Charlie Kirk Tribute
We lost a good man today. Let's honor his memory by continuing to speak freely and unapologetically.
It’s been hard for me to write for awhile. I’m not sure it’s ever made much of a difference and it stopped making me feel better. Today, when I learned about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, it made me remember why I started building this community over a year ago after the events of October 7th in Israel.
I remembered that it’s not enough to nurture our beliefs silently. We must build a community of strong like minded people who are willing to defend worthy ideas and values that others seek to destroy.
It’s uncomfortable. It’s risky. We must do it anyways so our kids and their kids can live in a world of lions instead of a world of scavengers as Ben Shapiro might say.
During my hiatus from writing original editorials on this blog, I found peace in reading and listening to people are far more eloquent than I am at articulating ideas about free speech, Zionism, capitalism, and other ideas I’m passionate about.
I got tired and a bit cynical. I stopped carrying the torch and I’ve been happy to watch others carry it for me.
Charlie Kirk was someone who never got tired of sharing his message. He had infinite amounts of courage and held true to his beliefs. He wasn’t ashamed to share them and he wasn’t scared to listen other peoples view points who disagreed with him.
He loved debate and sharing ideas.
He did so respectfully.
His time on Earth made our country stronger.
We didn’t agree on everything, but there’s no human being on Earth that’s going to agree with you on everything. Not your spouse, not your kids, and even sometimes we change our own opinions as we get older, have more experiences, and hopefully become wiser.
Charlie’s legacy will be thousands of others resolving to pick back up the torch, or deciding to pick it up for the first time.
I’ll try to do a better job of summoning the same amount of courage to defending the values and ideas that we don’t want to see snuffed from this world.
I’ll leave you with some tributes from others honoring Charlie’s legacy.
Goodbye Charlie.
Thank you for being a lion in a world of scavengers.
Thank you so much for posting this, sharing your heart and the thoughts of others who can articulate this devastating loss better than I can at the moment. I was surprised that the moment I learned he didn’t make it, I couldn’t keep back tears. I never knew Charlie personally but I think not only of what I know of his work and zeal for our country, but of the positive role model he was to my son and his generation…someone unafraid to speak up, and committed to peaceful, reasonable, logical debate and a Biblical worldview, all in a time when such persuasions were almost silenced in the public square. He was a lion among scavengers. And so are you. And so may we all become.
You are more of a force than you can imagine. Your words did create action and I am proof.