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.

Don’t people read history? This has happened before, with major consequences for those responsible for their actions. The most famous killing for political and religious beliefs was of Jesus Christ by the Romans two thousand years ago. And look how that turned out.

Jesus was an itinerant Jewish preacher, roaming around the holy land preaching his beliefs and his religion to the people, against the beliefs of the occupying Roman rulers, as well as stirring up organized protests against the Roman occupation of the holy land the degradation of the current religious practice of charging money in the temples to pray. He was disrupting the status quo of the elites, both Roman and Jew. And they wanted him to stop. So they hatched a plan to arrest him, prosecute him, and ultimately kill him. They were hoping by doing that he would stop spreading his gospel to the masses, against their pagan beliefs that the emperor was a living god, and also stop stirring up trouble with the Jewish leaders who are collaborating with the Roman government for their own financial benefit. He was a thorn in everyone’s side. So they had him killed. And look how that turned out.

Eventually the Romans left the holy land, and a new religion rose up and became the religion of Rome, and all over the world. And two thousand years later Jesus is still remembered and his teachings still followed. Jesus didn’t organize and found the Christian religion, his disciples and followers did, and the church leaders that rose in the ranks later.Now I’m not saying that Charlie Kirk is like Jesus, but both their situations are the same, and both the reaction to the killings are the same. The message Jesus was spreading did not stop, it grew bigger. And Charlie’s message is not stopped, it has grown so much bigger and urgent than before his death. Who knows how big it will get, how powerful it will be, and how quickly the elites who wanted his death will fall. But just like Jesus was a nobody itinerant preacher that had a small following, one of several preachers roaming the area, and because of his killing to stop his message he became a historical personality down through the ages and a religion grew from his life and his faith. So too was Charlie a small evangelical Christian with although a large following, it was still small, but now because of his killing it has grown large and is continuing to grow, with thousands of new chapters opening all over the country and the world. His message will spread all over. His followers are angry he was killed, and along with his wife are working tirelessly to spread his legacy to the people. And who knows if a new religion will grow out of this. It’s only been a few weeks. Christianity took hundreds of years.

We are living and experiencing history in the making.