The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: A Reflection on Truth, Faith, and the Shadows of Our Time"

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A few hours before the anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, another terrorist attack—smaller in scale but no less profound in its social impact, and above all, in the infinite value of each human life—claimed the life of the conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. Kirk was a sincere seeker of truth, open to debate, and alien to all forms of extremism.

Now, he is a hero who leaves behind a legacy, having been open to martyrdom and having fulfilled the supreme act of courage.Giving one's life for faith, homeland, and family opens the door to greater debates than those he engaged in during his lifetime. Unfortunately, his death also opens the doors to new acts of terrorism.

Now, let us examine some aspects of his death, its context, and the current socio-cultural-spiritual environment. On August 27, a 23-year-old, Robin Westman (formerly Robert Paul Westman), joined the long list of school shooters. This time, at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Westman killed two children aged eight and ten—Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski—and injured 17 other people, 14 of them children. It is noteworthy that among Westman's scribbles published on social networks, there is a very significant drawing depicting the shooter dialing a phone with their reflection in the mirror, engaged in a dialogue that reflects profound personality fragmentation.

Behind the mirror, the reflected image is that of a being with horns, similar to a giant cockroach (insects have long been associated in theology with various demonic entities, mainly as a sign of the presence of Baal-zebub). The accompanying text, written in Russian Cyrillic (with the help of a translator, as the shooter did not know the language), shows even greater confusion, as it seems intentionally designed to confound the reader.

One of the great failures of modern sciences, and especially criminology, is the failure to contemplate that the collective psychosis our society experiences goes hand in hand with a deep spiritual background. In effect, one of the current doubts in science—though a certainty in religion—is the boundary between personality fragmentation and authentic demonic possession.

A few days before Kirk's murder, the feminist portal Jezebel boasted of paying witches to curse the pro-life influencer. If so, is a mere public apology enough, especially since curses are not contemplated in criminal justice?

The new forms of terrorism go hand in hand with the new forms of the left, because we no longer deal with a Marxist and atheist left, but with a left that serves as a mere vehicle for a spiritual force contrary to all that is truth, justice, goodness, and beauty—attributes of God Himself—and therefore an authentically anti-Christian, invisible force.

Is it accidental that the abortionist motto is "my body, my decision," which parodies the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Supper and first Mass, when He raised the Living Bread, saying, "This is MY Body"?These new forms of wokist terrorism are not only due to poor spiritual formation, mass brainwashing, or the consequences of comfortable times that create weak generations. They stem from all we have renounced as a society: the search for truth. Under the pretext of not hurting others, we allow confused young people to feed their fantasies day by day, gradually forcing society to pretend that everything is fine with a smile—even as we reach the most aberrant extremes, such as justifying pederasty.

The triumph of relativism and the absence of an objective moral order—as bravely defined by Benedict XVI, who was mysteriously (or forcibly?) led to abdicate—have brought us here.Also, in a strong act of self-criticism, we must acknowledge that we have polarized everything. Generationally, we have gone from segregating the different (and even using violence against them) to integrating them in an absolute way that denies the truth and nurtures the craziest fantasies.

Our job is to love our neighbor, to show them that they are loved—but it will never be an act of love to confirm them in error.What are our tools beyond internal security and prevention? Knowing how to defend ourselves, physically and spiritually; working concretely to remind the population of the most elementary human values; making them question what the new ideological groups are trying to sell them in a fanatical way; remembering the value of human life; and reminding everyone of the certainty of Heaven—that comfort for which it is worth living. But also remind them that there is an eternal hell. A

nd just as God exists, so too—though with less influence—exists the author of all evil: the devil.For those of us who are not afraid to unite criminology and theology, we know that prayer has saved countless lives. Consider the example of Kathy Kleiner Rubin, Ted Bundy's only survivor at Florida State University.

For some reason that Bundy himself could not explain, he was repulsed from the room without being able to kill her. The young woman was asleep with the Holy Rosary in her hands, praying it at her mother's request.Today, prayer—whether mental, vocal, the reading of psalms, or a simple "rest in peace"—is repelled by society as much as it repelled Bundy.

The European Parliament (and others) refused to perform even a minute of silence for Kirk, with the aggravating factor that a minute of silence is not a prayer, but a secular-masonic excuse to avoid the public profession of faith. Even so, they have not allowed it. Is it the fear that in that minute of silence, someone might really want to pray to Christ for this soul and for the conversion of the new terrorists?

Surely, most of us would not have chosen to live in times of supposed global "health" crises, wars, terrorism, and collective psychosis. In fact, most would have preferred to live in the 1950s or 1980s. But as Gandalf says in the film saga The Lord of the Rings: "We can't choose the times we have to live in, but we can decide what to do with the time that we have been given."We can—and must—fight and pray.

It is not enough just to believe; always, and today more than ever, we must make superlative efforts to win Heaven and help others win it too.In one of his last podcast appearances, Kirk—who was on his way to becoming Catholic—reminded all Christians that we do not venerate the Virgin Mary enough, because the first Christians did, and they venerated her. She is the model of woman that feminism does not want to recognize: the maximum symbol of human purity, preserved since her childhood in the temple to be the new vase worthy of containing the new wine.

Charlie hit the nail on the head. Although in prayer we meet directly with Jesus Christ, true God and true man, going to His Mother and our Mother as mediator makes us feel closer to the one who, being human, was and is immaculate—and who made the incarnate God Himself begin His ministry ahead of time. At the Wedding at Cana, she advanced the prophetic timeline when she told Him: "They have no more wine..." and He felt compassion for the hosts, performing His first public miracle before it was due.He always hears His Mother.

His Mother always hears us.Let us ask for her intercession for this much-needy world: so that we love the family as the Family of Nazareth; for the love of life; for the love of truth; and for fighting everything that takes us away from God—doing so without hatred in our hearts.