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One doesn't have to be a fan to say shooting people you disagree with is not social behavior. The fact so many people did far worse than that is a kind of really psychotic barometer. I had heard of Charlie Kirk in passing before his assassination, but I wasn't really a follower since much of what he was doing was/is stuff I'd all ready done a lot of. I think it is still useful for people of a certain age, but usually as you go along, you start to learn that debate doesn't generally change anyone's mind.
Especially the level of debates he was having (very low---not really his fault, but mostly because the college kids he debates haven't really thought through their beliefs).
He filled this Ben Shapiro mold where an incredibly prepared and polished speaker would come onto college campuses and debate unprepared, unskilled college students. I don't actually think it was especially helpful to society overall, but it primarily strengthened the confidence of those who already lean right, because it makes those who lean left look dumb. But I'm not sure it changed the minds of anyone on the left, because they weren't debating the left's best thinkers. It might have shifted some people in the middle, I'm not sure.
But to me, there's no question that those who lean right on college campuses are smarter than those who lean left, if only because the easy thing to do is to lean left.
I'd say people are at a place where they need a change of heart more than a change of mind.
Nice review. I didn't even know Charlie Kirk had been working on a book before he died. Even less so a book about sabbath and its connection to modern culture.
I wasn't a huge fan of his, but his assassination really shook me. No one deserves that, especially not someone whose only "crime" was to go and debate unprepared college kids and make them look foolish. Also, the number of grown adults explicitly or implicitly celebrating his death was extremely disconcerting.