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Lessons from the
Murder of Charlie KirkBy Matthew Fox 9/17/2025 |
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number of important lessons to learn—and relearn—loom from the tragedy of the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. |
First is obvious—or should be: That it is wrong to murder persons for speaking their political beliefs however wretched they may be. Second is that words and ideas hurt and hurt deeply. We now know that apparently the murderer was in a relationship with a trans person
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“Charlie Kirk speaking with attendees at the 2025 Student Action Summit at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida.” Wikimedia Commons |
Kirk was explicit about his belief that trans people don’t have a right to exist. Third is that truth matters. Kirk championed the lie debunked by 65 court decisions and common sense that Trump won the 2020 election. Fourth, in a democracy, diversity matters. Governor Cox of Utah, himself a Mormon and conservative like the murderer’s family, cited the basis of American democracy articulated by Abraham Lincoln: That every American has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This includes trans people. Trans people are people. Trans people have rights. Trans people have the right of dignity of self. Trans people are different, and are a tiny minority and all the more vulnerable for that. Therefore our treatment of them is a test of our commitment to the ideal that all people are images of God and children of God and deserve respect and dignity. |
Anti-racism sign at Labor Day protest in Doylestown, PA. Photo by Cynthia Greb. Used with permission. | It is contrary to Jesus’ teachings to preach that some people are less than human or that there is only one version of humanity—that which mirrors oneself. People who are so insecure about their sexuality that they have to make scapegoats of others ought to look in the mirror and examine their own
souls. Diversity exists—God and nature are biased in favor of diversity. No political demagoguery can make it otherwise. Wars against DEI such as Mr. Kirk waged do not |
make it otherwise. Here is what he said about people different from himself: “Prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people.” And, “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.” And, “we need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor.”* He also called for televised public executions that children should view.** |
Apparently Kirk’s killer had an addiction to a video game that was explicit about shooting people with a rifle from a distance and spent thousands of hours online mastering that fetish. The killer was, like many young men today, confused about life. A very high percentage of those who commit mass
murders in the US these days are young men. They need mentors and elders in their lives who can teach them what healthy masculinity is as opposed to the dominant cultural version of maleness which so often champions domination and the reptilian brain—“I win, you lose.” |
Kirk declared that “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up new age term that does lots of damage.” He taught birth control causes women to be “angry and bitter” and that a ten-year old girl who was raped should bring that baby to term. He said that seeing a black pilot makes |
One example of Charlie Kirk’s messages of hate. Adam Mockler |
him
wonder, “I hope he’s qualified.” Recently, on hearing of the engagement of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, he told Taylor to “submit to your husband….have a ton of children….If she has children, she’ll stop this liberal nonsense.” *** Healthy manhood invites qualities and powers that develop our deep capacities for compassion and understanding, for courage, justice-making, healing and respect for those different from ourselves. Love, therefore, as Jesus taught. Christian nationalism is the opposite of all this. Just as the opposite of Christ is Antichrist. |
*Will Neal, “Fox News War as Host Declares
Charlie Kirk ‘Wasn’t a Saint’” Daily Beast, September 14, 2025
**Andy Borowitz, "Sorry,
Loser! As long as there's a First Amendment, I plan to enjoy it." The Borowitz Report. September 16, 2025.
***Evolve Editors, “Charlie Kirk’s Most Controversial Moments,“ Yahoo! News, September 12, 2025 See Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality
of Men: Ten Metaphors To Awaken the Sacred Masculine. And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the World. And
Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality. And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society. And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice. And Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation. And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2025 Election.
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The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors,
or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Spiritual Warrior….These timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to connect to their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Every man on this planet should read this book — not to mention every woman who wants to understand the struggles, often unconscious, that
shape the men they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of The Left Hand of God |
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South
American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality
and Practice.
“I am reading Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth by Matt Fox. He is one that fills my heart and mind for new life in spite of so much that is violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang. |
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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in
Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may
have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story |
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling
author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics |
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A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew
Fox delivers a profound exploration of the meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate activity.
“Well worth our
deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register |
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Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation
Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to use our talents in service of compassion and justice and to
move beyond our broken systems–economic, political, educational, and religious–discovering a spirituality that not only helps us to get along, but also encourages us to reevaluate our traditions, transforming them and in the process building a more sacred and just world. Incorporating the words of young activist leaders culled from interviews and surveys, the book provides a framework that is deliberately interfaith and speaks to our profound yearning for a life with spiritual purpose and for a
better world.
“Occupy Spirituality is a powerful, inspiring, and vital call to embodied awareness and enlightened actions.”
~~ Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist and author of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods |
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Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to
spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a moment, for examining the archetype of the Antichrist, it is now…Read this book with an open mind. Good and evil
are real forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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