The recent rash of violence is a symptom of the spiritual disease plaguing our nation.
Spiritual warfare is real, undeniably real, and the Western world is currently in the throes of it. Some years ago, it may have been easy (or at least easier than it is now) to brush off the wearisome warning of Christians who saw Satan’s hand in everything from blatant evils like abortion to sly innuendo in children’s movies. But the present state of the Western world leaves no doubt that powers and principalities are doing battle here and now, and the prizes being fought for are our souls.
Evidence of this spiritual warfare abounds. The assassination of devout Christian and loving husband and father Charlie Kirk on September 10 is one example. In a recent interview with Diane Montagna, Catholic theologian and former chief of the Vatican’s doctrine office Cardinal Gerhard Müller posited, “Charlie Kirk was the victim of an atheistic ideology, whose followers erupted in satanic celebration over the heinous murder of an exemplary husband and family man. The devil always takes possession of those who hate life and truth.” Citing Scripture, he added, “For, according to the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, the devil is a ‘murderer from the beginning’ and the ‘father of lies’ (John 8:44). And only those who hear the words of God are of God (cf. John 8:47).”
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