Bishop William Barber Condemns Charlie Kirk Murder and the Right's Religious Nationalism

[Uncle Joe]

We speak to Bishop William J. Barber II about conservative Christian activist Charlie Kirk's killing and the right-wing weaponization of his death. Barber says outrage over political violence should also extend beyond Kirk's assassination, to what he refers to as the political violence of policy, including the hundreds around the world who die of poverty, war and disease every day. "You cannot claim that you believe in a god or Christ of love and justice and mercy and grace and truth, and then you push policies that prey on the very persons, in the very communities, that the Scriptures, that the example of Jesus and the prophet tells us we should not only pray for, but we should also be lifting up and helping up and protecting."

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