Last Tuesday I witnessed those who were personally witnessed by a political murder that we can never see. The meaningless act of violence that my friend’s life has received, Charlie Kirk, has exposed a rotten that infects and threaten American life.
In the aftermath of the seismic shock golf that the world has swept after the murder, one question has held me more than any other at night. How did a young man from a good family, a man with every benefit in life, so radicalized at the age of 22 that he would kill a father of young children in cool blood?
Those who live a meaningful lives – the kind of life that Charlie lived – naturally assume that everyone wants to make the world a better place. I know I felt that way when I went to the congress in 2008. I really believed that we all fought for the same thing, only with different ways to get there.
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But when I left eight years later, I realized that it is just not true. There are really people who hate America. They hate morality. They hate religion. They hate you and your beautiful family. They want this nation to fail.
Nihilism, a term that I only understood through Real-World encounters, is a philosophy that denies inherent meaning, morality or truth in life. Derived from the Latin “nil” (Nothing), it regards human existence as absurd, rejects moral codes as unfounded and often calls for dismantling established institutions.
This extreme perspective, which runs the risk in the course of the judge, is vividly investigated by the famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. In his writings, he dives into the crisis of faith and goal, and depicts it as a profound, disorienting struggle that challenges the human search for meaning.
This philosophy and the violence that comes from it is the fruit of a wicked society. The supporters do not believe in America. They do not believe in faith or the inherent value of souls. They reject God. They do not believe in the core values ​​of the American establishment and they certainly do not worship our founding documents.
Neither do they recognize the need for basic morality. They preach tolerance, but only if you agree with them.
These people throw accusations of fascism without really understanding what it means. The irony is that when so-called anti-fascists ran out of physical violence, they become what they claim to fight against. There is no consistency in this philosophy.
It is too easy to say that this is a republican versus democrat problem. We all know Democrats who believe in improving America, but just disagree about how to achieve it. They still exist. But the nihilism that infects their party leads to a tolerance for violence that threatens the stability of the largest country in the world. It threatens the well -being of our children.
We cannot pass by passive and allow this hollow philosophy to close our institutions and destroy our rising generations. We want to be peacemakers who avoid conflicts. But we have to rise against evil.
While we try to find out how to deal with this, there are two things we have to do immediately. Firstly, we can all agree that there must be consequences for direct violence and threats of violence. No more violent criminals on the street release in a flurry of suicidal empathy.
Secondly, we must give meaning and teach moral codes. I do not assume that everyone in Jesus Christ believes like me. We don’t expect everyone to be a Christian. But I am worried about people who have no roots anywhere. We must teach the moral code that is recorded in our founding documents, whether we are listing it in Christianity or other philosophy. Nobody benefits from a wicked society. Our children must be based on absolute truth.
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There is really something like absolute truth. Charlie’s life stood as proof of that reality. His death sealed his testimony. That life was a stark contrast to the wicked nihilism offered by those who would celebrate his downfall.
God has a real plan of happiness for his children that is based on a basis of faith, family and freedom. Charlie Kirk didn’t just spoke about those values. He lived them. He gave priority to his service to God, his relationships with his family and his fight for freedom. He was a spiritual struggle against nihilistic forces.
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He understood that the real enemy was never the person on the other side of the microphone, but the nihilistic conviction that truth is relative, values ​​are disposable and human life has no inherent holy value. We should not allow this demonic faith to infect our politics and catch our children.
The real enemy is the meaningless emptiness of godless nihilism that threatens us to swallow through God given.
