Almost (well probably all, up until now) of the religion blogs linked in here are Catholic. There is, of course, a reason for that. I'm a Catholic.
Anyhow, I recently put in a blog link to a protestant (Episcopal) one as it's a really broad blog. It does have religious content, of course, but a lot more. Anyhow, in its religious content is this item:
Death of an Evangelical
On Charlie Kirk's Protestant American legacy
I think this may sum up Kirk's religious legacy as much as anything.
I've noted that it appears that Kirk was headed towards Catholicism, and he was. What I didn't know is that he'd lead his wife away from it. This is more of a problem for her soul than for his, but it would appear that she was coming back, but hasn't quite made it yet. She likely will. Jewish novelist Herman Wouk noted in his novel The Caine Mutiny, about the young WASP Naval officers love interests that lapsed Catholics, such as the love interest, had a way of suddenly and devoutly returning to the Faith. I've noticed that in people I've known myself. Catholicism is the original Christian religion, and frankly it's hard not to accept that the more you know of it, which is why entire "Bible Believing" Protestant churches will convert when they go down the road of really studying the Faith.
Anyhow, there's been a bit of an effort, an innocent one, of some Catholics to basically claim Kirk as almost a Catholic. I don't know how far down that road he'd gotten. He was traveling it, but if we're honest about it, and we should be, his legacy, because it was cut short, will be an Evangelical Protestant one.
And that's why his death has become such a huge deal in this political climate, where as others would likely not have been.
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