Why Did They Kill Charlie Kirk?
A lot has already been said about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Here’s some of what I spoke about when hosting The Bolt Report on Sky News last Friday.
The West doesn’t have a gun problem. The West has a spiritual problem.
When truth is denied, hatred grows.
And when hatred grows, reason fails.
And when reason fails, violence follows.
That’s as accurate a summary as I can find as to where we find ourselves in Western culture right now.
Uncomfortable Truths
Charlie Kirk was shot dead because he dared to speak truths that our culture now deems unacceptable:
- Life is sacred – even in the womb.
- Gender is not something you make up; it’s a fixed biological reality.
- There’s a God in heaven to whom we must all give account.
All of these propositions imply objective truth. In other words, there is a God, and it’s not us.
A culture that denies objective truth is doomed to become a culture of increasing frustration because the lie that replaces truth, by definition, can never satisfy.
And people who cling to falsehoods are forced to rage against anyone who reminds them of what they’ve rejected.
As hatred grows, reason fails.
A mind twisted by resentment doesn’t want to understand — it only wants to justify.
So arguments cease to be about finding the truth, and become about crushing all opposition.
In that climate, debate becomes impossible.
Once people lose the capacity to reason together, the only way left to resolve conflict is through force.
This is the predictable end of denying truth: hatred replaces love, emotion replaces thought, and violence replaces dialogue.
Every culture that abandons truth eventually reaps this bitter harvest.
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Republished with thanks to James Macpherson. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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James, succinct and on the money! Thank you. So what you have written is the truth, much of what we hear is simply noise and everyone else’s ‘truth’.
Great article James. I would like to name it sin, which is basically self centredness, self justification, self gratification, self promotion, elevation of self, etc, etc, so everything becomes a loathing of God, and of self and one’s neighbour and anyone who reminds them of the moral image of God within them. This causes the types of reactions we have witnessed with Charlie’s assassination. Think Cain killing Abel. No discussion, but self justification and self judgement ending with murder of the innocent. This is what we are seeing, the fruit of lawlessness. Jesus drew that reaction which got Him crucified.
They hated me, Jesus said, so they will hate you, and kill you. Keep preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is within and here, brothers and sisters. The gospel of love manifest through the body of Christ. There are so many disciples we don’t know their names, dying for our Lord Jesus in persecuted nations. We are shocked because it happened in a Western nation, there will be more. Remember, Jesus followers win. Charlie ran his race and didn’t waiver. Well done good and faithful servant, like all the other martyrs like him.
Nietzsche warned us about the consequences of killing God. You quite rightly point out we are suffering the consequences. When we deny the Absolute, we deny truth and when we deny truth, we deny reason. All that is left is the imposition of ideology through the use of power.
Everything you said is spot on James, when God is left out of society, chaos takes over. Without God, people have no moral compass. Please keep speaking out for Christian values.
so well said James!