president was asked what he intended to do to heal the wounds of Kirk’s shooting in Utah. “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” he was asked by the show’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commented that there were radicals operating on the left and right of US politics.
Less than 48 hours after Kirk was shot in broad daylight on the campus of Utah Valley University, Trump replied: “I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less.”
So much for healing…
Well, Trump is not steeped in Jesus Christ, he has also been put in charge. What true believers know is that the hatred in our hearts is universal, which is why God had to tell us, thou shall not kill. And Jesus had to follow up with, no not one of you are blameless, without hatred in your heart.
And again why Jesus had to teach us, love your enemy.
There is much to learn on both sides of this issue, pride is keeping us apart. The right thinks they are perfect and it’s only the left that is not obeying the commandments.
The left thinks the right does not know love and acceptance.
Truthfully, they are both wrong, they are also both right (which is the platform we argue from, but not having the whole truth, just our “ own truth” known as opinion) None of us are perfect, but is we want to improve we can look to the only one who was perfect as our guide.
Until we humble ourselves, until we submit we may not have all the answers, until we submit our lives we are destined to be fighting and destroying all that is good by our own pride.
We have much to learn, we can’t learn when we are filled with pride, we have to humble our selves, we have to admit we are wrong. Humility may mark a true turning point. TGBTG
Yea, he couldn’t care less that saying something would get him in trouble… You are an example of the problem we have…haters on the left everywhere. Facts just don’t matter to you…
Abby, you sound a little triggered, please tell me what facts I’m missing when all I did was copy and paste something the President said yesterday on Fox and Friends. Please enlighten me on how I am a hater, because I’d love to know.
Trump was perhaps not the wisest when he immediately chose the death penalty, though if found guilty, may be appropriate. You can tell he and many others are very troubled about this situation but none of seem to know how to change this terrible, broken hurting way we are interacting with each other. There is a way.
Perhaps a more fitting punishment for this young man would be life in prison WITH the possibility of parole, something he had not offered Charlie Kirk, but gives space for true healing and redemption. The kid really had no idea what he was doing, if he had, he certainly wouldn’t have done it.
Our nation and both sides are FILLED with pride….I’M RIGHT, AND I’LL PROVE IT TO YOU!!! One side has a flag on every campus that says PRIDE, and here is Charlie Kirk with Prove me Wrong, clearly a banner of I’m right.
Now both sides can be right and wrong at the same time, they are not mutually exclusive ideas. Restorative justice has merit, but you have to restored, letting people not suffer consequences for theft, murder, drugs, does nobody any good, certainly the person committing these offenses.
The right needs to recognize they too are sinners in the eyes of God, we are ALL sexual sinners, not just those who practice misguided forms of love and acceptance. If a church requirement was such that only sexually pure people could attend, there would justifiably be zero church attendance.
Sex and acceptance of everything under the sun does not equate to love, nor does money and power.
Our college campuses have become subversion, indoctrination factories and are no longer in search for truth, certainly not love.
We are taught to love our enemies, that is the real lesson for today, as we are all the same, we all have the same enemy within, and we are all God’s people, we may be wise to head the pleadings and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
…you cut and pasted a portion of an interview which intentionally was intended to mislead readers… misleading is an what the left does… you “recited” what was appealing to you. I watched the entire interview…I cut and pasted nothing…hence, I know exactly what was said, and what you did.
Abby, I directly quoted the President. I to watch the interview too, and I could put 10 more things. The president said to prove my point. my favorite was when he said he didn’t believe in due process and we should have “quick courts” like the Chinese. I’ve given you nothing but facts and all you’ve done is cry about them because they don’t fit your myopic little narrative. Please move on and have a blessed day
Solzhenitsyn’s famous lines:
“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.”
Only two other well known public figures have touched my heart with sadness on their passing. One was John F Kennedy and the other Princess Di. Now I must add the amazing, kind and peaceful Charlie Kirk. All three were loved all around the world and they will never be forgotten. Rest in peace gentle soul. You are now in God’s hands.
Polarizing events beget polarizing results. Where would America be without it’s shock and awe, trauma inducing events peppered across our screens in fast and furious fashion? The currency is harvested from our trauma, endless drama, and semi-contained chaos. Coincidences? Happenstances? Or a well-oiled, well-financed machine creating wars, civil unrest, and heinous violence to further widen the gaps that divide us with labels, colors, and affiliations? Nothing new under the sun – just accelerated to warp speed.
A turning point or the final fork in the road? A fork poised to be thrust through the heart of the great American experiment after 249 years? If we look across the great pond, are other countries suffering the same afflictions and divisiveness? Those across that pond are looking to the USA and questioning what is going on over there? We don’t know for certain, but we can certainly feel something is off – way off – down to our bones for quite a while now – say, since 2020 at least?
Personally, I bring it to God and ask for discernment. Others bring it to social media platforms and pour out their emotions – both good and bad – some really bad and unnerving – all by design to shape the next narrative around the next event – there will be another, and another, guranteed. Recall the ghouls such as Fauci and Gates – “the next pandemic!” Get right, sit tight and get ready for flight – some are saying. Others say, look in the mirror and decide what type of life do we expect for ourselves and generations behind and to come. What can we do personally or collectively to stop the machine from devouring and destroying what past generations built and died for on our behalf. Many sacrifices left at the alter – how many more? There was to be one and a final one 2000 years ago they say – how many more since? Is this what humanity is all about now and going forward? Lots of soul searching to done by all – that is they have it sold it off for baubles, gadgets, and trinkets.
Thank God for Charlie Kirk’s life. He has made such a difference to young and old. As the evil of so many on the left shows itself to anyone who will look or listen, many won’t pay any attention. I am paying attention, and am proud of the force Charlie began. Rest in Peace dear Charlie Kirk. Please continue to guide us…
It’s good to hear from you again on these pages, Shannara. Thank you for sharing your hopeful and insightful comments and articulating them so well. Blessings.
Tyler Robinson and Lance Twiggs, welcome to tranny land and now can we have the rest of the story??????/ Comment from Richard Day.