Should Christians Forgive Pure Evil? (Call-In Show) | Pearl Daily
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2 hours and 5 minutes
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150.54848
Summary
Erica Kirk's speech at the memorial for her late husband, Charlie Kirk, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Utah on September 10, 2019. She talks about her grief and how she was able to see her husband the day after his death.
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theaudacitynetwork.com. Okay. So today we're talking about how we're kind of going to be going over
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Charlie Kirk's wife, Erica Kirk's speech when it comes to the memorial of Charlie Kirk. Now I do want
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to start this show by saying this is not a conversation that's meant to be judgmental. I do consider this to
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be a safe space on my channel. So what meaning I don't judge any opinion. And my hope is that you
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are not judgmental of mine. Obviously, this is the internet. I understand what comes with this.
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But I have no hatred in my heart towards any of these women. But I just know there's a section
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of America and really of Twitter kind of watching this go on that kind of feels this way.
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Okay. Okay. So we're going to start with watching Erica's speech. So we're going to listen to some
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of Erica Kirk's memorial speech for Charlie. So let's go.
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Even in death, I could see the man that I love.
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11 days ago, God accepted that total surrender from my husband and then called him to his side.
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More than anything, Charlie wanted to do, not his will, but God's will.
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And over these past 11 days, through all the pain, never before have I found as much comfort.
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Lord. Okay. So the individual, thank you for signing up for our memberships.
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At some point, we might do members only shows. We're not doing that right now. But feel free
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As I now do, in the words of our Lord's Prayer,
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God's love was revealed to me on the very day my husband was murdered.
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On the afternoon of September 10th, I arrived at a Utah hospital to do the unthinkable.
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To look directly at my husband's murdered body.
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And a level of heartache that I didn't even know existed.
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Even in death, I could see the man that I love.
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I saw the one single gray hair on the side of his head, which I never told him about.
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Sorry baby, telling you now, but never told him.
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It revealed to me a great mercy from God in this tragedy.
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When I saw that, it told me that Charlie didn't suffer.
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It was something so instant that even if Charlie had been shot in the operating room, it's itself.
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Now, these observations, I am not excited that I'm going to be the one to point these out.
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But this is a conversation happening on the internet, and I think it's going through a lot of people's minds.
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That it's almost like they're turning this death into, it just doesn't, it's just, it doesn't seem
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like the attention is respectful, in a way, when it's like stadiums full of people.
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And I'm going to verbalize this a little bit better.
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It's like men, whenever I'm blanking, they just give me the answer.
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Um, you know, yeah, it almost seems like nobody cared about it.
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And I know maybe there's a side of YouTube that's saying everyone's showing they cared.
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Um, but it just, it's just kind of an odd way to go about it.
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Um, when everybody's, nobody seems like, and people grieve in different ways, so I don't know.
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I don't know any of these people personally, but just a lot of these speeches, they come off as performative.
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Like, this doesn't look like a woman who lost her husband 10 days ago, I think would be the best way to put it.
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Um, and I don't know, maybe I'm the only crazy person for getting this, for having this opinion.
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It could, and I don't have any hatred in my heart towards her.
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But, um, it's just, when I was listening to this speech, it just didn't really seem like the focus of the speech was Charlie.
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And when I'm really looking at this movement, it almost seems like Erica has been put in the front of the conservative movement now.
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It almost seems like she's kind of the new god of conservative.
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Like, it's almost, this almost seems like an Erica worship fest in a way, the way people are reacting on Twitter.
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And I say this with no malice in my heart, right?
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But I think when you acknowledge gender, like the differences in the genders and what each gender has proclivities to, you can see issues when you're putting a woman in front.
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You know, as we've said on this channel, women really aren't meant to lead movements.
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We're not really meant to be in charge of things.
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Um, and so I just wonder if people are really looking out for Erica's best interest.
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It almost seems like, you know, is this really the best position to put a grieving widow in who lost her husband 10 days ago in like a Super Bowl stadium?
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Um, but I think that's where a lot of people's minds are going towards.
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I think that's what a lot of people are thinking.
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And I'm going to be the one to say it because I, you know, I'm really just trying to have the conversation here.
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Yeah, what did the, what did the widows of JFK, RFK, and MLK do?
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And this has almost become like an Erica worship fest.
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And it doesn't really surprise me, I guess, knowing her background, um, uh, she always came off to me as a, uh, an attention seeking woman.
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I have a show, you know, I, this isn't meant to be judgmental, but if I'm observing, you know, this is a widow that's got two young kids at home.
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Um, are conservatives really looking at her and her family's best interests by saying, here's a 300 bajillion dollar organization that you're the CEO of?
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Is it really in her best interest that, you know, to have this like scripted performance?
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Um, you know, maybe this is what he would have wanted.
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One moment, Charlie was doing what he loved, arguing and debating on campus, fighting for the gospel and truth in front of a big crowd.
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And all the heavenly mysteries were revealed to him.
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God's love continued to be revealed to me in the days that followed the next day on the tarmac in Air Force Two.
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I held her hand and I told her, honestly, I do not know how I'm going to get through this.
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Well, if I'm being honest, it really comes off that way.
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I almost, I almost feel guilty for having that thought.
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Because it seems, it seems like it's almost immoral to think that, you know, of a grieving widow.
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What is the purpose of, you know, drawing all this attention to a grieving widow?
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You know, it doesn't seem like his best friends were doing that.
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You know, because it just seems like we'd want the attention on the husband.
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I don't like that I'm thinking of it like this.
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But if I'm really being honest, that's how it comes across to me.
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And I really, I want to, and I had some notes here.
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I want to reiterate what the issue you get when you put women as the heads of a lot of these movements.
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The challenge you get a lot, and you're going to, kind of going to see this in the speech,
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is that women, we have a tendency to misquote the Bible.
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And Christian women have a tendency to get power and just turn it into a nagging session on men.
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And even in this speech, which you would think would be like an inveterance to Charlie,
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that it would just be, you know, it would only, like I would think it would just be positive things about Charlie.
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And I hate, I hate, I hate that I have to be the one.
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But, you know, I just got to be honest where that's how it comes across.
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Left will have a hard time making fun of a widow.
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You could say, you know, because this is the political arena, okay?
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Are you really looking out for her best interests?
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Let's, let's, let's say we want Erica to do, we want those kids to be raised well.
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Are we really looking out in her best interest by putting her in charge of a giant organization
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She said, you know when you're on an airplane with your kids and it's the last 15 minutes of the flight
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and things are crazy, kids are not cooperating, toys are flying everywhere and everyone's screaming
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and you think to yourself, I cannot wait for this flight to land
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And she told me, you will get through these 15 minutes
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but those words were exactly what I needed to hear.
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Yeah, and you guys are putting it, somebody's going to be raising the kids
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I think I had 20 something nannies growing up if I had to guess.
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And it's very difficult for children to have these rotating women
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that just come in and out and in and out and in and out.
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I do think there are some jobs that women can do
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but leading a multi-million dollar organization
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and they're saying, Pearl, you're just jealous.
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You know, I had a team of 20 people at one point
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It was not the right, I didn't mean for it to get that big.
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So, you know, I just, I'm trying to facilitate.
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I think there's a little fear in my voice treading on this.
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I'm trying to be as respectful as I possibly can
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I have not seen anything where he says he's sorry for what he did.
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I'll forgive most things with a genuine apology
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But there has to, I would think there has to be some repentance,
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If you think I am, you're welcome to call in and tell me.
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But more importantly, should Christians forgive pure evil?
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Because from where I stand, it seems like people just know
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that they can do whatever they want to Christians
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So, what are your thoughts on the forgiveness part?
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What did you think about her forgiving the killer?
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She's like, your wife is not your slave and blah, blah, blah.
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She pretty much said that your wife is your equal partner
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And then she's going to reinforce the narrative
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And she's going to take all of Charlie's hard work
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And I just don't, I think people want to milk this so bad,
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they don't want to look like bad people either.
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The fact that she's, if she becomes CEO of Turning Point,
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because I just couldn't believe how grifty this was.
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that's one of the reasons why I'm not religious.