Christian Faith Was On Full Display At Charlie Kirk’s Memorial And Leftists Are Confused

For as long as Christians have existed, they’ve been maligned by people who don’t understand — or who pretend not to understand — anything whatsoever about the religion. When the early Christians gathered in secret, they were falsely accused of engaging in various acts of depravity and debauchery, including ritual cannibalism. Christianity was a foreign cult in the eyes of its detractors. There was no room for common ground or mutual understanding because its enemies were too confused and horrified by a faith they didn’t comprehend.

If you watched the memorial to Charlie Kirk over the weekend, and saw the responses from various corners of the Left, then you witnessed a very similar dynamic. For Christians, the memorial signified that an American revival is underway. I was in that stadium, along with tens of thousands of others. I’ve never seen conservatives this energized and determined to take back the culture. Every speech, for five hours in a row, declared Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Tens of thousands of attendees — from musicians to politicians to Turning Point staffers to members of the general public — were praying in that stadium. More than a hundred million people were watching online from across the world, on various livestreams. And many of these speeches were broadcast across all of the major networks. We’ve never seen anything like this. It was extraordinary.

But in Left-wing circles on social media and in the corporate press, there was a very different reaction. There wasn’t awe, or hope, or joy. Instead, as conservatives memorialized Charlie Kirk, the Left entered a state of total bewilderment. They lacked the words to describe what they were seeing. 

As a result, one after the other, many Left-wing commentators misrepresented what Christians said at Charlie’s memorial. They also stated that, for the first time in their adult lives, they realized that Christianity is a major cultural and religious force in this country — one that’s completely unlike any other social or political movement that they’re familiar with. As far as these people were concerned, it was as though some alien race had dropped down from orbit, directly into that stadium in Phoenix.

Thomas Chatterton Williams, a staff writer at The Atlantic and a faculty member at Bard College in New York, compared the experience to visiting a foreign country — one where he doesn’t even speak the language. Keep in mind, as you hear this quote, that Thomas Chatterton Williams is supposedly a very well-read and well-traveled individual. He’s an “intellectual” who educates young people. Here’s how he responded to Kirk’s memorial.

I’ve spent half of my adult life living in one foreign country or another and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so estranged from the surrounding culture as I am from the aesthetics and sensibilities of this movement. Not even a criticism, I just feel more at home in Greece than in these images.

 He then added, “I feel more at home in spots where I can’t read the road signs than here.”

For context, here’s what Greece looks like at the moment:

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Socialists and foreigners are flooding the streets. They’re waving flags on behalf of Gaza. There’s graffiti with profanity on the walls. And they’re fighting with riot police. That’s the state of affairs in Greece, a conquered nation that’s spent the past few weeks rioting over a foreign land.

But if you’re a writer for the Atlantic, violence and disorder on behalf of foreign territories is actually the ideal situation. That’s what you want to see in America.

On the other hand, the Charlie Kirk memorial is somehow alienating. It makes the staff of the Atlantic feel “estranged.” The sight of millions of Christians praying peacefully, after one of the most prominent Christians in the country was murdered — that’s just too much for Thomas Chatterton Williams. 

And that raises an obvious question: Why doesn’t he leave? He feels like he’s in a strange land where he doesn’t even speak the language. So why not head over to Greece, and join the mob attacking police officers and vandalizing buildings? No one in this country would miss him. Our country would be better off without him. It seems like a win-win. But apparently, Thomas disagrees. Maybe in his next article, which no one will read, Thomas Chatterton Williams can explain his reasoning.

But again, he wasn’t the only Left-wing commentator who voiced this kind of reaction. This was a common sentiment on the Left. Dan Williams, a professor at the University of Sussex in the UK, wrote something similar:

Watching the Charlie Kirk memorial, I’m struck by how extremely culturally distant I feel from this world. Everything about it feels alien – the aesthetics, symbolism, music, rituals, mythology, gurus, ideas, and norms. It feels like being exposed to the cultural and symbolic universe of a distant tribe. If I reflect on this, it occurs to me that this feeling must be symmetrical – that they must view the kind of cultural universe I inhabit as similarly alien. And in a strange way, despite opposing almost everything about this political project, this reflection makes me feel more empathy for what that project must feel like from the inside.

Dan Williams is wrong when he says that “this feeling must be symmetrical.” Conservatives are exposed to Left-wing ideology everywhere we look. It’s infested the schools, the entertainment industry, the media, and so on. We see it all the time. We understand exactly what these people are trying to do. And we reject it.

On the other hand, Leftists in general have no familiarity with Christianity. They don’t encounter the gospel in their daily lives. They hear Jack Posobiec talking about The Armor of God, and they think he’s speaking in tongues. They see Erika Kirk forgiving the man who murdered her husband, and they can’t possibly comprehend it.

And they come across moments like this, from Larry Arnn’s speech at the memorial, and they genuinely can’t understand what they’re hearing. This was, to me, one of the most poignant moments in the entire memorial. Watch:

I delivered these remarks at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. pic.twitter.com/pMcB7qricc

— Larry P. Arnn (@DrLarryArnn) September 21, 2025

Credit: @DrLarryArnn/TurningPointUSA/X.com

For people like that Atlantic writer, that speech might as well have been delivered in a foreign language. That’s because, in Leftist culture, destruction is their great vocation. They destroy police stations. They destroy meritocracy. They destroy the family unit. They destroy children in the womb. They destroy the rule of law. They don’t view destruction and violence as a denial of humanity. They view destruction as their reason to exist. And they certainly don’t contemplate the possibility of life after death. So when Larry Arnn says that Charlie is alive, and that the assassin sacrificed his humanity, they truly have no idea what he’s talking about.

I could go through many, many more messages from Leftists where they express their state of total confusion — and panic — about this memorial service. But here’s just one more, which received two million views on X. It’s a response to Stephen Miller’s speech at Charlie’s memorial:

Terms like ‘forces of evil,’ ‘the good,’ and ‘the virtuous’ … reflect a dualistic worldview that pits good against evil—a stylistic device often used in totalitarian ideologies to mobilize emotions and demonize opponents.

In other words, if you use extremely basic concepts like “good,” “evil,” and “virtue”— which are fundamental to Christianity, and to morality in general — then you’re basically Adolf Hitler. This is the kind of attack that only works if your audience has zero familiarity with Christianity, or basic logic and common sense. And we’ve seen this kind of attack from Leftists a lot lately. A few days ago, I was accused of using Nazi rhetoric by saying that some people are friends, and some people are enemies. Now they’re using the same framing to go after Stephen Miller.

Of course, it’s not hard to see what’s going on here. They’re equating Christians with Nazis, and they’re justifying the murder of Christians in the process. These people want more destruction. Their ideology demands it.

That’s why, in just the past two weeks, we’ve seen three separate examples of violent terror attacks by Leftists. First there was Charlie’s assassination. Then on Friday, a Leftist — a lobbyist for public school teachers in California — opened fire on a local ABC affiliate, after the network suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show for a couple of days.

Yes, he decided to commit a felony because Jimmy Kimmel received a paid vacation. Watch:

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So he shoots up a building while employees are inside. He fires three shots directly into the lobby. And then he’s released on bail, the same day he’s arrested, and the local news claims they have no idea about a potential motive. 

But the motive is actually pretty clear. The shooter’s social media feeds are full of anti-Trump derangement. And he also left a note behind in his car, which reads, “For hiding Epstein & ignoring red flags. Do not support Patel, Bongino, & AG Pam Bondi. They’re next. – C.K. from above.” 

So he’s referencing Charlie Kirk as he makes a direct threat against senior Trump administration officials. And yet, despite all of this, Gavin Newsom’s California immediately released the man from jail. More accurately, they probably released him on bail because he made these threats. They probably gave him a pep talk in the jail, and told him to get back out there and commit some more acts of Left-wing terrorism.

Remember this case whenever you hear Leftists claim that they care about “gun violence.” It’s a complete and total lie. They want to disarm you, while encouraging as many of their foot soldiers to arm themselves and terrorize the country. It’s the same reason that no one on the Left called for gun control after Luigi Mangione shot that insurance executive.

The only reason that this man hasn’t committed any more crimes, we can assume, is that the FBI moved in quickly. They arrested the shooter for a variety of federal crimes, including firing a weapon in a school zone and interfering with a television broadcast. If the FBI didn’t step in, there’s a good possibility that this Left-wing terrorist would be taking a shot at some conservatives right now.

That’s certainly what other Leftists are doing. 

One day after this attack at the ABC affiliate, on Saturday, a Left-wing terrorist shot up a country club in New Hampshire during a wedding party, killing a man in front of his family and wounding several others. And as he did so, the shooter yelled, “Free Palestine.” Watch:

Leftist yelling “free Palestine” just shot up a country club in New Hampshire. 1 dead, multiple injured

These leftists are all violent psychopaths pic.twitter.com/0ojtteC46M

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 21, 2025

Credit: Libsoftiktok/@dapper_det/X.com.

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We are witnessing a full-on Left-wing attack on this country. And I don’t mean that metaphorically. This isn’t simply an ideological attack. They’ve been waging the ideological battle for a long, long time — and they’re losing it. They know they’re losing it. So now they’re turning to violence. 

They shot up a Christian school and a Christian church. They killed one of the most prominent conservatives in the country. They murdered someone at a country club. They fired several rounds at a television studio. They shot at ICE agents and tried to run them over with their cars. They firebombed a peaceful pro-Israel demonstration full of elderly people in a park in Boulder, Colorado. They shot two embassy staffers. They torched the residence of the governor of Pennsylvania. They targeted the GOP headquarters in New Mexico with “incendiary devices” in an arson attack. All of these attacks have taken place in the last few months.

And yet there has been no “reckoning” by the Left. They haven’t admitted they have a problem. Instead, by the millions, Leftists are celebrating violence. 

Last night, at the Turning Point event in Minnesota — which Charlie would have attended, and where Michael Knowles was speaking — Leftists gathered outside displaying these signs:

Credit: TurningPointUSA

Credit: TurningPointUSA

I won’t read them, because they’re disturbing and grotesque. But they’re mocking Charlie’s death, just like the hundreds of thousands of people who mocked Charlie’s death online over the past few days. This is what the Left stands for. They are clueless about what conservatives want, but they’re very clear about their own objectives.

Actually, I shouldn’t say that. There are some on the Left who do grasp exactly what conservatives want, although they don’t appear to realize it. Here’s one clip from an MSNBC analyst talking about Charlie’s memorial for example. Watch:

Tina Nguyen claims Charlie Kirk’s memorial was a “movement called Christian Nationalism.”

Mind you, this is how MSNBC chose to highlight Charlie Kirk’s memorial.pic.twitter.com/gRLJDVwuXP

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 22, 2025

Credit: @theMRC/MSNBC Reports/X.com

Well, actually, that’s not “very, or somewhat convoluted” at all. She pretty much nailed it. 

Yes, we want Christianity. And yes, we want to protect Western civilization. We want both of those things. And it’s completely rational to want both of those things. Christianity has profoundly shaped Western civilization, and vice versa. This country was founded on the principle that human rights come from their Creator, not from the government. And, as it turns out, that was a pretty good principle to adopt, because we’re now the single most powerful and prosperous country on the planet. So yes, we should embrace and defend Christianity, and Western civilization — if you want to call that Christian nationalism, that’s perfectly fine by me.

You can tell this MSNBC woman is incapable of explaining why any of these ideals are bad. She knows her job is to denounce Christian nationalism, but she doesn’t know how. So she just kind of giggles and says that it “hits you in the patriotic heart area, or whatever, as it were.” And to be fair, that was a more articulate assessment than the one Don Lemon provided on his podcast, which is apparently still a thing that exists. Watch:

Don Lemon on the Charlie Kirk memorial: “That wasn’t just about a man who d*ed. This was about a movement claiming divine permission to rule.”pic.twitter.com/TVPJXtKoY2

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) September 22, 2025

Credit: @ThomasSowell/@thedonlemonshow/YouTube.com/X.com

Credit where it’s due. This is the first time that Don Lemon, in any context, has made an excellent point. He’s come a long way from suggesting that a passenger plane was swallowed by a black hole.

You could feel the ground shifting beneath you. … That wasn’t just about a man who died. This was about a movement claiming divine permission to rule.

That’s correct, Don. I agree with you, 100%. Charlie’s memorial was much, much more significant than a mere political rally, or a funeral. It was an unmistakable sign that Americans — tens of millions of them — are now leading a new American revival. We are rejecting the notion that man can rule without God. We are rejecting the notion that man can determine his own gender, or murder his own child, or commit acts of domestic terrorism — all of which directly contravene God’s will. This is a seismic change in our culture that’s so obvious, and so profound, that even a complete moron like Don Lemon can detect it. That’s how monumental this moment is.

And the signs are everywhere. A few minutes ago, I showed you images from outside Michael Knowles’ event in Minnesota. There were protesters with profane messages, mocking Charlie’s death. 

Now let’s look at the event itself. See if you notice a difference:

???? HOLY CRAP! Turning Point USA’s University of Minnesota event featuring @michaeljknowles just ERUPTED in cheers of “CHARLIE! CHARLIE!”

The venue is JAMPACKED with college kids.

A sleeping giant has been awakened. The left is spiraling. pic.twitter.com/gyX28PEHyo

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 23, 2025

Credit: @nicksortor/TurningPointUSA/X.com

Outside, there are a couple of disgusting, unkempt Leftist demons who are celebrating murder. Inside, there’s a packed house of young people who are motivated, more than they’ve ever been in their lives, to save this country. In case it’s not obvious, these events are going to continue. The college tours will continue. Charlie’s tour won’t miss a single date. This is a mass awakening, the likes of which we’ve never seen before in the history of this country.

On the Left, they’re slowly coming around to the realization of what they’ve done. That’s why they’re fretting about “Christian nationalism,” even though they don’t understand what those words mean. That’s why they’re saying that we want to “claim divine permission to rule.” And it’s why they’re saying that we’re more “radicalized” than we’ve ever been. They’re hoping, at some level, that we’ll deny it. They’re hoping that we’ll call a truce, because after all, who wants to be called a Christian nationalist who’s been “radicalized”?

Well, guess what. We do. A hundred million people do. That’s what Charlie’s memorial demonstrated. When they say we’re nationalists, and we’re radicalized, that we’re predominantly Christian, and that we want to protect Western civilization, they are 100% correct, on all counts. For once, we are precisely what the Left is accusing us of being. And that’s been their greatest fear, for a very long time. These people have been terrified of the moment when conservatives would embrace one of their labels. That time is here.

After the murder of Charlie Kirk, you won’t find very many conservative Christians who will cower because of a Left-wing smear campaign. Instead, you’ll find a hundred million people like Charlie — people who are capable of thinking for themselves, and defending their country and their faith. We need people like that to restore this country to greatness. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen.