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Right-wing UK activist Jack Ross says Charlie Kirk was ‘a good Christian man’ with ‘a passion for Christ’

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ROSS, inset, Chief Executive of the right wing Turning Point UK, was addressing a vigil held today (Saturday) in London for “Christian martyr” Charlie Kirk, above, shot dead on Wednesday by Tyler Robinson, a young Mormon who was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Said Ross:

Despite what certain members of the press have purported, Charlie was not a hateful far-right bigot: he was a good Christian man and his desire to help people came from his passion for Christ.

He added:

I take this opportunity to ask people, especially those of the left wing of politics, that they must be careful with their rhetoric. Whilst sticks and stones do break bones, it is words that encourage people to pick up those sticks.

Ironically, Kirk, a couple of years ago, made a comment about some gun deaths in the U.S. being “worth it” to ensure the continued existence of the second amendment to the U.S. constitution, which is the right to keep and bear arms. The evangelical Christian and ardent Trump supporter said:

It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal.

Ahead of the Utah shooting, Robinson, 22, reportedly said that Kirk “was full of hate and spreading hate”.

Given his repugnant views on race — he called civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, “awful” and “not a good person”, and his homophobia — I for one will not be mourning his death.

But I am not celebrating his assassination either in the way that I did when Hendrick Verwoerd, the architect of Apartheid in S. Africa, was fatally stabbed.

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11 responses to “Right-wing UK activist Jack Ross says Charlie Kirk was ‘a good Christian man’ with ‘a passion for Christ’”

  1. Broga Avatar
    Broga

    More slaughter in the USA with the victim and the killer both with backgrounds in Christian belief. The better aspects of Christian belief seem to have no effect on the perpetrators of the worst. In fact the virtuous claims after the fatal event appear to be largely imaginative.

    The much vaunted vitue of forgiveness so often seems to be replaced by emotionally driven revenge.

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  2. stephenharvie Avatar
    stephenharvie

    A passion for White Jesus, not the brown guy in the magic book that turned the other cheek and healed the sick free of charge.

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    1. Broga Avatar
      Broga

      I read comments about Charlie Kirk now being in the company of Jesus in heaven.

      Not a bad deal that. Better than being in the USA with Trump in charge and continuing to wreck the country socially, politically and physically.

      Recently Trump expressed some doubts that he might not make the cut for heaven.

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    2. Matilda Avatar
      Matilda

      ‘…not the brown guy….’ I was amused by a comment my blond, blue-eyed Faroese tour guide made to me in the Faroe Islands recently. He’d mentioned he was a x-tian. He took us to a remote beauty spot and said he sometimes came there alone if he had a problem or was worried about something. Then he added, pointing at the sky, ‘And of course I always ask my foreign friend up there for help.’ I want to try that on those who believe in white jesus. I mean, wouldn’t he have looked more, well, Palestinian than anything?

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      1. Broga Avatar
        Broga

        I think there is a kind of Christianity that thrives on ignorance and stupidity. It is a major force in the USA as it allows, the more educated and intelligent to manipulate the fools into suckers who regard themselves as virtuous christians.

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      2. Broga Avatar
        Broga

        You might also ask the believer why his “foreign friend” permits the millions of deaths from storms and floods; why so many animals have to kill and eat their victims alive – e.g. pumas to survive. Or the horrors caused by that destructive global pest, made in his image, humans.

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        1. matilddaa Avatar
          matilddaa

          I put in my twopennyworth. Daily tours included stops at some of the islands’ ‘beautiful’ churches and I said I’d wait outside each one, I don’t do churches. He asked why, so I made a few frank remarks about realising my 50 years of fundyism were based on serving a fictitious god. And I said that made me the black sheep of my x-tian family, close relatives include a soon-to-be-bishop in the CofE and a professor who is a leading YECreationist who addresses conferences in the US on the topic! He asked questions and was clearly surprised to meet someone like me! Hope it made him think!

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          1. Broga Avatar
            Broga

            Good for you. I can imagine the problems of opposing a Christian family. For a start the opposition won’t be on the basis of facts and rational debate. They just accept and know and that is that.

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        malcolmjdodd

        I’m watching the World Athletic Championships where the best African xtians cross themselves 3 times (always while on camera) before they fail in their event; don’t they realise that god hasn’t time to watch TV due to being so busy directing mohammedans to kill xtians.

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    malcolmjdodd

    The irony of this is that the hateful rhetoric originates from the vile mouth of Kirk’s idol, the USA’s leading christian with the world’s highest IQ – the Orange Horror dictator.

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  4. Broga Avatar
    Broga

    I heard recently that 45 per cent of Americans support Trump. Amazing! He is destroying their country , attracting world wide detestation , wrecking lives and businesses with his crazy financial policies and still they support him.

    Perhaps the fact that many can’t read except the most simple of texts. Books? Forget it.

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