I’m just going to come out and say iy: 99.999% of the world doesn’t care about the so-called Charlie Kirk Conspiracy, or any of the shenanigans circling it right now. For those unaware, Charlie Kirk was a conservative political activist, focused on young people (high school and college age) to attempt to influence their political and cultural views. Nothing wrong with that at all. In fact, he became very successful in his endeavor. In 2025, someone took too much offense and murdered him. Very sad. Not just for his family and friends, but those that followed him closely.
Occasionally, I’m asked why I focus my religion-oriented writing toward Christianity. Do I have a specific animus towards Christians or their beliefs? Well, no to both. It’s really very simple: Christianity is the religion I came from and it’s the largest identified religion in the United States. By identified, I mean, most Americans identify as Christian, whether they actually practice it or not.
It seems to me that when people look at an event, or a series of events, that don’t seem to add up, they inject their own bias into what for them is a game of connect the dots. Unfortunately, sometimes, they don’t fit the way they’re supposed to so the interlocutor will add dots to attempt to complete the picture the way they believe it is supposed to look. This is not logical, or even scientific inquiry. This is storytelling while sitting around a campfire and determining how to complete the story based on the audiences reaction. As the story continues, plots rise and fall based on nothing more than the modulation of the storytellers voice and will accept the truthfulness of what they’re hearing based on the pitch, volume, and pace of the story. As the story continues, people enter and exit where the telling proceeds without knowing how the story began, or who the characters in the story are, yet base their opinion of the of the story upon the fragments they gather from others who’ve been there longer, but still, not from the beginning. the telling becomes more and more complex as the length of the story continues because it is the only way to hold the audiences attention. Some parts of the story drop away, others become a focus of the story, and this roller coaster ride never seems to end. Some listeners become exhausted from the never ending, exploitative story, while others just become more passionate for the story to continue, hoping for a conclusion they’ve been set up, by the storytellers bias, to accept all along. But no conclusion appears to be evident and so the story becomes more and more complex, with characters become more devious, the storyteller being the protagonist. Will the story conclude and if so, not only when, but will there be a satisfactory ending for all those who’ve taken the time, their days and weeks, to follow expecting the righteous to persevere and the depraved will receive their just punishment?
Probably not. The story will just conclude without any satisfactory ending and the audience will be convinced that there may never be a satisfactory end. Decades will go by, books will be written, documentaries and movies filmed that will attempt to pick up the story and have the audience believe in a satisfactory conclusion. Conspiracies will be settled, conspirators identified, The story will take on a new direction unseen by the original storyteller and will continue, generation after generation.
Now back to more important topics. I was recently speaking with someone, an acquaintance, I guess, about the pandemic and how government has been handling it. Of course, here in the U.S., we basically have a possibility of fifty different solutions and as we’ve seen, there’s been some states that have made more progress than others. Then there are the states that seem to not want to even attempt to return to some kind of normal until the virus is completely eradicated . Good luck with that.
I was speaking with a friend recently (on the phone, of course) talking a. little bit about all of this staying at home that is going on and how much of a pain it is. Well, it’s really not, at least for me, because I’m not a person that just gets out in the car and drives around town just for the heck of it. But I agree that having to plan my outings more carefully (grocery store, etc.) is something that just after a couple of weeks, I haven’t quite mastered – but I will. I hadn’t heard from this friend in a few weeks so it was nice to hear from him, if only for a 5 minute or so conversation. What was interesting to me was how the conversation began get to end, when he said, “Well, I guess we all just have to pray that God will deliver us from this pandemic.”. Huh? I actually didn’t know what to say for a few seconds and that was because I had never heard this guy talk prayer, or God, or anything religious before – and I’ve known him for 10 years.
