What Harrison Butker and Football Teach Us About Right and Wrong

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Were Harrison Butker's bold statements during his recent Benedictine College commencement speech worth all of the public backlash he received in response? Although many are now hailing the Super Bowl winning NFL kicker as a hero for speaking up, others are calling for him to be fired from the league altogether. What exactly did he say that caused so much outrage and what biblical truths can we gather from the controversial (and now viral) speech?

For this midweek podcast, Frank unpacks Harrison Butker's words from a biblical worldview and highlights how Butker called out some of the lies, harmful ideologies, and inconsistencies that our culture and national leaders have been feeding us. During this podcast episode, Frank will answer questions like:

Does the book of James teach salvation by works?
What does the game of football teach us about morality?
Do Christians always have to be "nice" in order to be loving?
Did Jesus ever engage in politics?
How is Joe Biden "neglecting the weightier matters of the law"?
Are biblical gender roles oppressive to women?
Is comfort the true meaning of life?
What are the pros and cons of becoming a Christian?

Later in the episode, Frank will share his own personal experience of being canceled in corporate America due to writing his book 'Correct, Not Politically Correct: About Same-Sex Marriage and Transgenderism' and how it launched him into ministry full-time. He'll also talk about the importance of being willing to speak up (like Butker) as a means to fight back against cancel culture and to illustrate TRUE love, even if it comes at a cost.

And if you want to learn more about how to stand up for truth in a toxic culture, consider enrolling at Frank's alma mater, Southern Evangelical Seminary!

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.0	Because you have faith, does that make this book true?
0:05.0	Does God exist?
0:07.0	So when someone says there is no truth, if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:13.6	Is that true?
0:15.4	They don't think Christianity's true.
0:18.5	They're talked out of it.
0:20.2	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.2	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.0	Cross-examining skeptical and apiistic view.
0:28.0	Welcome to cross-examine with Dr. Frank Turrick.
0:32.0	Ladies and gentlemen for about the past two weeks you've seen quite an uproar over the Super Bowl winning kicker Harrison Butler and his comments out there at a Catholic college in Kansas
0:48.3	people are complaining about what he said they think he's wrong however he laid out several biblical truths and
0:56.7	also some doctrines of Catholicism but how can you respond to people who think he's wrong about the biblical truths that he uttered?
1:08.0	That's what we're going to do today.
1:10.0	We're going to look at some of what he said and then point out some problems with what people are saying that are criticizing what Harrison but Harrison Butler says.
1:24.0	So let's dive into a few of the things he said.
1:26.0	We can't read the whole statement, it's too long.
1:28.0	It was actually a graduation speech at a college in, a Catholic college,
1:32.0	conservative Catholic college in Kansas, about the second or so paragraph
1:39.2	in he said this. While COVID might have played a large role throughout your formative years, it is not unique.
1:47.0	Bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues.
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