A Faith on the Fringe update, Sept. 20, 2025

I don’t normally send a mid-month update, but this is a September to remember.

Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh, so mellow. Try to remember the kind of September when grass was green and grain was yellow. Try to remember the kind of September
when you were a tender and callow fellow. Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow.

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On Sept. 10, right-wing political extremist Charlie Kirk was a victim of the gun violence he repeatedly minimized.

Kirk is being lionized by the Right like another Horst Wessel.

Most of the mainstream media, the entire Republican Party, and the MAGA echo chamber needs to hear something I’ll make plain.

Charlie Kirk was a racist bigot.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is a racist bigot. His office doesn’t preclude him from being one.

Charlie Kirk being a victim of the gun violence he denied does not erase the fact that he was a racist bigot.

Click here or the photo for my blog about Kirk.

Two racists. Charlie Kirk (right), and a convicted felon.

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With Kirk’s murder, the Radical Right, previously known as the Republican Party, has found their Reichstag Moment.

When an arsonist burned Germany’s Reichstag building, the Nazis used the opportunity to consolidate power, silence enemies and destroy their democracy.

Republicans are doing it right now, but it’s difficult to recognize in real time. Make no mistake, it is happening. Republicans are normalizing Authoritarianism.

Unidentifiable armed gangs from different law enforcement agencies are snatching people off the streets and taking them away. This is abnormal, abhorrent, and everything the Constitution is supposed to protect us from.

But Republicans are normalizing Authoritarianism, and it will soon get much, much worse as more federal agents are quickly hired, poorly trained, and rushed onto our city streets.

Follow this link or click the photo of the burning Reichstag to read more:

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Sept. 15 marks the anniversary of the 1963 terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bombing was committed by white supremacists.

White supremacists in Washington are white-washing American history to ignore the millions of victims of white supremacy. By minimizing, rewriting, or simply ignoring the racism in American history, they make it easier to support and implement racist policies.

It’s important to remember American children murdered by white men who believed their way of life was under attack.

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“We’re not hiring based on merit anymore,” Kirk said. “We’re hiring based on race.”

It appears I need to explain that this is inherently racist, because it 1.) ignores America’s history of slavery, Jim Crow and segregation when 100% of white applicants “had merit” and Black Americans were rejected because they were black; 2.) implies that a Black American is less qualified than a white.

White America’s fixation on DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, is inherently racist, because those who oppose it, fail to see the racism inherent in the system.

Trump’s attack on DEI demonstrates his racism: he has removed multiple Black Americans from office, because they are black.

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Pastor Jim Meisner, Jr. is the author of the novel Faith, Hope, and Baseball, available on Amazon, or follow this link to order an autographed copy. He created and manages the Facebook page Faith on the Fringe.