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00:02:22.000This is why Charlie started Turning Point USA in the first place.
00:02:25.000He didn't trust the radicalized liberal teachers.
00:02:28.000And this past Saturday, it was a school teacher, of all people, a school teacher, that attempted to change our history for the worst with bullets.
00:02:38.000And everyone is asking why I even went to the White House Correspondence Center.
00:02:43.000And it was because many of the journalists in that room have attempted to dehumanize me.
00:02:49.000And I wanted to meet some of them face to face, quite frankly.
00:02:53.000Why have a conversation about me when you can have a conversation with me?
00:02:58.000So, for example, a journalist from the Daily Mail came up to me.
00:03:03.000She introduced herself and she was saying, she was very gracious.
00:03:06.000She was saying, You look so beautiful.
00:03:16.000To put a name to the face, especially with all of the slander, the lies, accusations that are out there surrounding my husband's murder and myself.
00:03:26.000And I said to her, You know what's so interesting?
00:03:30.000This is my first time at the White House Correspondence Dinner.
00:03:34.000And I find it so fascinating the dynamic that is going on right now because everyone is all dressed up and you guys are co mingling in and out of each other's cocktail parties.
00:03:46.000And so for one night, You are able to put aside all of your differences for the sake of freedom of speech.
00:03:54.000And then by Monday morning, things will go back to being an absolute bloodbath between all of you.
00:03:59.000To which she replied, literally, she said, I know, isn't it special, right?
00:04:10.000And following that conversation, it was time to take our seats and we went into the big ballroom where the dinner was.
00:04:16.000And one of the first things I noticed when I walked into that room was quite literally the proximity of the opposing outlets to one another.
00:04:24.000So you have one table here that's Politico and another table here that's Fox and another table here that's WAPO, and you're all crammed together, elbow to elbow.
00:04:33.000And to make the night even more of a spectacle, every single 10 person table had 10 bottles of wine.
00:04:40.000And the president of the White House Correspondents Association did a great job of trying to make the evening have that feeling of Americana.
00:04:49.000You know, we were in a room celebrating freedom of speech despite our differences.
00:04:54.000And the U.S. Marine Band performed the national anthem so beautifully.
00:04:59.000And then shortly thereafter, gunshots rang out and total chaos ensued.
00:05:28.000And so during an active shooting, these journalists are using their phones to find moments to capture for clips.
00:05:34.000They were so concerned about getting a video in a room with an active shooter.
00:05:39.000That they could have accidentally and quite literally filmed themselves being shot.
00:05:46.000Many of those people have become so desensitized that fight or flight became secondary to the opportunity of putting themselves into the story, which ironically breaks the number one rule of journalism.
00:06:00.000And again, ironically enough, the shooter was a teacher.
00:06:05.000You have these people who are supposed to be teaching our children the future of this country.
00:06:11.000And he's so unhinged that he is able to teach children by day and then attempt to murder the president of the United States by night.
00:06:23.000And in his manifesto, he starts by contextualizing himself by saying, I am a citizen of the United States of America.
00:06:32.000And while we may have big problems with illegal immigration in this country, I have to tell you, we have an even bigger problem when it comes to the systemic indoctrination and radicalization of our own citizens.
00:07:28.000And if you can just pause and just take a minute and ask yourself how would you feel if even just one person made cruel jokes about the attempted murder of your loved one?0.82
00:07:47.000That is what Jimmy Kimmel did to the First Lady.
00:07:50.000He said that she had the glow of an expected widow.0.99
00:08:02.000Just 48 hours before that nightmare almost became a reality.
00:08:08.000And this culture we're living in absorbs disagreement as a form of personal betrayal.
00:08:15.000It turns having an opposing viewpoint into a moral crime worthy of punishment.
00:08:21.000And here's what I've realized through all of this.
00:08:24.000Truly, having lived through quite literal hell these past seven months, if you strip someone of their humanity long enough, you will arrive at the chilling conclusion that they don't deserve to exist at all.
00:08:41.000Every morning I wake up to a new headline lying about me.
00:08:47.000I have comedians dressing up in whiteface, I have people saying I'm not fit to be CEO.
00:08:56.000And I have Candace Owens claiming I murdered my husband.
00:09:09.000There is a serious epidemic of dehumanization plaguing this country.
00:09:15.000The most unthinkable tragedies have now become commonplace in our daily headlines, and yet the media finds a way to conveniently explain away violence.
00:10:19.000And by the grace of God, we will succeed, and America will remain what she was always called to be a shining city on a hill, a light to the world.
00:10:30.000So, let me give you a perfect example.
00:13:35.000I think that my main point is that how we should implement more money into the immigration system.
00:13:38.000Because Trump's zero tolerance policy just felt cruel, because there's a lot of people here that are doing well, and zero tolerance, they just have to leave the country.
00:13:54.000If I went to Mexico without being invited or allowed, and I took a job, and the Mexican government found out, what would the Mexican government do to me?
00:14:27.000Then why doesn't that moral standard apply to immigration?
00:14:30.000Because the system isn't doing its job.
00:14:33.000That's why I think we should implement more money.
00:14:35.000Because there is some people, like I do get it, you know, some people come here and then I do admit some of them commit crime, but not all of them.
00:14:41.000No, no, but they're all criminals if they came illegally.
00:15:04.000And that's the point if everyone all of a sudden declared that their life was in danger, we'd have to let in like all of Nicaragua, all of Honduras, almost all of Venezuela.0.98
00:15:14.000The standard all of a sudden starts falling apart.
00:15:16.000And we find that people lie about this, they deceive it.
00:15:21.000Why don't we try to empower those people to make the countries they're coming from greater and stronger, else this Problem will actually never be fixed at the root level.
00:17:28.000California is a cluttered state with social services that are being strained.1.00
00:17:34.000And we need a pause on all immigration, in my opinion, to metaphorically digest the major meal that we just ate, or else we are going to have a.1.00
00:17:45.000Major, major assimilation problem, cultural problem, cohesion problem, all sorts of issues.0.91
00:17:51.000And I know this is a provocative thing to say, but immigration is something that you use as a way to benefit the homeland.
00:18:27.000I understand the American dream is hard.
00:18:29.000My parents, my mom was pregnant, working two jobs one day, and she sacrificed everything, and now she has more money than the average American.
00:19:36.000So, are you someone who's a follower of the Bible?
00:19:39.000I am, but that's not relevant to this discussion.
00:19:41.000But we could talk about it if you'd like.
00:19:42.000I find it relevant because when I'm going to talk about abortion, there's quotes in the Bible that I think support pro choice, in my opinion.
00:19:54.000Bible, Exodus, Exodus 21 22 through 25, when men strive together and hit a pregnant woman so that her child comes out.0.77
00:20:55.000So, it says that as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
00:21:02.000So, the judges determine, and it's talking about the husband, so therefore it's talking about a person, not God himself, not his judgment.0.56
00:21:25.000Therefore, it could mean abortion because some people find that abortive abortion is through violence, such as hitting, because not everyone has access to medical abortion.
00:21:35.000Was it the intent for them to kill the baby?
00:21:37.000It's unclarified, so that I cannot tell you.
00:21:42.000However, what I will say is that it says that it's the judges determine, the husband determines.
00:21:49.000So, God's not making the choice for us what to do with a person who does that to someone's child, does that to their own child.
00:21:57.000But it does say that if the woman is harmed, her or herself, not the child, then they are liable by God, their life for her life, their foot for her foot.
00:22:07.000So, what I'm saying is if somebody needs an abortion for health care, let's say a woman.0.97
00:25:01.000So, my biggest question is I'm not saying that all abortion is valid.0.80
00:25:07.000I feel like that's up for everyone to decide.
00:25:09.000But in the most, even if it's a very small percentage, in the very small percentage that a baby is alive, but it has to be aborted for the sake of the mother, what do you think is the best thing?0.59
00:27:27.000Once you reach the level of no more human interventions can improve this person's life or bring them back to a full life, that is a separate moral decision than not yet.
00:27:37.000When a human being is at not yet, which they are in the womb, you must do everything you can to make sure they get life.
00:27:42.000When a human being is at no more, it's a completely separate moral dimension and decision to make.
00:27:47.000No more and not yet are the ways to look at pro life decisions.
00:27:54.000I have a friend named Thomas Sheedy, he is the founder of a Organization called Atheist for Liberty.
00:28:00.000He is openly conservative, but he's mostly interested in atheist activism and normalizing atheism in all sects, including the conservative movement.
00:28:09.000He seems to be under the impression that a lot of conservatives, including you, are more hesitant to work with atheist organizations.
00:28:18.000I mean, if you're an atheist and you want to be part of the conservative movement, go ahead, but you must be an honest atheist and acknowledge that morality is definitionally subjective without a belief in God.
00:28:29.000That you cannot be an atheist and believe in objective morality, it is an impossibility.
00:28:33.000And true atheists will acknowledge this at some point.
00:28:38.000Well, things ought to be a certain way.
00:28:40.000We, as Christians, or we that believe in the divine, we have is claims that murder is wrong.
00:28:46.000Whereas an atheist will say, Well, murder ought to be wrong because you can't have an objective definition if there is not a divine eternal power over you.
00:28:54.000So, look, if an atheist wants to fight alongside of us to end abortion or to try and end the massacring of our kids.
00:29:03.000If an atheist wants to march alongside of us to say no men and female sports, they're more than welcome to be able to do that.
00:29:09.000But atheist for liberty is an interesting phrase because I don't believe you can have liberty without God because liberty is not man's idea, it is God's idea.0.66
00:29:18.000That's just my own personal belief, and it's also the belief of everything that built this nation.
00:29:22.000But yes, I know a lot of good atheists.
00:29:25.000The question, though, is how do you know they're good?
00:29:27.000It's because you're appealing to a moral authority above just the secular material realm, one that is transcendent, we would believe, given by God.
00:29:38.000Well, I don't believe in objective morality.
00:29:40.000I do know there are plenty of atheists who are moral objectivists.
00:30:18.000But I just hope all of you guys understand he's being an honest atheist to your credit because as an atheist, you're not allowed to say anything is objectively right or wrong.
00:30:27.000I come from a worldview that when you butcher six million people, that is objectively wrong no matter what.
00:30:35.000And it's a very important truth claim because when you do not have objective truth anchoring your society, Then it becomes a power struggle.
00:30:43.000If you do not have truth, then power will reign.
00:30:46.000Whoever can get the most amount of power then ends up having the most amount of say over society.
00:30:52.000We believe what is objectively right, true, good, and beautiful should be transcended over society.
00:31:03.000It's in nature, and the Bible explains nature.
00:31:05.000So, objective morality can be discovered in many different cultures and societies, pointing towards what we believe is the ultimate objective truth Jesus Christ.
00:31:13.000C.S. Lewis explained this the best in his book, Abolition of Man, which is that almost every religion talks about a certain way to live, a Tao or a path that we should be on.
00:31:24.000And so, more simply than just the Bible, we believe in what the founders believed, which is an ethical monotheism that there is one God, he has a general way that he wants you to live.
00:31:36.000For example, murdering is bad, kidnapping is wrong, defense of the innocent, and we should do our best to try to live alongside of that path.
00:31:45.000Okay, well, I think those are very interesting examples.0.90
00:31:47.000You bring up the founders, you bring up Hitler, but Hitler was a self proclaimed Catholic and he called Nazism a Christian movement.0.98
00:31:54.000Yeah, I would be careful saying that.0.77
00:32:35.000So, again, if atheists want to come alongside us as conservatives and fight for what is good, that is great.
00:32:42.000But I will never acknowledge that atheists can tell me what is objectively good, they can only give me a preference.0.98
00:32:48.000They cannot tell me what is right.1.00
00:32:50.000And preferences eventually will lead you towards moral and societal decline.
00:32:55.000Okay, so I think you just listed a bunch of communists, and it's worth acknowledging the vast majority of atheists are not communists, just like the vast majority of Christians are not theocrats who don't support the divine right.
00:33:05.000It's also worth acknowledging that the founders were actually inspired by Enlightenment values, not by the Bible.
00:33:11.000America was founded as a second nation.
00:33:13.000We were the first, quote unquote, godless constitution.
00:33:17.000Yeah, again, I've done this so many times, so I don't know if we want to waste our time doing this, but 55 out of 50.1.00
00:33:22.00056 of the signers of the Declaration were Bible believing church attending Christians.
00:33:26.000Nine out of 13 of the states at the time of ratification required a declaration of faith in order for you to serve in the states.
00:33:31.000We were our birth certificate, which is the Mayflower Compact, said explicitly, We are here to spread Christianity throughout the land.
00:33:37.000It was the first great revival that led to the American Revolution of Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Mayhew and George Whitefield that preached all across the Eastern seaboard.
00:33:45.000John Adams famously said, The Constitution is written solely for a moral and religious people, it's wholly inadequate for the people of any other.
00:33:51.000We were a Christian nation that was able to embrace the idea of a free society.
00:33:55.000God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.
00:33:57.000Not only that, Jesus Christ is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, where it says we appeal to the divine judge of the universe, which of course is a direct appeal to Jesus in the book of Revelation.0.95
00:34:06.000Yes, there were rationalist Enlightenment values that informed some of the founders, but it irrefutably was a Christian nation.0.78
00:34:12.000Maryland was Catholic, Pennsylvania was Quaker.0.69
00:34:15.000Almost every state had their own specific type of Christian preference.
00:34:20.000The idea of an atheist or not believing in any God was an idea that was so foreign to the founders, even Thomas Jefferson, the great deist.
00:34:27.000He revered the Bible, albeit with some significant edits.
00:34:30.000However, the idea of believing in no cosmological or no axiological or no teleological or no ontological being would be a concept that our founding fathers would not just find foreign, they would find it extraordinarily dangerous.
00:35:12.000It worked out with the guillotine and the slaughter of tens of thousands of people.
00:35:15.000The French Revolution was one of the greatest disasters in human recorded history.
00:35:19.000Contrast that with the American Revolution.0.55
00:35:21.000Why did the American Revolution create the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world?
00:35:25.000And the French Revolution resulted in a lot of blood and even the killing of their own once leader, Maximilien Robespierre.
00:35:30.000It's because we were anchored on Christian ideas.
00:35:33.000If you are not anchored on Christian ideas, then don't be surprised and all of a sudden there is no fruit to the harvest that you're trying to create.
00:35:40.000I'm an atheist, so I disagree with your religious claims.
00:39:56.000Using logic, if space, time, and matter had a starting point, then logically, shouldn't something outside of space, time, and matter have started those things?
00:40:06.000How do you know that cause is personal?
00:40:07.000How do you know that cause is worth praying to?
00:40:09.000How do you know that cause is personal?
00:41:29.000People, they can be mistakenly wrong about it.
00:41:32.000So they would be mistakenly wrong up to the point where they get martyred and then crucified.
00:41:36.000The whole point of being mistakenly wrong about something is you believe it's true.
00:41:39.000All the way up until the point of death.
00:41:41.000The whole point of being mistakenly wrong about something is you believe it's true.
00:41:44.000I just want to make sure I understand your position.
00:41:45.000Your position is that the 12 disciples who knew Christ best saw him die and then they all believed a mistaken conspiracy for the rest of their life.
00:42:42.000Something I don't find very interesting about you, something I find kind of repulsive, is that I believe you said that the Civil Rights Act was bad and that we shouldn't have that.
00:43:23.000It allowed the Department of Justice to go after people that have different skin color, aka white people, and prevent them from getting jobs and college admissions.0.99
00:43:35.000But just until Trump came around, until the Supreme Court decision, thanks to the Civil Rights Act, if you have white skin color, it's much harder to get into a college than if someone has black skin color.
00:44:21.000Whether you reject it or not, I think it's a prescient concept in this argument.1.00
00:44:27.000Because what you have to understand is that when you're, for example, you're born in a black neighborhood, you're born in Oblock or something, like a very, very.0.94
00:44:37.000Oh, well, if you're born there, if you're born in a very poor area like that, with very low economic opportunity, very, very poor schools, very low ratings, with average test scores much lower, when you're in that environment, you have the whole system up against you, right?
00:44:51.000So, when you say in that kind of circumstance, when you're facing the whole, I guess, leviathan of systemic racism, would you say that?
00:44:59.000Would you say it's fair to, for example, lower the standard because knowing that their circumstances were like that, perhaps based on what they had, what was presented to them, they had the correct amount of merit to get into a school?
00:46:45.000Okay, so when you say that, if you do that, then, well, black people aren't going to get into school, and then they won't be able to uplift themselves.0.92
00:46:50.000They won't be able to have prosperous families.0.81
00:46:52.000They won't be able to equalize the economic status because you need to give them a little jump start.
00:47:19.000Um, so what happened is, even after the Civil Rights Act, you understand, you know what, uh, I believe the term is massive resistance.0.62
00:47:26.000It was a movement in, uh, after the Broad versus Board of Education in Virginia, where essentially the legislature, which was still white supremacist, which is still extremely racist, they decided that no, we're going to do everything that feasibly possible within our means to stop black people from going to white schools.
00:47:42.000You even see this in, uh, Was, I believe it was the Little Rock Nine, right?
00:47:45.000Even after it was legalized at the state level, white supremacist mobs still mobilized to prevent it.
00:47:51.000So even if it de facto is gone, de jure, it still exists.
00:47:54.000Let me ask you a very simple question, a term you keep on throwing around.
00:48:34.000So, you're arguing for a very racist policy, which is that we should actively discriminate against people based on the color of their skin, which is affirmative action and DEI in practice.
00:48:42.000I just don't, I just disagree with the premise that you can do like anti white racism.
00:49:18.000Your worldview is indistinguishable from the KKK.
00:49:22.000That you want to organize the world based on skin color.
00:49:25.000We want to organize the world based on merit and character, based on how hard you work, what you bring to the table.
00:49:32.000I believe it's destructive and wrong to say that people are going to be organized or have their future set based on the color of their skin.
00:49:40.000I think it's tribalistic, I think it is divisive, and I think it hurts the excellence of a country.
00:49:46.000You asked a question well, how are we going to help other communities?
00:49:49.000You know how you help other communities?
00:49:51.000And start treating them like individuals made in the image of God, not tribes to be organized for political purposes.
00:49:58.000Okay, so do you think, like, when Trump is now, now he's president, now that racism is gone now, because Trump is back and we're no longer pandering, right?0.91
00:50:05.000Do you think that the conditions of black people have, like, do you think Oblock is going to become, like, a much nicer place?
00:50:13.000Do you think that these very downturned, sort of, black neighborhoods that have been sort of left behind, do you think they're going to become revitalized now?1.00
00:50:20.000Is that what you think is going to happen?1.00
00:51:02.000Affirmative action is largely federal government hiring practices and the adjacent institutions.
00:51:07.000I think that all communities will do even better when we stop living under the soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:51:14.000Inherent in your argument is that we have to pander to certain communities based on the color of their skin because they can't do as well as white people.
00:51:23.000I think that we should try to say, I don't care about the color of your skin.
00:51:26.000I care about what you bring to the table and stop pandering to people based on special criteria, points, and acceptance to college, saying that we're going to make it easier for one group and harder for another group.
00:53:02.000The difference is, like, for example, if you want to go back to segregation, the all white dormitory was nice as s and the all black one was s.0.61
00:53:19.000But like, okay, I'll go back to, because I did let it slip by, but you mentioned that like in the early years of the Donald Trump presidency, right, that the conditions for the employment and stuff were going up for black people.
00:53:30.000What I would say is the economy works slow, it works at like a time dilation for when the policies initially enacted.
00:53:35.000So what I would probably assume, based on what you said to me, is that it was the Obama era policies.
00:53:40.000That actually led to that, not the Trump policies, because stuff like tax cuts to the rich doesn't really help.
00:53:45.000In a year from now, we're going to have the greatest economy ever.
00:57:33.000But getting mad and making political stances on who you love and what the president's doing is so great and what the communists are doing is so bad is not a conversation, it's a statement.
00:57:42.000Well, I'll have a conversation when I think of it.
01:00:13.000Because from an objective analysis, correct, of world history, hello, how are you?
01:00:23.000We are the most creative, the most accepting, the most benevolent, the most generous, most forward-thinking and productive country ever to exist.0.78
01:00:32.000We are a country that sent 37,000 of our own citizens to die on the Korean Peninsula so South Korea could exist, and we asked for nothing in return.
01:00:40.000No country's ever done anything close to that.
01:02:30.000I just want to understand why can you hear how, what's this been called?
01:02:34.000I go around universities and have challenging conversations because that's what is so important to our country to find our disagreements respectfully.
01:02:45.000Because when people stop talking, that's when violence happens.
01:02:49.000You could see that happen all across the world.
01:02:51.000So, and I'm not really interested in being filmed.
01:02:53.000So, I understand I'm in America and that's what you used to do that.
01:03:33.000Okay, so that part of the society, what motivates you to come at you?
01:03:37.000Well, because I love talking to people I disagree with.
01:03:41.000Because in America, we have a tradition for public discourse and dialogue.
01:03:46.000Going back to the Lincoln Douglas debates, going back to Teddy Roosevelt screaming at political opponents, going back to how the U.S. Congress should exist.
01:03:54.000Okay, so what's your goal in all of this?
01:04:10.000Despite the First Amendment, they relegate you to a certain area.
01:04:14.000But also, number two, there's more people that agree with me than some people would actually believe, and they come out of the woodwork when I do stuff like this.
01:04:22.000And finally, we record all of it so that we put it on the internet so people can see these ideas collide.
01:04:27.000When people stop talking, that's when you get violence.
01:04:43.000There's some people from the university here.
01:04:45.000There's just one thing that I've seen as you've been sitting here shivering in the cold is that you really, you probably have some really good points to say, and that's fine.
01:04:53.000And I'm trying to listen, understand as I'm here.
01:04:55.000Because I'm going to go home on Saturday and I'm away from all of this.
01:04:58.000But you really quickly slip into a rhetoric.
01:06:16.000So, of course, you just said Jesus is the most important thing for everyone out here.
01:06:20.000And so, can you please explain to everyone out here what Jesus stood for, and especially the qualities of love, how to love your neighbor even if they don't agree with you?
01:06:35.000But I want to also just add something because you're right.
01:06:38.000Jesus fully embodied two things simultaneously that showed his divine and his godly nature.
01:06:45.000Because not just Jesus said good things, Jesus is Lord, Christ is King, and Jesus is God, on top of just being a guy with a lot of good ideas.
01:06:54.000So, John 8, if I'm drawing from memory correctly, best embodies both Christ's mercy and love, but also his commitment to truth.
01:07:03.000And sometimes in the modern gospel, we overemphasize the grace and we underemphasize the truth.
01:07:11.000And so we are far too willing to say, hey, Jesus loves everybody, but we don't get to the second part of the conversation that says, Jesus doesn't want you to live in sin.
01:07:19.000So, in John 8, it's best embodied, right?
01:07:22.000Almost every Christian in this audience will be able to tell you the first part of this.0.95
01:07:25.000Which is a bunch of Sadducees and Pharisees are sitting around, standing around with rocks, and they're about to stone the prostitute woman.
01:07:31.000And Jesus comes up and says, Let the first among you without sin cast the first stone.
01:07:36.000And everyone starts dropping the rocks.
01:07:38.000But what comes next shows that Christ is not just grace focused, he's simultaneously truth focused.
01:07:44.000He goes up to the woman who had a career in selling herself for sex and said, Sin no more.
01:07:52.000Now, imagine today how much trouble you would get in if you would go up to somebody and say, Stop sinning.
01:08:07.000And that tension is very hard in a modern world because we want to overemphasize grace when in reality, Christ loves us too much to have us continue to live in sin.
01:08:17.000He wants us to try to elevate our actions to glorify God in all that we do.
01:08:23.000And so to build on my question, I really want to talk about DEI.
01:08:27.000And so, with our Christian, I will agree with you a lot of.
01:08:31.000I read the Bible for myself, so I knew what that scripture said.
01:08:34.000But my question is how can Christian teachings on love, equity, and justice inform and shape discussions on diversity, equity, and inclusion in today's society?
01:08:43.000And so, to also, Jesus hung out with sinners.
01:08:49.000And so, I think that a lot of people in society today, when we talk about political views that are opposition, we judge them because we think, oh, because you voted for Trump, you agree on everything, when that's not the case, right?
01:09:55.000So, I'm a born again believer in Jesus.
01:10:02.000But I want to hear your thoughts, Charlie, because sometimes I really struggle to align myself with the conservative side of the.
01:10:10.000Issues in our country and multiple experiences in my life, whether it be it was just a conversation that somebody picked up or whatever, how I look, whatever it may be, assumptions, my political views or where I'm leaning have blocked and gotten in front of what I really believe in, which is advancing the gospel.
01:10:29.000And so my issue sometimes is that I want to be patriotic, I want to vote for and be public about that which I think is best for my country.
01:10:40.000But I don't want it to get in front of my main goal, what I feel like I've been placed here on this earth for, which is advancing the gospel to all people, not just conservatives, not just people who are comfortable walking in the church, but the far left of the left who are in their season of life for reasons I don't know.
01:10:56.000And I don't want what I believe to be best for this country to get in the way of what's going to ultimately grow the kingdom of God.
01:11:26.000During COVID, they called the church non essential, yet they left strip clubs open, marijuana dispensaries, Home Depot, and Lowe's, but they said the bride of Christ was non essential.
01:11:35.000They always say separation of church and state.
01:11:37.000Why is it then that the state could come in and shut down the church?
01:11:40.000You see, what we see is that when we stop caring about politics, the government gets so big, it starts persecuting.
01:11:46.000Our religious liberty and our freedom.
01:12:02.000It says in the scriptures, Jeremiah 29 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in, because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
01:12:17.000In fact, we are called to be counselors to the king.
01:12:20.000We're called to be the moral conscience of a nation.
01:12:23.000And so, if we want to know Christ and make him known, we must have one ingredient a free society.
01:12:30.000It is hard to know Christ and make him known in countries where the gospel is not allowed to be told on the side of the street, like China or North Korea.
01:13:08.000That most missionaries come from 5% of the world's population here.
01:13:12.000We are populating the earth and Africa and South America with people who love the Lord, that come with money, that come with resources, that come with clean water equipment.
01:13:20.000If America were to fall, The gospel would not spread as far.
01:13:23.000In fact, the world is becoming more Christian because of America's wealth, our generosity, and our track record to say that we're going to stand for our fellow man and love our neighbor as ourselves.
01:13:54.000Yeah, I mean, as America becomes more secular and as the country becomes less godly, we become less free, more miserable, more depressed, more suicidal, more anxious, et cetera.
01:16:52.000Suicide rates or the depression rates and the bankruptcy rates that you just mentioned regarding men have to do with the fact that men are pushed to be less open about their emotions.
01:17:04.000They're less available to being able to communicate how they feel with others.
01:17:08.000They're taught to be more violent and be more physically harmful to themselves and others.
01:17:13.000And do you think that pushes them towards suicide, depression, and bankruptcy?
01:17:54.000Well, just for example, if we look at artificial intelligence scanned over 10,000 brains using a spec. Scan and was able to determine male female differences 95% of the time of different brain functions based on basal ganglia, amygdala, cerebellum, ages 14 to 22.
01:18:13.000I read a study recently that before the age of 10, brains are, neuroscientists are unable to be able to tell the difference in gender based on the brain, but at a certain point, the social implications that children are taught start making them act differently.
01:18:29.000But it's been shown that if a man Or a woman were given the same.
01:18:34.000Okay, have you heard that men are able to have more spatial awareness in their brain?
01:18:40.000Yeah, so we learned that if women are given a month of the same practices as children that men are given or allowed to do, whether it comes to what they're playing, the media they're in taking, like what they're told and how they're told to act, that women have the same spatial awareness ability as men.
01:18:57.000So we're finding that innately the brain is the same, but because of the social constructs that we're taught on men and women and how they're supposed to act, their brain.
01:19:06.000Ability to activate certain parts changes.
01:19:09.000So by 14, the brain does seem different.
01:20:01.000So if I sat down with a young lady, she'd be much more likely to talk about friends, relationships, and things that are very intimate to her.
01:20:07.000A young man would be more likely to talk about the weather, sports, or the stock market, or politics.
01:21:02.000So, if you really, I'm fascinated that you think that eight year olds' brains are infinitely neuroplastic, but we'll get back to that later.
01:21:19.000That test has been replicated so many times.
01:21:21.000And even the Dutch, who are like the most progressive on this, have gotten away from the idea of tabula rasa that boys and girls are born similarly with brain differences.
01:21:38.000Young ladies, what do you think about in the room alone for 30 minutes just by themselves?
01:21:41.000They replayed prior conversations that they had.
01:21:45.000For the record, no man in the history of the species has replayed conversations that we had and thought about them when we were alone in a room.
01:22:09.000I'm sure there's a man somewhere that recollected on a conversation.
01:22:13.000Well, I didn't know that in a dialect that's a debate based on science and you're talking about a study, that would you implement a joke that's based on it?
01:22:19.000Yes, humor is a tool of a redetermination to try to get people to chuckle a little levity.
01:22:39.000Okay, so then if women are lower in testosterone and higher in estrogen, and men are lower in estrogen and higher in testosterone, wouldn't that, independent of society's framing, play into the idea that there are natural differences between the two?
01:22:52.000I think that it definitely plays into the idea that there are natural differences.
01:22:56.000And I think there are natural differences.
01:22:57.000I just think to an extent that as a society we've decided that men, because they have more testosterone and we've known testosterone makes people more aggravated, that or What's aggravated?
01:24:00.000Well, let's just say not agreeable, forceful, aggressive, aggressive in the best possible term, forward thinking, more macro, more visionary.
01:24:11.000Less feeling based, more rational, more yearning towards reason and dialogue, and less towards compassion or the ethos.0.56
01:25:13.000Oh, yeah, the most miserable they've ever been.
01:25:15.000I'm just curious, why do you think that is?
01:25:16.000Yeah, I guess I would say that I think it's because, like, the society that we live in, right, like, capitalistic, consumeristic, where there's, like, constant processing and overconsumption, that includes, like, drugs, alcohol, like, the overconsumption.
01:25:32.000So women going into the workforce a lot could create a lot of depression for them.0.74
01:25:51.000I'm saying maybe the men are upset because the women that they're trying to date are more interested in taking care of cats and trying to become partners at the local law firm.
01:26:00.000And they say, I don't want to get married until I'm 30.
01:26:03.000And maybe that creates a sense of despondency when a young male being raised in this country sees everything rigged against them.0.97
01:26:10.000So, do you not believe that women should be working?
01:26:12.000Of course, I think I believe in liberty.
01:26:14.000I'm just asking, has there been an unintended tragedy where we have the most financially successful 30 to 35 year old cohort of young women in?
01:27:16.000Do you think we should encourage it more for young women?
01:27:20.000I think we could encourage a deeper understanding of people's individual sense of self.
01:27:27.000And then through that, if people can better understand, Their wants and needs, and become more self aware about who they are and what they need, that ultimately they would lead them to better and more efficient decision making for themselves.
01:28:05.000So we see it in the fact that God or the divinity is represented as men, which was only happened like halfway through the history of humans.0.78
01:28:14.000So it was like a matrilineal matriarchy society for a while.0.81
01:28:19.000We see it in the fact that women take men's last name.
01:28:23.000We see it in the way that men are viewed, or like men view women, and how women kind of have to adhere to.
01:28:35.000The way that men want them to be portrayed.
01:28:37.000And I agree with you that porn is, what'd you say?0.57
01:28:59.000But if you go on a porn website, you can see that, like, the view of all of the porn is from the perspective of a man and it's of a woman.0.67
01:29:07.000And these kinds of aspects show that right now, We live in a society where it's a man's view, it's men over.
01:29:46.000Okay, a lifetime movie is like a feel good movie on cable TV that has like a very poorly written narrative and usually ends in some sort of.
01:30:22.000Looking into Turning Point USA, it's really just an organization that's meant to spread awareness of your political beliefs, being pro Christian, pro Republican Party, or more Trump, I guess.
01:30:35.000But my question is do you think that this platform or this discussion of politics in this way is useful?
01:30:43.000Because, for example, the guy that you talked to a little bit ago about vaccines, you had a lot of stuff to say to him that he couldn't really counteract in that moment, because just coming from it, You are a professional, that this is your job.
01:30:56.000And so you just have more facts readily available that aren't necessarily verifiable.
01:31:01.000So it's kind of hard to argue a point whether it's right or wrong and whether or not you have the equipment to do so if you just automatically have points that we can't really verify.
01:31:13.000You guys are welcome to bring phones or notes or phone a friend.
01:31:32.000Look at the crowd you've already assembled.
01:31:34.000And I think that free speech is a bedrock of American society, and to be able to pursue truth and find out where we agree or disagree or have my assumptions challenged.
01:31:48.000You're able to bring whatever you want.
01:31:49.000But yeah, look, I think that on this campus, especially, it is a predominantly homogenous left wing campus, especially amongst the professors.
01:31:58.000And to have a conservative be able to sit here and take adversarial questions, I think it also gives confidence to other conservatives here on campus to speak up when they might hear something they disagree about or give them conviction to maybe say, hey, I don't agree with that.
01:32:11.000And so I think that has a lot of value.
01:32:41.000But usually, again, as someone who doesn't watch Turning Point USA, the only thing I see from talks like this and similar to like, I don't know if you associate with like Steven Crowder or, but he has very similar like, come and talk, talk about these things.
01:32:55.000The only thing I ever really see from that is more sensationalized conversations, like shutting down.
01:33:01.000And sometimes I feel like this dialogue can become a real problem.
01:33:04.000Yeah, I mean, again, you can look at my YouTube channel.
01:33:05.000We post hour long clips of these deals.
01:33:07.000So you see the clips because they lead to the longer form, but both are posted for sure.
01:33:12.000Do you think it's because it leads to the longer form or it's easier to watch and more entertaining?
01:33:17.000I mean, look, you're competing for eyeballs against literal pornography, Hulu, Netflix, and sports.
01:33:22.000So when people want to engage with content around politics, you're trying to win people over, right?
01:33:27.000But also, we want to have integrity for the conversations that we have, which is what we do with a lot of our YouTube videos and our longer form content.
01:34:05.000Well, I could give you the technical answer.
01:34:06.000There's never been an archaeological discovery that has contradicted the truth of the Bible.
01:34:10.000We know everything in the Bible as far as the kings, as far as the succession of Israeli rulers, to the Jewish people being put in exile, to be put back into.
01:34:18.000The land of Jerusalem to the destruction of the temple in AD 70, all that checks out.
01:34:22.000There's never been a discovery that's contradicted it, from King Hezekiah to King Cyrus to Nehemiah to Zerubbabel to the destruction of the creation of the second temple.
01:34:31.000There is not a truth of the Bible that if you apply to your life, your life does not improve dramatically.
01:34:36.000And then finally, we have the most accurate and transparent, the most historically robust account, I should say, that one can have of the most important figure ever to live in the history of the world Jesus of Nazareth.
01:34:48.000And Jesus of Nazareth, who was born of virgin birth, what we believe is the incarnation, performed miracles all throughout Judea and Samaria, eventually confronted Pharisees, led to a death that he did not deserve, was in the grave for three days, and then rose from the dead.
01:35:02.000And the resurrection is the pinpoint of my belief that Jesus did rise from the grave so that we may live.
01:35:10.000So, what about the stories of Greek and Roman mythology?
01:35:51.000That's not mythology, but that is theology.
01:35:53.000So, in the story of Satan's fall in the later books of Ezekiel, we are told that God created the heavens and the earth, God created the angels, and there was a rebellious angel, Lucifer, who led a rebellion against God and brought one third of the angels with him and then created what is now the underworld, is the best Hebraic interpretation of that which we now know as hell.
01:36:13.000I could go through every single story Jonah and the whale, parting of the Red Sea, right?
01:36:54.000Every single person around him had everything to lose, and yet they went to the absolute death from Paul to Peter to the half brother of James, saying that Jesus is Lord, Jesus rose from the dead.
01:37:04.000Not to mention, if you were going to fake a story, you would not use female witnesses in the ancient world.
01:37:08.000In the scriptures, it said that the women were the first one to see Jesus Christ.
01:37:12.000If you're trying to fake a story, you would never do that.
01:37:14.000Not to mention the 500 people that saw Jesus after he rose from the dead, doubting Thomas, and then the later church that lived under persecution under the belief that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.
01:37:32.000So we believe that God loves you, so he will not force you.1.00
01:37:35.000And so if you reject God, you will go to hell.
01:37:38.000I hope that's not the case for you guys, because you can give Jesus Christ, you can live life eternal.
01:37:42.000But it's a love story, not a force story.
01:37:44.000And so it's this option in front of you.
01:37:45.000Will you surrender in front of the cross?
01:37:47.000The cross is this idea that the perfect, the divine, came down and took a human form and died the most brutal death the ancient world knew, the most torturous, brutal death that someone could possibly know, and then rose from the dead to defeat death so that you could live forever.
01:38:00.000And so it's a gift there right in front of you.
01:38:01.000If you take that gift, it transforms you from within, changes your life.
01:38:05.000You have joy and happiness that you otherwise would not have.
01:38:08.000But you have a conscious choice to reject that.
01:38:47.000That we are made in this image, that there is a struggle of good versus evil.
01:38:51.000Every day you get to fight for what is good and what is true and beautiful.
01:38:54.000God should be the most important thing in your life.
01:38:56.000Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, most important thing.
01:38:59.000But then beyond that, it's getting married, having children, building families, leaving a legacy, doing big and great things.
01:39:11.000Taking the deep, but sometimes the difficult road is the way that you should configure your life.
01:39:17.000Getting married and having children. Is a difficult but deep decision that I hope every single one of you make because for every single one of you, there are a couple thousand students that wish they could speak out like you do.