From the pulpits of Black churches, reverends denounced in their sermons what they called hateful rhetoric from Kirk that runs counter to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Gospel. It’s not a scoop : everybody know, including Jummy Kimmel, that Kirk used his Turning point platform to discuss matters of race in America, including statements that denigrated Black people, immigrants, women, Muslims and LGBTQ+ people, and he had weaponizzd faith to justify colonialism, enslavement and bigotry.
“Christianity told that Black people were inferior and therefore Christians enslaved us” said the Reverend Jacqui Lewis, pastor of Middle Collegiate Church in New York City, adding that powerful voices have long controlled the microphone and used it to reshape Christianity to serve power, exclusion and hate. This discourse pretend to be Christian « but it’s white nationalism wrapped in talk of Jesus, and it’s not Christian. It’s just not.” Lewis said in an interview this week.
The service orchestrated by Trump, Vice President JD Vance and MAGA movement supporters was « part a memorial service, but another part of it was more like a political rally,” said the Reverend Joel Bowman, pastor of Temple of Faith Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. The republican politics are using and perverting OUR religion faith.
The Reverend F. Bruce Williams, pastor of Bates Memorial Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, had rejected the martyrdom assertion well before Vance addressed Kirk’s mourners in Arizona. “My friends, for Charlie, we must remember that he is a hero to the United States of America. And he is a martyr for the Christian faith,” Vance said excessively.
While emphasizing that Kirk’s “life was tragically taken by violence,” Williams said in a sermon shared more than 40,000 times on Facebook, “what is also tragic is they’re trying to make him a martyr of the faith (…) Now, he did violently die, but he did not die for the faith. Not the faith that I know. Not for the Jesus I know.”
Charlie Kirk died for politics. Only dirty far-right wing politics.