Thank you for your clear and well-researched summary of this man’s life and legacy. The US media firestorm and hysteria over Kirk's murder has left us Brits poised between amused bewilderment and complete indifference. He was virtually unknown here apart from some hilarious YouTube videos of him being eviscerated when he took on students from the Cambridge University debating society earlier this year. There are no mass youth movements in the UK resembling Turning Point, or religious social media youth influencers with anything like the reach that Kirk has in the US.
40% of our population self identify as nominally Christian (as opposed to Hindu, Muslim, non-believer etc,) but just 6% (yes folks, just 6%) describe themselves as ‘active’ Christians, ie regular church attenders. Only a fraction of that 6% subscribe to the fundamentalist, Creationist, take-the bible-literally, waiting for the Rapture, Liberals are Demons, submit to your husband flavour of religion that Kirk espoused and is currently being embraced by MAGA. It is utterly alien to the vast majority of us, unless you're an aficionado of Netflix documentaries and reality TV shows about American religious cults.
Sure, we have plenty of racists, conspiracy theorists and science deniers on this side of the pond but we don't see these beliefs being justified using religious fuckwittery.
In an earlier iteration Charlie Kirk would have owned a car dealership and been active with the chamber of commerce while doing coke on the weekends and cheating on his wife every chance he got. Run Rabbit Run
Thank you for your clear and well-researched summary of this man’s life and legacy. The US media firestorm and hysteria over Kirk's murder has left us Brits poised between amused bewilderment and complete indifference. He was virtually unknown here apart from some hilarious YouTube videos of him being eviscerated when he took on students from the Cambridge University debating society earlier this year. There are no mass youth movements in the UK resembling Turning Point, or religious social media youth influencers with anything like the reach that Kirk has in the US.
40% of our population self identify as nominally Christian (as opposed to Hindu, Muslim, non-believer etc,) but just 6% (yes folks, just 6%) describe themselves as ‘active’ Christians, ie regular church attenders. Only a fraction of that 6% subscribe to the fundamentalist, Creationist, take-the bible-literally, waiting for the Rapture, Liberals are Demons, submit to your husband flavour of religion that Kirk espoused and is currently being embraced by MAGA. It is utterly alien to the vast majority of us, unless you're an aficionado of Netflix documentaries and reality TV shows about American religious cults.
Sure, we have plenty of racists, conspiracy theorists and science deniers on this side of the pond but we don't see these beliefs being justified using religious fuckwittery.
In an earlier iteration Charlie Kirk would have owned a car dealership and been active with the chamber of commerce while doing coke on the weekends and cheating on his wife every chance he got. Run Rabbit Run