Originally posted on Facebook on Saturday, September 20, 2025.

Charlie Kirk Post Response #2 – Brainwashed

I hear from some of your responses that I wrote what I wrote and feel what I feel because I'm a victim of brainwashing by mainstream media or social media algorithms.

Please don't do that. It's dismissive and is an insult to my intelligence.

It suggests that the only way someone disagrees with you is because someone else told them what to feel, or because they're in league with "the other side," or they've gotten caught up in the hysteria of the crowd as though they have no legitimate reason to think what they think—while you, however, are the only one operating from a perfectly true, objective and justifiable position. It's a posture that shuts down communication and blocks the path to reconciliation.

I'm not on a side.
You're not dealing with "them", you're dealing with me.
I have a brain and am able to think on my own.
I want to be reconciled to you in Christ.

I feel the way I feel and reasonably arrived at my conclusions because of what I've heard with my own ears and seen with my own eyes.

Here is where I'll deal with another response: "Give us evidence where he said x or y…"

I will not be providing "evidence", because Charlie Kirk is not on trial here — which I will go into more detail about in the next post. I don’t have a problem with Charlie Kirk. I have a problem with how some have tried to make him the face of Christianity, which aligns the Faith with his hurtful rhetoric. My chief concern is how that potentially puts something between the Shepherd and His sheep. I am rebuking that idolatry, not Charlie Kirk.

It is sufficient to say I'm hurt and what was hurtful about what was done. I should not have to prove it and will not dignify attempts to belittle my experience.

When the complaint against the Hebrews of the early Church arose in Acts 6:1 that the Hellenistic widows were being neglected, the response was not "Prove it. Give me evidence", but rather truly treating those who claimed harm like brothers and sisters in Christ and appointing people and dedicating resources to address it.

I say I'm hurt and I say what was hurtful and then you say how you didn't see that as hurtful and how I shouldn't see it as hurtful.

Excuse me?!

You didn't see it as hurtful because it wasn't aimed at you, and you lack the context I'm in to appreciate my hurt.

Were you harmed by his rhetoric? It doesn't matter then how you feel about my hurt. You or your perspective are not the center of my reality.

That's not to say you aren't hurt in some way or that I don't care about your hurt. If you are hurt — and especially if I had any hand in that — I want to correct that. In doing so, I'm going to seek to stop whatever I'm doing to hurt you, to have Christ's love for you, and to clarify my heart for you. But I can't and won't tell you how to feel. All I can do is clarify my posture of goodwill toward you.

If we are both believers in Christ, then He has already established unity and our call is to keep it (Ephesians 4:3). So when we're apart it's because there's a blockage—something that's creating distance.

Jesus is our point of reference. We bridge the gap by honestly evaluating our position relative to Him, authentically communicating where we are, and taking each other seriously when we do. Then we’re in a position to more accurately name the hindrance and remove it — to the end of ushering all whom Christ draws into the full enjoyment of Communion with God through Him.

If we remove the hindrance and move toward Christ, we'll invariably end up together.

Someone said, "I will always be ready to hear but in return I will be asked to be heard." Agreed. If we can start there I believe we can get somewhere.

I'm listening.

I love you.

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