Curious Christian

Violence is never the way of Jesus. Whatever our politics, whoever the victim, Christians must say clearly: we repudiate political violence without exception.

I won’t pretend it is easy to grieve for someone whose public life often denied empathy to others. But I do affirm that he, like every person, was made in the image of God. For that reason alone, we must not celebrate his death.

What concerns me now is how quickly this tragedy is being used to stoke fear and to feed a persecution narrative. That path only breeds more hatred and division. The way of Christ leads elsewhere.

So I want to call on all of us, progressive or conservative, to take a clear stand together: we renounce violence in every form, and we refuse to let fear or vengeance set the tone of our faith. Our witness must be shaped by the cross, not by the rage of this world.