Hours after Charlie Kirk was killed in Utah, Pastor Jamal Bryant condemned the shooting of the right-wing activist on social media. Videos of the event shocked and horrified him, said Bryant, the leader of a large, predominantly Black church in suburban Atlanta.

But in the days that followed, Bryant said, he grew unnerved by conservatives and White Christians praising Kirk while ignoring some of his most controversial rhetoric, particularly on issues of race.

Many conservative Christians - particularly White evangelicals - across the country have lionized Kirk, 31, saying he died while proselytizing for his Christianity-influenced conservative ideals. Some equated his killing to the murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Tens of thousands of people at Kirk’s memorial at a

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