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Charlie Kirk and the State of Evil

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“The mouth of the just man shall meditate wisdom; the law of his God is in his heart, his steps do not falter. (Ps. 37: 30-31)

Within the space of a week or so Americans have witnessed three despicable acts of public violence: one taking the lives of two innocent children in Minneapolis, then a young Ukrainian woman fatally stabbed on a Charlotte bus (both acts indiscriminate and random), and culminating in the deliberate and heinous murder of popular pod-caster Charlie Kirk in Orem, Utah. Kirk was outspoken about his Christianity and fearlessly proclaimed the Kingship of Jesus Christ. Fewer than two months before his death he was urging fellow Evangelical Christians to engage in a deeper understanding of and reverence for Mary, the Mother of God. He is reported to have been attending Mass with his Catholic wife and children at least twice a month. He had become both mentor and role model to millions of millennials and generation Z kids deeply searching for something more than what this superficial hedonistic culture was offering.

Kirk was known for cheerfully engaging his left leaning opponents in honest debate on campuses around the country while convincing many that social conservatism, not the prevailing DEI and transgender madness, represented the real hope for the future of his generation. Just shy of 32 years old, Charlie was ruthlessly slain simply for defending truth as he understood it. What those who continue to despise Charlie Kirk, even after his death, seem unable to grasp is that Kirk genuinely loved the sinner even as he hated the sin. He was the proverbial good shepherd seeking to bring back any lost sheep. In this Kirk was the antithesis of Satan, the ‘accuser,’ who loves the sin yet hates the sinner. Even if one did not agree with everything Charlie expressed, you had to admire the man for his vitality, integrity, and raw courage. Another good shepherd, Bishop Joseph Strickland, has rightly pointed out we must not forget to pray for the repose of Charlie’s soul because he was human just like the rest of us. Likewise we need to pray for a repentant heart and timely conversion of Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, a young man grossly deceived by the demoniacal culture which incessantly radicalizes and alienates the young from truth and common sense.

Of course the predictable and tedious commentary about why a good God did not prevent such a tragedy will be spewing forth from social media ad nauseam. Why does God regularly allow evil to afflict good people? That question continues to mystify modern man, I believe, because our culture has adopted such a shallow understanding of the very meanings of good and evil; truth and falsehood. What is good anyway, and who are the “good people?” In the Gospel our Lord makes a seemingly odd reply to this question, “Why do you call me good? There is only One who is good.” (Mt. 19:17) Did Christ mean that only his Father is good and therefore everything else must be evil? Of course not! It was his way of teaching that goodness emanates not from ourselves but from God alone. So in order to make any sense of evil, one must first understand “the good” in its proper context.

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An Enemy Within – Gnosticism Today

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I take this opportunity to introduce the publication of my latest book titled “An Enemy Within, How Freemasonry Shaped the Church and Modern World.” It’s a topic central to the ongoing cultural disintegration witnessed over the past 60 years, and yet surprisingly few Americans and Christians fully understand the connection. What has been hidden from their eyes is the reality that Masonry is essentially a fashionable, modern day reiteration of the oldest Christian heresy of Gnosticism, going back to the 1st century, an ancient heresy that is no mean threat to human society. I propose that the greatest existential threat to the Church and State today is not Communism, Islam, or terrorism but the globalist Gnostic juggernaut which insists that human knowledge and reason alone can defeat the power of evil and create a worldly utopian paradise.

Yet we see this attitude constantly promoted through today’s public education establishment which, for a century or more, has gradually undergone a paradigm shift from its former Christian basis to a fully Gnostic orientation. In fact one could credibly argue that public education, from the university level downward to the elementary, has now become the de facto state religion in this country. Gnosticism worships knowledge as the ultimate good in human existence; knowledge as an end in itself ~ the key to power and fulfillment; the power to create our own ‘reality.’ But in the Christian perspective knowledge is directed to a very specific goal, to know God. It is a means, not an end, whose intended object must be Truth: the absolute Truth Incarnate who is Jesus Christ.

Gnosticism is antithetical to the pathways of salvation laid out by Christ. It proposes a different pathway through so-called ‘enlightenment’ meaning the acquisition of secretive knowledge in order to attain some higher state of being. It is not Christian humility but human pride of accomplishment which leads one to salvation. Knowledge, not faith; action, not grace, is what one needs to attain happiness. Morality and truth become purely subjective values in the scheme of things because after all it is we who ultimately get to determine what is right or wrong.

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Gnosis ~ Light that leads into Darkness

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Christ is the true Light of the world, but there is another, false light which ultimately leads one only into darkness. “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness could not comprehend it. The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world. He was in the world… yet the world knew him not.” (Jn 1: 5;9,10) And the reason it knew him not is because there has always been a competing, mendacious light in the world designed only to lead men astray. In the 18th century vicious pirates would sometimes light a fire at night along some rocky patch of shoreline hoping to lure unsuspecting ships to their destruction on the jagged shoals. Just so, the false light which the ancient enemy of God sets up as a guiding beacon is actually intended to lure unsuspecting souls into ruin on the spiritual shoals.

Such false beacons have taken various forms over the millennia, and one of the more dangerous of these deceptive “lights” has long been Gnosticism. Gnostic comes from a Greek word for knowledge, and Gnosticism encourages the notion that some secret learning or knowledge will somehow provide one the key to success and happiness. It treats the “light of reason” in the same way, as indeed a replacement for the Christian “light of faith.” Reason and knowledge is what will free one from this broken world of pain and evil. Sin is no longer a moral fault but merely the effect of ignorance. Spiritually this is a deadly notion because it deflects our attention away from combating sin, the real root cause of our unhappiness, and redirects the will to fighting other things like poverty and ignorance which are only the symptoms, not the real root of human problems.

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