My 17 year old son wrote this (no AI help) last weekend on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It's a long read, but I hope it can give some hope to the older generations in this group. It also makes one thing clear for me to say when I personally face anyone celebrating Charlie's murder... "you want my sons dead, too."

The message from my son:

I've been thinking. They legitimately picked the absolute worst person to try and make their point that they possibly could've. They picked the kindest, most genuine, and truly moral person, without any dirty laundry or corruption, who stood for middle-right, moderate conservative, Christian ideas and who expressed those ideas peacefully and logically. He did all of that while simultaneously being firm and unafraid, speaking his mind openly and standing strongly for what he believed in. He never backed down and never allowed people to just commit their sin and evil deeds in silence. He never gave them the convenience of being unopposed and he never let them go un-confronted. He put his money where his mouth was. He held no office, he had no army, and he taught a message of peaceful discussion and free speech.

They could've shot someone who was truly irrational, hateful, violent, corrupt, dishonest, far right radical, or who held the power to oppress indiscriminately, but they didn't.

Out of anyone's followers, Charlie's are predisposed to have the best reaction to his death. We understand that he is in heaven, that his mission isn't over, and that to honor his life we need to pursue justice and truth vehemently and boldly, but peacefully and devoid of venom and malice.

We know what needs to be done. All this shooting has done is revealed just how desperate the left has become. Just how unhinged, radical and illogical their movement has fallen. They are a mechanism that produces radical and violent extremists who are incapable of critical thinking, originality, debate, or logic and that hate all that stands to oppose them.

What we have is a rallying cry. If they are willing to kill and applaud the death of Kirk, then they are also willing to applaud the death of me, because Charlie wasn't the billionaire president, Charlie wasn't the ruthless, greedy CEO, Charlie wasn't the bought and paid for congressman, and he wasn't the corrupt military industrial complex/Israel shill. Charlie was a normal man who started a movement as a teenager. He dropped out of college, created a non-profit, and spoke for a living. He debated, fundraised, and had a podcast. His war was never against people, it was against ideas and his hate was against lies, and he didn't fight with guns and rebellions, he fought with words. He was one of us in the closest sense. If I stopped what I was doing right now and went on to form a non profit I would be almost identical to Charlie, so they would probably be okay with killing me too.

They hated him because he was so effective and had no pathway to be defamed, no competing interests to be exploited and no way to be defeated. They hated him because he was right and they couldn't prove him wrong. They hate truth because it makes them uncomfortable and they hate reality because it makes them the fools that they are.

If Charlie had just never spoken about what he believed, started a business and made his money as a normal citizen I have no doubt that he would be alive and successful today, but his courage to stand up and speak and to take that shot and to suffer that sacrifice reveals just how much they hate us and what we believe.

They wanted to destroy what he stood for but all they've done is reveal their intentions and now we have a clear mission.

Never back down, never grow comfortable, never stop fighting, but never sin in our anger, never beget violence from our passion, and never stoop to their level. They need fear and violence and terror to defeat us. All we need is hope, persistence, and the will of the Lord.

If we can't convince the remaining people in this country that still have the ability to change their ideas and think freely that we need to band together to actually use the system in the way that it was designed then it is in the hands of God to put down our country and let it be destroyed. If it is the will of the Lord for America to perish then let it be so, but I believe that our redemption is before us.

We need to keep voting, keep speaking and keep teaching our children. We need to keep working, keep starting businesses, and keep running in elections. Change won't come in an instant. The country won't be perfect once the president's one pet project is completed, or once that one bill is passed. Lasting, real change comes from the bottom down. The gas prices aren't going to go down just because we won the midterms. Our issues are rooted in culture. The whole reason things got bad in the first place is because the radicals took over the institutions like the mainline protestants, the universities, the schools, the hospitals, and the businesses and used those institutions to change the culture. They deteriorated the black communities, crushed the industrial base of America, weakened the justice system, and then they distracted us with wars in the middle east, and told us the climate was being destroyed.
All their solutions caused more problems. Their antidote for fatherlessness was food stamps. Their solution for low wages was college loans, their solution for single mothers was free daycare. Their solution for the fulfillment that is lacking in their world view is the pagan, hedonistic worship of self. They sacrifice their health, family, interpersonal relationships, self worth, and their very children upon their altar of selfishness. They take the sacraments of sex, drugs, drag, abortion, promiscuity, ugliness, indulgence, and all other methods of selfishness. They then proselytize everyone they can because our very existence is a bane upon their lives. They see our joy and peace and cannot fathom it. It is too difficult for them to rework their world view and take accountability for their evil, so they believe that we cannot be correct. We must be happy because we have brainwashed and enslaved everyone; because the system is rigged to benefit us that we oppress others to seem successful. They hate the accountability of our presence. They spew DEI and CRT to try and fix this unfair playing field that they imagine we've created and they see our attempts to protect and pass down our prosperity as the stripping of human rights, as an attack on their religion.

They can't stand to be around us because it shows that they are wrong. That's why they hated Charlie, because he refused to hide himself from them.

The reality of the situation is that we've already won. The victory is the Lord's, all we must do is let the light of the Holy Spirit shine out from us and it will turn them to ash like vampires.

It won't get better fast, it will take time for us to win over the culture and build back from the bottom up but the way to do so is simple. Spread the Gospel relentlessly, live our faith boldly, and retake the institutions being run by the radical minority. If we simply remain and endure without retreating and without ceading ground we can step by step reclaim our country for God by his will and his power. If we raise our children rightly, lead our communities fearlessly and live every hour of every day fearlessly and boldly for the Lord then we will be doing the right thing.

Even if they kill everyone of us and destroy this country all they will succeed in doing is making their trip to hell more miserable and our walk with our Father more glorifying to him as we rely on his strength.