PrintAn Unavoidable American Conflict
Charlie Kirk’s assassination by a radical young “all-American” leftist demonstrates that the ideological crisis that’s raging in education, politics, and pop culture has irreversibly escalated. His death marks the beginning of a new chapter for America. We’ve crossed a cultural Rubicon; the nation is irreparably divided by competing moral visions, national unity is forever lost, and conflict is unavoidable.
Kirk’s death was as tragic as it was predictable. Many lay the blame on evil, but evil came in a virulent form of social Marxism, equity, that’s cloaked in the woke cultural rizz of transgender rights, social justice, equality, fairness, tolerance, Critical Race Theory, DIE, anti-racism, white supremacy, systemic inequality, and patriarchy, to name a few. It’s a toxic philosophical cocktail, an expansion of classical Marxism transformed by Critical Theory and post-modern philosophy, that’s become the best of the worst of what the world’s deadliest ideology, the gospel according to Karl Marx, has to offer.
Equity is taking America by storm — it’s the price America pays for bailing on Christianity and religion in record numbers. It captured the Democrat party. (The Biden administration was committed to building equity into the “everyday business of government” — see Executive Order 14091.) Countless Americans like Kirk’s assassin were drawn to its promise of an infinitely tolerant, progressive, permissive post-Christian society, where everyone is equally free to choose his gender, lifestyle, and sexual preferences without the moral judgment of the “Thou Shalt Nots” of the Christianity they despised.
But as it turns out, there’s a serious downside to decadence.
The despisers of religion can’t live as atheists. A world without God leaves humanity suspended in moral ambiguity, lacking an ultimate authority. It’s an intolerable existence that sends people searching for a new moral constitution that could liberate them from the constraints of a biblically influenced worldview. Atheists need religion. As John Grey notes in Seven Types of Atheism, “the God of monotheism did not die, it only left the scene to reappear as humanity — the human species dressed up as a collective agent pursuing its self-realization in history” (p. 1,157).
Post-Christian Americans looking for moral guidance turned to equity as a new secular religion, and equity was happy to oblige.
This set America up for the showdown that has plagued humanity for over a century, Christianity versus Marxism, and it put Charlie Kirk in the crosshairs.
