Oft Evil Shall Evil Mar

The title to this essay is a line from Tolkien. But I'm also reminded of two distinct lines from Star Wars, paired: 

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. 

I dunno, I can imagine an awful lot. 

Charlie Kirk was a powerful force. He went from campus to campus and he talked to people. Generally when he was debating, he would put his microphone down, to reassure his partner that he wasn’t going to talk over them. 

He was respectful, and he was highly effective. He played a major role in winning over Gen Z to the conservative side. That’s why he was killed — murdered. 

He was murdered not because he was “hateful,” or “extreme,” but because he was effective. 

But now, even dead, he’s beating them, worse than he ever did when he was alive. 

For all the fear of “Christian Nationalism,” a shallow, largely fictitious bogeyman for years, the murder of Charlie Kirk has effectively called it into being as a force.

(Ron Coleman, by the way, is an observant Jew.) 

Trump couldn’t, and wouldn’t, have called Christian Nationalism into being himself. (Though, to be honest, it’s currently in a form FDR or Truman would have been comfortable with, if not Obama.) 

But Charlie Kirk’s murderer did. 

Christianity has historically advanced martyr by martyr. The way to kill Christianity is to ignore it. But the left can’t do that, of all things.

GO READ THE WHOLE THING. 

AND THEN THERE'S THIS: