Charlie Kirk Effect: More Bibles, More Believers, and Tragically, More Bullet Holes in Churches

GRAND BLANC — According to Fox News, Charlie Kirk’s death has unleashed a “faith revival,” with church attendance up, Bible sales soaring, and pastors claiming to see young people “flocking back to God.”

Unfortunately, America’s gunmen seem to be flocking too. Hours after the revival story broke, a Michigan church joined the long-running list of sacred spaces transformed into crime scenes—fitting neatly into the unofficial Sunday doubleheader: “Praise God” in the morning, “Pray for Victims” by noon.

Observers note the cruel irony of Fox celebrating a faith comeback while churches themselves increasingly resemble firing ranges with stained glass. Bible sales may be up, but so are ammunition sales—two parallel testaments of American devotion, each thumped for comfort in its own way.

Even as Bible sales soar past 10 million this year, America’s unofficial scripture remains the AR-15 catalog, still outselling any holy book. Faith leaders call it a new Great Awakening; paramedics call it another Sunday.

Fox insists Kirk “made Christianity cool again.” Maybe so—but in America, the only thing more reliably trending than Jesus is the never-ending ticker of mass shootings.