Charlie Kirk's Fundamental Theological Error. (Making Such A Grave Error At The Very Start Causes All Hell To Break Loose)

 

In this video clip - https://www.facebook.com/reel/2561317277570770 - Kirk’s self-chosen epitomization-distillation-summary of the gospels completely ignores Yeshua's central call to love, mercy, forgiveness and compassion, and instead stresses fear-of-punishment while promising "the fearful" eternal, heavenly rewards.

It is psycho-spiritual sleight-of-hand" - a kind of "divine bribery" by "letting the left hand know what the right hand is doing" - so that "you get you off the hook" in a very petty, self-seeking "divine judgment game."

Ultimately, Kirk's epitomization of the gospel message is based on the fear of judgment.

Fr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Always Wrong

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/fr-thomas-merton-explains-in-16-words.html

I am struck that Kirk is so forthright in his denial of the following passage from 1 John, "the apostle whom Jesus loved."

1 John, Chapter 4:

17-18 "God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love."

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• Alan: Why does living according to "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" free us from fear of eternal punishment? 

  Because when we actually follow "the Way, the Truth and the Life," we are then living in such a way that "virtue is its own reward," and it becomes self-evident that we will not be punished. 

  By the way... "vice is its own punishment." 

  I remember a black man noting on NPR that "We are nor punished for our sins. Rather, we are punished by them." I am awe-struck at the spot-on incisiveness of this insight.

  Notably, Trump and his followers are not happy people. 

  In the following interview with Dick Cavett, Archie Bunker describes - with keen precision -  why they are not happy

  In brief, we humans grow unhappy, and fearful of post-mortem judgment, when we live our lives wrongly. 

  Archie Bunker cuts to the quick of Trumpism, revealing Trump-followers as fundamentally unhappy people.

  And they are unhappy because they hold shoddy, fallacious beliefs - quite likely through "no" fault of their own. 

  In any event, the heart of Archie's revelation begins at the 2:09 mark of the following video clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j4gjse35C8

  

  
  Compendium of My Charlie Kirk Posts

  https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2025/09/compendium-of-my-best-charlie-kirk-posts.html