Posted on 09/17/2025 12:59:55 PM PDT by Morgana
This past Sunday, Pastor Frederick D. Haynes took the pulpit to address the murder of Charlie Kirk. And what came out of his mouth was a masterclass in double-speak:
“We ain’t got nothing to do with what they just did. A white Christian gets killed, murdered, not assassinated. We’re going to tell the whole truth today.
Martin King got assassinated, Malcolm X got assassinated, Medgar X got assassinated. Don’t compare Kirk to King. Ain’t no such comparison now.
Let me hasten to say, let me hasten to say, I’m anti-political violence. Kirk should still be alive. I don’t agree with the time, with anything Kirk said. What Kirk said was dangerous. What Kirk said was racist, rooted in white supremacy. Nasty and hate-filled, but he still should be alive.
He still should be playing with his kids. He still should be experiencing the love with his wife.”
Here’s the clip:
Notice he says Kirk should still be alive, but then immediately follows it with character assassination—calling Kirk “dangerous,” “racist,” “rooted in white supremacy,” and “hate-filled.” This isn’t condemnation of violence, it’s moral justification of the hatred that fueled the heinous act to begin with.
Haynes wants to make sure you know he’s “anti-political violence,” but he can’t resist painting Kirk as the kind of man who had it coming. He draws a hard line between Kirk and King—insisting Kirk wasn’t assassinated, he was just “murdered”—as if changing the vocabulary somehow strips the act of its political reality.
This is how you create a culture that tolerates violence against political enemies: you dehumanize them first. You say, “Yes, no one should shoot them,” but you make sure everyone listening knows why maybe, just maybe, it’s understandable that someone did. It’s the same rhetorical game we’ve heard from radicals for years—claim peace, but call your opponent a threat to peace.
And what kind of “shepherd” does this from the pulpit? Instead of teaching his flock to “weep with those who weep,” Haynes used a moment of tragedy to stoke the fires of division. Instead of calling murder evil, full stop, he gave it context—as if the gospel gives us permission to weigh the victim’s politics before deciding how much compassion they deserve.
Haynes invoked King, but what would King have said? King called for his followers to love their enemies, not justify their deaths with a list of grievances. King’s dream wasn’t that we’d divide the worth of a man’s life by his voting record.
This isn’t prophetic preaching—it’s partisan sermonizing. It doesn’t heal wounds. It rips them open wider. And until pastors like Haynes repent of using the pulpit to do the devil’s work of accusation, we’ll keep seeing more young men with guns deciding they’re judge, jury, and executioner.
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They are not going to stop. The consequences are inevitable. This is all so sad.
We have seen many evil people out themselves over Kirk’s murder. I consider anyone still in the pews by the end of this sermon to be one of them.
Notice he says Kirk should still be alive, but then immediately follows it with character assassination—calling Kirk “dangerous,” “racist,” “rooted in white supremacy,” and “hate-filled.” This isn’t condemnation of violence, it’s moral justification of the hatred that fueled the heinous act to begin with.
Medgar X? Come on Pastor X, meet Mr. Evers.
Exactly. The words are also lies.
And especially now that Charlie can’t defend himself against the slurs.
I preached a message loaded with references to Charlie Kirk, using his name many times.
He was a great American and loved the Lord. Be inspired me greatly. And yes, he was assissainated... even martyred.
Is this guy a Black Liberation Theology like Odumbo’s preacher? Is he saying assassination is for blacks only?
This racist pastor is serving the same idea as the muslims, the master of deception, the father of lies. The hate is visible to all.
Hayes is a chump.
You win the internet today.
Assassinate: murder (an important person) in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons.
White men don’t be sassinated, dey be un-alived.
Assassination; “murder by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons” According to Webster. I’d say Charlie Kirk’s ASSASSINATION fits the bill.
Charlie Kirk was ASSASSINATED.
We know who the racist is in this story... It isn’t Charlie Kirk...
Just like MLK.
I remember an online conversation I had with a black conservative woman around the time Jeremiah Wright became known as Obama’s preacher. She told me that 70%+ of predominantly black churches heard a similar message every Sunday.
Many black churches have Obama’s portrait prominently displayed behind the pulpit.
Typical ignorant idiot. He wasn’t murdered during a robbery or burglary, or during a drug deal. He was assassinated because of his political beliefs and the message he stood for. Blacks kill other blacks for no other reason than they can, and it means nothing to them unless that death is at the hand of a white cop. Then they claim that black person was assassinated. They refuse to say that black man is dead because he was committing a crime, refusing to comply with a lawful police order to surrender, or refusing to stop reacting violently when confronted about their crime.
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