There were people such as Andrew Murray, himself a strong conservative voice, who in the wake of that incident, spoke of the fact that the left, unlike the right, not only disagrees with its opponents, but also demonizes them and calls them evil. It is not enough to say that conservatives are wrong, according to Mr. Murray’s assessment of leftist tendencies, they also have to tag them as Hitler incarnate. And, as if on cue, Matthew Dowd, a leftist political commentator, went on MSNBC to accurse Kirk of “hate speech,” concerning transexual issues, with the obvious implication that if you spew hate, then you should not be surprised at the consequences.
Mr. Dowd is just another example of people who are not
content with disagreeing with the other side of the political spectrum, they do
so based on spurious arguments that are based on how they feel rather than on
the facts of the case. For Mr. Dowd, saying that men are men and women are
women and the twain shall never meet, for example, is tantamount to putting a
gun to someone’s head and pulling the trigger. How often have we heard the left
talk about the “fact” that if you refuse to acknowledge a person’s sexual
identity fantasy, you’re in essence signing their death warrant?
There is, however, a more important point that needs to be
made about this matter. And that is the reality that evil does exist. I don’t
know what Mr. Murray’s spiritual condition is, but those of us who understand
what the Bible says about human nature, understand that man is by nature
depraved and that until and unless Christ does the work of regeneration on the
heart, that depravity will continue and will, at some point, manifest itself in
very ugly ways. All of us were there at one time. Paul says in Ephesians 2:1
that we were all “dead in trespasses and sins.” None of us are immune to that
reality but God in His mercy chose to make some of us alive. Thus, to say that
people who, like Mr. Dowd, say the wicked things they say are themselves
demonstrating their depravity and evil, is nothing more than agreeing with the
God of the Bible who has declared all under sin (Romans 3:23).
The attitude that many have reminds me of the Pharisees of
Jesus’ time. After they crucified Him, they went to Pilate to ask for a guard for
His tomb. Matthew records that they told the governor that they remember that
that “deceiver said while He was alive that He would rise again on the third
day.” Thus, they not only killed an innocent person, the only truly innocent
person that has ever lived, they attempted to make sure that His message would
be completely snuffed out. They then compounded their error by giving money to
the soldiers after Christ’s resurrection so they would lie about what had happened
to Jesus’ body. Even in light of such incontrovertible evidence, they simply
refused to believe. Many today are the spiritual kin of those Pharisees. Their
knee jerk reaction is always to accuse and insult regardless of how blameless
their target may be.
Mr. Kirk has gone on to his reward. Why God chose to take
him at the tender age of 31 we don’t know. Just recently we mourned the death
of John Macarthur at 86. Robert Murray M’Cheyne only lived to be 29 and John
Calvin lasted a scant 54 years. Moses, on the other hand, lived to be 120. Ultimately,
we leave this world when the work God has given us to do is accomplished. We all
have a purpose in the divine plan. That, in the final analysis, is the most
important thing we should all take from this evil act. Death is coming for us
all and it is important not only to be ready to meet it, but also to ensure
that we are redeeming the time because the days are indeed evil (Colossians 4:6-7).
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