Coronation and Assassination
WASHINGTON, DC — When Americans watch the coronation of a Queen or King in England, many marvel at the hymns, the liturgy, communion, and the high holy order of service. In a word, the coronation features what most Protestant church services in the US dismiss Sunday after Sunday.
The coronation always takes place in the same place, Westminster Abbey. It is always led by the individual holding the position of Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England--a decidedly state church. Again, these features differ significantly from those of US Protestant churches.
The coronation is a respectful yet festive occasion, and millions tune in. In fact, the coronation of King Charles was watched by an estimated 40 million people in the UK and US combined.
The coronation of King Charles
Unlike the coronation of the new British monarch, we Americans have what could be called a Service of Assassination. The Service of Assassination honors Presidents and preachers like MLK, Malcolm X, and Charlie Kirk, who were shot down by "lone gunmen," our own government, or other malicious actors.
JFK in US Capitol
Four U.S. presidents have been assassinated: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. Presidents Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump narrowly escaped with their lives. If you're counting, that's ten presidents either assassinated or targeted by an assassin—roughly 22% in all. Over the same period of time, not one attempt has been made to assassinate the British monarch, and only one prime minister of England has been assassinated since 1776, and only Margaret Thatcher seriously threatened.
For those presidents who did not survive, each in their own way, it is commonly said, "brought the country together."
While the British service celebrates the arrival of a new King or Queen, our Service of Assassination is a memorial for those who have died—the outgoing leader who was violently killed.
Our Service of Assassination is memorialized by the nation with flags flown at half-staff, caskets paraded down Pennsylvania Ave, and coffins "lying in state." After our pageantry, there are eulogies and a graveside service.
Charlie Kirk's Assassination Service, however, was significantly different from other US Assassination Services and considerably different from the coronation service in the UK.
Charlie Kirk's service was held in a football stadium where 60,000 people could gather to remember and celebrate his life. It was watched by an estimated 200,000 million and still counting. By way of contrast, during the Great Awakening in the 1700s, George Whitfield preached some 18,000 times from 1739 until his death in 1770, and it is estimated that roughly 1.5 to 2 million heard him.
And unlike the coronation, gone was any real order of service. There was no clear beginning, middle, or end. This was a five-hour Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) festival- a characteristic of modern Protestant Evangelicalism, combined with a quasi-Trump rally. It was a distinctly Evangelical Protestant service: no head of church and no state church. In the Founders' wisdom, those were abandoned long ago. Instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the state church presiding, the actual U.S. heads of state presided, and delivered remarks one right after the other.
The President, Director of National Intelligence, Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of the War Department, and the Department of State—all in their own way—preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ as fluidly as St. Paul did to the Church at Corinth.
In the case of Kirk's Assassination Service, it was, surprisingly, a celebratory event. Mrs. Kirk immediately followed Jesus' command to "forgive one another" by offering pardon to her husband's murderer. TPUSA vowed to continue. And they will.
By many accounts, God is truly being glorified if social media is accurate—church attendance, Bible reading, and prayer are all increasing, along with many thousands of new converts to Christ.
Yet lurking behind our Service of Assassination is the unease Americans feel about the ship of state. There is no real closure, only conspiracies.
That's because the story the government and their assets in the media tell us never quite feels right.
When they tell us the motive, it rings hollow, especially when dissenting voices are censored.
We were told Osama bin Laden hated our "democracy." But that’s not what bin Laden actually said, and he did tell us.
Oswald , we were told, was a "lone gunman" with no motive. Oswald was, unfortunately, shot dead on national television just before he could be interrogated by the CIA.
And to add insult to deadly injury, Langley dreams up theories. Magic bullet.
And a first-year reporter at the Washington Post is assigned to cover Watergate — the biggest scandal in decades. That makes perfect sense. Put your intern--never mind that he was a military intelligence officer--on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story to remove a President who questioned the CIA’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination. Then install the only un-elected President in US history who sat on the Warren Commission that produced the “magic bullet theory” and “lone gunman theory” supporting the CIA narrative.
A helicopter, flown by a friendly trans-activist Democrat, mysteriously crashed into an American Airlines plane, and her entire Internet history is scrubbed (not before a few pics slipped out online).
For whatever reason, and despite the 9/11 Commission or the Warren Commission or any other commission, Americans instinctively know that their government has no intention whatsoever of wrapping up the case or telling the truth. To lie to the American People seems to be the central role of the US government.
Why?
The US government is the prime suspect, prime mover, actor, and behind much of the global chaos, war, stolen elections here and abroad, torture, etc.
(Please see A Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner, or The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot, for more information.)
Bodies are cremated. Buildings leveled. Social media posts vanish. And then, someone finds a 2022 advertisement for Black Rock featuring the attempted assassin of Trump.
And you wonder why #MKUltra is trending?
No one questions the coronation of King of England. It occurs, is celebrated, and the nation rejoices.
Yet, nearly everyone questions the assassinations. They happen, there is a shock, and the nation is restless.