Charlie Kirk. - history in the making.
September 10th was a day I will always remember, the day Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a conservative rally while on stage. He was assassinated for his political beliefs as well as his religious beliefs. He was an evangelical Christian. I didn’t know him, hadn’t seen his you tube videos, didn’t really know what he was all about. I knew his name, and so did my wife. It was weird, for some reason we had been talking about him when my son walked into the room and said “do you know Charlie Kirk? He was just shot and killed”. He showed us the video that was on social media of him getting shot during his rally at a university in Orem, Utah. It was disturbing. Within minutes, the internet exploded with posts about Charlie’s life, his message. So too did the news shows. I looked up you tube videos of his rallies, and they were very revealing. He was an evangelical Christian, spreading the word to young people, as well as his political views, which were conservative. He founded a conservative group, Turning Point USA, to run his rallies and raise money. But he wasn’t just shoving his views down their throats, he would debate them on the stage in front of the audience, and he was respectful, kind, but was so intelligent and well read that he won every debate. He was an eye opener. I didn’t know about him before he was killed, but I sure knew about him afterwards. And so did a lot of Americans, young Americans. And not just around America, but young people around the world. Massive memorial rallies were held in Toronto, Canada, Madrid, Spain, London, U.K. And Berlin, Germany. On September 21st. His memorial was held in Glendale, Arizona, and was attended by hundreds of thousands of people and many high level dignitaries, including the entire cabinet of President Trump’s administration, including the vice president, the president, and several senators and congressmen. If he was big before his assassination, he was massive after. After the assassination, Turning point had 18,000 requests to start a chapter in different schools around the country, and by the time of his memorial in Glendale, the requests had grown to 35,000 chapters, both in the U.S. and countries around the world.But now he will be immortalized in history. It is almost like a church is being formed around his life. He is being talked about as a martyr. Which brings me to the point of this article.
