Saint Stuart
September 12, 2025

The explosion of tension right now on the internet around Charlie Kirk’s assassination is exposing the opinions and positions of many people. Some are showing sympathy for Kirk and his family only to lose many followers, receive hateful comments and even death threats. Others are flagrantly celebrating his death, many of them getting terminated from their jobs. This shows a deep divide in society today, not necessarily a purely political one, but it is often tied to political leanings. I think much of it comes down to an understanding of religious, especially biblical, teachings and values around sex.

Charlie Kirk spoke out against important issues in society today from gender ideologies and transgenderism to abortion and conservative political views. He was often antagonize from people who disagreed with him, and we see online today a lot of labels being thrown around by both sides. From the left ‘fascist’ ‘Nazi’ and ‘bigot’ are commonly used, and from the right ‘is woke’, ‘communist’ and ‘socialist’. Let’s take a look at these terms and how they relate.

Fascism is a style of leadership that puts a dictator in place for the sake of national interests who suppresses rights and freedoms of people they disagree with. Two notorious fascist leaders were Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler around the time of World War II. It is often characterized as xenophobic and hostile toward outside groups, often based on race or nationality. Nazi ideology is a type of fascism with support for dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, white supremacy and homophobia.

These are all ideologies that most of society today regards as evil, including far right Christians. However, many conservatives hold values and opinions that oppose some things that fascists also opposed, such as homosexuality and socialism, and it’s for that reason that I think far-right thinkers are often labeled fascist. Under Biblical teachings, homosexuality is immoral, and many believe that the sexually-deviant lifestyles and ideologies that come from that culture are also evils that can lead to a life of mental illness. The consensus among conservatives today, however, is not a fascist solution to those problems, but an open dialogue to encourage discussion and debate, exactly what Charlie Kirk was doing.

The actions of the shooter, on the other hand, exemplified fascist ideology more so by advocating violence against a dissenting voice, and every person who celebrated that act, every voice that was happy that Charlie Kirk got assassinated, has acted EXACTLY like the fascist and Nazi dictators we ALL so vehemently oppose.

When it comes to socialism and communism, some of their ideas can be beneficial, even mimicking how early Christians lives, but its record throughout history has been abysmal toward religious and individual rights and freedoms, ultimately evolving into a state that resembles fascism with many limited liberties and far reaching state control, which is why many on the right oppose it.

The term ‘bigot’ refers to someone who is unreasonably opposed to a certain group of people. This comes up with Christian views on sexually-deviant lifestyles. Under Biblical teachings, our bodies are not our own, but God’s. Further, sexual activity, even lustful thoughts, can involve another person negatively without, and even with, their consent. My personal view as a follower of the Bible is that God’s consent is needed before any sexual activity should take place. God created sex for a very specific purpose, to draw two people together to form a family, and stay committed to raising that family for the rest of their lives. In today’s society, lifestyles that deviate from that ideal have been known to cause social difficulties, especially in the raising of children. The ideal is to have children raised by two loving parents who will exemplify the virtues of love and commitment to each other so the child may learn to practice those virtues themselves in future relationships.

Much of the left, or ‘woke,’ group advocates for the rights of sexual liberty, claiming it to be about personal choice and freedom. The problem with that is, sex is never just about one person, it will always involve another, and the culmination of its development is to CREATE even another person. It is of my personal opinion and experience that even lustful thoughts can create “soul ties” between two people, sometimes developing into mental illness through constant psychic disturbance if those feelings are obsessed over and not properly addressed, even leading to harmful behaviors such as stalking, public exposure or even rape.

In the case of abortion, women who are advocating the right to abortion because of their right over their own body are actually also advocating for the right to decide life or death over the life of both the other person involved in the sexual activity as well as the life that has been created int heir body. Should a situation of equal rights here consider all three parties? Pro-life supporters advocate solely for the life being born.

As The Fire Tongue has written in the past, addressing moral issues in society today, especially around sex, should never be called hate speech. Christian teachings repeatedly warn again sexual immorality, and family structure is a core part of society. Healthy marriage and family culture between a man and a woman caring for children that they have created fosters many benefit that can’t be found otherwise. It is the ideal that God has created for us and should be strived for, protected and I believe that people advocating the preference of derivations from that should have their beliefs seriously scrutinized and reconsidered.