Recently, I commented on someone’s Facebook post regarding Charlie Kirk’s death: “Rest in piss.” The poster unfriended me as a result, and scolded me with the phrase “A life is a life.” On the surface, that sounds noble, even Christian. But the same person openly supports Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. That contradiction deserves to be unpacked.
Jesus told His followers to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them (Matthew 5:44). Many Christians take this as a call to respond to hatred with grace. By that standard, mocking Kirk after death is uncharitable.
But Christianity also has another thread: he prophetic tradition. The Hebrew prophets denounced kings and rulers with brutal honesty. Jesus Himself called Herod “that fox” (Luke 13:32) and condemned religious leaders as “whitewashed tombs” (Matthew 23:27). Sharp words, in this tradition, are not petty insults but moral indictments. Whether my words fall into that tradition is up for debate. But the precedent stands.
If someone insists “a life is a life,” then Christian teaching requires consistency. God shows no partiality (Acts 10:34). Every life, whether Israeli or Palestinian, is of equal worth. Jesus went further, placing special emphasis on the vulnerable: “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. (Matthew 25:40)
Supporting a war that takes thousands of innocent lives undermines the very principle they tried to use against me. The prophets warned Israel itself of judgment when it oppressed others: “Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.” (Amos 5:24) You cannot bless bombs and call it Christian compassion.
So which stance is more at odds with Christianity? A sharp insult aimed at a pundit whose rhetoric fuels division, or support for state violence that kills children? If we measure by the Gospel’s core commitments — justice, mercy, peacemaking — the second weighs heavier.
Christianity calls us not just to kindness in tone but to solidarity with the oppressed. “Blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9) is not a suggestion. It is a central demand of discipleship.
A life is a life. But if we really believe that, then it applies to every human beings, not just to the ones we admire politically. If we claim Christianity, we cannot apply compassion selectively. It is hypocrisy to weep for a pundit’s dignity while ignoring the suffering of children under bombs. If Christ’s words mean anything, they demand more from us than that.
Sisyphus Shrugged 
I still marvel at how some Christians can be so incredibly hypocritical without having the slightest doubt about their own vengefulness, hatred, murder lust and greed. It seems incredulous. No matter how many times such hypocrisy occurs. How can they be so clueless about themselves and their own place in their own faith? A person cannot be much of a Christian if they know so little about Christ’s apparent humility, decency and caring. So many of them seem to have broken a majority of the Ten Commandments with impunity. And if not having killed, certainly advocated killing. Especially in the Middle East where those Un-American types exist. But that’s OK. Its not saying a swear now, is it? Thou shalt not curse seems to be much more important to them. The worst crime of the, now, Eleven Commandments.
Conservative policies seem to centre around people paying less tax. But people get a whole heap of things largely for free that previous generations have provided for them. Great libraries, impressive schools, modern hospitals, an army, navy and air force to protect them. OK, they still pay maintenance for these things. But they are not starting from scratch. Most of what they get has been bought and paid for by others. And not just in money terms, but also in war, building site accidents, brave political stances etc.
So the resentment of many on the Right regarding the payment of tax makes them seem a little like grifters who do not appreciate what they have been given by others.
On that basis we could call the Republican Party the party that does not want to invest as much in Americans as the Democrat Party does. And lack of investment in people in any society means more crime and more ill health. And both those things KILL.
Which is why an advocate of such things, Charlie Kirk, has sickened me with his arrogant, self-righteous and self-obsessed videos on YouTube. I really do believe that that man was going to be American president one day. He’s like a facsimile of Trump. Who also used Christianity and Conservatism to slime up the greasy poll of power.
Charlie Kirk may have not dodged that bullet. But I think that the rest of us have.
Well written and concise blog of yours as usual, K. Nice one!
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Exactly. It’s wild how the same people who claim to uphold the Bible ignore its clearest calls for justice. They rail against cussing while cheering bombs.
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The people speaking so highly of such a hateful human being are the reason I walked away from church as well. How can you preach God’s love one minute then put such a piece of shit on a pedestal in the same breath?
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