Can i just say one thing about The United States of America real quick? (We’re on a flight home from two weeks in Asia and the Middle East).
We were driving across the Sri Lankan country side and I saw a guy on a John Deere tractor. I looked it up. John Deere, Largest agricultural equipment manufacturer on Earth. Started in 1837 in Grand Detour, Illinois by a man named John Deere.
I’ll keep going.
If you get on an airplane anywhere on this planet, odds are it’s a Boeing. William Boeing, 1916, Seattle Washington.
Go to any cafe on the globe and you can drink a Coca Cola. Created in Atlanta, Georgia by a man named John pemberton in 1886.
Everyone communicates using Whatsapp. Founded in Mountain View, CA in 2009 by two buddies, Brian Acton and Jan Koum.
Every vehicle is navigating the Globe using Google Maps. Google, started in the garage of Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Menlo Park California. 1996.
Pfizer distributes medicine in every single country on Earth. Charles Pfizer in 1849, Brooklyn, New York.
Amazon products are served in every single country on earth. Also started in his garage by a man name Jeff Bezos in Seattle Washington in 1994.
Half of the world’s population communicates on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2004.
Our Qatar Airways flight attendant said she can’t wait to get to Dallas to go to Walmart to get vitamins for her family. Sam Walton, 1962, Rogers, Arkansas.
This list could literally go on for days. That should fill every American with tremendous pride for this country, its founders, its people, its opportunities, and its contributions to the planet.
Sure we have our flaws, but I can’t wait to get back to America and not drink sparkling water anymore (whoever invented that needs to be in prison), not have to use Kilometers or Celsius anymore, and sink my teeth into a Chick-fil-A sandwich (Truett Cathy, Hapeville, Georgia 1964)
God Bless America.
A few recent interviews with John Yep ( @USAYep ) are circulating the claim that Charlie Kirk ( @charliekirk11 ) was in the process of converting to Catholicism. That claim is not accurate, and it needs to be corrected.
As the Senior Director of TPUSA’s Faith division and someone who served directly under Charlie’s leadership during the final year and a half of his life, I am in a position to speak plainly about this.
I have personally communicated with Charlie’s wife, @MrsErikaKirk, and I also spoke directly with Father Kline, the priest referenced in these discussions. After those conversations, the facts are straightforward:
• Charlie was not in the process of converting to Catholicism
• He never took Catholic conversion classes (OCIA)
• His marriage was never convalidated in the Catholic Church
• He was baptized Presbyterian and remained a Bible believing evangelical throughout his life
Father Kline indicated concern that his prior comments have been misconstrued and that the current public narrative is not accurately representing his conversations with Charlie’s intentions.
Let me be clear, respect for Catholicism is not the same thing as moving toward conversion. Charlie respected many people across denominational lines. Like many evangelicals, including myself, he read widely, including Augustine and Aquinas. None of that constitutes a conversion trajectory.
In my own conversations with Charlie, he was firm on justification by grace and did not believe he could biblically reconcile certain Catholic doctrines, including Mariology and the invocation of the Saints. In the few instances he was present at mass, he found it peaceful and beautiful. Charlie enjoyed sitting inside the empty sanctuary to worship in peace without being asked for selfies etc. That is a long way from entering OCIA.
If there had been an active conversion process, there would be documentation. There is none.
Charlie loved all true Christians, whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Evangelical. Again, that is a long way from entering OCIA.
That this even has to be addressed is bizarre.
An occasional “fist bump” does not equate to intimate friendship nor give @USAYep the authority to speak on behalf of the dead. I would caution him to take care not to overstate what the facts simply do not support. This is not about scoring theological points. It is about honoring Charlie’s actual life and faith with accuracy and refusing to let speculation rewrite his story.
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