More Reflections on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

Copyright by James Carlson

I’ve been pondering why Mr. Kirk was assassinated and it became clear to me that it was because he stood for an identity of self that was based upon righteousness – God’s Love and Righteousness. However, the murderer of Mr. Kirk found his identity apart from God and that led him to put Mr. Kirk in his crosshairs. Mr. Kirk didn’t preach a message approving of his chosen lifestyle of false love and unrighteousness. Mr. Kirk was condemned, murdered, for standing up for the truth!

Natural man has a conscience given to him by God that tells him what is right and wrong according to the Will of God and this provides us with an identity of self that guides our life and choices. Redeemed man (Christians) has an identity based upon the person of Jesus Christ and our righteousness is not based upon our good works but upon the good work of Jesus at the Cross.

We are still supposed to follow our conscience but the more we grow in Christ Jesus by the leadership of the Holy Spirit the more we will show the love of God towards others as Jesus would. Whether Christian or not we are to have an identity based upon moral truths.

The murderer of Mr. Kirk in this case chose a boy friend who pretended to be his girlfriend and practiced an identity born of sin. Sodomy and homosexuality are sins as is crossdressing (aka transvestite). Having one’s identity established in sin means they have abandoned their conscience and decided to live apart from God’s Will in their lives (naturally and supernaturally). The need expressed by the bullet that was shot at Mr. Kirk was a love was lost and hope forsaken. Apart from God, the killer was helpless to identify with a life that was truly rewarding and meaningful. Lust, not love, ruled his soul.

People trapped in a life of perverted sexuality of any kind, to include sex outside of marriage (fornication), adultery, homosexuality, etc. often find the pangs of conscience crowding their thoughts when they encounter people whose identify do not connect with theirs. Their own conscience condemns their sins against God and they transfer that condemnation to society. They begin to challenge the moral standards society has as contrary to them hence unloving and unfair.

We have witnessed many times how homosexuals, et al, often turn to a society who honors God with their lives as condemning of their sexual choices and identity when they dismiss God in their own lives when we do not. People who are in the LGBTQ community condemn society for their righteous living and command social involvement in their lifestyle for approval in order to quell the pangs of conscience within them. Even if society was successfully forced to approve of what they want, nature provides that the conscience will still tell them the truth of their own false identity and life of immorality.

Society is not obligated to facilitate these people’s lifestyle or viewpoints if the standard of living they choose to follow is born of sexual depravity. Society has a right to define the morals that define us and affect the governance of us all. Laws should be based upon moral principles and should reflect the conscience of society. The separation of Church and State (originally a Christian idea later turned secular) was never meant to be the separation of Moral and State. This is a lie that persists as a false meme in modern America and we shouldn’t be shy to re-establish laws based upon moral perspectives.

Turning Point

So here’s the Turning Point to this discussion. Young adults, and children before then, need to be mentored in healthy relationships. Charlie Kirk had a healthy relationship with his family but the one who assassinated him did not. This has to change and we can change it.

Children need to be mentored by their parents in healthy ideas of relationships between children both genders (sex means gender and there are only 2). Same sex relationships are normal and healthy and we call them friendships. Homosexual relationships are perverted and destructive as they couple friendships with the sex drive. And opposite sex relationships should be encouraged begin with friendships. Children should be introduced to the character traits of healthy relationships: honor, duty, kindness, humility, friendliness, sharing, and so on. Children need to learn these things just as the Boy Scouts (and Girl Scouts) teach children to be morally right and mentally straight (Scout Oath and Law).

Parents need to continue the mentoring of their children in dating skills from at least as young as 12 years old. Children with friends (male and female) should be invited over to another child’s house with parents who know each other and have a fun night together over dinner with games and/or a movie night. Children learn from their parents how to behave with each other as their parents (mom and dad) show kindness, honor, love, courtesy, etc in their marriage and manners with company. Children learning from 100% supervised home dating how dating is supposed to work is the goal long before they turn 16. Afterwards, young teens should continue to date and go out with each other with limited supervised dating at first and then no supervision as they get older and more mature towards the age of 18.

Young men and women who are no longer ‘officially’ children and should be ready to begin relationships with this kind of mentoring. They need a mentoring partner to guide them through the wilds of dating and seeking a mate to get married to. There is no end of predators who want something other than the good will of those they meet and spend time with. This is where Turning Point can provide a mentoring relationship for those young adults seeking a relationship with another young adult. Like the man who killed Charlie Kirk (if only).

Online dating is where I met wife for the first time. My dad first met my mom online through the telephone system in the 1940s. Nurses had a party line that when a young man, like my dad, called, he could ask someone out for a date; this was in simpler and safer times. That is how my parents met and how I met my true love, my mate. They had rules of the road then as we do now but if Turning Point could provide a dating service then they can provide what is missing for so many young people. This need is truly great.

Now is the time and this is the opportunity to win it for the young people by providing a society that respects moral boundaries instead of tearing them down. Moral boundaries is one means of providing healthy relationships of all kinds for young people to grow and flourish within. That’s what God gave to Adam and Eve in the garden. Let’s provide as parents mentoring opportunities to help children learn good character qualities in relationships of all kinds. Let’s provide to scouts in BSA what will keep them morally right and mentally straight (Scout Oath and Law). Let’s help young teens learn the ropes of dating early on and when they are nearing the end of their teen years.

And let’s provide an online dating service for young adults who need help with the rules of road and tips and tricks of good dating. Dating is fun; I did it for 40+ years before meeting my Nancy on Christian Mingles. If our nation had started earlier, the young man who killed Mr. Kirk might not be in prison and Charlie might not be dead now. Let’s learn that the culture wars are killing people (abortion, suicide, etc.) because they have swallowed the bait of an immoral identity and false love.

Turning Point

The Love of God is the forgiveness of sin and we are all sinners in need of repentance. This is the most important relationship we will ever have. God has never rejected anyone nor lost anyone whom he has accepted. Pray and let God change your life and allow His Holy Spirit give you a new identity. An identity born of His Love and Righteousness.

Please Pray:

Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, please forgive me of my sin which I have done. I ask not based upon anything I have done but what Jesus, your Son, did for me on the Cross. I believe he paid for my sins and he arose from the dead for my justification.

Please lead me in my new life in Christ by the person and power of your Holy Spirit. Guide me in your Word for your Word is truth. Please help me to be more like Jesus in my daily life. Please help me to share your Good News (Gospel) of Jesus for the forgiveness of others' sin as they find your Love like I have done.

Thank you. In Jesus name I pray. Amen