Blessed be the Peacemakers

By: Chris Johnson

“America will never be the same,” Charlie Kirk posted on September 9 at 11:45 PM. Those words captioned a security footage screengrab of Iryna Zarutska, legs instinctively rising into the fetal position in her train seat, hand coming to her mouth like a terrified child seeking consolation as she spent her last seconds of life staring up in horror at the man who had just stabbed her to death.

Her killer would declare his motive as he walked to the door of the Charlotte, NC light rail train, “got that white girl.”

Charlie would explain in a later post – the last post of his life, “If we want things to change, it’s 100% necessary to politicize the senseless murder of Iryna Zarutska because it was politics that allowed a savage monster with 14 priors to be free on the streets to kill her.”

Charlie had come to the realization that politics isn’t just helping your favorite team win. It’s a matter of life and death.

Little did he know, sixteen hours later Charlie Kirk himself would become a victim, and his appreciators would be quoting his caption, “America will never be the same,” over his own picture.

At the Utah Valley University kickoff event for his “American Comeback” college campus tour, Kirk did what he is best known for – answered questions and respectfully debated with students from a Christian, conservative perspective.  He would discuss abortion, transgenderism, gun control, free speech, and so on with liberal college students opening eyes to conservative principles and winning hearts to Christ.

He wasn’t known as an evangelist, but as a political influencer – he was often credited with the momentous rightward swing in young men’s voting patterns in 2024 – and yet, of the several random occasions I tuned into his content, his Christian faith rolled off his tongue at every opportunity.

“It’s all about Jesus,” he tweeted on August 17.

In a June 2025 interview, Charlie was actually asked how he would want to be remembered, “You mean if I die?” The interviewer clarifies, “if you could be associated with one thing, how would you want to be remembered?” and Charlie turns pensive, “I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith in my life.”

At his last event at UVU, Kirk quoted scripture and preached that “Christ is a real person,” and “He is Lord,” moments before a sniper’s bullet would tear his throat and leave his wife and two young children without their husband and father.

America will never be the same, not just because of Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric and organizational talents, but because America sees now just how far our political opponents are willing to go.

The right has been complaining of bias in the media for decades, we’ve seen our government under the opposition party treat us as security threats and call us terrorists, we’ve been accused of hatred and oppression, but what we’ve seen in the last few weeks is that the left doesn’t just want to call us names and beat us in elections.

The Christian school shooting was three weeks ago, the slaughter of Iryna Zarutska for her whiteness was last week, and as we’re still processing all that, we see Charlie Kirk publicly assassinated on stage for sharing his Christian values.

They want us dead.

That shouldn’t surprise us, we’ve seen it reported in polls. In April, a study was published in the City Journal which revealed that 55% of self-identified left-of-center respondents said the assassination of Donald Trump would be somewhat justified, 48% said the same of Elon Musk, and 58% extended their approval of destruction of the private property of their opponents, specifically Tesla dealerships.

The report also discovered “an online ‘assassination culture,’ found in predominantly left-leaning digital spaces, such as Bluesky and Reddit.”

Anyone can catch a glimpse of this “online assassination culture” right now by going to X.com and searching “Charlie Kirk.” You don’t have to scroll far before you’ll find leftists celebrating his death.

And you don’t have to dig into the bowels of the internet to find it. MSNBC viewers saw a hint of it before Kirk even arrived at the hospital. Asked about the culture leading up to the shooting itself, Commentator Matthew Dowd suggested the shooting may have been perpetrated by a “supporter shooting their gun off in celebration,” before going on to blame Charlie for his own murder, calling him divisive and lecturing, “hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions… you can’t stop these awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.”

But Charlie’s whole schtick was avoiding “hateful” or “awful” words or actions. It’s just that his detractors receive any disagreement – and certainly that as well articulated as Charlie Kirk’s – as hatred.

Here’s what Charlie Kirk said when asked by an audience member at one of his events, “why are you here?”

”When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens; when civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues. When you stop having a human connection between someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group…”

America will never be the same, because that’s where we are now.

Three weeks ago, kids were shot in their school because they share my faith. Last week, a girl on a train was stabbed to death because she looks like my daughters or my nieces. Yesterday, Charlie Kirk was assassinated because he shares my political beliefs and moral values. This threat is personal and it’s unavoidable. Any one of these killings could have happened to me or my family.

God’s Word commands us to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us. But it is time that we open our eyes and recognize that our enemies don’t love us. Most don’t just disagree with us. They hate us. Some want us dead; more are fine with us dying. Attendees say there was a group of protestors cheering after the shot rang out and blood gushed from Charlie Kirk’s neck.

A disturbing video on X shows a protestor singing into his bullhorn a call and response with other protestors: “We got Charlie in the neck!”

“In the neck!”

“Who’s up next?”

“DHS!”

Perhaps after Charlie’s killing the violence we’ve seen play out over the last month will settle down for a while. On the other hand, perhaps the left will find they have a taste for it, Heaven forbid. At this point, anything could happen.

Politically engaged men my age and younger were upset about their social and political circumstances before – Charlie explained this to Tucker Carlson not long ago. That’s why they turned out for Donald Trump in 2024.  Now you can look for them to be furious.

The men who speak for them keep getting shot at and now one is dead.

We have almost three and half years left under this president. And we have both houses of Congress locked in until the midterms next November. Every bit of conservative, Christian, right-wing energy must be spent on uprooting and dismantling this violent, Satanic, anti-human leftist ideology in every institution at every level. No more worrying about what Democrats might do when they’re back in power – we simply can’t afford to let that happen, not as a matter of principle but as a matter of survival.

We need to see Charlie’s death make a difference in how our “representatives” govern, or I fear some on the right may take things into their own hands as well.

Charlie’s way was the Christian way: he was among those whom Jesus called “blessed:” a peacemaker.

I pray we follow in his footsteps.

 

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