Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Is Evidence of Spiritual Warfare | The American Spectator

Spiritual warfare is real, undeniably real, and the Western world is currently in the throes of it. Some years ago, it may have been easy (or at least easier than it is now) to brush off the wearisome warning of Christians who saw Satan’s hand in everything from blatant evils like abortion to sly innuendo in children’s movies. But the present state of the Western world leaves no doubt that powers and principalities are doing battle here and now, and the prizes being fought for are our souls.

Evidence of this spiritual warfare abounds. The assassination of devout Christian and loving husband and father Charlie Kirk on September 10 is one example. In a recent interview with Diane Montagna, Catholic theologian and former chief of the Vatican’s doctrine office Cardinal Gerhard Müller posited, “Charlie Kirk was the victim of an atheistic ideology, whose followers erupted in satanic celebration over the heinous murder of an exemplary husband and family man. The devil always takes possession of those who hate life and truth.” Citing Scripture, he added, “For, according to the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, the devil is a ‘murderer from the beginning’ and the ‘father of lies’ (John 8:44). And only those who hear the words of God are of God (cf. John 8:47).”

Kirk’s assassin was a leftist living with his boyfriend, who is reportedly in the process of a “gender transition.” The murderer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was also heavily addicted to pornography and reportedly frequented “furry” pornographic video game websites. (For those who are blessedly unaware, “furries” are folks with a sexual fetish for dressing up as animals.) According to the New York Post, Robinson was also interested in pornographic illustrations of pedophilia. When he murdered the 31-year-old husband and father who made a living debating college kids and sharing the Gospel on campuses across the country, Robinson engraved leftist slogans on his bullets, including sexual transgender-themed messages about a “bulge.”

In response to the murder of the Turning Point USA founder, leftists posted celebration videos and sickening messages of mockery and hate. Numerous posts suggested that Kirk deserved to be killed because he opposed abortion even in cases of rape, while some even called for Kirk’s wife and daughter, who were present when he was assassinated, to be killed next.

Two weeks before Robinson shot Charlie Kirk in the throat, transgender-identified Robin Westman shot and killed two Catholic schoolchildren praying at Mass in Minneapolis, injuring 18 other Catholic schoolchildren. Like Robinson later would, Westman put messages on his bullets, but he also left behind a coded manifesto. At least one page of that manifesto needs no codebreaking: Westman drew an image of himself, with a gun over his shoulder, staring in a mirror; according to the illustration, the 23-year-old killer did not see his own reflection, but a demon. Above the image is written the question, “Who am I?”

Last year, President Trump narrowly survived at least two assassination attempts, the first of which killed Corey Comperatore, who bravely gave his life shielding his wife and daughters from the bullets fired. Prior to that, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was targeted for assassination due to his voting to overturn Roe v. Wade. According to reporter Margaret Mary Olohan, the attempted assassin in that case also identified as transgender.

This rash of violence is not merely political, but bears a clear spiritual facet. It is a terminal symptom of the spiritual disease plaguing our nation. Mass murderers identifying as demons, assassins obsessed with the most hellishly depraved pornography, and transgender-identifying men willing to kill public servants in order to keep killing unborn babies — all of this indicates a spiritual sickness, not merely an absence of the love of God but a hatred of God, a desire to get rid of Him and replace Him. It’s the oldest sin of all, introduced into Eden by the Serpent: “You shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5).

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