Charlie Kirk and Censorship as Persecution

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Censorship and Charlie Kirk

For Charlie Kirk to go on a state campus and speak, with his content he needed a student sponsor.  By doing that he could give attention to false teaching on campus and whatever else was occurring there .  What he did stood in stark contrast to the schools themselves, which is why, like a George Whitefield in colonial America, he spoke in the open air.  In that sense, Kirk was like a missionary in a pagan land.  The students were mainly either never hearing what he presented so eloquently or his ideas were dismissed, mocked, caricatured, or attacked in the classrooms.

What I’m saying is that the state censors the most important truths in existence and those who say them.  It takes a visitation like an ambassador from a foreign country for students to hear what Charlie Kirk says.  Students who think like Charlie had to self-censor to fit in and blend on a state campus, even in red states in the Bible belt.  I’m not writing anything here that conservatives, true Christians, or even cultural Christians don’t already know.  Believing teens know they’re in for it when they decide to go to college or university in the United States and with rare exception.  The censoring of their views by the world is persecution.

The best the college and university has to offer for the greatest ideas, actual truths, in the history of mankind is someone visiting like Charlie Kirk as a fringe guest.  Not only are his viewpoints not taught there, but when he teaches them, he faces an onslaught of opposition.  Against what was just normal through a vast portion of American history, those who join his meetings to defy and combat are often weirdos and freaks.  Yes, they are men made in the image of God, but they have also become deranged and mad.  They are heathen who rage and imagine vain things (Psalm 2:1).

Regular Government Censorship

To avoid the added pressure, a normal person might train himself and learn to avoid any unsightly confrontation by “keeping his head down.”  If he can skate through without any major repercussions and graduate, then he might carve a more comfortable place in the larger world, which might allow an easier segregation of himself from these awful elements.  The goal is survival and advancement, leaving it behind as quickly as possible.  Continuing to require normal people to do this self-censorship isn’t right.

State or state sponsored education under the totalitarian authority of that system encourages one general category of speech.  It doesn’t allow for all points of view.  It is a communist system where the proletariat censors all opposition.  A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Kirk, who already knew it might happen, experienced the violence of this censorship.

Mainstream Media

Dovetailing with massive censorship on campuses is the regular and widespread occurrence in the mainstream media.  I think mainstream begs definition, because people use it so much that it loses its meaning.  The United States censors from the public air waves — that’s the mainstream — from the point of view represented again by Charlie Kirk.  Sure, you can now hear him in the alternative media, but a good example of the mainstream, which matches the American system of education, is night time talk shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, and add to that, the sit-down interviews at PBS.  Only one point of view exists on all of the public airwaves.

A week after the murder of Charlie Kirk, one of them, Jimmy Kimmel on ABC, said something that is essentially the usual for these three air waves and even usually even worse than that.  Something briefly changed, however.  The populace complained to regional outlets for ABC and they suspended Kimmel, that is, until his fellow cultural elite began using its tyrannical pressure, and ABC relented.  Real censorship would be what already happens on ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS.  His suspension was a moment for Jimmy Kimmel — about five days worth — of real life from the point of view of Charlie Kirk and those who believe like him.

The Real Censorship in the United States

Despite everything I’ve written so far, here is the real censorship in the United States.  God destroyed everyone on earth except for Noah and his family.  Everyone agrees a catastrophic great killing even occurred, that the worldly powers call, “the great dying.”  However, the only allowed viewpoint in the entire education system says this “great dying” occurred millions of years ago.  It wasn’t a judgment from God.  No one can teach that, what really happened, which is also the oral and written history of hundreds of tribes and nations across the world.

Noah’s flood also has the backing of tremendous scientific research, but no one can even say it in a class room in the United States and keep his job.  I’m not talking about a five day suspension.  A teacher who would teach the real catastrophe as part of the curriculum wouldn’t survive in a state school anywhere in all fifty of the states of the U. S.  That “great dying” was God judging the world and our country only allows for a godless perspective.  It censors a godly point of view, even though it’s the truth.

Memorial Service Irony

An amazing outlier in the memorial service of Charlie Kirk was the participation of the foremost members of the present government of the United States.  Not only did they participate, but they said much more of the truth, what I am not allowed in a state school, in public at this memorial service.  They said it with boldness and like they believed it was the truth.  The truth.  Yet that view, one said by people with the greatest authority in the United States, is still not allowed under their own government.  Our leaders still do not allow the truth both on the state schools or on the mainstream media.

The best we get today is to hear, “God bless the United States,” at the end of a speech, which (until that memorial service) seems like a bone thrown out as appeasement.  I believe Christians should expect persecution.  Censorship is a form of persecution in the United States.  It is the norm.  Only one side speaks freely in the United States.  The other side is uniformly censored as a way of life.  If the nation really is against censorship, then, I say, let it be against censorship.  This would require public repudiation of all censorship by the state and the protection of free speech.

What If

Still, the United States is more free speech than England.  When President Trump was in England, because of the Jimmy Kimmel situation, English news people asked him about censorship in the United States.  He could have said the following:

You are right — censorship is rampant in our country too, just not to the degree it is in England.  Only comedians with the approval of the left can appear on the public air waves of the United States.  The country of which I’m president will not allow speech with the true origin of the world.  God created the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh, and no one still can teach that in our state schools, neither will someone allow that teaching over the public air waves, unless it is mocked.  We really do have censorship in the United States.

We’ve come a long ways in our country from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary, used in all the schools, that presented Bible verses as the examples of words it defined.  No one can use anything like that in a state school any more.  The state has as much as burned that book from its existence.

I heard from the Secretary of State of the United States at Charlie’s memorial that Jesus rose from the grave on the third day and later ascended into heaven.  Marco Rubio also knows that no one can teach that fact in a public school in the United States without losing his job.  I can’t even say that Moses received the ten commandments on Mount Sinai like what is carved into the building of the Supreme Court of the United States.  No matter how funny, no comedian could get a job, if he also mixed in the truth about the resurrection or the covenant God made with Noah, using a rainbow.

Rampant Censorship Unacknowledged

The public school allows only one rainbow and it is for something that isn’t true and is offensive to the one who raised His Son from the dead.  No one can censor the one rainbow, essentially sex between two men or two women, and everyone censors the original rainbow, the one God gave to Noah.  Can you imagine someone saying in a state school that marriage is between a man and a woman and that only two sexes exist? That’ s the truth and it is censored everywhere in the country.  Can you agree that censorship is already rampant in the United States?  Will the United States stop the censorship?

I don’t think ABC censored Jimmy Kimmel.  ABC is a censor though.  Those it censors every hour of every day of every year just absorb the censorship and don’t expect anything else.  Citizens of the United States should never have given up the right to speak the truth in the first place.  Everyone should call this out and require change from our government according to the rights God has given us and protected by the first amendment of the United States Constitution.