By Ray Cardello for September 23, 2025, Season 32 / Post 44

“Jesus, fill the room,” is the phrase Erica Kirk whispered before she addressed the world two days after her husband, Charlie, was gunned down by the act of a coward, who chose hate over love to solve his issues. With that short prayer, Erika summoned the strength to pick up the baton, in the studio where her husband spoke to his flock every day, and let the world know that Charlie’s body may have been taken from us, but his spirit was more powerful than ever, and he would be watching over us from his new seat on the right hand of his Savior, Jesus Christ. I am sure that Erika muttered those exact words on Sunday afternoon, as she looked out on the 100,000 people gathered to celebrate Charlie under the Arizona sun, and the countless millions who were watching and crying tears of sadness and joy from their homes. Jesus did indeed fill the room with people, but also with the spirit of love, forgiveness, and hope for the future. It was a glorious day, fit for Heaven’s newest martyr, whom Christ called to finish his work on earth from the heavens above.

Many words have been written about the impact Charlie had on those he touched. Politically, and certainly spiritually, but I think it is time that we examine how those of us who followed Charlie, and the newcomers to his followers, have chosen to channel our grief and anger over his passing, versus how the other side has done so in the past. It paints a clear vision of how very different we are and further dispels the rhetoric spewed by the Left that both sides are hateful, vengeful, and full of retribution. We could not be more different.

Let’s go back a few years to when a career criminal, hyped up on drugs, died on a Minneapolis sidewalk while being arrested for one of his petty crimes. George Floyd was a dead man walking because of the life choices he had made. He had little redeeming value to society or his family, except for the millions of dollars the city and state awarded his family in the hopes of suppressing the noise about his death. It was not enough, and the riots, destruction of properties and businesses, and the Summer of Love carried on for months across this land to honor the death of a petty criminal, a hero to the Left—a stark difference from the scene this past Sunday.

When Charlie Kirk was killed, the only sign of protest or conflict was when a Left-wing agitator would disrupt a vigil by walking through pictures of Charlie and the flowers laid in his honor. One hundred thousand people gathered peacefully under the hot desert sun to celebrate his life and reclaim their faith in God in Charlie’s honor. They gathered to witness Charlie’s bride utter the most impactful words of a Christian who had been wronged, “I forgive him.” They saw countless members of the Trump team, including Trump himself, drop their personal walls and speak the truth about their faith in public. They saw nobody from the Left stand in praise of the life of an evangelist.

Let Jasmine Crockett and Sandy Cortez of the Left keep talking, for with each word, they show the level of ignorance and inhumanity that fills the blackened hearts and souls in their bodies. We are so very different, and I praise God above that I am on the right side of good versus evil. We pray for those on the Left that they may see the error of their ways, but I fear that some prayers don’t reach God’s ear. We will not stop. There are many more of us now who have joined Charlie’s army, and we will pray stronger and louder until our voices break through the clouds to the ears of Charlie and his Savior. It is only prayer that will solve the problems on earth, and one side must carry the burden of praying for the other, as the Left only knows one God, and that is the God of personal power.