Sunday, September 21, 2025

I WISH THE OLD-FASHIONED WORD "IDOLATRY" STILL MEANT SOMETHING

This is a real tweet from Fox News:


The story says that Kirk's body had no exit wound:
Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet on Saturday said Charlie Kirk's surgeon called it an "absolute miracle" that the bullet that killed him didn’t exit his body because dozens of people were standing behind him when he was shot....

Kolvet said he had just spoken with Kirk’s surgeon, who told him the bullet "'absolutely should have gone through, which is very very normal for a high powered, high velocity round. I’ve seen wounds from this caliber many times and they always just go through everything. This would have taken a moose or two down, an elk, etc.’" ...

The doctor added that Kirk’s "bone was so healthy and the density was so so impressive that he’s like the man of steel. It should have just gone through and through. It likely would have killed those standing behind him too."
In Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, admirers of the saintly monk Zosima believe his corpse won't decay after he dies -- but it begins to putrefy almost immediately. Zosima should have had Charlie Kirk's publicists.

Even if you admired him, the veneration of Kirk has become idolatry, a word that used to have some power in the English language. The first of God's Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Trump-worshipers in nominally Christian churches have been violating this commandment for years, but now Kirk is an object of worship.

This happened last Sunday:
A church in Texas played an AI audio clip of Charlie Kirk saying words he never said to a congregation who gave it a standing ovation.

On Sunday (14 September), pastor Jack Graham was delivering a service at Prestonwood Baptist Church when he paused to play an AI-generated clip using the voice of the 31-year-old, who was killed on 10 September.

The audio using Kirk’s likeness reassured the churchgoers that he was “fine”, and said: “Do not let this violence divide us further. The enemy wants chaos, fear, and retaliation. Don't give it to them.”

He told the crowd that “America and free speech are worth it”, encouraging them to “get back in the fight”. The minute-long clip received a standing ovation from the church.

Then there's this:
Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation this week that would require every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with a statue of the assassinated Republican activist and a sign calling him a “modern civil rights leader”, or pay monthly fines....

The Oklahoma bill, sponsored by state senators Shane Jett and Dana Prieto, specifies that the memorial site must be in “a prominent area” on the main campus of every institution of higher education in the state system, and must include “a statue of Charlie Kirk sitting at a table with an empty seat across from him” or one of Kirk and his wife holding their children.

Each plaza must also include “permanent signage commemorating Charlie Kirk’s courage and faith and explaining the significance of Charlie Kirk as a voice of a generation, modern civil rights leader, vocal Christian, martyr for truth and faith, and free speech advocate”.
And AI slop makers have been busy sanctifying Kirk:


Richard Hanania, the racist right-wing influencer, has collected quite a few of these.

We live in a celebrity culture where "idol" is a positive word, but when I was a lad (and a practicing Catholic) it was seen as sinful to have false gods. Not anymore.
Posted by Steve M. at 12:45 PM

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