On Sunday, Tucker Carlson delivered a speech centered on Christ in the commemorative service of Charlie Kirk in Arizona, receiving thunderous applause after encouraging the crowd to listen to the message of faith of the founder of Turning Point USA.
The conservative commentator took the scene At the State Farm Stadium in Glendale in front of tens of thousands of people to focus on the beliefs of “evangelist” Kirk:
“It is the most incredible thing I have ever seen,” started Carlson, referring to the huge audience living. “Whatever happens then in America – I hope it is in this direction, because God is there, and you can feel it. And Charlie would have loved it, not only because he loved large groups of people, but because in the end, he was a Christian evangelist.”
Carlson then mentioned the way people conspired against Jesus in the Bible:
It actually reminds me of my favorite story. So he is about 2000 years ago in Jerusalem, and Jesus presents himself, and he begins to speak of people in power and he begins to do the worst thing you can do, which tells the truth about people – and they hate him, and they become good. They hate it and they become obsessed by stopping it. “This guy must stop talking. We have to close this guy. And in a way can I somehow imagine the scene in a room lit by the lamp with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking: “What do we do with this guy by telling us?” We have to make him stop talking. And there is always a guy with the shiny idea, and I can just hear him say: “I have an idea. Why don’t we kill him? It will silence him, it will solve the problem.
It doesn’t work this way. It doesn’t work this way. Everything is reversed, and the hits tell him, I think, the most crisp, that everything is somehow the opposite of what you think it will be.
He continued to call Kirk a “wonderful” man who was obviously political but who had his eyes to bring people to Jesus as the “only real solution”:
Blessed are those who cry because they will be comforted. It’s true, and you can feel it here. The thing about Charlie’s message, I thought about it a lot, and I try not to be emotional, because in addition to everything else, he was a wonderful man and a decent man, and one of those rare people you meet who grooves you, in the conversation and have these very intense conversations that you do not stop thinking, which is my experience with him. But the main thing about Charlie and his message, he brought the Gospel to the country, he did what the managers hate the most, which calls them to repent.
So, how is Charlie’s message different? And Charlie was a politician who was deeply interested in the creation of coalitions and obtained good people in power because he knew that vast improvements are politically possible, but he also knew that politics is not the final response. He cannot answer the deepest questions, in fact, that the only real solution is Jesus. And the reason – it’s really simple. Politics, at the base, is a process of criticism of others and to have them changed. Christianity, the evangelical message, the message of Jesus, begins with repentance.
Christianity calls you to change. Our main prayer which was given to us by Jesus, the prayer of the Lord, demands that we forgive others, but that this is a request for our forgiveness. In other words, forgive us our sins. Meditate on what we did badly, how we are stranded, then it becomes possible to forgive other people. It is a call to change our hearts of Jesus, and it is the only way to follow in this country. This is the only solution to know where we all know that we are going, and Charlie knew where we were going without that.
Carlson added that his speech “is not a call to be politically passive”.
“Of course not,” he said. “I was standing on many steps, Charlie calling for various people to be elected, especially Donald Trump, and I am proud of that. It is only a recognition that what Charlie really said is that the change begins – the only change that matters – when we repent of our sins. ”
Thinking about his personal private conversations with Kirk, Carlson explained how his young friend had the wisdom to refrain from hating anyone:
And that was the reason why Charlie was intrepid at any time, really fearless at his last moment. He was not afraid, he was not defensive and there was no hatred in his heart. I know that because I have a small hatred compartment in my heart, and I would often express that to Charlie about various people, and he always said: “He is a sad person, he is a broken person, he is a person who needs help, it is a person who needs Jesus.” He said that in private, because he thought it.
Carlson concluded his speech by reminding the listeners that the Christian faith proves that “any attempt to turn off the light makes it burnt each time brighter”.
“So, while we are going in everything that comes – and clearly something goes then – remember this moment. Do not forget to be in a room with the humming Holy Spirit like a tuning fork. This is the path, here. This is the path, and that’s what Charlie Kirk said under all this. Thank you, and God bless you.”
Olivia Rondeau is a Breitbart News political journalist based in Washington, DC. Find it X / Twitter And Instagram.
