The first time I heard the name Charlie Kirk, it was in reference to one of the Turning Point USA gatherings being held in Phoenix. What attracted my attention was the fact that Don Trump Jr. was one of the featured speakers. I have little interest in what Don Jr. has to say, but what caught my attention to this particular statement of his was his open denial of a core principle of the teachings of Jesus Christ. I mean, these people spend an awful lot of time helping keep a good sized segment of conservative Evangelicals, most of whom know very little about biblical Christianity and can't distinguish the cultic views of Christian nationalism from biblical truth taught by Christ, in the dark.

Speaking at one of Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA rallies in Phoenix, Arizona on December 19, 2021, Don Jr. said, "We've turned the other cheek, and I understand, sort of, the Biblical reference--I understand the mentality--but it's gotten us nothing. Ok? It's gotten us nothing while we've ceded ground in every major institution in our country."

To say that a core principle of the Christian gospel, taught and put into practice directly by Jesus, in its context, as a means of demonstrating the sincerity and veracity of one's Christian faith, has "gotten us nowhere," is blasphemy, by any Christian or biblical definition. The fact that this remark, which Don Jr. has repeated since, is included in a Turning Point rally is a demonstration of Kirk's apparent approval of it, or of his fear of directly confronting anything a Trump says. Along with the other long running themes of Turning Point USA and of Charlie Kirk, this is just one of hundreds of pieces of evidence that identify him as being part of a white supremacist, Christian nationalist cult, the result of blending the right wing political extremism of Trump with conservative Evangelicalism.

The Common Dreams article I linked above does a great job of outlining exactly who Charlie Kirk was, by his words and deeds. He was a political strategist, or a political fundraiser who made sure he took care of himself with many of the dollars Turning Point raised. He was willing to lie to make a point in a political debate, as he deceived conservative Evangelicals into an embrace of a political philosophy and perspective that is mutually incompatible with their own theology and doctrine. A prophet of right wing Trumpism, Kirk, willing to lie as openly and readily as Donald Trump, is an indruder in the church, as the Apostle Jude describes in his very short, but clear epistle in the New Testament, just before the book of Revelation.

Kirk's mostly errant and distorted doctrine and theology made him a pseudo-Christian more inclined to the heresy of Christian nationalism, with a hint of white supremacy, than any kind of defender of the Christian faith.