How should we, among the crowd of Charlie Kirk supporters, respond in the wake of his assassination? Our hearts and minds are full of anger and loathing for that crazy cowardly punk that did the deed. The dirt bag is subhuman. The radical left Democrat politicians are blaming the victim, Charlie, for his own death because he said some things that enraged the shooter. Charlie, you just wouldn’t shut up!
There is a righteous call from the governor of Utah for national unity. These are nice words in a perfect world but they are meaningless because they are divorced from our earthly reality. There has never been unity in America for we are a democracy, the majority rules. It will not happen in our world, now or any time in the future. Forget it, earthly unity is not the future God plan for our world. God must like a good scrap. God must be bigger than our scraps.
We were all
put here in our world to live as if we were already home. That is the God plan,
to share mercy with the unmerciful, to share forgiveness with the undeserving, to suffer the slings and arrows of the haughty, to run
where the weak dare not go, to care for something or someone besides our own
well-being. It is hard and against our nature but that is the God plan.
Most of us
play the noncommittal waiting game, hiding in the bushes, avoiding having to declare one way or the
other, nursing our fears and wants, not Charlie. Charlie stood up to say, our lives do not
belong to us, life is a gift from God (Christ). The religious context in which we
choose to express our faith is not the important decision. The important
decision is to live fearlessly knowing we are destined for the better world, the
better unified world. A world with an atmosphere of pure freedom for love is
freedom.
Shall we also stand up? Yes or No, check the box?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.