“Every bit of political corruption and death we are seeing now is a symptom. And political activism can only deal with symptoms. Even if we got every political “win” we wanted, the country would still be drowning in its own demonic immorality.”
(Greg Smith) Charlie Kirk’s life was cut short on September 10, 2025, when he was gunned down while speaking at Utah Valley University. His assassination took the nation by surprise and galvanized millions.
This culminated in a massive public memorial service at State Farm Stadium in Arizona—a packed event with dignitaries, politicians, pastors, and friends filling the seats and the stage. It was a moment meant to be unifying, cathartic, and resolute.
And yet, mark my words: in a few years, this all will have meant absolutely nothing.
I keep seeing Charlie’s supporters proclaiming that “this is the turning point.” In reality, there is no turning point here, and like everything else, this will be short-lived.
Most of what Charlie said and preached was true—and I do believe he was bold about faith in Christ. Political activism, even in Jesus’ name, isn’t inherently wrong. But it isn’t what will change anything if anything is to be changed at all. It’s not going to be big stadiums and big movements that transform a nation. That is just American sensationalism and celebrity worship disguised as revivalism.
If anything will ever make a real difference, it will be truly regenerate disciples of Christ actually living like it in the circles they already move in. Everybody wants to “impact the nation” while the people right next to them go to hell.
We’ve had these stadium spectacles before. Throughout the ’70s, we saw gargantuan revival events with thousands marching down aisles to “receive Christ,” yet at the same time, the nation nosedived into moral corruption.
The fruit was clear. It didn’t work. This is not “loser theology” or whatever label you want to slap on it. This is “Christ has already won at the cross” and “My Kingdom is not of this world” theology.
I am inclined to believe Charlie Kirk was a true convert. And listening to Erika Kirk forgive the man who murdered her husband was truly a proclamation of the gospel and a gift to those who heard. But at the same time, when I heard Erika speak at the memorial about Charlie “looking down from heaven,” my heart sank. That’s gospel 101—the departed aren’t watching us. A second-grade Sunday school student in a biblically solid church could tell you that. It made me wonder how well she was taught and what kind of theology shaped this family. The church has largely abandoned its mission to equip the saints.
I am not saying this to disparage her grief or to dishonor Charlie’s memory, or even the good he was doing. But we have gone far beyond appropriate honor and are now firmly in the territory of idolatrous hero worship.
Every bit of political corruption and death we are seeing now is a symptom. And political activism can only deal with symptoms. Even if we got every political “win” we wanted, the country would still be drowning in its own demonic immorality.
Republicans are only slightly behind Democrats in this regard. Find me a Republican who refuses to platform homosexuality or who will publicly oppose gay marriage. There may be a few, but they are very few. We have fallen so far that simply being against the trans movement now counts as being a “conservative.”
This is the catch-22, you cannot get elected if you truly stand for truth, and if you can’t get elected, you can’t have political impact. Therefore, compromise is built-in to the game. And while Charlie made fewer compromises than most, Turning Point USA still made them—theologically, morally, strategically—all in the name of political advancement.
So what is the solution? Where in Scripture are we ever promised a solution to this kind of societal decay? The answer is—we aren’t. The United States was founded on the premise that liberty could flourish so long as there was a shared moral framework. That framework is gone. Which means, barring a miraculous act of the Holy Spirit, the country is gone.
Samuel Adams said it best:
“While the people remain virtuous, they will never succumb to the whole force of the common enemy, but when once they become corrupt and debauched in their manners, they will sink under the weight of their own corruption, without a shot being fired by a foreign enemy.”
And here we are. No amount of political activism will make a difference while the moral rot spreads unchecked.
I love my country. I know I could have been born anywhere else, and I wouldn’t choose a different one. But I won’t lie to myself. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And America is going to fall, hard, because she has utterly abandoned the God who made her great.
Published with author’s permission.
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