It had been only 11 days before that a leftist assassin took grandpa's old World War I-era rifle and ended the mortal Charlie Kirk. Besides failing to kill Kirk's soul and spirit, his widow further disarmed the assassin and his despicable fellow travelers by forgiving him in front of an audience that reached potentially billions of people around the world. My PJ Media colleague Chris Queen reports that her generous act, and indeed the entire memorial service, was one giant 'Come to Jesus' meeting. One would have to possess a heart of stone not to heed the invitation.
Erika Kirk is a better Christian than I because I'm not sure I would have been able to so quickly forgive the man who just left my children without their dad. I would have needed to process things a bit more if my husband wasn't coming home for the rest of my life. As my friend and colleague, Catherine Salgado, reports, Erika Kirk is an exceptional woman of faith. It's clear to me that I'm not. I don't think I could immediately forgive the man whose vile act upended my family structure by forcing me back into the work force to pay the bills while my two littles were raised by someone else. The opposite of that was the raison d'être of their trad life in the first place.
Between going to church to become a better Christian and other church-related activities on Sunday, I streamed the memorial service. Speakers were broken into the multiple parts of Kirk's brain. There was his worshipful faith, which was his reason for being, and his love of country and the nation's founding, based on Christian and Western ideals. From my perch, the two were inseparable to Charlie Kirk, who was developing into a deeply effective Christian apologist. The left hated him for that. Evil hates truth.
I saw this hatred in real time. I made a number of social media posts about Charlie after his death, but it was his Christian beliefs that really triggered the haters. When I shared a mere few seconds-long snippet of my podcast on one of my Facebook pages for daring to declare that Charlie Kirk was a Christian martyr and left a legacy of faith, it was as if JK Rowling's dementors had been loosed. A concentrated and seemingly organized hate campaign against Charlie was set upon my page.
Suddenly, a phalanx of lies about him being a racist, a homophobe, and other outright lies appeared on my timeline. I gave people who posted those lies six hours to post their citations and proof before I deleted their lies. They never did. It was clear to me that religious truth is what triggers the haters. His politics were secondary to these people.
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Just wait until they find out that Erika Kirk followed Jesus's lead and forgave her husband's assassin.
"On the cross, our Savior said: 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," Erika Kirk said at the memorial service. "That man — that young man — I forgive him," she pronounced.
When the haters figure out what that means, there will be an explosion of more vitriol, screeching, and disinformation than you can imagine.
Indeed, Erika Kirk said it was these kinds of haters that her husband was committed to helping.
My husband, Charlie, he wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life... Charlie passionately wanted to reach and save the lost boys of the West—the young men who feel like they have no direction, no purpose, no faith, and no reason to live. The men wasting their lives on distractions. The men consumed with resentment, anger, and hate. Charlie wanted to help them. He wanted them to have a home with Turning Point USA. When he went onto campus, he was looking to show them a better path—a better life that was right there for the taking.
Why did Erika forgive? She knew she would have to. The Christian faith requires it, because to receive forgiveness for being the dirtbags we are, as Jesus did for us on the cross, we're told we have to follow His lead and forgive those who transgress against us. Hell, He forgave Saul, a terrorist, who then became his biggest evangelist of the Gospel.
Her forgiveness is an overt admission that there is a power and dominion far above us that we — they — don't understand.
When it dawns on those nihilistic "lost boys of the West" that they're not the gods their Discord buddies said they are, they'll be really pissed off. Or, who knows, maybe they'll change.
