Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University has deeply impacted people, with memorials set up around the world, including outside Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix.
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TheassassinationofTurningPointUSAfounderCharlieKirkhassparkedsharplydividedreactions,withsomechurchesacrosstheU.S.addressingthetragedy—andtheviralvideoofhisshooting—intheirsermonsthispastSunday.
RyanVisconti,leadpastoratGenerationChurchinMesa,Arizona,toldFoxNewsDigitalinaninterviewthatmanypeoplearefindingthemselves“mourningthisinanunusualway,”butnotedthatpeopleprobablyhadmorefamiliaritywithKirkthantheyrealizedduetohisexpansivereach.
“AsaChristian,CharliewasabrotherinChrist,andsoIthinkthereisaconnectiontherespirituallythatafellowbrotherinChrist,aChristian,wasmurderedbrutallyandgraphically,”Viscontisaid.“Andhowgraphichisdeathwas,itwastraumatic.Andso,really,allofuswhosawthoseterriblevideosarewitnessestomurder.Andthatreallyhurtsonadeeplevel,anditscarsyoursoul.”
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