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I can't believe I have to remind anyone of this, but here goes: Jesus was a Jew.
He was born in a land called Judea. The word Palestine was coined by the Romans 135 years later.
Muhammad was born in 571 AD.
Both peoples should be considered indigenous to the region. Both peoples belong there. Both peoples deserve a state of their own.
“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions… are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all.
As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
—Joseph Campbell
The second single from my new record is out NOW! It’s my take on Lord Huron’s ‘When The Night Is Over’, and it is without a doubt the finest thing I have ever recorded — I literally could not believe how beautifully it came out.
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A while back I put out these rules for the internet. 1. When we disagree, we fight. 2. We have a beer afterward. 3. When we agree, we unite. I got a lot of flack, surprisingly, for the line about the beer. People would ask, "Oh yeah, would you have a beer with Charlie Kirk?!"
Well, I did. And I'm glad I did, because now I won't get to. Yes, Charlie and I disagreed a lot and about really important things. But somehow we didn't lose our humanity. We were still fellow Americans.
We can all choose to hate each other now. That's a normal, human reaction. We can choose to blame each other, and I'm sure we will, endlessly. Or we can defy the voices of division in the country, and have a beer together. This time, in grief.
If you really want to strike back at whoever did this, listen to each other instead of hating one another. They want us to hate each other. Treating one another as brothers and sisters, as a united America, would be a historic act of defiance.
Since I'm on the left, I'll go first. For everyone on the right, and most especially the Kirk family, I am so sorry for your loss. I share your grief and I want you to know our hearts are with you!
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.
Very few of us know the people at the tip of the spear. We can make the biggest impact by uniting against the handle, making that behavior far more taboo than it is now.
The first single from my new record is out today on all streaming platforms!
It is called ‘X; or, A Voice in the Wilderness Cries Out’, and it features Sam Kuslan, Matt Booth, and Peter Varnado.
I am very proud of this music and would love for you to listen to it 🙏🙏🙏