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Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point promotes Christian ‘blackshirt’ fascists in UK

‘Turning Point’ is the name of the organisation which was formed by the late Charlie Kirk. While the UK branch has never taken off like its parent company, they have drawn attention to themselves from time to time. Most recently, they turned heads by promoting this incredibly strange video on X/Twitter.

In response, people are bemoaning the encroaching ‘yankification’ of Britain’s politics.

The King’s Army and Turning Point

In the video above, the track-suited masses chant:

JESUS SAVES! JESUS SAVES! JESUS SAVES!

One problem: we’re not sure he’s saved anyone recently, has he?

You could say ‘Jesus saved’, maybe?

Even if he is still ‘saving’, his good works are almost certainly being outweighed by the rampant blasphemy of America’s religious right:

Jokes aside, there are no doubt many people have managed to get on top of their problems with the help of the structure that’s provided by organised religion. There’s ‘structure’, however, and there’s ‘STRUCTURE’, with the latter being distinctly more militant. It’s not for nothing that this group has called themselves ‘King’s Army’, either, as these screengrabs from their website demonstrate:

Images of key figures in the King's Army who are described as 'majors' and 'colonels'

Images of key figures in the King's Army who are described as 'majors' and 'colonels' Turning Point

Images of the King's Army in formation Images of the King's Army in formation Turning Point Images of the King's Army in formation

The ‘War With Sin’

Clicking around on KingsArmy.com, you get to the good stuff when you click the ‘War With Sin‘ dropdown. We’ve not included every Biblical quote they draw reference to, but as you’ll see, they’ve mostly just highlighted passages which sound vaguely militaristic:

King’s Army soldiers believe we are at war with sin and the devil. We see life like a battlefield that is split down the middle, with two opposing armies on each side.

On one half of the battlefield (life/light) (Col 1:12) are The King’s soldiers (Christians). (2 Tim 2:3)

On the other half of the battlefield (death/darkness) (Col 1:13), are Satans soldiers (Demons)

Behind enemy lines, trapped in trenches, deep in darkness, and sinking in swamps of sin, are the casualties of war. They are the dead (spiritually), or dying lost souls. (1 Pet 2:9)

. …

Their hearts have been poisoned by a terminal virus called sin, for which there is no earthly cure. (Jer 17:9)

Given the militaristic and cult-like appearance of King’s Army, the following quotes are more than a little worrying:

There is however, a heavenly antidote. This antidote is hidden in the form of a bullet, a salvation bullet, containing one drop of God’s Holy blood.

When fired from the weapon of the Gospel (2 Cor 6:7), the bullet finds its target (black heart) and there the salvation serum is released. It swims into the blood stream, reversing the terminal death process and
bringing life everlasting. (1 Pet 2:9).

We believe the mission given from the King to all of his soldiers, is to take back that which was stolen! (Matt 28:19) (Col 1:13)

It’s reassuring that guns are difficult to acquire in the UK, because it’s easy to see how a cult-inclined individual might turn ‘salvation bullets’ into a ‘heavenly mass shooting’.

Response

Despite the best wishes of politicians like Nigel Farage, the UK is not America:

It’s notable that Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom‘ rally featured far-right Christian speakers:

Because of the UK’s distinct lack of American tendencies, figures from the right, left, and centre have scorned Turning Point promoting King’s Army:


LBC’s Iain Dale lamented Soho’s present-day dearth of sex stuff:

Novara co-founder James Butler suggested the King’s Army is targeting homosexuality rather than sex in general:


This account highlighted that Turning Point UK have previously called for the ‘physical removal’ of protesters:

Another account highlighted that this retweet is an example of double yankification, with both Turning Point and weirdo Christianity originating in the states:

Turning Point: biblical

The problem with the Bible is that it was written by different people over many years, and its since been translated by even more people with increasingly divergent intentions. As such, it’s easy for people to provide scaffolding to their own personal viewpoints by hyper-focussing on individual passages from their preferred translations.

The problem for King’s Army’s is that they missed this traditional British quote when they were crafting their world view:

Featured image via King’s Army

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.