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A Flash of Light
Dr Naomi Wolf Substack ^ | 9 13 2025 | Dr Naomi Wolf

Posted on 09/14/2025 6:38:06 AM PDT by cuz1961

... I was in an empty house when I prepared to have the discussion that I did about dangers to women’s reproductive lives, with Charlie Kirk. I knew very little about Kirk at that time; indeed what I “knew,” from my lifetime being bathed in liberal media propaganda, was negative. But by then I also was realizing that most of what I had been told by those sources were not based in fact. My press manager had told me that Kirk had huge reach and that he was greatly respected, especially by college audiences; so I was very willing to have the discussion slated for that day....

(Excerpt) Read more at naomiwolf.substack.com ...


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The whole thing at the link is worth the read .

But for me, this is the salient point Naomi makes..

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"Don’t you feel it? The time for vacillating has passed.

The sheep are separating from the goats.

We can live under this new sky in a state of blessing.

But also, there is the other world, on this planet; a negative, brutal world.

The other half of America, of the planet, is unmoved by this tragedy, or worse. Online it seems that a single demon - a mocking, laughing demon with darting, glowing eyes — has split into a thousand bodies and it is celebrating this young man’s death.

I don’t even understand how this is possible: the same ugly, distorted expression of glee, the same hideous grin, is manifesting in a twenty-one-year old blonde girl in a Southern town who posts online celebrating Kirk’s death; a gay man walking his dog on the Upper West Side of Manhattan; a suburban middle-class woman with a bob haircut on a sidewalk in Seattle; a grey-templed college professor in Michigan; and so on, and so on; all celebrating, in exactly the same tone, the same words. How is that possible? They repeat what sounds like a talking point: “I don’t care.” “I have no empathy.”

Is it a hex? Paid influencers? A script? It is utterly frightening, to see so many human-looking beings boast publicly of being, literally, sociopaths....

...I recall as I scroll through these mocking faces, the descriptions from 400 years of exorcism literature of “mocking” demonic entities. I never knew what that really meant til now. But I am unnerved, terrified, really, seeing something I cannot explain rationally: the possession of many different people from completely different backgrounds across the country, by the same demon.

So we are peeling away from one another. What will emerge? I do not know, but there will be more clarity.

Maybe this is part of what Jesus meant when he said “The Kingdom of Heaven is near.” I’ve written about how “karov”, the word used for “near” in the one Hebrew gospel, the Gospel of Matthew of unknown dating — is both a verb and an adjective: the Kingdom of Heaven (in Hebrew, also “of the Sky”) is both drawing near (literally “nearing”) toward you continually, and is already in place: near to you.

Maybe this flash of light over America, that followed and is part of this horrific death, reveals where the Kingdom of Heaven is, after all.

It is available, inside us, right now.

Which is why I believe that even though my own house on a hill is empty of students, that thousands or millions of students inspired by this young man, will in the very near future build their own houses of learning and civil debate; and colleges and classrooms; that the shadowy house awaiting its young people, metaphorically at least, will everywhere be full.

Listening without violence, when we can manage it, takes place on this earth, and at the same time, it also takes place in the Kingdom of Heaven.

I also believe that that flash of light over America showed that you can stand outside the Kingdom of Heaven in this lifetime, on this planet; and walk deliberately away from it.

“I have no empathy”, is all you need to say.

“We are Legion,” is all you need to say.

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1 posted on 09/14/2025 6:38:06 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

The disconnect is obvious.


2 posted on 09/14/2025 6:40:23 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: cuz1961

I knew Charlie Kirk from him being a guest on Megyn Kelly’s show. My Z-gen son tells me that everyone his age knows about Charlie Kirk (loves or hates him).

I remember hearing the same all over about Rush for years - how he was racist, bigoted, a loud-mouthed know- nothing whose followers were like a cult, robotically following him leader off of a cliff. The most hateful things!

I picked up his first book in the .99 cent pile “The Way Things Ought to Be,” read it while home on maternity leave and became a die-hard Rush fan forever more.


3 posted on 09/14/2025 6:42:23 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Bon of Babble

Strange how that happens when one does actual fact finding eh? 😊👍🙏


4 posted on 09/14/2025 6:47:04 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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Yep.

I was open to changing my mind and did (about Rush).

Problem is now so many lefties are solidly entrenched in their hateful beliefs that there is no reasoning with them as they are utterly impervious to hard facts, logic, civil debate and reasoning (what Charlie Kirk embodied).

They’ll have none of it. Their idea of “reasoning” is to utterly destroy anyone who disagrees with them.

I’ve seen this in my own family and refuse to spend a single second of my life around them. We cannot live with these people.


5 posted on 09/14/2025 6:52:47 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: cuz1961

Wow! What a great take. I agree 100%. The forces are demonic. Legion is right.


6 posted on 09/14/2025 6:56:57 AM PDT by randita
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To: Bon of Babble

Danged near the whole world knows about him now! GOD will see to that!


7 posted on 09/14/2025 6:58:35 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: randita

Read the Bible.. It will tell you.


8 posted on 09/14/2025 7:00:25 AM PDT by sport
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To: Bon of Babble
I remember hearing the same all over about Rush for years - how he was racist, bigoted, a loud-mouthed know- nothing whose followers were like a cult, robotically following him leader off of a cliff. The most hateful things!

Everyone I ever talked to with that opinion, I'd ask a simple question: What time is his show, and on which channel? Nobody knew, because nobody ever had listened firsthand. And so with Kirk, those that hated him the most were familiar with him the least.

9 posted on 09/14/2025 7:04:10 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: cuz1961

The divide has never seemed so great. Something that those with common sense see as so evil and despicable is seen as something worth celebrating by the Left.


10 posted on 09/14/2025 7:08:13 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Bon of Babble

Saw a post yesterday indicating ‘...now if someone with a backbone would do what needs to be done...’ in ref to PDJT. It vanished pretty quickly.


11 posted on 09/14/2025 7:11:02 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: cuz1961

What a beautiful piece of writing! Patient, almost florid but not at all gaudy, thorough, and revealing. Thank you.

I would dearly love to bring her up to speed on how this all happened, who did it and why, how the left was constructed for a totally mistaken purpose, and why its bases are so estranged from what anyone would rightly call “culture.” Yes, they are sexual and religious. This IS about human reproduction and the willful destruction of that Christian culture.


12 posted on 09/14/2025 7:16:11 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: cuz1961

Behold, an example of Legion.

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Charlie Kirk’s allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else
By Raphael SatterAJ Vicens,

https://share.newsbreak.com/ezn41ohy


13 posted on 09/14/2025 7:17:10 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Wow! Thanks for posting.


14 posted on 09/14/2025 7:25:49 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: cuz1961

There is a point when you cannot walk away
When you have to stand up straight and tall and mean the word you say
There is a point you must decide, just to do it ‘cause it’s right
That’s when you become a point of light

There is a darkness that everyone must face
It wants to take what’s good and fair and lay it all to waste
And that darkness covers everything in sight
Until it meets a single point of light

Randy Travis


15 posted on 09/14/2025 7:49:12 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: Bon of Babble

100%


16 posted on 09/14/2025 8:12:17 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: cuz1961

Naomi has an marvelous way with words!


17 posted on 09/14/2025 8:20:22 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: cuz1961

“...I recall as I scroll through these mocking faces, the descriptions from 400 years of exorcism literature of “mocking” demonic entities. I never knew what that really meant til now. But I am unnerved, terrified, really, seeing something I cannot explain rationally: the possession of many different people from completely different backgrounds across the country, by the same demon.”

Sadly, we don’t need special glasses from the cult film “They Live” to see the true nature of the monsters among us. We know who and what the problems are. What we do not know is how to defend our culture and ourselves without destroying our own values. Fear of violating our own norms is what inhibits us from fixing the obvious problems. We need the answer urgently.


18 posted on 09/14/2025 8:47:54 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Bon of Babble

Yep, I think part of what made Rush so listenable and so popular was his genuine goodheartedness. I’m much less familiar with Charlie Kirk having only seen a few minutes of him here and there but even that small exposure gave me the distinct impression that he was a good guy. The left’s demonization of good people is one its worst habits.


19 posted on 09/14/2025 9:00:24 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Chewbarkah

There are plenty of laws that are applicable

Advocating physical violence is already against the law

Advocating the overthrow of our gov , revolution, convert or die,

is already against the law

illegally entering our nation

is already against the law

financing physical violence and those that advocate physical violence

By anyone, including democrat politicians, and major TV networks and social media

is already against the law

District judges usurping Executive Authority

is already against the law

Mutiny ( looking at you general milley )

is already against the law

What we can do to “ fix this “

Is TO ENFORCE THE DAMN LAWS !!!!!!!!


20 posted on 09/14/2025 9:01:51 AM PDT by cuz1961
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