Murder is Evil

It is a war. There are sides. But they're not left or right, Christian or Muslim, East or West.

Charlie Kirk’s hate-filled assassination and the absolute glee of a sector of the populace at the brutalization of his body to the point of death in front of his family and the world is definitely another battle in an ancient war. The war is spiritual in nature and the sides are good and evil. There is nowhere, no group, and no ideology that won't be full of souls choosing either side. Use discernment.

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One side of this spiritual war that has been waged for all of human history claims the opposite of these simple statements of truth — whether or not they know they argue for evil instead of good is another question. These statements are simply:

• Self-defense is not violence.

• Self-defense is warranted neither for words nor for non-violent actions.

• Neither words nor silence are violence.

• Ideologically supporting one side of a political, international war is not violence.

• Murder is evil.

These statements should not be controversial, but we live in a society that has so dumbed down and so deluded and divided its citizenry against itself that those who believe they are righteously fighting a power structure and its apparatus will justify themselves in murder of those they deem agents of or supporters of the state and the systemic violence of which they believe themselves victims.

The people who would argue that self-defense is violence are those who have said, for example, that Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer. Kyle Rittenhouse, on video for all to see, objectively defended himself against bodily injury and death by shooting his assailants, who died in the process. It will always be morally, ethically, and legally RIGHT to defend yourself. Defense does not fall into the category of violence, which we collectively instead define as the “[b]ehavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury”. In the case of self-defense, the purpose is not to cause injury, but to keep oneself from it. People who cannot understand this distinction are either willfully ignorant or emotionally stunted and are unsafe to be around the general populace.

The people who argue that they must defend themselves from rhetoric, any and all rhetoric included, by using physical force and violence against those who speak words, any and all words included, are dangerous people. It is very specifically not the definition of self defense to IMAGINE THAT PERHAPS SOMEHOW SOMEWAY AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE SOMEONE MAY HARM YOU IN SOME CONNECTION TO THE WORDS SOMEONE ONCE SPOKE. We call that delusion, we call it narcissism, we call it justification and excuse-making, we call it the inability to take responsibility for yourself. If someone’s words hurt you, you have two ethical, moral, and correct options: stop listening and go about your life or attempt to ask them to stop, in which case they have every god-given right to continue speaking anyway. You only control yourself. Get your emotional and mental self well before you go projecting your hatred and lack of security onto everyone you imagine is your enemy because of sounds coming from their vocal chords.

Words themselves could never fall under the category of violence, again defined as “[b]ehavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury”. Damage and injury is not ethereal, subjective, imagined, felt, or occurring at the mental and emotional levels for the exact and precise reason that subjective experience cannot be proven, seen, touched, or measured. The people who would argue that your words are violence and therefore they are warranted to “defend” themselves from your words by taking your life are too emotionally stunted to see that others may then, in full righteousness, also take their lives for the constant threats they make against anyone who doesn’t agree with them politically, or really for any reason they deem in any way “injurious” to their mental and emotional state. That way lies eternal, solipsistic chaos in which every human is entitled to take the life of every other human at any point and for any real or imagined reason.

To, in principal or ideology, support any side of any war anywhere in the world and at any point in history, is not violence. It is an opinion. It is acceptable for any human to hold any opinion, even the most vile. It is not within the scope of your rights to stop someone from holding an opinion. By the way, if the people who are arguing that Charlie Kirk was fair-game for murder because he supported Israel’s war against Palestine really believed what they said, then every single one of them would be fair-game for murder because they overwhelmingly support the war in Ukraine, in which the Donbass region’s people have been systematically targeted for brutalization and extermination by the government and military of Ukraine. If they had an ounce of self-awareness or consistency, they would stop arguing against their own lives, which is what they are ignorantly doing.

The marxist, communist, socialist, antifa, transtifa, leftist sector of the radical left has convinced itself that it does not need to consider the sanctity of human life because, they claim, their situation is so very dire that they are merely defending themselves when they murder peaceful people for their words.

What they are actually doing is acting out the epitome of evil which comes, as C.S. Lewis warned us, not from those who believe they are evil, but from those who are so lacking in solidity of self and emotional wellness that they literally have no idea what they’re doing and are so infirm of mental and emotional being that vileness, murderousness, detachment from human sympathy, and the acting out of an ego-centric self-aggrandizement move through them, unquestioned and unchecked. When the only thing that matters is what YOU think and what YOU feel and no amount of reason can persuade you against murder, hatred, and sympathy — you are an empty shell, open to evil and no longer connected to the soul of all humanity.

You can come back from that space. There is nothing permanent here. Even the murderers themselves can be reclaimed and redeemed. Charlie Kirk believed that was possible through Christ. I know it is, too. It is also possible through simple love, non-denominational, universal, love.

What was amazing about Charlie Kirk was that he would talk to literally anyone who disagreed with him, no matter how irrational and emotionally ridiculous they were, and he treated every single one of them as a human being worthy of love and respect. He had patience unmatched by anyone I’ve literally ever seen debating or engaging with those who hate, ridicule, and scream obscenities. Charlie saw how very sad it was that so many had fallen so far off course because of a world and society that failed them — not because he excused them in light of this failure, but because he saw they could save themselves and that they deserved saving. Charlie seemed to know what most people don’t, especially when it comes to politics, society, and philosophy: you cannot change people’s minds, but you can love them with enough clarity and strength of will that they may choose to change their own.

It is ok to have made the mistake to argue for murder. It is ok to have made the mistake to celebrate murder. It is even ok to have made the mistake of not realizing that your self-centered, ego-filled, delusional ideologies helped to create murderers.

It is not ok to continue doubling down on your ignorance and hatred. It is not ok to continue to espouse the ideology that dehumanizes your perceived enemies and supports their brutalization.

It’s ok to not like Charlie Kirk or his words and stances on any given issues. It is not ok to celebrate or support his hate-filled assassination.

If you go that way, you are evil, you are supporting evil, you are creating an evil world, you are letting evil come through you into the world, and you will suffer and regret your choices, not because other humans will force you to as you would have done to them, but because you actually do have a soul, and it knows the difference between good and evil, even when you don’t.

May you remember your soul. It is the only thing that will save you.