Charlie Kirk's Mentor, Dr. Frank Turek

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

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News, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Politics

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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15 years ago, before I was a Christian, my friend handed me a book by Dr. Frank Turek. I think about this book all the time. It turns out the author was Charlie Kirk's mentor and spoke at Berkeley the other day amidst the violence. Here is our interview with Dr. Turek on ontology, spistomology and theodicy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here with special episode today.
0:05.9	This morning on my Sirius XM radio show, Breitbart News Daily, had the honor of talking with a one Dr. Frank Turrick, mentor of Charlie Kirk, standing right next to him when Charlie was assassinated on September 10th.
0:20.0	And he spoke at Berkeley University the other day,
0:22.6	where there was all the riots and protests out front.
0:25.6	Great honor to talk to this man who is very influential
0:28.6	in my becoming a Christian.
0:30.6	I had a militant atheist once at Michigan State
0:33.6	asked me this question.
0:35.6	He said, if there is a good God, why doesn't he stop all the evil in the world?
0:40.8	And I said, sir, that is an excellent question. Maybe because if he did, he might start with you and me because we do evil every day. You ever notice we start complaining about evil? We always start complaining about somebody else doing it.
0:55.7	It's like, hey, God, why don't you stop him?
0:56.6	God, why don't you stop her?
0:57.7	God, why don't you stop the shooter?
0:58.6	God, why don't you stop Hitler?
0:59.3	God, why don't you stop?
1:03.2	Why do we never say, God, why don't you stop me?
1:10.7	Ladies and gentlemen, if God were to stop evil at midnight tonight,
1:12.6	would you still be alive at 1201?
1:23.1	There you go. America is the greatest country in the world. Good morning. That is Dr. Frank Turrick. He is the president of cross-examined.org.
1:29.3	And the author of a book that my friend Paul gave to me right before I became a Christian, is the most influential book for, other than the Bible, of course.
1:32.3	I didn't even know what apologetics was.
1:34.3	Books called, I don't have enough faith to be an atheist,
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