Bill, we have an interesting podcast that we want to get to, but before we do, perhaps you would like to say something about the events that have happened that have been so earth-shattering, especially for our country, with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Anything that you would like to express on that?

Yeah.

You know, Kevin, that you and I try to avoid politics, but I think that the assassination of

Charlie Kirk is not just a political assassination.

It's a Christian martyrdom, frankly.

He was very overt and explicit about his faith in Jesus Christ

and his desire to serve God and to honor Christ with his life.

And he was killed for that commitment. And I think that as Christians, one of the takeaways from this tragic event is that we must not be intimidated

or silenced by these threats of violence in our culture.

We need to speak out boldly and bravely for Christ in the public square and to our friends and

associates.

We follow a crucified Savior, one who was himself martyred. And so we must be willing, I think, to pay the

price, count the cost of discipleship. I also think that this emphasizes the importance of not

using exaggerated rhetoric and hyperbole to characterize our opponents.

When you call people Nazis and fascists, this provides moral justification for people to do violence

against them.

After all, who would object to someone living in Nazi Germany during the 30s

trying to assassinate Adolf Hitler or Adolf Eichmann?

And so when you characterize people with these kind of epithets,

you're going to provide a moral justification

for violence in the minds of some people leading to these kinds of tragedies.

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