Biblical Scholar Puts the Final Nail in Charlie Kirk's Credibility Coffin

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Biblical Scholar Puts the Final Nail in Charlie Kirk's Credibility Coffin

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In what can only be described as a brutal theological takedown, a well-known biblical scholar shows why Charlie Kirk's credibility is now 'dead.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAjskIgXaMM
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I'm not at all familiar with Kirk's claims. Watched the video you linked to and fact checked it.

Mak got it right.

The problem I think is that many Christians want to hear what reinforces their faith traditions and are content to take it at face value without ever checking on the content. I think the same way about preachers who preach from the pulpit without opening their Bible, asking the congregation to "turn to" whatever scripture it is, and congregation members who don't open their Bible during Worship Service.

It's a mistake made by many. In the case of Mak debunking Kirk, the appropriate thing for Christians to do would be to fact check in light of history.

By and large, I think many Christians are lazy and again, they're okay hearing what reinforces their religious thinking and faith or personally held social beliefs.

Wolf in sheep's clothing and all that jazz.

The Bible tells us to test the scriptures. I think it wise for believers to test claims made by religious type leaders be it scripture or historical matter.

Confirmation bias is strong these days.
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As is often the case with you, Jersey Girl, you managed to hit the nail on the head, in my opinion. The ultra-conservative MAGA movement is not actually designed to make America great again, but to return our nation to a state when it was less great, more bigoted, more intolerant of honest differences of opinion, less educated and more beholden to extremely wealthy, almost exclusively white male, authoritative landowners and oligarchs. Some of them (including Kirk, by the way) even go so far as to advocate curtailing hard-won liberties and equality for women and minorities and non-Christians. Kirk, for example, made no bones about advocating reversing women's suffrage and equality in the workforce and government. This is the opposite of "Make America Great Again." I am dismayed by how many people seemingly fail to see that!
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Gunnar wrote:
Sun Oct 26, 2025 10:56 am
As is often the case with you, Jersey Girl, you managed to hit the nail on the head, in my opinion. The ultra-conservative MAGA movement is not actually designed to make America great again, but to return our nation to a state when it was less great, more bigoted, more intolerant of honest differences of opinion, less educated and more beholden to extremely wealthy, almost exclusively white male, authoritative landowners and oligarchs. Some of them (including Kirk, by the way) even go so far as to advocate curtailing hard-won liberties and equality for women and minorities and non-Christians. Kirk, for example, made no bones about advocating reversing women's suffrage and equality in the workforce and government. This is the opposite of "Make America Great Again." I am dismayed by how many people seemingly fail to see that!
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Whiskey wrote:
Sun Oct 26, 2025 5:28 pm
Gunnar wrote:
Sun Oct 26, 2025 10:56 am
As is often the case with you, Jersey Girl, you managed to hit the nail on the head, in my opinion. The ultra-conservative MAGA movement is not actually designed to make America great again, but to return our nation to a state when it was less great, more bigoted, more intolerant of honest differences of opinion, less educated and more beholden to extremely wealthy, almost exclusively white male, authoritative landowners and oligarchs. Some of them (including Kirk, by the way) even go so far as to advocate curtailing hard-won liberties and equality for women and minorities and non-Christians. Kirk, for example, made no bones about advocating reversing women's suffrage and equality in the workforce and government. This is the opposite of "Make America Great Again." I am dismayed by how many people seemingly fail to see that!
Malarkey.

Are you a white male? Did you feel others were beholden to you? Maybe you’re experiencing shame or guilt.
That is so nonsensical that it doesn't even deserve any further comment than that from me, other than to say that if you can't see that THAT is precisely what MAGA is trying to do, you are either not paying attention, or you approve of their corrupt plan.
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Gunnar wrote:
Sun Oct 26, 2025 5:44 pm
Whiskey wrote:
Sun Oct 26, 2025 5:28 pm


Malarkey.

Are you a white male? Did you feel others were beholden to you? Maybe you’re experiencing shame or guilt.
That is so nonsensical that it doesn't even deserve any further comment than that from me, other than to say that if you can't see that THAT is precisely what MAGA is trying to do, you are either not paying attention, or you approve of their corrupt plan.
Wait a minute. MAGA is making you feel guilt and shame for being a white male? Jesus Christ, gunner.
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Gunnar wrote:
Sun Oct 26, 2025 10:56 am
As is often the case with you, Jersey Girl, you managed to hit the nail on the head, in my opinion. The ultra-conservative MAGA movement is not actually designed to make America great again, but to return our nation to a state when it was less great, more bigoted, more intolerant of honest differences of opinion, less educated and more beholden to extremely wealthy, almost exclusively white male, authoritative landowners and oligarchs. Some of them (including Kirk, by the way) even go so far as to advocate curtailing hard-won liberties and equality for women and minorities and non-Christians. Kirk, for example, made no bones about advocating reversing women's suffrage and equality in the workforce and government. This is the opposite of "Make America Great Again." I am dismayed by how many people seemingly fail to see that!
You’re not wrong, Gunnar. You can clearly see that this is the overriding agenda of the current Administration. We are witnessing billionaires manipulating an egotistical, corrupt child ‘President’, and working alongside Christian Nationalists for the convenience of that group providing the distraction and divisiveness, to enact a massive grift to benefit themselves with no actual benefit to the American people.

We have a ‘government’ that runs on immaturity, has forsaken its duty to govern, has implemented multiple cash grab, crypto and corruption schemes to benefit the insiders, has turned ICE into a quasi-police-state operation with an expressed effort to instigate and terrorize, and trashed our reputation and trading partnerships, all while increasing the debt, exacerbating cost increases, and laughing about it in the faces of the American public.

MAGA - because their fragile egos was bruised in 2020 - has decided to support a Ballroom and Breadlines Administration.
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Whiskey wrote:
Sun Oct 26, 2025 6:25 pm

Wait a minute. MAGA is making you feel guilt and shame for being a white male? Jesus Christ, gunner.
Stupidest response yet! No one is making me feel guilty for being a white male! And you are still childishly refusing to spell my name right out of pure spite, despite the fact I have already explained to you that my name is Norwegian, and is not homophonic for the English "gunner", nor does it have any relationship to the Norwegian word for "gun." You have had some relatively admirable posts previously, but lately, all you are accomplishing is further undermining your credibility and respectability.
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