Republican says Charlie Kirk would have been Jesus' "13th disciple"

Have these people just never actually read the Bible, or something?

No but they thump it all the time
Read?
If they had, they'd know there was a 13th disciple named Matthias. I'm not even kidding, it's in the Book of Acts. He was selected to replace Judas, and is described as having been with them since the beginning.
No. They wait for people on TV/Facebook to tell them what it says.
Very likely not. It's not an easy book to get through. Even the most devout will usually tap out at the begats.

Why the fuck are they riding this dead dick so hard? He was a horrible debater, held repulsive beliefs even to some people on the right, and wasn't even really that popular. He was a laughing stock to the majority of people and a perfect poster child for ignorant racist idiots the world over. Like, if you're going to martyr someone, pick someone who stands up to scrutiny.

Well he did a good job of upholding his PR for those who are dumb enough to believe it because he deceptively edited his videos for them.
Charlie Kirk totally PWNS 25 stupid crybaby liberal students
They are using his strong religious beliefs as a lighting rod. If you slam Charlie Kirk, you're basically slamming Christianity. It is easily used as a weapon.
- oh that's pretty easy. i'm against genocide.
Some dead people become martyrs and that has happened here.
That dumb fucking shooter.
- doesnt seem like kirk is the martyr, but more like the shooter is sorta becoming one, because MSM and the gop cant afford to blame one of tier own.
Apparently that's what they respect. Make of that what you will.
Social effect, easy martyr. Fascism loves this.
they seem to be doubling down the fact the shooter was even further right than he is, the gop ,trump and MSM cant afford to alienate the right by blaming a right winger. its simple they cant blame thier own people. so they have make something up like tying obscure reference of the shooter associating with the "trans" people.

Because of his position on social issues?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk

If you haven't read his wiki, now is a great time.

American Far-Right Evangelicalism is the biggest heresy in 21st century Christianity and possibly the most wide spread heresy in the history of the religion.

To be fair, any garden variety conservative could be an disciple. Judas, specifically.

They openly ignore and even violate Jesus' words and values regularly. Just the other day someone in the senate shouted "silent prayers bring silent results" and forced everyone to pray aloud.

I immediately thought of Matthew 6:5. If you're going to believe in fairy tales, maybe you should read the whole book first.

Judas, specifically.
Strongly disagree. Judas felt shame, and hung himself. Conservatives feel no shame and would never repent.
(Unless of course you read the other chapter of the fairy tale that says he didn’t kill himself but instead fell into a hole and exploded or something)

During Patel's hearing, Nehls said, "Charlie Kirk was a man of faith ... first and foremost, he loved his Lord Jesus, he loved his family. Beautiful wife, beautiful children. Just a remarkable honorable man that was silenced by this assassin's bullet. I would say if Charlie Kirk lived in the biblical times, he would have been the 13th disciple."

The full quote.

- I read that article the other day. Excellent characterization of Kirk.
Lol, these fucking people. How can they not just get completely sick of themselves. I guess it takes having a monkey's level of self-awareness. I wonder if when they look in the mirror they get confused and aggressive at the thing staring back at them.
edit: I was very harsh on monkeys in this comment and I want to apologize to monkeys everywhere
"Dead guys wife is hot. Kids, too."

Holy fuck, I am so sick of this.

Come on, a Palestinian man preaching love and compassion ? The whole lot of them would call him a communist terrorist...

If Jesus came back and came to America, he would be shot within 10 minutes of opening his mouth and 100 years later a new religion would be started with a Glock as it's symbol.
- Who says their God hasn't already tried to come back dozens of times but he keeps getting bombed because he's middle eastern

If you think Jesus got pissed with the money lenders at the temple he would have completely lost his shit with Charlie Kirk. Even Judas would have been grossed out.

Only with "Republican Jesus". You know, the white guy wearing a toga, a cross, and an AR15.

Don't drag poor togas into this!

And lo, Charles did look down upon the leper, and he did pronounce "ugh, get a job!"

Are they just going around trying to one up each other? What a ridiculous thing to say.

That is how fascism works. You must constantly increase your loyalty and worship or else you're at risk of being the next one attacked.

Charlie "Empathy is Evil" Kirk?

Yes. Remember, they worship Supply Side Jesus, not the one described in the Bible.
"13th Disciple" is code for "2nd Judas"
Charlie would be wrestling that guy for the bag of silver coins.
- I grew up religious and don't think I'd heard that. Is it a Catholic thing?

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

I forgot Jesus said to love thy neighbor, but only if they’re white so you know they’re not a DEI hire.

There is a non-zero chance that the second coming of Jesus DID happen, but it happened in rural America and he got killed by fascists again.

What a dumbass thing to say.

Contrary to what a lot of people think, I see this as a good sign. This right here is proof that MAGA has no future and that its days are numbered. A movement needs to be practical, flexible, coherent for it to last, and MAGA doesn't have any of these. MAGA currently has no morals, no values, no platform, no leadership outside of Trump, nothing. Everything starts and stops with Trump. Anything he says goes no matter how contradictory, insane, or nonsensical. He has purged the GOP and his own movement of anyone and anything that is capable of independent thought. He has made sure that MAGA and the GOP are exclusively made up of of yes men, which happen to be either slimy opportunists or blind loyalists.

This means that the moment Trump dies, MAGA will die with him. Without Trump serving as the de facto prophet, the movement will immediately fracture and the different factions will start fighting each other. This will lead them to be ineffective, which in turn will make them irrelevant with time. As for the GOP, it will become a blank slate as it will stand for nothing. It that will either collapse or reform to completely change from the top down. Because of this, I don't think MAGA is going to last long, but we just have to brace for the all the damage that they will cause in the little time they will be in power.

This is what I thought in 2016.
- I think there's a distinct difference between now and 2016, back then MAGA was rather diverse in its makeup. There were libertarians, fiscal conservatives, moderate Republicans, neocons, evangelists, and so on. The point is that this diversity allowed for an internal discourse to exist to keep the party somewhat balanced. This stopped being case during the pandemic, and I mark Jan 6th as the official turning point. That's when Trump's purges reached their peak and the only people who were left were blind loyalists, grifters, or corrupt career politicians. Now? There's no balance anymore, it's entirely just Trump growing ever more demented and insane, and his flock of yes men cheering on whatever he says. That's not a sustainable movement or ideology, it will collapse in on itself sooner or later.
The only way they have no future is if we stand up to them and deprive them of it.
- True, but I'm also optimistic that MAGA will collapse in on itself. History has shown that movement that lack balance, principles, internal discourse, coherency, and flexibility don't last long. The only thing keeping MAGA together is Trump, and he has no successor. Once he dies, MAGA WILL shatter like broken glass. I see a lot of parallels between MAGA and the know nothings from the mid 1800s.

Reality is meaningless to these people. They just make up whatever, it’s a massive circlejerk.

At what point do you admit that you're just licking assholes?

Republicans pretending to be "Christians" never ceases to amuse

Nothing, apparently.
more like mass hysteria, which these men claim women always having. looks like these men are having hysteria.
I don't know. But it is here and it is weird. Ugh.

It’s weirdly fun to watch them all slowly lose their minds.

It would be more fun if these people weren’t running the US government.

These Nazis are truly disgusting.

...I mean, Judas was a disciple too if you believe in that kind of thing. Not high praise or anything.

i like the line of thought that judas was commanded to betray joshie boy, because he was the most diligent and faithful of the apostles.
Yep, and Lucifer an angel.

Judas 2: Electric Bugaloo

I've seen it already today. Quoting John 12:23 (because they claim CK died at 12:23pm) and applying it to CK. It's disgusting.

In that the allegorical Jesus intentionally associated with the grimier undercurrent of the time and place he was stuck in? Sure. In a way, I guess. Kirk was grime incarnate, in many ways.

In literally any other way that accounts for meaningful context? Lol. No.

He very vocally stood for just about everything that Christ stood against, and anyone with the most miniscule reading comprehension and attention span can see that.

It's a real shame that this awesome planet has such a bad case of human infestation. Keeping to the religious theme, we have more than enough resources and know-how to turn this world into an actualized garden of eden. There's just no money in feeding the poor and genuinely taking care of our kin. Causing problems oftentimes makes more money than solving them, unfortunately. So instead, we're having this stupid-ass, pointless, needless dialogue as the money-machine that has damned us all continues to do it's damndest to see to it that we take this could-be paradise and turn it into an actual, tangible hell.

If we are not all cooked to raw carbon by 50 years from now, I will gladly eat my own foot.

At what point are they just trolling and taking our attention away from what matters when voting

He definitely would have debated him and every point he lost to Jesus, he just would have brought up some shit from the Old Testament as proof that Jesus is wrong.

Or maybe one of Voldemort's minions, or a band of orcs assaulting Helm's Deep, or a stormtrooper in- wait, that one's a little too close. They can imagine him as anything they want, he's worm food now.

have you seen what white statesians eat? too many preservatives for the worms to want him.
- Worms are almost as dumb as Republicans, they'll eat his poison up just like his listeners did.
RFK jr heard worms.

Let them write another fantasy book

Much like Judas.

It's as hard for a rich man to get into heaven. He would have been the rich guy who wanted in on it, but wanted his money more.

Disciple? No. Maybe Saul's partner in crime before Saul became Paul.

He wouldn't have needed 30 pieces of silver.

Get out of here with your religious nonsense.

I can only dream Christianity to have stopped at 12 people!

The goal of Christianity is to convince Indo-Europeans that they have a divine right to use the entire world and universe as their frontier for the endless pursuit of personal sovereignty. It's a scam to convince a large portion of the population that they're in on being a "chosen one" so they'll coerce themselves into expanding the tax base of whatever the major empire of the time is.

Actually, correct me if I'm wrong but that was Matthias who replaced Judas Iscariot after he gave himself a neck stretch.

Yup. He brought the total living disciples back up to 12, but was the 13th to be chosen.
MAGA is a bad book club.

People who believe this nonsense are mentally ill.

Real Christian Jesus "Bitch, please! Take your cracker ass and get the fuck out of here."

Supply Side Jesus "Come my child, I welcome you to my flock."

Wasn't Judas the 13th disciple?

No, he was one of the twelve disciples.

Imagine being Steven Crowder right now.

Preferably the one that had nails driven through his body and was left hanging on the upside down cross.

St. Peter's cross?

Lol nice rage bite try

Hear me out in this one, if by disciple they mean Peter who cut off a Romans ear, or Judas who sold out Jesus, or Thomas who doubted Jesus return, then yeah I get it.

one of the DEMONS apostate.