Only the Word of God Proclaimed Will Bring Repentance to Our Pagan Culture
Bill Peacock, Excellent Thought, Faith, Policy, and Culture, Oct 2, 2025
If anyone had doubts before Charlie Kirk’s assassination about whether the left or the right is responsible for most political violence in America today, the jury has now delivered its verdict.
A student at Texas state university mocked Charlie Kirk and reenacted his killing. A NOAA employer in Boulder, CO celebrated Kirk’s death. A supporter of U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill, who is running for the Democrat nomination for governor of New Jersey, held up a sign saying, “It’s a Turning Point. Sorry, Charlie.”
As John Daniel Davidson describes, this recent violence from the left is nothing new:
The 2017 mass shooting of Republican lawmakers during a congressional baseball practice was carried out by a left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter. In the 2020 BLM riots, at least a half-dozen people were killed and thousands more injured amid widespread violence and destruction. In June 2022, an armed would-be assassin was arrested outside the home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
These events, taken together, portray a pattern of political violence emanating from the left. Many of us didn’t need the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder to see this, but the fact that so many still fail to see it suggests we should take a closer look at what is driving the left toward violence against fellow humans.
At its heart, the most obvious driver of progressive violence is anger—often blunt, unreflective rage—directed against conservatives and Christians who defend traditional marriage, the created distinction of male and female, the protection of unborn babies, the use of science in medicine and energy, and racial unity. In progressive circles, opponents are sometimes cast in apocalyptic terms: their views are framed as “crimes against humanity” and existential threats to civilization.
At first glance, the left’s anger seems to be emanating from a very disparate group: white liberals, blacks, gays, the transgendered, multinational elites, rich, poor, and more. What is it, then, that brings together these people from all different walks of life, economic circumstances, and agendas? I believe the common denominator is their hatred of God and His people
We’ve seen multiple public displays of this hatred in the mocking of God. For instance, the Los Angeles Dodgers giving a community heroes award to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during a ball game at Dodger Stadium. Or the “fake last supper” during the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony that mocked the last supper of Christ as portrayed in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the same name.
We also see the hatred of God and His people as a theme among many Charlie Kirk haters. “What’s Charlie Kirk’s ***** legacy!!!! The hate for everything not Christian and White!!,” was recently posted on X. But it extends far beyond Kirk story. Another example: MAGA is “angry bc they’ve been indoctrinated into thinking white supremacy, misogyny, homophobia/transphobia, ableism, & other bigotry is “holy.” They believe their god has given them dominion & we’re not “respecting” it. They want us to grovel & beg for forgiveness.”
Seeing the left through the eyes of Scripture helps us understand the left hates God because they cannot stand before Him. Like Isaiah, when they are confronted with God’s holiness and truth they feel like they are “undone” (Isaiah 6:5 ASV). However, unlike Isaiah, they fail to acknowledge they have “unclean lips, and [they] dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.” So rather than respond to God’s call by repenting and saying, “Here am I; send me” (Isaiah 6:8), they “rage” and “plot” and “set themselves” against the “Lord and against his Anointed” (Psalm 2:1-2). Anything that might hide the shame of their “unclean lips.”
When confronted with the truth that “God created man in his own image … male and female he created them,” they rage because they realize their attempts to promote transgenderism and gay marriage are doomed. When they come face to face with the truth that God “made from one man every nation of mankind,” they plot because they understand their efforts to use race to consolidate political and economic power will fail in the long run.
Ultimately, the left sets themselves against God because they cannot deny that “what can be known about God is plain to them” (Romans 1:19). Thus, they know their refusal to acknowledge who He is, ask for forgiveness, and submit to His Son Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior will lead them to “receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error” (Romans 1:27).
A survey of the left’s anger would not be complete without a look at Joy Reid doing what the left does so well, projecting its anger onto the right:
Why are y’all so angry? What the **** are you angry about? You’ve banned all of our books. You’ve banned black history. You’ve banned the 1619 project. You don’t have to compete with women for jobs. The people who work [in museums] are terrified; they’re afraid to tell real history. What more do you want? What are you so angry about?
I do not know anything about the state of Ms. Reid’s relationship with God. But her behavior here is typical of what we see in the left: people who know they are wrong and unconsciously attribute their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or motives to others, including their anger, hatred, and violent actions.
Before I close, let me acknowledge that the left does not have a monopoly on the hatred of God. There is hatred of God on the left and right, among libertarians, etc. It is just that only on the left has this hatred been adopted as a political movement. While not all Democrats, Greens, etc., hate God, they all have at least consented to being part of a movement that is attempting to wipe God out of the public square.
It is amazing to be living at this perhaps unique time in American history where President Trump and his administration are fighting back against the enemies of liberty and God like “nobody’s ever seen before.” But the left’s enmity toward God reminds us that if we want to finish the job, it is going to take more than political victories.
If conservatives and Christians are going to win their battle against the left, we should first grasp that as angry and violent as the left is becoming, they “are of all people [the] most to be pitied” (1 Corinthians 15:19). This tells us that while we must resist the left in many ways—politically, legally, and when necessary through lawful force—we must also pick up our Bibles and share the Word of God with them. Few of us will live in civil peace until God changes the hearts of the left. And we will not experience widespread civil liberty until most of us—including the left—possess the true liberty that one can only find in Jesus Christ.
https://excellentthought.substack.com/p/the-hatred-of-god-is-driving-the