I don’t know what horrifies me more. The shooting of evangelical Christian, Charlie Kirk, or the way some have gleefully celebrated his death. For many in Britain, Kirk’s name may be familiar mainly through clips online. Some of his words — brash, American, and at times uncomfortably combative — have made even sympathetic ears wince. Yet it would be a grave mistake to let our British sense of politeness blind us to the courage he displayed in proclaiming his Christian faith in the lion’s den of university campuses and hostile media studios.
What should alarm us is not only the death of a prominent Christian voice, but the gleeful mockery that has followed. The Telegraph is reporting that the incoming President of the Oxford Union appears to have celebrated Kirk’s death just months after debating him.
In messages seen by The Telegraph, George Abaraonye posted: ‘Charlie Kirk is dead, let’s [expletive] go’ – a common celebratory phrase among Gen Z. Another message, believed to be on the student’s Instagram account, stated ‘Charlie Kirk is dead loool', an exaggeration of the abbreviation ‘laughing out loud’. The Telegraph contacted Abaraonye for comment, but at the time of my writing this, he had not responded.
