There is a dangerous lie spreading. It is the idea that to be a Christian means to be weak. That our call to forgive is a demand to surrender. Some on the right, even those who stand with us on policy, dismiss our faith as a slave morality. They claim it produces passive men and compliant nations. They are wrong. They do not understand the sword in the hand of the saint or the crown on the head of a King.
Let us look at the example of Erika Kirk. In the face of unimaginable pain, she demonstrated what the world cannot comprehend. At her husband Charlie’s memorial, she looked into the camera and addressed his killer directly, saying, “I forgive you.” This was not weakness. This was spiritual warfare. It takes a strength the world does not possess to look into the face of pure evil and refuse to let it claim your soul.
But her forgiveness was personal. It was sacred. It was for her. It was not for us.
She clarified this herself in a moment of raw honesty in an interview a few days prior. “I’ve had so many people ask, ‘Do you feel anger toward this man? Like, do you want to seek the death penalty?’ I’ll be honest. I told our lawyer, I want the government to decide this. I do not want that man’s blood on my ledger.”
Do you see the profound wisdom here? She entrusted justice to the very institution God established to execute it. She freed her spirit from vengeance so that the state could fulfill its God given duty without emotional interference. Her personal grace does not pardon the killer. It condemns him all the more. It places the burden of justice squarely where it belongs, on the shoulders of the governing authorities who are called to be agents of wrath.
This is not slave morality. This is sovereign morality.
Christianity is not a faith of slaves. It is the faith of crusaders who marched across continents. It is the faith of kings who built cathedrals and codified law. It is the faith that created the West. Ours is a God who commands armies, overthrows kingdoms, and carries our righteous justice against the wicked. Our Savior did not turn the other cheek to the evil money changers in the temple. He made a whip of cords and drove them out.
When we speak of Christ driving out the money changers, we see His righteous anger against the corruption of holy things. It is a powerful image of personal confrontation. But the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD is something far grander and more terrifying. It is God Himself, the same Jesus who preached on the hills of Galilee, bringing covenantal, national judgment upon an entire people who had rejected Him.
This was not a random act of historical violence. It was the decisive, prophesied end of an age. The Old Covenant, with its temple, its sacrifices, and its priesthood, was made obsolete. It was a system that had reached its fulfillment and its end in Christ. By rejecting the Messiah, the Jewish leadership of Israel sealed the fate of their entire political and religious order.
God did not simply warn them. He dismantled their world. The Temple, the very center of their universe, was not just damaged. It was obliterated. Stone was not left upon stone, just as He said it would be. This was a terrifying act of divine surgery and justice. The old, corrupted vessel was smashed to make way for the new.
What was established in its place? The New Covenant. A covenant not written on stone tablets in a building in Jerusalem, but on the hearts of His people from every tribe, tongue, and nation. A covenant mediated by Christ Himself, our eternal High Priest. A covenant that created a new nation, a holy nation, the Church, built upon the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
This is the God we serve. A God of devastating, righteous judgment and glorious, sovereign redemption. He does not merely get angry at sin. He brings eras to a close. He shatters kingdoms that are in rebellion against Him. He does not negotiate with evil. He removes it.
This is the opposite of weakness. This is ultimate strength. This is the cosmic King exercising His authority over history itself.
So when we speak of justice today, we are not speaking of a human invention. We are appealing to a divine principle. We are calling for our society to align itself with the reality of God’s order. A society that refuses to judge evil, that protects the wicked and punishes the good, is a society in rebellion against the very fabric of creation. It is inviting disorder. History shows us what happens to nations that persistently and arrogantly defy God’s law.
The destruction of Jerusalem stands as an eternal monument. It is a warning to all nations and all peoples that God is not mocked. He is a God of covenant faithfulness, which means He rewards righteousness and He punishes evil. He overthrew a kingdom to establish His Church. He will judge again.
Our call for justice, for law and order, for the punishment of evildoers, is not just a political opinion. It is a theological imperative. It is a desire to see our nation reflect, however imperfectly, the righteous justice of the King who judges rightly.
The call to forgive is a call to personal liberation, not public capitulation. It is what allows a Christian soldier to fight with a clean heart and a steady hand. He does not fight for hatred. He fights for order. For his people. For what is right. For the glory of God.
Our duty as a society facing this evil is not to forgive. It is to judge. It is to punish. It is to protect. We must demand concrete and swift action. We must insist that evil is met with overwhelming force. We must have laws that punish criminals, borders that defend our citizens, and a culture that celebrates strength and honor instead of death and destruction.
We honor Erika Kirk’s breathtaking strength by being strong ourselves. By ensuring that the man who murdered her husband faces the full penalty of the law. By building a society where such evil is not tolerated, coddled, or explained away, but stamped out.
Let the world see this. Let them see a woman who is spiritually free and a nation that is physically defended. Let them see that our faith forges the strongest souls and the strongest nations. We are not slaves. We are sons. We are heirs. We are conquerors. And we will have justice.
We must have the courage to hold both truths in tension without letting the world distort them. We champion grace, but we also demand justice for the wicked. We build, we create, we protect, and we conquer the darkness with the overwhelming power of Truth and the sword entrusted to the government by God. We are the heirs of a faith that has moved mountains and toppled empires.
Let us start acting like it.
Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab AI Inc
Christ is King
