- December 4, 2025
Dear Editor:
In a letter to the editor of the Observer, authored by the Palm Coast mayor’s wife, and in reverence to Charlie Kirk, she portrayed an individual and his beliefs that others view very differently and find troubling. The letter was a church-like eulogy with a biblical age-old “good versus evil” refrain, complete with Bible verses.
It put forth in a sermon-like tone that Charlie was waging a spiritual battle “against the rulers of darkness.” To her, there was some evil, some “spiritual hosts of wickedness," some enemy, holding some undefined influence lurking among us that Charlie was standing against. She further applauded him for awakening students he lectured as “to what was being done to their minds” and contended as “Christians” we all should become like him.
It was pretty easy to surmise that the letter was as much a veiled political statement as it was religious — the Left as the enemy and the Right as the righteous. After all, Charlie Kirk stated that “Democrats stand for everything that God hates” and the mayor’s wife said “look to Charlie,” who spoke the truth.
Well, Charlie was for sure a Christian, but not at all the kind consistent with our country’s historical values. His was a dogmatic distorted view of Christianity. He was intolerant of non-Christians and advocated a type of radical spiritual warfare that included a reclaiming of America for Christ. He embraced and promoted the extremist Christian nationalist ideology called the “Seven Mountain Mandate” that holds that Christians should commandeer and reclaim all aspects of society.
In Charlie’s world, government, education, businesses, family, the media, arts and entertainment, and religion would all be required to relinquish freedom and independence in order to establish the kingdom of his chosen deity on Earth. This Christian “mandate” would also ensure the placement of “righteous” followers in leadership roles to ensure our nation’s culture, laws, values and overall way of life conforms to this Christian Nationalist oppressive dogma and intolerant worldview.
If forcing America to bow down to a one and only Christian nationalistic ideology and indoctrinating students to follow that disturbing, authoritarian and divisive dogma is the mayor’s wife's idea of what this country stands for, we respect her right and Charlie Kirk’s right to express that stance, but should firmly and forever reject it as dangerous and wholly un-American.
Mary Zito
Palm Coast
