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While mourning, Christian nationalists are calling Charlie Kirk a ‘martyr’ and want vengeance
Los Angeles Times ^ | September 12, 2025 | By Hailey Branson-Potts

Posted on 09/13/2025 6:12:43 AM PDT by artichokegrower

The shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has triggered a range of reactions, from mournful sympathy to religious conspiracy theories. Kirk spoke of what he called a “spiritual battle” being waged in the United States between Christians and Democrats. Experts on faith and far-right extremism say they are troubled by the religious glorification of Kirk in an era of increased political violence.

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Experts on faith and far-right extremism say they are troubled by the religious glorification of Kirk in this era of increased political violence — and the potential vengeance that may spring from it. The activist’s death, they say, seems to have ignited various factions on the right, ranging from white supremacists to hard-core Christian nationalists.


Interesting that the author would make this statement one day after the commemoration of the 911 terrorist attack.

1 posted on 09/13/2025 6:12:43 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Ummmm...JUSTICE, not vengeance.


2 posted on 09/13/2025 6:14:54 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: artichokegrower

“Experts on faith and far-right extremism”? Is that an actual occupation of some kind? How does one know when one reaches the ‘expert’ level? Good Lord...


3 posted on 09/13/2025 6:16:07 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: artichokegrower

Need a “barf alert” label on this piece of garbage.


4 posted on 09/13/2025 6:17:31 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: artichokegrower

Not a word about the motivation of the assassin despite what is known about Democratic Socialist of America connection.


5 posted on 09/13/2025 6:19:18 AM PDT by sopo
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To: artichokegrower

Did they interview someone at the Christian Nationalist HQ?


6 posted on 09/13/2025 6:19:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: artichokegrower

They are terrified


7 posted on 09/13/2025 6:21:08 AM PDT by Chengdu54 (This is a time for which the 2nd Amendment was intended. )
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Experts on faith and far-right extremism say they are troubled by the religious glorification of Kirk in an era of increased political violence.

BWAHAHAHA!!!

What a joke.

No leftist can ever be an *expert on faith and *"far right extremism"*.

They simply are completely incapable of understanding ANYTHING at all about faith in God and how believers and those *on the right* think any more than a blind person can be an expert on light or a deaf person and expert on sound.

8 posted on 09/13/2025 6:21:51 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: artichokegrower

The murdering fags from the LA Slimers speak out. Burn in hell scumbags.


9 posted on 09/13/2025 6:22:54 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remembering Charlie Kirk. 1993-2025.)
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To: artichokegrower

The usual gaslighting from Soros Central. (A subsidiary of the CIA)


10 posted on 09/13/2025 6:23:15 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Vengeance/


11 posted on 09/13/2025 6:23:19 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The SLIMES trying to pedal the Robert Wray(Disgraced FBI leader) lie that far right extremism is the problem in the United States when anyone with one brain cell knows it’s far left extremism which is the real danger in America.

Kash Patel needs to address this NOW.


12 posted on 09/13/2025 6:24:23 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: artichokegrower

“Deuteronomy 32:35 - To me belongeth vengeance...their foot shall slide in due time”


13 posted on 09/13/2025 6:24:53 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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That author sounds like a highbrow version of that woman who on her brief video dismissed the notion that Charlie Kirk could be considered a martyr.

Both are engaging in wishful thinking.


14 posted on 09/13/2025 6:24:58 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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“Ummmm...JUSTICE, not vengeance.”

Will that be enough? The left has dumbed down and indoctrinated a large portion of the population. It seems that the left is ok inspiring these unstable people to commit horrible acts. The problem for us is the left is comprised of almost all Democrat politicians, and a huge number of educators. I’m not advocating, but it seems to me that this stuff will continue, unabated, until some prominent Dems get popped. And even then, not sure it will stop, because the motivating force is Soros and his ilk.


15 posted on 09/13/2025 6:25:03 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: philman_36

Ummmm...JUSTICE, not vengeance.


Exactly correct. Vengeance belongs to God.


16 posted on 09/13/2025 6:25:28 AM PDT by marktwain
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“Experts on faith and far-right extremism say they are troubled by the religious glorification of Kirk in an era of increased political violence.”

So Christian faith is now equated as far-right extremism.

Now Christians are expected to get permission from their overlords as to how they should react to the murder of one of their prominent leaders.

The incrdeased political violence is not coming from the Christian community, but from the community the experts inhabit.

The self-anointed experts proclaim that the protective justice Christians call for when a Christian is murdered is vengeance.

The experts can go to hell.


17 posted on 09/13/2025 6:25:58 AM PDT by odawg
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To: brownsfan

The number of sociopaths is limited.


18 posted on 09/13/2025 6:26:12 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: drwoof

When leftists talk about “experts” they mean themselves.


19 posted on 09/13/2025 6:26:31 AM PDT by Ford4000
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She already lost the battle of ideas.


20 posted on 09/13/2025 6:27:01 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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