I've watched a few videos of Kirk at these college rallies and the thing that strikes me most about him is how smug he is with his frequent a-ha, gotcha moments. As in 'I didn't get a college education but see, I'm smarter than you.' His sprinkled compliments ring false. He expects these kids to know the authors that he knows, the books that he's read, the economists that he's studied and if they don't, he takes aim at their education. He's ten to fifteen older than these kids. He frequently refers to a college education as meaningless.
Why would anyone, let alone somebody who calls himself a Christian, go to a university to tell students their education is meaningless, unless they harbored some kind of animosity? I think he has an unconscious resentment (hatred is too harsh a word perhaps) of these kids who are taking the opportunity to pursue a higher education. He's not there to educate, but to humiliate. He's actually a bully.
His religious affiliation. After having gone through a born-again period in my twenties which was incredible and meaningful in my life and turned my life around, I came to understand Christians and how they think. I lived in the lion's den for a while. I joined a church, a Pentecostal church. The reason why I left was I didn't buy into the exclusivity and the moral superiority that these people exhibited. I was a frog at the picnic table. I started reading Kirkegaard and couldn't believe that someone thought of the church the way I did, which lead to my study of mysticism and theosophy. My spiritual growth took off from there.
From what I've learned, the institution of the church itself is fundamentally evil and produces false idols like Kirk. It's an institution of control. You only have to look at its brutal history. The biggest takeaway from an epiphany I had is this: The true meaning of Christianity is forgiveness, love, humility, giving, and empowerment. Same as the true meaning of every other religion (which means realign in Latin). I don't see these qualities in Kirk with how he treats these kids and frankly, I saw little of these qualities in the people I met through the church. In fact, it's more of a cult. This fella didn't embrace the teachings that he espoused and the spiritual leader of them, but hammered people over the head with his righteousness and their insignificance. Come to Jesus and be like me! Now God has raised him up to be with his dysfunctional family in heaven.
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