Kirk's Rise as a Christian Hero Exposes the Faith's Perilous Path
Attempts to sanitize Kirk demonstrate a perilous consensus among many Christians to make the faith the bedrock of authoritarianism.
In the weeks since Charlie Kirk's rise, American Christians have chosen strange epitaphs to memorialize the popular conservative pundit.
"If Charlie Kirk lived in the biblical times, he would have been the 13th disciple,"
"an evangelist" - Pastor Mark Driscoll
Cardinal Timothy Dolan compared Kirk to Saint Paul.
This consensus among many Christians that the faith should be the bedrock of authoritarianism in the United States is perilous.
The fight against American authoritarianism requires an organized effort to shift this Christian consensus.
What we accept as normal or even correct doesn’t arrive as a law of nature.
Author: The rise of Kirk reveals a dangerous trend in Christianity.