"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it."
Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010
LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
A COMMENTATOR AT the great Seneca Project Youtube channel where that compilation of Kirk in his own hateful, violence advocating words said it best
"When MLK was murdered, his supporters were not ashamed of the statements he made."
As I believe Keith Olbermann pointed out, one of the things that the Kirk brigade of Trumpler Junger and on air Republican-fascists are targeting People for IS QUOTING WHAT KIRK SAID!
Here's the original posting of what should become the classic expose of the hypocrisy of the Kirk deification campaign.
Charlie Kirk in his own words. We Report. You Decide.
I AM GETTING THE FEELING that the Charlie Kirk deification is already getting old and is soon going to turn into a backlash, if it follows the typical example, it will be more like The Onion's already satirical view of that His life and sayings don't lend themselves to long-term durability on that count because the most of them were generally disgusting advocacy of rottenness and evil, the things which got him the patronage of rich Republican-fascists and which made him rich on top of that. His was a career in peddling racism, ethnic and religious bigotry, hatred of the least among us, hatred of LGBTQ+ People all with a sickly high-fructose glaze of religious hypocrisy. I am not above mentioning his oh-so-recent widow embarking on a major fund-raising effort themed on his death
After vowing that her husband’s mission will continue, the widow of Charlie Kirk has made a major fundraising push following the right-wing political activist’s assassination.
It comes as the reverberations to the shocking, fatal shooting of the 31-year-old pro-MAGA firebrand on September 10 continue throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Some American leaders, both Republicans and Democrats, have called for unity and an end to political violence in the wake of his tragic death in Utah last week. Others have used the assassination as a rallying cry.
On Sunday alone, a blitz of fundraising texts went out under Erika Kirk’s name for both the organization co-founded by Kirk, Turning Point USA, which organizes and trains young conservatives, as well as its political advocacy arm, Turning Point Action.
How touching. If by "touching" you mean not touching at all. Among those I know the only effort like that would be to aid a young widow with children whose bereavement would mean immediate economic hardship and perhaps ruin, most often with ruinous medical expenses not to mention funeral costs. Kirk reportedly left $12 million from his career in peddling hate and economic inequality, his family will not be immediately destitute.
I think they leave us with no alternative but to point out the evil that he spread,
. . . including hatred towards Christians who, instead of making a broadcast display of their putative "Christianity" instead practiced what Kirk and his ilk would vilify as "woke"* which is, in fact, to follow The Gospel, The Law and The Prophets, it is in advocating that that Jesus said you were to love your neighbor as yourself and immediately following that with the parable of the Good Samaritan which proved that "your neighbor" wasn't only a stranger but a stranger of a different People. I didn't realize that until I read some of what he said slamming those who were faithful to Scripture - such as Ms. Rachel advocated when her Pride Month program advocated loving everyone, the occasion that Kirk called stoning Gay People as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.” Like all straight men I've ever known of he ignores that by "God's perfect law" he would have to have favored the stoning death of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump as well as a whole host of other straight, white Republican-fascist adulterers, as I pointed out last week, if you took the Gospel of Jesus seriously, you would have to include every straight, white, Republican "christian" man and woman who had committed adultery, including those who divorce and remarry. Of course "THAT'S DIFFERENT" it always is when it's straight, white, affluent, "christians" whether they be a "Most Christian Monarch" who lives an adulterous lifestyle or a right-wing Republican like Trump or Reagan violating their marriage vows while wrapping themselves in the phony aura of Protestant Bible worship - I doubt either of them ever read a passage of it.
Reading about these things this morning reminded me of this passage from a book which I find I continually go back to, Living Jesus by Luke Timothy Johnson. In his concluding chapter he said:
It is at this point, in fact, that we find the most consistent testimony in the writings of the New Testament - namely, that there is a necessary congruence between the character of Jesus' human life and the character of Christian discipleship
Nowhere in the New Testament is there an image of the human Jesus that is compatible with attitudes of hubris, hedonism, envy, arrogance acquisitiveness, self-aggrandizement, hostility or violence. Jesus is everywhere associated with the faithful obedience toward God and meek, compassionate, self-emptying service toward other people.
Jesus' character reveals him to be someone who hopes in the power of God rather than in human manipulation, who faithfully obeys God rather than his own project, and who loves with a self-giving of time and energy and presence to the needs of others in preference to his own.
That is why the cross of Jesus stands as the central symbol for his entire life; his death was in faithful obedience to God even when he wanted to live; his death was an act of love to overcome alienation between humans; his death was the ultimate expression of hope in God who can call into being that which does not exist and therefore can give life to the dead.
Similarly we find nowhere in the New Testament an understanding of Christian discipleship compatible with a life devoted to one's own success, pleasure, comfort, freedom from suffering, or power at the expense of others. Everywhere we find the qualities that are found in Jesus advanced as essential to the following of Jesus; the same faith, the same love, the same hope. The basic pattern of faithful obedience to God and loving service to others is the image of Christ that the Spirit replicates in the freedom of those who belong to Christ.
Jesus was certainly not one of the white-racist Republican bros, Jesus lived a thoroughly woke life and so do those who try to follow him. There is no room in that for the current American Republican ideology, lifestyle or . . . well, I guess I'll resort to calling it culture.
Christians who do try to practice Christian discipleship are going to have to make that the final test of the public profession of Christianity. It is entirely incompatible with the life that Kirk advocated, he said the man who did advocate that, The Reverend Martin Luther King jr, was a phony and rotten. Kirk said that of a man whose career before his assassination did, in fact, leave his wife and children without millions of dollars, a man whose memory Kirk lied about to vilify him. We have to point out the hypocrisy of those Republican-fascists and others who profess Christianity while advocating late-stage capitalist materialism in its most fascistic form, such as Kirk did.
* THERE IS NO MISTAKING THE RACISM OF THE ANTI-"WOKE" BULLSHIT OF TRUMPIAN-FASCISM. "Woke" is a word from the Black American vocabulary, originally specifically referring to those who had become fully aware of and opposed to racism. It's no accident that it was turned into a dirty word among the current and most overtly fascist of our indigenous facists, the white supremacists who the financiers first tried to harness in the 1950s and 60s to fuel the Republican-fascist ascendency, something that that hypocritical homosexual William Rusher and his buddy, the silver-plated tongued William F. Buckley pioneered and which Nixon Reagan, Bush, Bush II and Trump brought to power - along with the Republicans on the Rehnquist and Roberts Court. When you hear one of them say "woke" you can hear the "N" word implied.
