Charlie Kirk’s Christianity Was Caesar’s, Not Christ’s

Charlie Kirk’s Christianity Was Caesar’s, Not Christ’s

To confess Jesus Christ as Lord in the ancient world was not a private act of devotion, nor a sentimental piety reserved for the afterlife. It was a political declaration with revolutionary implications. The Roman Empire hailed Caesar as dominus et salvator—“lord and savior”—whose reign guaranteed peace and prosperity. To ascribe those titles to a crucified Galilean Jew instead was an act of defiance that destabilized the ideological foundation …