As if I had been there, as if the knife had grazed my throat and the bullet had passed less than a millimeter from me, I am still trying to clear away my perplexity, horror, and helplessness before, once again, the mystery of iniquity.
I would not
like to be part of the deafening noise of analyses and reflections, but I will
be, if only because writing may be my only comfort.
In total
disorder, the following thoughts come to mind:
- Charly, unlike other
conservative influencers, was a master of dialogue. He walked through
campuses talking to everyone, listening to all with complete patience and
kindness, and responding from a faith that, consistently, does not insult,
does not attack, but rather teaches from the peace of the heart. That set
him apart from almost everyone.
- He did not come out of the
formal educational system. He was self-taught.
- His murder is different from
the long list of political assassinations in the USA. It was perpetrated
at a time when the American divide is at its highest tension ever. I think
the killer knew it. He wanted to pull the string and break it. But that's
always how totalitarian left operates. They attack and kill mercilessly
because they want to push others to a point of no return. And they
usually succeed.
- Let’s hope this time they
don’t, otherwise there will be no more USA.
- It was only a few days, very
few, after the horrific murder of Iryna. Yes, very different
circumstances. She was killed by a mentally ill man with schizophrenia.
The point is that liberal criminal law cannot be so weak. One could
object, there could be another justice system, but as long as we are in
this one, judges must be upright, must not be ideologized, must not
repeatedly release dangerous criminals, and they must be locked up not for
punishment or torture, but to protect the innocent.
- The murder of Iryna was also
horrific. It confronted us with the horror of sudden, cruel, avoidable,
and senseless death. She was conscious for a few minutes. She looked at
her killer with horror and astonishment as she began to bleed internally.
She was the image of helplessness, weakness, and innocence. No one
approached her. No one came to help, as best they could. She died alone,
alone, alone, until she finally lost consciousness and died. The
others simply left.
- Charly Kirk did not die because
of the right to carry arms. He never defended violence: he defended the
Second Amendment, whose meaning not even most Americans (except a very
few) understand; what, then, can we expect from others. Charly died
because someone decided to kill him, and murderers will not be stopped
simply because a law declares carrying firearms illegal. These
things must be clarified.
- The mystery of iniquity, once
again. Yes, there will continue to be murders, because we live in the
world of Cain. Abel was murdered, Jesus Christ was murdered, but in the
latter case, it gives us meaning. Suffering is a participation in the
cross of Christ. Meanwhile, we live within the history of cruelty, and the
world has always belonged to the murderous beasts. But in that world, a
wedge was struck. That murdered Christ left in the hearts of men a trace
that slowly made its way through the ocean of evil, and ultimately
declared that all human beings have been created free and equal by God,
with their inalienable natural rights.
- But that did not mean paradise
on Earth, nor will it ever be. Christianity and its temporal echo, that
Declaration of Independence, are only the resistance that keeps History
from closing itself over absolute evil. No, there is no absolute evil
because Christianity exists. But as far as the temporal realm goes, that
is only resistance, nothing more. We will always live among the shadows of
sin and death, and meanwhile, like Charly, all we have left is martyrdom.
- But that is not little. The
blood of martyrs is a fertile seed.
Meanwhile,
may God grant us comfort and strength.
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(*) Esta traducción fue hecha por I.A. pero bajo mi supervisión.
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