Two AI videos depict Charlie Kirk in heaven as a martyr

This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on September 16, 2025.

Charlie Kirk’s death has sparked a national conversation about his words. As evangelicals hail him as a martyr, others point to the harm he caused through the racist, sexist, homophobic, violence-celebrating remarks he made during his life.

Pastor Howard John Wesley of Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., said, “I’m overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America at half-staff calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an unapologetic racist and spent all of his life sowing seeds of division and hate into this land.”

He added, “How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

AI-generated image of Charlie Kirk in heaven.

Many people on the right apparently are unaware of the hateful words Kirk said during his life. They think he was simply a good Christian Republican who all the mean, leftist God-haters don’t like. So they’re acting defensively to support their team.

Others know full well what Kirk said and have embraced his cruelty as their gospel.

But there’s another odd trend that’s beginning to spring up. Rather than reflecting on the words Kirk said during his life, evangelicals are creating AI videos of Kirk talking to evangelicals after his death.

‘Blessed are the persecuted’

“I’m Charlie,” one video opens with the image of Kirk in a room with a black background, as a piano calmly plays a somber sounding version of the Hillsong worship hit “Oceans.” “My faith cost me my life. But now I stand forever in glory with those who also stood firm.”

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