Mr Kirk

Describe your take on the Charlie Kirk murder:

I have held off judgement as whatever happens he was human and I refuse to speak ill of any dead. I agreed with him on some things and strongly disagreed on other things. I will let God be his judge, not me. 

None the less I always have questions:

Was it weird Netanyahu said it wasn't him? 

Why this one killing got so much attention when it is daily, even hourly in the USA? 

What's in the files? 

Why wasn't the flags even at half mast for the senators murdered only months before for example? 

Thoughts about the service I admittedlly only saw bits of: 

Horst Wessel effect?

Pyrotechnic show?

Political rally? 

Were some people just acting? 

Mega church concert?

Is revival, as some claim it is, not more than some nice songs and words? 

Isn't revival conviction, repentance and fruits showing, social reformation? 

Can God not also use it for good even if some of these speakers, as some may claim, were not genuine and accidentally or on purpose preached His word? 

Was the president joking or in the full realm of heresy preaching against forgiveness? 

All I actually have are questions myself. The only statement I saw that sits right in my frame of reference is from Consistent Life who say: 

"Politically-Motivated Assassinations...The core of our mission is to oppose currently practiced and socially-approved killing. The category of deliberate killing that has a political or activist target, as with the recent murder of Charlie Kirk, has the feature of not being socially approved. It’s already as illegal as possible and couldn’t be made more so. It also already has the vast majority of the population aghast. On the other hand, the political motivation makes it “approved” in some corners of the population. Which corners vary and depend on the leanings of the target. Whether the target is left or right is beside the point, on principle. Additionally, we’ve had plenty of both in recent years. The recent series of lone killers haven’t articulated thoughts coherent enough to accurately categorize them either way. We naturally oppose the murder of Charlie Kirk, as would be expected. We also have a special interest in opposing it because we also are activists who are frequently targets of hostility when we try to engage in dialog. Any language suggesting such killings might be at all acceptable, in addition to being an outrage, makes us nervous for ourselves."

The bottom line: I pray the ugliness, sin and violence will end. If we learn anything may it be a recognition of our depravity as a species and need for the God of love and Prince of Peace.