Is that being honest? Most people had to go through some sort of stepping stone process from doing what our parents did, to finding Jesus, to finding Jesus's church, to discovering that Jesus's church has been eclipsed, to finding the place God wants us to be (SSPX, resistant SSPX, CMRI, SGG, RCI, Independent, etc.)
I don't know where Charlie Kirk was in his journey, but nobody but God knows, and it is only God who judges him. I understand not lifting CK up as a saint, but we shouldn't condemn him either. It is not our place. Discussing without emotion is interesting, but we have to remember it is just a way to pass the time and holds no real value. (For every person that these discussions help to see Truth, it is also probably pushing away the same number of people. That is just reality.)
Yes, expressing adherence to Evangelicalism is a rejection of Christ and His Church. We know where Kirk was on his "journey" because he explicitly told us right before he died, "I am an evangelical Christian"
Our Lord says, "He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth."
You cannot be "with Him" if you are not united to his Mystical Body, the Church.
Kirk, right before his death, made it clear he was not "with Him".
Matthew 10:32 Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.
10:33 But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.
In expressing his adherence to an anti-Christ sect, Kirk publicly denied Christ before men! Right before his death!
Hoping in the possibility of Kirk being saved flies directly in the face of Church dogma regarding what is necessary for salvation, it serves to dilute the 3x defined EENS dogma, and gives those outside the Catholic Church hope in their salvation without becoming actually united to the Church before their death
[The Church] firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the catholic church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the catholic church before the end of their lives; that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only for those who abide in it do the church’s sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed his blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and the unity of the catholic church
Pope Eugene IV