Be Worthy of the Bullet That Charlie Kirk Took For You — Why Independence Day? with Steve Deace PLUS Q&A
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
Dr. Frank Turek
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
How do you take a BIG idea like the importance of Independence Day and make it accessible for young readers without watering down the truth? Look no further than Steve Deace and his new book, 'Why Independence Day? America is Great Because God is Good'. Steve recently joined Frank on his recent tour of the U.S. Capitol with Speaker Mike Johnson and shares some of his biggest takeaways while answering questions like:
- How did Steve get started in radio?
- How does Steve jokingly explain the difference between reformed and charismatic Christians?
- Is there a Nefarious 2 in the works?
- What inspired Steve to write a series of children books?
- What does Steve mean when he says, "Be worthy of the bullet that Charlie Kirk took for you"?
Then, later in the program Frank addresses some listener questions, including:
- Is God evil because He created people who do horrible things?
- If God appoints all leaders why is Satan considered the ruler of this world?
- What's the best way to share the Gospel at a wedding?
Have a question for Frank? Send it to hello@crossexamined.org and stay tuned for Friday's episode with Eric Metaxas where you'll learn more about his brilliant new book (available to order now!), 'Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World'.
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Resources mentioned during the episode:
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Why Independence Day? by Steve Deace - https://a.co/d/0hJYZjTF
U.S. Capitol Tour with Speaker Mike Johnson - https://youtu.be/WhzdhCzO5Aw Revolution by Eric Metaxas -https://a.co/d/0fSEcKcf
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, a mom emailed me and she says she has an atheist son who says that God must be evil because he created creatures who do horrible things. |
| 0:13.0 | How would I respond? |
| 0:15.0 | Michael from Ireland writes in and asks, how can it be that the Bible says that God appoints leaders, but it also says |
| 0:21.3 | Satan is the God of this world? Doesn't that seem a bit contradictory? Also, a woman writes in, |
| 0:27.0 | who's planning her wedding, but she wants to get the gospel to unbelievers at the wedding. How can |
| 0:32.8 | she do that? She's unsure about how to do it, so I'll give my advice. But before we get to all those |
| 0:39.1 | questions, these apologetic questions, I want to talk a little bit about Independence Day. |
| 0:46.2 | It is coming up. You know, we just had a tour by the Speaker of the House. A couple of podcasts |
| 0:53.2 | ago, you can watch it on our YouTube |
| 0:54.6 | channel. One of the guests, in addition to me there, was my friend Steve Days, who does a |
| 1:00.4 | daily program with Blaze Radio, and of course it's on YouTube as well. And he's talking about |
| 1:06.1 | Independence Day for kids. And I don't know about you, ladies and gentlemen, I'm just going to be honest. |
| 1:12.4 | Sometimes if I want to learn something and get the essence of it, I read a kids book because the author is forced to tell the truth in a very simple way. |
| 1:23.2 | I'm just going to be honest. Sometimes I do that. And I learn from kids' books. |
| 1:31.8 | And Steve has a great new kids book out called Why Independence Day. |
| 1:33.9 | America is great because God is good. |
| 1:35.4 | So here he is, ladies gentlemen, the great. |
| 1:39.8 | Steve Deis, he's going to tell us a little bit about that. |
| 1:41.4 | He's coming all the way. |
| 1:42.6 | Okay, enough for the crowd. |
| 1:43.1 | Another crowd. |
| 1:46.7 | Your crowd is noisy, Steve. All the way from Des Moines, Iowa, where he does his program. Steve, for those people out there who may not know who |
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