Charlie Kirk was killed because he spoke truth to Evil and Evil hates the truth

September 17, 2025 – A number of people on the left including former U.S. Senator Doug Jones have suggested the late Charlie Kirk was shot because of their rhetoric. Jones even went so far as to compare him to former Governor George C. Wallace who was paralyzed from the waist down due to an assassin's bullet during the 1972 campaign.

"Words have consequences," former Senator Jones sai Once that genie is out of the bottle, for God's sakes you cannot control where the violence is going to come from."

Yes, Kirk confronted evil when he spoke out against the mutilation and sexual exploitation of children and young people by the transgender movement: and evil killed him for it.

Maybe if Kirk had just kept his mouth shut, went to work, ate his lunch, went home, and never took a stand he would still be alive today.

The same could be said of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. If he had just preached vanilla sermons written not to anger anybody and not gotten involved in confronting the evil of racism maybe he would not have been gunned down at a Memphis motel by a lunatic. Of course, if he had taken that course would the south still be segregated? Without King would someone else – someone not grounded in Biblical teaching – been the head of the civil rights movement and taken a violent path? We can only guess how that would have played out.

If Ghandi had not gotten involved and never said anything offensive – maybe he would not have been assassinated. Would India still be a British colony?

President Donald J. Trump (R) has faced two attempted assassinations in the last 13 months. People like Jones probably blame that the President's rhetoric encouraged evil people to try to kill them.

Again the same could be said of Jesus. If he had all of his statements cleared by a committee of Pharisees and Sadducees, they probably would not have arrested him and turned him over to the Romans for crucifixion. The Apostles after receiving the Holy Spirit could have gone back to their hometowns, minded their own business, kept their mouths shut about what He preached to them, and they all would have died of old age in their beds surrounded by their families. NO, they chose to speak truth to Evil and evil killed them for it. If they had stayed in their homes and minded their own business they might have lived longer, but they would not have done great things either.

Similarly Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while saying the mass in El Salvador and Pope John Paul II was hit by an assassin's bullet, because they spoke truth to Evil.

Kirk, King, Wallace, and Trump are not the only American leaders to face Evil head on.

President Ronald W. Reagan was shot by an assassin. For those who think Reagan's rhetoric contributed to him being shot, they're wrong, Hinckley had been stalking President Jimmy Carter (D) until Reagan beat Carter in the 1980 election. Reagan was shot purely because he was the President.

Presidents John F. Kennedy, Willliam McKinley, James Garfield, and Abraham Lincoln were all killed by assassins.

Former AG Robert F. Kennedy Sr., Senator Huey Long, Chicago Mayor Anton Cernak (the likely target was President Franklin Roosevelt), former Speaker of the Minnesota House Melissa Hortman, and Malcolm X were also assassinated.

Julius Caesar, Yitzhak Rabin, Benazir Bhutto, Franz Ferdinand, Indira Gandhi, Shinzo Abe, and Czar Alexander II are just some of the global world

One could make the argument that if you keep quiet, don't offend anybody, don't preach, don't hold a high office, and hide from leadership that you get to live a full life without ever facing the wrath of Evil.

You would be wrong in that belief. Two recent murders demonstrate that clearly.

On August 22 Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old refugee who had fled the war in Ukraine, had her throat cut for absolutely no reason in Charlotte, North Carolina. The beautiful young lady worked at a pizzeria and had dreams of becoming a veterinary assistant. She was viciously killed anyway.

On September 6 retired veterinary professor Dr. Julie Gard Schnuelle, a respected educator and large animal specialist who had served at Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine from 2003 until her retirement in 2021, was killed for no reason while walking her dog in a park.

The number of ordinary people who are savagely murdered by strangers, people who used to go to their school or church, disgruntled coworkers, spouses, family members, etc. far outnumber the assassinations of political leaders or philosophers like Kirk.

Evil is loose in this world, and it kills because that is what Evil does.

You don't not speak the truth in fear that Evil will find you. Evil is always present and is always a danger. Whether you are preaching the Gospel, leading your nation, speaking truth to power, defending your home or country, having a meal with your family, riding a train, walking your dog, or speaking the truth on a college campus; at any time your end could come. Free speech is not the problem here. Blaming Kirk for his own death is as absurd as blaming Miss Zarutska for riding a train. Evil found them and killed them.

The Lord promised those of us who believe with paradise when we die – not necessarily in this life.

Brandon Moseley is the leader reporter and content manager at the Alabama Gazette.

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