@StephenKing I was actually looking forward to watching The Long Walk this weekend. I read it in High School when it was still under a different pen name.
I will never watch another Stephen King movie or read another Stephen King book…EVER AGAIN! Enough is enough.
I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.
But we aren't "one people" are we?
The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.
We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.
I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.
And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.
I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.
It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.
Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.
And the other side murdered him.
Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.
I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.
Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.
I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.
I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.
I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.
There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.
But then there will be a reckoning.
My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.
So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.
Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.
Ours is just beginning.
After 10 years in Kansas City, I decided it was finally time to drop my old (949) mobile number get a local (816) number instead. After 20 years as @MerryWeddings, I finally have a new Midwest phone number! Update your contact listing for me. ;)
@SteveDeaceShow The one thing nobody was commenting on was his use of the term “permission structure” which only re-affirmed the Tablet article you recently shared titled “Rapid On-Set Political Enlightenment”.
@VDHanson This article’s list of Assassination Porn is very comprehensive, but it overlooked one glaring recent example…the movie “Civil War” should have been included as it was the prediction of many that Trump would have to be dragged out of the White House by the military in 2020.
@aigkenham@aigkenham Ezekiel 28:13-14 describes Lucifer being in Eden and on God’s Holy Mount a the same place. Could this be why Abraham took Isaac to Mount Moriah to sacrifice him..,and then God’s own Son was sacrificed on that same spot for all of us 2,000 years later?
@aigkenham Research the holy mount of God, the Tree of Life, the River of Life pre-fall and post Christ’s return. Then ask why God seems to care so much about this one particular piece of Real Estate? And why the Anti-Christ would be determined to place his “throne” in the Holy of Holies.
@aigkenham Ken…I have been asserting this same idea about new (post-Flood) rivers named after old (pre-Flood) rivers just we do with new towns and cities in the “new world” from the “old world” (i.e. New York, Paris, Moscow, etc.)
But searching scripture for Eden reveals God’s Holy Mount.
@aigkenham So where is the “holy mount of God”?
Some say Sinai. But I assert that it is Mount Moriah aka Jerusalem.
Site of Abraham’s obedient attempted sacrifice of Isaac.
Site of God’s sacrifice of His only Son for us.
And future site where the Anti-Christ will declare himself god.
@PhillipKent49 @HeatherForbess @Luke17_37@Joel7Richardson Jesus returns when there is no one left to be saved. The harvest of the wheat only happens after all of the weeds have been “weeded out”. There will be only two groups left. Those sealed with the Holy Spirit and those sealed (“tied to be burned”) with the mark of the beast.
@PhillipKent49 @HeatherForbess @Luke17_37@Joel7Richardson It gets even better. When the wheat and weeds are clearly distinguishable, the servants are commanded to tie up the weeds to be burned. The mark of the beast is Satan’s version of believers being sealed with the Holy Spirit. He’s tying them to be burned.
@PhillipKent49 @HeatherForbess @Luke17_37@Joel7Richardson Phillip…the Parable of the Weeds is one of my favorites for Post-Trib Theology. Instead of pulling the weeds up right away, the servants are told to wait until the harvest. Why? Because prior to harvest time, both wheat & weeds are green. But at harvest, wheat is golden brown.