Charlie Kirkļ¼ My Friend
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Summary
Charlie Kirk was a fierce defender of the Christian faith, a patriot in the truest sense of the word, a devoted husband to Erica, a loving father to his two young children, and a friend to so many people, including me.
Transcript
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Hey y'all, yesterday's episode had already been recorded and scheduled before the news
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Tomorrow's episode has already been recorded, so I wanted to take a special moment today
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on this Thursday to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk, a fierce defender of the Christian faith,
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a patriot in the truest sense of the word, a devoted husband to Erica, a loving father
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to his two young children, a friend to so many people, including to me.
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In 2017, when I was brand new to media and Charlie was already a rising star in the conservative
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world, he invited me to speak at Turning Point's second annual Young Women's Leadership Summit.
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And at the end of 2019, after a speech I gave at another Turning Point conference, he got
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me and he asked me to meet with him and some of his staff, and they pulled me into a room
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Because I was three months pregnant at the time.
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And he asked because he wanted to see if I would be willing to help plan and host that
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Even knowing the event was three weeks before my due date, as you can see there in that picture,
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I knew that if Charlie was leading it, then no matter what, that it was worth doing.
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Um, I am one of thousands of people who can say that Charlie believed in me, he platformed
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me, he helped shape me long before I had done anything impressive.
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Um, in politics, most people are only kind to you when you can give them something in return.
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He was generous to people because that's just who he was.
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We argued for the Christian and conservative position on different issues.
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And then toward the end of our talk, a young woman came up to the mic.
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She believed Charlie was racist because of things that he had said about crime, about
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I remember I got to watch this up close in true Charlie fashion with precision, with boldness,
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And as I was preparing this this morning, I almost wrote that Charlie treated everyone
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But then I remembered that exchange that night and I realized that is not true.
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He was loving toward his friends, but he went out of his way to show even more grace to the
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At his campus events, the people who disagreed with him went to the front of the line.
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And he always addressed their questions with respect.
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And then there were people who would ask him questions who didn't know whether they agreed
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They just had a genuine curiosity they wanted answered.
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And he treated those people with so much sweetness and patience.
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And yesterday I came across one of those exchanges.
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Something that kind of has me like on the fence of whether or not I go kind of like full
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blown, more like conservative or moderate is just seeing how high.
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I see that, you know, we're starting to save a lot of money from things such as like
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But do you think that some of that money should go back to maybe like reforming the way that
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welfare is done to help poor families who do want to kind of pursue that American dream?
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The number one objective of any social welfare program should be how do we keep the family
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Unfortunately, in the black community, dads are the most absent of any community.
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About two thirds of all black youth will be raised without a stable father around.
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And that that little precious angel of yours deserves to have a father around.
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I have been in this sphere of the world for a while.
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I have met and I've watched all different kinds of people.
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And the sad reality is there are people who are not what they seem.
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They project a character on your screen that does not actually match who they are in real
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Charlie was the real deal in every sense of the term.
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For 13 years, Charlie worked with all kinds of people from high school students, college
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volunteers, thousands of employees to the most powerful people in media and government.
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And I have not met one person who has ever had anything negative to say about Charlie
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He was never arrogant, though he could have been.
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He was never bombastic, though he could have been.
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He knew how to build organizations and teams and projects that were lasting and effective.
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And it wasn't just because he was brilliant, but because very simply, he was a good friend.
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He was friends with everyone on the right, everyone, tons of people in the center, even people
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If someone said something true and they were taking flack for it, no matter what they were
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their political affiliation, Charlie was the first in their inbox, cheering them on.
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Coleman Hughes is a center-left author who went viral when he argued for colorblindness
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I don't know Charlie personally, but he sent me this message after I was on The View, and
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this is what his message, this is what Charlie's message said.
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Hey, Coleman, just watched your interview on The View.
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As I'm sure you're aware, I get accused of racism all the time.
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It doesn't bother me too much because I love all people.
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My commentary is simply a reaction to our hyperfixation on race, which you are brilliantly
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And then he goes on to say, I pray for a saner racial discourse in America.
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If you are a college student who is getting bullied for saying something true in class,
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He would exhaust his network to find a way to reach you and to encourage you.
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If you were a politician running for office and you were getting raked over the coals,
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He did this regardless of whether you liked him, regardless of whether you liked Trump,
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whether you agreed with him on everything or not.
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If he could find a single point of commonality with you, even if it was just the belief in
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free speech, he would find a way to welcome you.
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A month ago, I was on Fox with Charlie when he guest hosted Fox and Friends.
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I hadn't been on that show in years, but Charlie got to choose his guest that day.
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So I went on and we talked about the rise in Christian music, which included Forrest Frank.
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And Forrest Frank then posted our segment on Instagram to his millions of followers.
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And he got all kinds of hateful comments from people maligning both of us, but especially
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He reached out to Forrest, not to defend himself, but just to encourage him to tell Forrest that
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he's doing a great job and that he's cheering him on.
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A couple of years ago, we spoke together at a big church in Phoenix and we got to do what
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And that was defend the faith, his knowledge of the Bible, his relentless passion for truth
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I could play you hours of footage of Charlie sharing the gospel over the years, but here's
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one video I came across from a conversation with an atheist on a college campus.
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I'm a sinner, gave my life to Christ, most important decision I ever made.
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There's never been an archaeological discovery that has contradicted the truth of the Bible.
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There is not a truth of the Bible that if you apply to your life, your life does not improve
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And then finally, we have the most accurate and transparent, historically robust account that
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one can have of the most important figure ever to live in the history of the world,
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And the resurrection is the pinpoint of my belief that Jesus did rise from the grave so
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If Genesis 1-1 and the resurrection is true, anything in the Bible is possible.
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And then the fact that Jesus rose from the dead.
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And I say, how do you know that Jesus rose from the dead?
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Well, show me another historical piece of a story where so many people willingly died a
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Every single person around him had everything to lose.
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And yet they went to the absolute death from Paul to Peter to the half brother of James
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Not to mention, if you were going to fake a story, you would not use female witnesses in
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In the scriptures, it said that the women were the first one to see Jesus Christ.
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If you're trying to fake a story, you would never do that.
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I know if I could have texted Charlie this morning and asked him, hey, Charlie, I've got
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Is there anything I need to make sure that I say?
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It shaped the way he adored his wife, cherished his kids, led his organization, spoke to crowds.
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If you look through X, you'll see all kinds of people sharing texts that they'd received
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Our text thread over the years is filled with the same kind of thing.
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A couple years ago, the Atlantic wrote a profile about me.
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It had some positive descriptions, but it also took some jabs.
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As you can imagine, the reception from the Atlantic's audience was not kind.
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What should have felt like this big accomplishment for me actually made me very anxious at the time.
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But then I got this text from Charlie with a link to the article.
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And when I got the news yesterday that Charlie had been shot, I, like everyone else, was in shock.
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We on the right thought that we were in this battle of ideas, and we're not.
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And I talked to my dad, and he told me, Allie, you know, after all of this clears, you need to ask yourself,
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what do you think Charlie would tell you to do?
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And the truth is, I know exactly what he would say to me.
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Our last exchange was him giving me advice for an opportunity I have.
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One that, after this news from yesterday, I wanted to cancel.
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People cheering on Charlie's murder, and I'm not going to highlight those people.
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That Charlie would not care one bit about what those people think.
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He was extremely aware of the existence of evil and of spiritual warfare.
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Satan is glad that he took an effective soldier out of the fight,
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and everyone who follows Satan feels the same way.
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May we all, when we die, make the demons rejoice.
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May we all be so courageous, so bold, so effective, so faithful, so obedient to the Lord,
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so relentless in the pursuit of his glory, that when we die, all of God's enemies cheer.
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May they be enraged by every mourning that our feet hit the floor.
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We don't wrestle against flesh and blood, my friends.
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Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
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Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
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For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,
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against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,
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against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
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Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day,
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Stand, therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth,
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and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
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and as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.
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In all circumstances, take up the shield of faith,
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with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one,
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and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit,
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which is the word of God, praying at all times in the spirit,
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making supplication for all the saints, and also for me,
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that words may be given to me in opening my mouth,
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that I may declare it boldly as I ought to speak.
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With enough time, he would have been president.
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He's largely responsible for Trump winning and preserving
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Every day, he was adding droves of people to the side of goodness and truth,
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not because he's presidential or because he's persuasive,
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Now, I won't spend a bunch of time talking about the evils of progressivism right now.
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There are people on the left who have condemned this violence,
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Whether it's the school shooting in Nashville or the one in Minnesota,
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whether it is Trump's assassination attempt or the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
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understand what we have been telling you for decades.
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Leftism, as an ideology, is inherently anti-God and violent.
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I know that some of you out there think it's actually about welcoming the migrant
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and I commend you for your compassion, which I believe is real,
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and it goes down to the very foundations of the progressive worldview.
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Now, if you want to learn more about what I just said,
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He is using this moment to unite people and bring them to the truth.
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If the enemy's goal was to scare us into silence,
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You embolden everyone who believes like they do.
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Charlie and the truth he represented will spread further and wider
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you will be very disappointed when you learn that they were the nice version
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If your goal was to immortalize Charlie's ideas
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and to raise people up even bolder and more relentless than him,
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Charlie Kirk was murdered for believing the same things you do.
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He believed in and leveraged the free exchange of ideas to try to persuade people of biblical truth.
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There's a quote that says that the further a society drifts from the truth,
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He is the only way to the satisfaction and the love that you're longing for.