La La La, La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, folks, Greg Kokel here for stand to reason.

And first of all, thank you for being part of the show here today.

I am still kind of absorbing or trying to, I don't know if makes sense is the right word,

but I'm just responding personally and assessing this whole thing about the murder of Charlie Kirk last week.

It's been now, as you're listening to this, a little over a week, Wednesday, September 10th.

And obviously, there's a lot of people that have made a lot of statements about what happened.

And, you know, I don't know that I have a lot more to add to the many who have opined about this.

There's certainly spiritual ramifications.

There's cultural ramifications.

I know Victor Davis- Hansen made the observation,

for example, that it's very unusual that someone in this country who's a media person would

be murdered. That happens in Europe. It happens in Mexico. It happens in Central America. It

doesn't happen here

until now. And not only is or was Charlie Kirk a media person, he was also a Christian. In fact,

it's hard to distinguish in a certain sense. Many people maybe don't think about this, but in my mind,

and I think in Charlie's mind, he was a Christian first, and all of the things that he did

regarding culture and maybe even politics were in light of his Christian commitments.

In fact, I did see a piece, and maybe many you saw this, too, where he was asked, what do you want to be remembered for?

And he said, you mean, if I die? And then he said, I want to be remembered for my own faith, my commitment to my faith, because faith comes first,

is what he said, something to that effect.

And so, as I think of Charlie Kirk, I do not separate his politics from his faith,

and I say so-called faith, because many people want to separate that, put it in a

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