Evil in the Human Heart:

Evil in the Human Heart: The Lesson of Charlie Kirk’s Death

David T. Cloft

The deliberate murder of Charlie Kirk is not just the silencing of a man; it is the symptom of a nation collapsing under the weight of its own corruption. The tool used doesn’t matter — whether it was a bullet, a blade, or a clenched fist. What matters is the evil festering inside human hearts. America’s crisis is not mechanical, but moral.

Not About Tools, But Sin

The left wants to point to the tool, to regulate and ban, as if evil can be legislated away. But Scripture reminds us: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9). That is the real weapon. Cain didn’t need an AR-15 to spill Abel’s blood. He only needed envy, rage, and sin crouching at his door. And it is crouching at America’s door again.

The Days of Noah — Again

Jesus warned: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man” (Matthew 24:37). Violence filled the earth then, and it fills the earth now. What we are witnessing is not random — it is the fruit of decades of cultural rot, where truth is mocked, evil is celebrated, and righteousness is silenced.

The Martyrs of Rome and Today

Rome once thought it could silence Christianity by killing its messengers. They fed men and women to lions, burned them alive, and spilled their blood in the sand of the Colosseum. Yet every martyr only fueled the faith, spreading it faster across the empire. The Caesars are dust, their empire rubble. But the Gospel still stands.

Charlie Kirk, though not torn apart in an arena, is now linked to that same lineage of men cut down because they dared to speak truth in a collapsing empire. And just as Rome could not kill the message by killing the messenger, so too this nation’s tyrants will fail.

Evil Must Be Named

This is not about political disagreements. This is about evil. Evil that cloaks itself in “tolerance” while it cheers the silencing of voices it despises. Evil that calls darkness light and light darkness (Isaiah 5:20). Evil that celebrates when a truth-teller is struck down in what is supposed to be a free nation.

A Call to Repentance and Resolve

But let us be clear: the shooter — whoever he was — did not win. All he did was pour jet fuel on a fire he cannot control. Evil always overplays its hand. The left thinks bloodshed will silence opposition, but in reality it exposes their desperation. Just as Rome’s brutality only revealed its weakness, so too this act shows that America’s enemies of truth are trembling.

Charlie Kirk’s life and death call us back to first principles: our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 6:12). And the only cure for this nation is repentance, not regulation.

Conclusion

Evil must be named. Evil must be resisted. And above all, evil must be answered with truth. Charlie Kirk was unafraid to speak in the face of hostility. The question now is whether we will do the same — or whether we will cower in the shadows of a nation that once claimed to be free.

The blood of martyrs has always watered the seeds of awakening. Maybe, just maybe, Charlie’s blood will too.