Frank Turek > Quotes

“So evil can’t exist unless good exists. But good can’t exist unless God exists. In other words, there can be no objective evil unless there is objective good, and there can be no objective good unless God exists. If evil is real—and we all know it is—then God exists.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.”
― Frank Turek, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist

“God’s signature is not just in the cell, it’s in all of creation. God is as necessary to the universe as a band is to music. Once the band stops playing, the music is over.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“To say that a scientist can disprove the existence of God is like saying a mechanic can disprove the existence of Henry Ford. It doesn’t follow.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them – which is no one's definition of tolerance.”
― Frank Turek, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist

“Atheists have had to resort to wild speculations to give chance more of a chance.”
― Frank Turek, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist

“Atheists must make a positive case that only material things exist. That’s why instead of debating “Does God exist?” I prefer to debate the question “What better explains reality: atheism or theism?”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“So instead of providing another intellectual answer that would be ignored, David cut right to the heart. He said, “You’re raising all of these objections because you’re sleeping with your girlfriend. Am I right?” All the blood drained from the young man’s face. He was caught. He was rejecting God because he didn’t like God’s morality. And he was disguising it with feigned intellectual objections. This young man wasn’t the first atheist or agnostic to admit that his desire to follow his own agenda was keeping him out of the kingdom. In the first chapter of his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul revealed this tendency we humans have to “suppress the truth” about God in order to follow our own desires. In other words, unbelief is more motivated by the heart than the head. Some prominent atheists have admitted this. Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously wrote, “God is dead and we have killed him,” also wrote, “If one were to prove this God of the Christians to us, we should be even less able to believe in him.”[24] Obviously Nietzsche’s rejection of God was not intellectual! Professor Thomas Nagel of NYU more recently wrote, “I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that. My”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“In 1988, a group of prominent homosexuals got together in Warrentown, Virginia, to map out their plan to get homosexuality accepted by the general public. In the book that resulted from their meeting, they revealed a strategy that achieves its effect “without reference to facts, logic or proof . . . the person’s beliefs can be altered whether he is conscious of the attack or not.”1”
― Frank Turek, Correct, Not Politically Correct

“Virgin Birth. Abiogenesis. Resurrection from the dead. Random mutations producing the raw material for new organs. Intelligent creation ex nihilo. Eternal matter. Eternal mind. Heaven. Multiverses. Speciation by unguided, natural selection. Hell. Natural DNA information generation. Adam. Panspermia. Angels. No immaterial soul. Miracles. Space aliens. God. No God.”[11] That’s how blogger Roddy Bullock began a post called, “Everyone Believes Something Unbelievable.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“The God the new atheists reject is not the actual God of the Bible.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“If there is no objective morality then love is no better than murder.”
― Frank Turek

“I believe in the Big Bang. I just know who banged it.”
― Frank Turek

“What would be the effect on society if everyone lived faithfully in natural marriage? It would result in a dramatic reduction in crime, welfare, abortion, and child abuse. On the other hand, what would be the effects on society if everyone lived faithfully in same-sex marriage? It would be the end of society and the human race itself. While universal homosexuality, of course, would not occur, the two questions should help us realize that the two types of relationships can never be equated because they are not equally beneficial.”
― Frank Turek, Correct, Not Politically Correct: About Same-Sex Marriage and Transgenderism

“Truth excludes its opposite.”
― Frank Turek

“Captain America shows allegiance to the truth over his government. When is it necessary for Christians to disobey their government peacefully”
― Frank Turek, Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God

“We love the truth when it enlightens us. We hate the truth when it convicts us.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
― Frank Turek, Correct, Not Politically Correct: About Same-Sex Marriage and Transgenderism

“As Augustine said, we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us.”
― Frank Turek, Correct, Not Politically Correct: About Same-Sex Marriage and Transgenderism

“But let’s suppose that scientists someday discover a genetic contribution to homosexual desires. Would that give license to behavior? No, all of us have desires that we ought not to act on. In other words, we were all born with an “orientation” to bad behavior, but desires don’t justify the behavior. For example, some may have a genetic predisposition to alcohol, but who would advocate alcoholism? If someone has a genetic attraction to children, does that justify pedophilia? What homosexual activist would say that a genetic predisposition to violence justifies gay-bashing?”
― Frank Turek, Correct, Not Politically Correct: About Same-Sex Marriage and Transgenderism