The evangelical Christian faith on display at Kirk's memorial shaped his politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : " After founding Turning Point USA, a political organization for young conservatives that describes itself as training young people to promote ideas like free markets and limited government, Kirk later founded the more explicitly religious TPUSA Faith, whose mission is to "eliminate wokeism from the American pulpit.
48% : President Trump, who spoke last, described the event as an "old-time revival."
41% : Matthew Boedy, an English professor at the University of North Georgia who studies Christian nationalism, warns that talk of martyrdom can lead to dangerous and sometimes violent escalation.

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