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Crisp: Are you certain you need to stay in Charlie Kirk’s America?

Editorial Board Published October 2, 2025
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Nobody ought to have fun the assassination of Charlie Kirk; it’s a tragedy for his household and supporters and a violent blow to the well being of our republic.

Then again, would you need to stay in Kirk’s model of America?

Kirk typically distanced himself from Christian nationalism, however he was sympathetic to its targets, which embrace Christian dominance in American politics and tradition.

To Kirk, the separation of church and state was a “fiction.” He delighted in mentioning to callow school college students that the time period doesn’t really seem within the Structure.

However the separation precept is implicit and express in our founding doc. The Founders knew loads a few state church, and so they understood that mixing the 2 doesn’t serve both the state or the church very effectively.

It’s attention-grabbing to think about Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, by way of some whimsical time warp, wandering into final week’s memorial service for Charlie Kirk in Arizona.

They’d have discovered a whole-of-government turnout — the Director of Nationwide Intelligence, the Secretary of Well being and Human Providers, the White Home Chief of Workers, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Protection, uh, I imply Struggle, the Vice President and the President himself — to take part in what was much less a funeral than an evangelical camp assembly full with altar name.

As Vice President JD Vance mentioned, it was “a revival in celebration of Charlie Kirk and his Lord Jesus Christ.”

Would Franklin and Jefferson, rationalists each, have shaken their heads in bewilderment? Would their jaws have dropped in alarm? Would they’ve mentioned, “This is not what we had in mind, at all”?

As a result of the occasion in Arizona was a really public, five-hour endorsement by our most distinguished authorities officers of a specific faith: Christianity.

We regularly fancy ourselves as a “Christian nation,” however are we, actually?

How many people, as people or as a nation, “take no thought for the morrow” (Matthew 6:34)? Can we lay up our treasures in Heaven (Matthew 6:20) or can we put money into crypto? Can we, just like the early church, maintain all issues in widespread and distribute sources to each man, as he has want? (Acts 2:44-45) Can we pay any consideration to Jesus’s prescription for perfection: Promote every little thing you’ve and provides it to the poor? (Matthew 19:21)

Christianity has at all times appeared an odd match for a nation that aspires to equality amongst all its residents. Like most religions Christianity is hierarchical: All authority derives from the highest, from an entity so highly effective he’s (a male, after all) referred to as The Almighty. The Catholic Church is the very best instance of how this hierarchy works on earth: Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops and so forth, all the way down to the nuns.

All of this works positive for the Kingdom of Heaven, whose correct residence is inside the human coronary heart relatively than Washington D.C. However for a nation?

Which brings us again to Charlie Kirk: He believed in a nation formed and sure by Christianity. It additionally seems that he believed that the church hierarchy ought to prolong to the household. He took Ephesians 5:22 significantly: “Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands.” (Sure, Kirk actually mentioned this.)

Girls also needs to submit themselves (and their our bodies) to the opinions of legislators. Kirk mentioned that abortion is eight instances worse than the Holocaust.

In truth, Kirk was requested what would occur if he had a 10-year-old daughter who was impregnated by a rapist: “The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.”

Kirk believed in capital punishment and that “it should be public, it should be quick, it should be televised.” He would “totally tune in to see some pedo get their head chopped off.” Even youngsters ought to watch “at a certain age,” possibly round 12 or 14.

In fact, Kirk’s stock-in-trade was provocation, so it’s onerous to know the way severe these statements are. Nonetheless, it’s honest to evaluate folks by what they are saying.

Submissive wives? Youngsters compelled to hold their rapists’ offspring to time period? Televised beheadings with a kiddie matinee? Are you certain you’ll need to stay in Charlie Kirk’s “Christian” America?

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