This horrible week has shown us that there are two sides. They share nothing in common.

Anyone who word-vomits platitudes about the “rhetoric of both sides” will be revealing themselves to be dangerously lazy or murderously complicit. Only one side’s rhetoric has been inspiring political assassinations. That side has been unabashedly cheering the murder of a young father.

The language of the left has been employed with all the subtlety of an air horn, calling forth actual violence against those who engage only in civic discourse. From politicians to media pundits, the left has been using the language of violence to paint targets on everyone from the president to businessmen to activists.

Who will be next?

There is a real difference between the “sides.” These are not the sides of a single coin minted from the same press, but starkly different philosophies. They seek to take humanity in very different directions.

The left would send us down into darkness; it craves death and cheers destruction. The right takes us upward in the light of liberty granted to us by the Creator of the Universe.

I have no doubt that, come Sunday morning, too many pastors will make effete noises about “both sides” bearing culpability in the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. In doing so, they will reveal the false god they worship and the human masters they seek to please.

It is a sinful deceit to compare those who murder a man in front of hundreds of witnesses with one who engages only in peaceful dialogue. It is a vile mind that would compare those who advocate for liberty with those who gleefully cheer a young mother being widowed by an assassin.

While such moral equivalencies might have earned the pastor an “A” in a university’s divinity course taught by a God-hating leftist, they fail the test of Holy Scripture.

There are two sides. They are not the same.

An unwillingness to recognize that fact is to choose the wrong side. Now is the time for choosing.