The Timing & Cosmic Balance
Just days ago, I was writing about Charlie Kirk’s habit of twisting numbers and selling cruelty as truth. Today, he’s gone. Assassinated in broad daylight at a college campus. The timing feels almost cosmic. Like the universe decided to underline the conversation I was already having with myself. I don’t celebrate political violence, but I can’t lie about the feeling in my chest: relief. A little joy. Not because murder is noble, but because there is, at least for now, one less amplifier of malice in the world.
The Harm He Represented
Kirk built a career on dressing up lies as debate, hate as freedom, and manipulation as leadership. He made entire crowds cheer for dehumanization while hiding behind the shield of “free speech.”
He spread misinformation shamelessly, pushing hydroxychloroquine as “100% effective” against COVID-19, painting election irregularities as proof of fraud (even when courts and fact-checkers proved otherwise). Studies confirmed it: his podcast ranked as one of the most prone to unsubstantiated claims among conservative shows: https://twitter.com/i/grok/share/KCUkI7W26Gz5EQvDCBmMYrcSp
And when it came to gender, he dipped into pseudoscience to sanctify oppression. He told audiences, “God made our brains different… we both need each other,” citing supposed brain differences between men and women: https://www.facebook.com/realCharlieKirk/videos/this-is-definitive-proof-that-men-and-women-are-different/1245044626192897
Neuroscience has long debunked this, pointing out that brain size or hippocampus differences don’t determine intelligence or capability: https://www.newsweek.com/male-female-brain-differences-hippocampus-size-388913
But in Kirk’s rhetoric, shaky data became justification for pushing women back into subservience.
Weaponized Faith
What haunts me most is how easily belief was turned into a weapon. Charlie Kirk didn’t just talk politics; he cloaked his rhetoric in the language of God and morality. He framed exclusion as holiness, painted cruelty as Christian duty, and called it all “defending truth.” But faith that thrives on punishing others is not faith. It’s control.
He openly declared that America is a “Christian state” and claimed Democrats “stand for everything God hates”: https://apnews.com/article/8357c3d102de09e3320fde761258131a
He co-founded Turning Point Faith to mobilize churches into his political machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk
He cited Leviticus 20:13 as “God’s perfect law” to justify anti-LGBTQ stances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk
He even promoted the Seven Mountain Mandate — a dominionist belief that Christians should rule over politics, media, education, and more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/who-is-charlie-kirk-profile
Religion was never meant to be a megaphone for fear. Yet in his hands, it became exactly that: a tool to sanctify misinformation, to bless policies that wound, to convince people that bigotry is righteousness. That’s not free speech; that’s spiritual malpractice.
The Tension I Hold
I do feel grief — not for him, but for his loved ones, for the witnesses whose lives are now marked by the sound of a gunshot. Violence leaves ripples that touch the innocent first. And still, when I look at his legacy, I can’t find sorrow. I feel a sense of cosmic balance. He lived in a way that fanned violence, and in the end, violence found him.
The Bigger Reckoning
This is what happens when “free speech” is treated like a shield for harm instead of a responsibility to care for one another. When we build platforms for voices that profit from division, we shouldn’t be surprised when division eats us alive. His death doesn’t heal the wound he helped deepen, but it does leave me wondering how long we’ll keep calling malice “debate” and cruelty “discourse.”
The Balance We Choose
I’m not celebrating an assassination. I’m telling the truth about what it feels like to live in this moment. Relief. Cosmic balance. A break in the static of hate. But balance doesn’t come from bullets. If we want a world that doesn’t keep circling back to violence, we have to choose to stop mistaking hate for free speech and start choosing compassion as the louder voice.
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