Canonizing Charlie Kirk

LIKE ONE OF THE SPEAKERS SAID, it was more a revival or political rally than a funeral. The deceased's wife showed amazing courage by merely being able to speak,let alone speak eloquently. Until his death, I had never heard of Charlie Kirk, had had no reason to, and almost wish now that I had not. The college students to whom he spoke were already conservative Christians before he spoke to them; he merely reinforced their existing beliefs. It has come to my attention that Charlie Kirk (one must, evidently, use both his first and last names in referencing him) considered the Civli Rights Act of 1964 a "mistake". Did he consider the other civil rights bills, the one in 1957 for insatnce, to be equally mistaken? He stated, evidently rather often, that gay people should be put to death by stoning, in accordance with the teachings of the Old Testament. If nothing else, that would considerably reduce the ohterwise inflated gun violence statistics. He reportedly advocated for shooting illegal immigrants as they crossed the border, bringing gun violence statistics right back up, and the stoning statistics back down. Further more, he apparently advocated for the killing of homeless people, difficult to believe though that seems. His remarks on these matters have been listed, with citations of date and place. They are eivdently valid. Justifiably a bit gun shy, all the speakers at the funeral spoke from behind bullet proof glass. Perhaps they feared that another conservative, like the one who murdered Charlie Kirk, would appear at the top of the stadium to inflict further pain upon the mourners. One of the speakers bragged that "their side" never resorted to violence to make their point, and that Charlie kirk encouraged civil dialogue with those with whom he disagreed. All well and god, but I must beg to differ about the violence. There was, for instance, the matter of Trump's preplanned insurrection of January 6, 2021, which resulted in several deaths and many injuries. Violence indeed. How soon they seem to have forgotten. Jesus never said anything about gay people. He did, however, indicate that he did not come to Earth to contradict or change Old Testament law. So, who knows. Perhaps Jesus was as savage and barbaric as his modern Christian nationalist conservative evangelicals who falsely presume to be Christ's ideological descendants. Or perhaps Jesus would have taught that gay people should be given unconditional love, social equality, and acceptance. Regarding killing homeless people, we can safely assert that in this, Charlie Kirk and his cult member followers are flat out wrong about this; Jesus clearly said that we should feed the hungry, house the homeless, and give unto the poor. Assuming all this is true, and that Chralie Kirk actually said all these horrible things, now that I know a little about Charlie Kirk,I despise him, almost as much as I despise his MAGA compatriots. His campus rallies were filled with students adorned with those notorious red ball caps. Charlie Kirk was all MAGA, a listener of Rush Limbaugh, the whole works. His apparently stated attitude about the homeless, the gays and transgenders, and about undocumented immigrants was pure, unadulterated hatred, just as pure and unadulterated as the hatred I would have felt towards him, had I ever heard of him. Now that I have heard of him, I feel it. I must assume that he would have forgiven me for it, even as his courageous widow forgave his murderer as she cried. I wouldn't want his forgiveness,I would want his reformation, his reformation to decency, and away from barbaric, hateful brutality cleverly cloaked in the veneer of religious devotion and dogma. Welcome the stranger, Jesus taught us. Do not gun down the stranger by the thousands. Evangelical Christians simply refuse to accept the reality that no human being needs to be guided by any other human being towards any religion or political ideology. Charlie Kirk is being elevated to the level of right wing sainthood, which will soon fadw away, as the memory of him does. People are perfectly capable of guiding themselves without assitance. To presume othersise is arrogant, and an insult. Charlie reinforced among young people what they alredy believed, and in that sense did the right thing, accepting people as they are, but only if they are like him.