This physiognomy analysis of Charlie Kirk's killer is fascinating

What does a killer's facial features reveal about his motives?

Check out this analysis from @RayPeatHeadShop on X:

Physiognomy is an ancient practice of analyzing character and personality traits based on facial features and other physical characteristics.

While modern science says it's "discredited" there is solid scientific proof for some of the things mentioned in this post. For example, check out this scientific article titled The slant of the forehead as a craniofacial feature of impulsiveness and concludes that "The angle of inclination of the forehead was significantly associated with self-reported impulsiveness."

Regardless, the main point here is that health has important implications for behavior.

What we know about the killer is that he spent a lot of time online and had seemingly done so from a young age. This means time looking an LED, blue-light computer screen insead of spending time outdoors in the sun. He most likely had the standard, nutrient-deficient diet of most people his age.

Some of the photos released have been of him eating at restaurants. Going to restaurants is very normal and clearly this doesn’t indicate he necessarily had any worse of a diet than anyone else, but it seems ironic to me to look at a photo of a psychopath about to eat a pile of seed oils and food additives when we know how these foods affect thyroid function and behavior. (Restaurant foods, like pre-made store-bought foods, are nearly always made with the lowest quality ingredients.)

You can find physiognomy analyses online of many other criminals and they seem to consistently point to deficits of emotional empathy and decision making abilities. There may be a reason criminals often look, well… odd.

Here’s another one:

Could you say that this goes the other way? That those with abnormal facial features are more often rejected by society and end up resorting to criminal behavior? There may be an element of that, but it doesn’t explain away the very real observations of physiognomy.

Do the health deficits of Charlie Kirk’s killer explain all of his behavior? No. We can’t take any credit away from the cancerous religion of statism that justifies violence and lies for the sake of supporting the supremacy of the government. Or the decay that is brought forth by blatantly rejecting God’s natural order for creation.

Does identifying thyroid problems or an underdeveloped PFC let the killer off the hook for any of his hatred and evil? Absolutely not. I think of these health conditions similar to how an alcoholic is in a physiologic condition that considerably increases temptation to sin. An alcoholic’s metabolism is so dependent on alcohol they could die if they quit cold turkey. It does not excuse any sin of drunkenness or actions that result from their drinking, but they struggle against sin much harder because of the state they have allowed their bodies to get to.

If we've learned anything new in the last few week it is that there are tens of thousands of leftists who wish their political opponents dead. All that might be standing between them and action is the physiologic decision making capacity that tells them there would be consequences. And it’s worth noting that there are only consequences if we uphold Biblical justice.

Nutrition is not just about feeling good, preventing or healing from disease. It's much more. When we neglect the food and environment God created for us to thrive with, there are far-reaching effects.

God’s creation is complex and everything is connected. We can’t separate faith from politics because morality is already deeply intertwined with politics. We can’t separate faith from health because God governs the universe and Chrisian faith therefore holds the answers to discerning truth. And we can’t separate health from sin because rejecting the Biblical mandate to steward our bodies well can affect everything our bodies do, including thinking and behavior.