Frank Turek, the late Charlie Kirk’s spiritual mentor, said the slain conservative leader wanted people to “know the truth” about Jesus and Christianity.
Appearing on the “Breitbart News Daily” podcast, Turek said Kirk’s life revolved around “getting people to know Jesus,” with his politics being an offshoot of his religious convictions.
“He committed his whole life to that,” Turek said Thursday. “Yes, he was very much involved in politics, but politics was motivated by his Christianity because he knew that politics affects people, and because politics affects policy … and policy affects people, you have to be engaged if you’re a Christian, because you care about people. You’re called to love your neighbor, and that’s what we do.”
Turek, who had been helping Kirk as he began his latest tour of college campuses, told Breitbart that in the aftermath of Kirk’s Sept. 10 assassination, he has been spending more time on apologetics and answering people’s questions about why God would permit evil.
Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, who recently became the CEO of the youth organization her husband co-founded, Turning Point USA, said the speaking tour he began would be continued by others.
“This tour we’re talking about, ‘If God, why evil?’ And it’s a tribute to Charlie,” Turek said. “So, I’m spending a lot more time on questions with people, and we’re getting more questions related to that – why would God allow such evil? – than we’ve gotten, in recent months generally. Charlie would agree with this too, that over the past couple of years, the biggest objections to Christianity, the top three, are morality, morality, and morality.
“In other words, people don’t necessarily want Christianity to be true, because if it is, that has implications on their moral lives. Yes, and that’s why I always ask people who are not Christians, ‘If Christianity were true, would you become a Christian?’ Many times, people will say ‘no,’ because they’re not on a truth quest. They’re on a happiness quest, and they’re just going to believe whatever they think is going to make them happy.”
When applied long term, Turek said, that kind of thinking is “a disaster.”
“If you want contentment, you’ve got to go straight through truth, and Jesus is the truth,” he said. “And Charlie wanted people to know the truth.”
In particular, Kirk wanted young people to know that “you ought to make something of your life by following Jesus, knowing Jesus, making him known, getting married, having children, having a family,” Turek said.
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