Let’s make one thing very very clear right off the top before we get into the MAGA fetish with violence and the need to say the name “Jesus” but never think about Jesus’s work.

We cannot stress enough that in this country, you cannot convict a person unless you have enough evidence to convict “beyond a reasonable doubt” and when self-defense is in the picture, it gets even more confusing for the jury as to who has to prove what. The state of Wisconsin did not prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that Kyle Rittenhouse was guilty of murder.

The jury did not find Rittenhouse innocent. It could easily turn into an O.J. situation where the victims’ families see Kyle playing Right wing superstar and making lots of money (including that $2 million kept from his bail) and decide to sue him for shooting their loved one and win because they only have to prove it was “more likely than not” that Kyle needlessly killed their loved one.

Kyle Rittenhouse was not declared “innocent.”

And yet the right lionizes Rittenhouse as if he stopped the 9-11 attacks and it’s feeding on itself. Tucker Carlson called himself a “big fan” of Rittenhouse – a grown man is a “big fan” of… what? A guy that killed two guys, whether in self-defense or not?

But Charlie Kirk, the young man getting rich off being the rockstar of Turning Point USA (We aren’t misusing Rock Star, their events are more commercialized now than most pro-wrestling, and we suspect that Charlie does quite well, like rock stars), Charlie is the one that took Rittenhouse to the next level in a discussion.

Charlie was talking about all the good news that has come down lately and he included Kyle Rittenhouse, as a “win for the Constitution, due process, a win for presumption of innocence, and biblical values by the way, about the wrongfully accused, especially in the Old Testament, including Jesus Christ.”

We aren’t even going to hold Kirk responsible for inserting Jesus into the Old Testament.

Charlie Kirk compared Kyle Rittenhouse to wrongly accused Bible characters “including Jesus Christ.” pic.twitter.com/pWwJF9aBxj

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) December 22, 2021

This is yet another perfect example of what happens when people who call themselves Christian talk about someone they know nothing about – Jesus. Jesus was not “wrongfully accused.” The priests at the time felt threatened by Jesus’s ministry and they used the “King of the Jews” assertion as the “blasphemy,” in order to crucify him. Except Jesus never denied it. He never denied the ministry that threatened them and when they invented the title “King of the Jews,” Jesus never complained or denied the underlying argument.

Obviously, this is wrong on so many levels, a 17 year old with an AR-15 shooting looters because he’s protecting “property” compared to a man who told people to turn the other cheek, and, above all else, love one another.

Sometimes it almost seems like these Christians have never even heard of this radical progressive named Jesus, doesn’t it?

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