🚨 EVERY SECOND of this 7 minute clip from this church in Oregon is worth listening to.
If your pastor doesn’t sound like this today or they danced around what happened this week with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, it’s time to find a new pastor who will stand boldly like Pastor Tom of People’s Church in Salem, Oregon did here.
I’ve never been more proud of the church I grew up in. If you’re in the Salem area and are looking for a church that is filled with the Spirit, look no further.
Charlie Kirk was a racist!
What did he actually say? Let’s do this.
He said white privilege is a lie, not because he hates minorities, but because he believes you cannot build a healthy society by telling one group they are forever guilty and another that they are forever victims. That is not racism, that is the rejection of racism as an organizing principle.
He went after Critical Race Theory, not because he denied racism ever existed, but because he believed it chains us to a permanent state of grievance instead of moving forward. He pointed out the absurdities in DEI programs, the very ones that tell you a Black pilot is there because of “diversity goals,” not because of skill. Think about that. Who is insulting black professionals more? Those who want equal standards applied to everyone, or those who quietly wonder if the pilot in the cockpit is just a quota hire?
Yes, he said the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “mistake,” and people scream that proves he’s racist. His critique was not “I don’t want civil rights for black people,” it was that federal overreach eroded freedom, and in the long run, gave bureaucrats the power to re-engineer society. That is a constitutional critique, not a racial slur. You may disagree with it, but disagreement with government policy does not make you Bull Connor.
And yes, he even touched the sacred cow of Martin Luther King Jr., saying the mythology around him is inflated. That makes people recoil. But notice: questioning the untouchable legends of American history is not the same as hating people of a certain skin color. It is a demand to treat history with honesty, not hagiography.
The truth is, Charlie Kirk never said, “I hate Black people,” or “Racism is good.” What he said is that the weaponization of race is tearing the country apart, that policies built on racial guilt and racial suspicion will corrode freedom, and that dividing Americans by skin tone keeps us weak. And the irony? The people who call him racist are often the same ones who want every job, every program, every law, every opportunity filtered first through the lens of race.
If racism is the belief that skin color should determine value, then the loudest voices calling Charlie Kirk racist are the ones most addicted to practicing racism themselves.
You could also go buy his books and find out for yourself.
Good morning.
The reason you feel Charlie’s death so deeply is because grief doesn’t measure itself by proximity. It measures itself by meaning. You didn’t have to know him personally to feel the sting of his absence, because when a voice like his goes silent, something in the atmosphere shifts.
The reason it feels heavier than so many other tragedies is because your spirit recognizes that this is not just about a man, it is about a battle. Scripture says eternity is written on our hearts, and when someone who carried truth with boldness is suddenly gone, eternity aches within us. It’s like our souls know instinctively that the darkness celebrated, and that strikes us at the core.
The reason you can’t shake it is because psychologically, we don’t only attach ourselves to people…we attach ourselves to symbols. Charlie became a symbol of conviction in a time of compromise, courage in a time of fear. And when a symbol is struck down, it rattles something primal and eternal inside us.
That’s why even those who never met him feel it. There is a strange thread pulling at us, and it is not imagined. It is real. We are bound together by shared purpose, by shared longing for truth, by the Spirit of God Himself weaving us into a fabric that cannot be torn apart. This loss pulled at that fabric, and every one of us felt the tug.
So if you’ve wondered why this hits so hard, it’s because your soul knows. This is bigger than news. This is bigger than politics. This is about eternity, about truth, and about the weight of a man whose life carried both.
Love y’all.
Benny Johnson and his team put together this very beautiful 3 minute video of Charlie Kirk. WOW
Stop what you are doing and watch it
Oh also grab some extra tissues 💔