The Charlie Kirk Paradox: When “Sanctity of Life” Is Selective By Bashir Lucas Samson Lukman

There’s something profoundly disgusting about moral double standards cloaked in religious piety. Christians like Ryan Miller portray Charlie Kirk as the ideal Christian, praising him as a man of faith, and in the same breath, they speak of love. But how can one promote hate while preaching love? How can one defend the life of a fetus yet justify the slaughter of children? How can one call for tolerance yet spew venom against Muslims and immigrants? That is hypocrisy; pure and simple. And it demands an honest reckoning.

Since October 2023, Gaza has become a graveyard for children. More than 18,000 young lives have been erased in less than two years, not by accident or sickness but by bombs and bullets. On average, twenty-eight children die every single day, silenced by airstrikes, starvation, and the collapse of hospitals stripped of medicine and power. Among them are babies who never learned to walk, toddlers still clutching their mothers, preschoolers just discovering their ABCs. Save the Children reported that at least 3,100 of those killed were under five years old. Over 39,000 children have been orphaned, left to wander through a world without parents, carrying grief they cannot yet comprehend. Nearly 274 newborns have been killed, along with 876 infants who had not even lived to see their first birthday. These are not statistics. This is a crime against the most vulnerable of humanity.

Numbers alone can numb us, so look closer. In May 2025, an airstrike flattened the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City. Thirty-six people were killed, including eighteen children. A school, meant to be a place of safety and learning, was turned into a blackened ruin. Hospitals, too, have been slaughterhouses. At Shifa Hospital, one attack killed at least thirty-two people, twelve of them children. Families wiped out in seconds, generations erased in a flash of fire.

And yet Charlie Kirk, celebrated by many as the ideal Christian, justified this violence. He cried out for the sanctity of life when it meant railing against abortion in America. But when the sanctity of life belonged to Palestinian children, he shrugged, excused it, or draped it in politics. That is not pro-life. That is pro-selective-life.

The paradox of Charlie Kirk is bigger than him. It mirrors a movement that has turned Christianity into a tribal badge, where the unborn must be defended but the living can be dismissed if they are the wrong race, the wrong religion, or born on the wrong side of a border. To claim to be pro-life while ignoring, excusing, or celebrating the deaths of children is not righteousness. It is idolatry of ideology, and it betrays the very Gospel it claims to uphold.

If Jesus walked through Gaza today, if he stood beside mothers pulling the bodies of their toddlers from rubble, would he say, “This was necessary”? No. He would weep. He would cradle the child. He would rage against the violence and condemn the injustice no matter who committed it. The Jesus of the Gospels did not give footnotes to his commandment to love. He did not say “except when politics demands otherwise.” He taught compassion, mercy, and peace, even toward enemies.

So I ask plainly: is it Christian to fight abortion while remaining silent as children are bombed? Is it Christian to demand that the unborn be spared while children with names, faces, and dreams are reduced to collateral damage? If life is sacred, then all life must be sacred. Anything less is hypocrisy.

Charlie Kirk’s paradox is not just his own inconsistency. It is the damning evidence of a faith stripped of love and turned into politics. If Christian faith means anything at all, it must mean every life counts. The unborn, the orphaned, the displaced, the child buried under rubble—all of them deserve protection, justice, and dignity. Anything less is not Christianity. It is complicity.

Watch Charlie Kirk’s Paradox: https://youtu.be/P2u1Y-76m5o

Bashir Lucas Samson Lukman