00:00:42.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:49.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:17.000I was really, I mean, you guys, but honestly, as someone who is a fan of a team far from here that you would be like, why are you a fan of Oregon Ducks?
00:04:09.000But I think it's important, whether you're a Christian or not tonight, welcome.
00:04:13.000It's not my point to make the case for Christianity for you tonight.
00:04:16.000What I am instead going to make the case of if you don't have a nation built on a religion that has a strong tradition, what replaces it is really bad.
00:04:25.000That's the argument that I'm going to make tonight, okay?
00:04:44.000So tonight I'm going to talk about the raise, the rise of fake religions.
00:04:48.000Because the biggest growing group in America, especially ages 18 to 25, 18 to 30, are people that are, they call the nuns, N-O-N-E, not like Catholic nuns, but the nuns.
00:05:00.000Besides, I have no religious affiliation, right?
00:05:29.000But whether you like it or not, you are all inheritors in a Western tradition of things that you consider to be common sense, things that you consider to be normal, that are really the inheritors of a robust Christian tradition.
00:05:42.000You are all the Christian inheritance that we can call it tonight.
00:05:46.000And so we are less religious and more secular than any other time in American history.
00:05:52.000Now, I'm not going to say all of these are because of it, but it certainly, as an opening argument, should press pause and say, wow, does one thing have to do with the other?
00:06:01.000So we're more religious and more secular.
00:06:03.000And it is, we have the most depressed generation, suicidal, alcohol-addicted, drug-addicted, and without purpose generation history.
00:06:11.000Is that all because of the secularization of the country?
00:06:15.000For example, the lockdowns, which was a massive mistake.
00:06:18.000One of the biggest mistakes in American history was locking down you, our nation's young people, and to put masks on you and force a vaccine for you to take, even though the virus did not represent a serious threat to your health at all.
00:06:31.000In fact, you're more likely to die of self-inflicted suicide as a young person.
00:06:34.000That went up dramatically than from the Fauci Chinese coronavirus.
00:06:38.000And we decided that we're going to lock you down and make it harder for you to have friendships, go to community gatherings.
00:06:43.000And many of you were in high school probably when this happened, taking prom, graduation, sports away from you.
00:06:50.000And actually, it's part of one of the rising religions of the reason we did that.
00:06:54.000But what I'm going to argue tonight is that when you say that you're not religious, that's okay.
00:07:01.000But be careful what you actually end up believing might end up being a pseudo-religion in place of you telling me you're not being religious.
00:07:09.000And there's a God-shaped hole in everybody's heart.
00:07:12.000And maybe you're super disciplined and you resist every ideology at all times.
00:07:16.000But in reality, what we've seen is that as America becomes less Christian, is that we do embrace other ideas that are incredibly poisonous and dangerous and creates moral confusion and deep-seated unhappiness.
00:07:31.000Now, so part of this, I'm going to go through the five that I've identified.
00:07:35.000And again, the perception of Christianity in America is very, very low.
00:08:09.000The fact that an eight-year-old should not have to be preyed on by a teacher, by another person, by a gender-affirming clinician, by somebody that might try to harm them.
00:08:21.000Most societies, absent a Christian inheritance, do not believe that children are off-limits.
00:08:28.000As they say in the Taliban, they have tea boys where they bring them in the afternoon and they rape young boys.
00:08:32.000If you think that's an exception, happened through Greek times and Roman times.
00:08:36.000What was different that all of a sudden we consider it to be common sense that if you touch a child, you should then go to prison and maybe even more than prison, the harshest punishment.
00:08:45.000A very simple teaching from the scriptures that say one of the harshest teachings that Christ said, which is it is better for those of you that have a millstone hung around your neck than for you to touch the least of these.
00:08:57.000Now, that is built in through hundreds of years of tradition into our songs, into our traditions, into our basic ancestry that you are raised in a nation that you don't realize it's actually a human norm for people to go after children.
00:09:10.000And I'll prove it to you in multiple different ways.
00:09:12.000There's three types of people in the world, okay?
00:09:14.000There's children, there's predators, and the protectors of children.
00:09:20.000And so in order for predators to not be able to go after children, it takes courageous and heroic people to stand up against them.
00:09:29.000Whether it be in Exodus, whether it be when Jesus was born, there's story after story of this weird pattern of tyrants that want to kill the firstborn.
00:09:36.000Now, we would never ever do that in our society.
00:09:38.000Like we would never have, you know, I don't know, abortions.
00:09:41.000Like, of course, we're more advanced than that, right?
00:09:44.000Million abortions a year that we have in our country right now.
00:09:47.000But the point being is that under a certain rubric, we believe that children should be off limits.
00:09:54.000Look at what's happened with these drag queens.
00:09:56.000All of a sudden, the state controls your children.
00:09:59.000As we lose the roots of what actually we consider to be common sense, all of a sudden insane ideas and dangerous and pernicious ideas start to come into our society.
00:10:58.000You see, as inheriting this tradition, where all of a sudden we look at it through a new lens and we say, wow, in fact, the less religious we become, the more nasty and the more cruel we come to one another.
00:11:11.000That's not saying that every religious person is happy and is joyful and is living it out.
00:11:53.000You can be loving, but isn't the most loving thing to have standards that the world needs to be ordered in harmony with the natural law?
00:12:01.000Instead, if you tolerate evil, you are complicit with evil.
00:12:06.000And we're seeing that they say, well, Charlie, you're not very tolerant of these trans athletes.
00:12:11.000I just call them what they are, right?
00:12:13.000These are men wearing woman face, masquerading as women, trying to appropriate womanhood because they couldn't compete against other men and they're cheaters.
00:13:07.000And it's like, I'm sure you've seen it, just nauseating.
00:13:09.000It goes one after the other, after the other, after the other.
00:13:11.000And that's somebody trying to fill that hole.
00:13:14.000And the issue with the religion of tolerance is that it preys on people's best intentions because they don't want to be deemed as hateful.
00:13:24.000You understand it's not a binary, right?
00:13:26.000That you could be loving and firm and not hateful of anybody, but also uncompromising in your standards.
00:13:35.000And that, I believe the religion of tolerance is actually pushed by some of the least tolerant people in our society.
00:13:44.000It's people that, quite honestly, are very quick to use political power against you or any sort of power against you if you so want.
00:13:53.000I could talk about that one at length.
00:13:54.000Let me go to the second one, which I think is really important, which I don't know if this is the case at TCU.
00:13:59.000We will find out, but it certainly has captured the imagination, the fervor, the energy, the intensity of the most young people I see in college campuses, which is earth worship.
00:14:11.000And they call it environmentalism, but it's earth worship is what it is, okay?
00:14:55.000The world is going to end in 10 years if you don't stop all fossil fuels.
00:14:59.000They're lying, but they also, it's all they have is this apocalyptic alarmism.
00:15:04.000And I believe it's so immoral to tell an eighth grader who is prone to hysteria as it is that the world is going to end unless we stop driving in F-150s.
00:15:17.000And it creates, I think, really, I think it creates incentive structures where they think they have to be an activist.
00:15:25.000I mean, these poor kids in elementary school and in middle school that are seeing all this imagery that the ice caps are going to disappear and the warming is out of control.
00:15:34.000When in reality, there's a much more prudent way to approach the topic, which always needs to be very simple.
00:16:19.000Now, let me ask the question for the people that raise their hand.
00:16:22.000If you were invisibly sitting on the shore and somebody else was there and it was their dog and your sister, who do you hope they would save?
00:16:31.000You would hope they would save your family member.
00:16:33.000The point is this: human equality should transcend our own personal attachment to an animal.
00:17:50.000That's how you get Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union very quickly.
00:17:54.000You remove that transcendent order, something must fill it.
00:17:58.000So earth worship is kind of the new thing.
00:18:00.000And I want to just say this: if you aren't an environmentalist here tonight, that's great.
00:18:04.000I have no issue with it only if you say that the delta smelt, like in California, or some abstract, abstract tree, matters more than human beings.
00:18:17.000And when it actually comes to fruition, like we see in Europe, where people are freezing and people are having a lower standard of living, or it happens increasingly here with rolling blackouts in America, and they say we can't do this because of some mosquito that you've never heard of might die.
00:19:29.000And if they lie about you, it's completely irrelevant and you laugh and you move on because they're the ones that are probably the bigots anyway.
00:19:56.000And it was a really disturbing train of events.
00:20:00.000I have a working theory, which is if it wasn't for the lockdowns and if it wasn't for people being cooped up, I don't think the religion of anti-racism would have spread as much as it did in 2020.
00:20:11.000I think the lockdowns were a prerequisite, almost a bubbling up effect, almost ready to explode like a volcanic eruption where people were looking for meaning.
00:20:20.000And all of a sudden, these charlatans, Iberma X. Kendi and Robin D'Angelo and all these fraudsters came on.
00:20:26.000They said, Well, actually, let me tell you about this new idea that in order to be a progressive, we're going to go back to discrimination and back to prejudicing and back to segregation.
00:20:36.000Like, come to my $9 million mansion and tell my white friends about that.
00:20:40.000And that's literally what happened, right?
00:20:42.000I mean, Robin D'Angelo, who's one of the authors who's in charge of anti-not in charge, but she's a big leader in anti-racism, said last week that black people need to separate themselves from white people.
00:20:52.000At Columbia University, at Grand Valley State University, they have black-only graduation ceremonies now.
00:20:58.000At Western Washington University and 100 other schools, they have black-only dormitories.
00:21:04.000We are going through the resegregation of America because that's always been their core, right?
00:21:08.000Racial harmony and a post-racial America was always something they detested because an America that is not divided on race is much harder to control.
00:21:16.000An America that's divided on race is much easier to control.
00:21:21.000They also believe in these ridiculous racist abstractions.
00:21:24.000But I could go through the cult of the diversity.
00:21:26.000Also incorporated in this fake religion is just a bitterness towards America, especially the American founding.
00:21:33.000And this is where the 1619 project comes.
00:21:35.000And it's such sloppy, one-dimensional, just awful thinking where they say, well, America, you know, the founding fathers had slaves and therefore America is terrible.
00:21:45.000And that's a thought-terminating cliche, right?
00:21:47.000You say it, you get intimidated when they say it, and you kind of back away because you don't know how to respond.
00:21:51.000And the response should be very simple.
00:21:53.000Every human being that has ever lived has something in common.
00:21:56.000You're born into a world you did not create, except Jesus.
00:21:59.000He was actually born into a world he did create.
00:22:33.000And not only did George Washington say it's a question of if slavery gets abolished, but when slavery gets abolished.
00:22:40.000Those are people that probably deserve some study and some recognition and some moral credit.
00:22:50.000And I could go through the facts, right?
00:22:52.000Whether it be the first ever anti-slavery convention was founded in 1775 by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, vehemently wrote to King George, blaming him for bringing slavery to the United States, the first state to abolish slavery ever in the history of the world, first independent territory.
00:23:12.000Nine out of 13 of the colonies by ratification in 87 and 91, the Constitution and Bill of Rights had already independently abolished slavery.
00:23:20.000There was real moral movement that was happening because the founding fathers decided to embrace a promise of human equality.
00:23:27.000And then people say, well, the founding fathers fell short.
00:23:55.000And you might say, oh, well, that's not slavery.
00:23:58.000Come down to the Rio Grande Valley with me.
00:24:00.000And I'll show you how the cartels sell people into a form of indentured servitude where they say, you're going to have to pay us back over 10 years, 20 years, 30 years.
00:24:08.000Go down to Yuma, Arizona, where you see a sophisticated operation, no different than the slave smugglers of the 1600s and the 1700s.
00:24:15.000Not to mention what's happening in the Horn of Africa, in Libya, in Syria, in China, in India.
00:24:21.000The human norm is human beings owning human beings.
00:24:24.000The founding fathers decided to say, stop it.
00:24:27.000That's a pretty beautiful thing and something that we should all be thankful for.
00:24:34.000So I could go on at length about that, but the religion of anti-racism is only powerful because we allow it to be powerful.
00:24:45.000Out of all the ones, it is, in my opinion, the least attractive when it comes up against criticism, but it's actually the most dangerous of all five of the new religions.
00:24:57.000It's the most dangerous because, my goodness, I'll tell you, we're getting to a country where we are trying to wreck the promise of the founding, where agency, choice, and character matters more than ancestry and melanin content.
00:25:15.000You are disempowering a population when you tell them that your skin color determines your destiny.
00:25:56.000I believe we all lived through a multi-year exhibit in human behavior during the Chinese coronavirus lockdowns.
00:26:02.000I saw stuff about human behavior that I never would have believed years before.
00:26:06.000And one of the things that I saw is that there's a small sliver of the population that enjoy being cruel to others just because they have a badge and they work at Starbucks and you don't.
00:26:17.000And I call these people micro-tyrants, that they might be part of the pagan cult of earth worship.
00:26:23.000They might be part of the religion of tolerance.
00:26:25.000They might tithe to the church of anti-racism.
00:26:27.000But what they really get off on is making sure that your mask is properly worn while you're getting a straw.
00:26:33.000And if not, they're going to use power against you.
00:26:36.000And I saw a thrill, an excitement, an exuberance, a purpose of these micro-tyrants that made me realize, I said, wow, that's how the Soviet Union operated.
00:26:47.000Where that it wasn't just Stalin, it was millions of little infantry people that were suddenly super important.
00:26:53.000Like, I didn't vote for you, barista person.
00:27:30.000And the religion of power is that here's the problem.
00:27:34.000The more rules you have, the more tyrants you have.
00:27:38.000You should have short, simple, beautiful, transparent, easy to understand rules.
00:27:43.000When you have lots of rules, you need lots of rule enforcers.
00:27:47.000And then when you have dumb rules, you have dumb rule enforcers.
00:27:51.000Because good people do not want to enforce dumb rules.
00:27:55.000So then, four, you have to just kind of go into the bottom of the barrel and you say, hey, let's go pry from the earth worshipers to go make sure everyone's wearing their mask.
00:28:04.000I mean, the fact that people were getting kicked off of airplanes, this is the one, it defies everything that built the West, right?
00:28:11.000When I think of the West, I think of the fruits of the Enlightenment and the spirit of the individual and the pursuit of truth and challenge and inquiry.
00:28:19.000Here was, here where we were at the height of the lockdowns, right?
00:28:22.000Where you have a non-stop flight from Newark International to LAX and they have to sit there for five and a half hours and you must wear the mask perfectly, except when you're eating and drinking.
00:28:32.000And when you're eating and drinking, the virus is paused, obviously.
00:28:38.000And when you were in New Jersey or California, the two cities you were flying to, the restaurants were closed because they were afraid of the virus.
00:28:53.000But if you were in some sort of a tube at 35,000 feet at five hours, the virus is in complete and total suspension.
00:29:07.000And then they would kick people off the plane if the mask wasn't perfect or if they were just kind of a little bit, you know, disagreed with one of the policies.
00:29:14.000And you're like, wait a second, I don't have to wear a mask if I have a water bottle, but if I do, and the rules never made any sense.
00:29:20.000And what was just so interesting, as I know a lot of you fought back against it, but societally is how we took it.
00:29:29.000And I don't want to read too much into that, but I'm telling you, 100 years from now, 200 years from now, there will be a class taught at TCU if it still exists or whatever.
00:29:40.000You know, 200 years from now, like how a rational country just lost its mind.
00:30:56.000It is a false comfort that people get in trusting unelected expert committees to tell them how to run their life.
00:31:03.000And it's not just in the COVID stuff, which I could talk about at length, just the insanity and the evil of what we saw where loved ones had to die alone.
00:31:12.000And their wife, even though she already had COVID, wasn't allowed to go in with their 40-year-old marriage and she never saw them again.
00:31:29.000The kids that committed suicide and the mask policies and the fact that we never, and I mean, you want to talk about when I get angry, when I watch the, you know, March Madness and I have to now hear like these commercials about treatments for COVID.
00:31:40.000We used to talk about treatments for COVID and you guys called us anti-science.
00:31:44.000We said, wait a second, how about we tell people to increase their vitamin D levels, stop being fat, get exercise, eat better, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine.
00:31:54.000And you say, oh, Charlie, you can't say that.
00:31:56.000No, honestly, if we would have told America to lose 15 pounds, that would have been a way better treatment than masking and shutting down schools.
00:32:03.000Like, okay, if you're overweight and you have comorbidities, then you should stay at home.
00:32:06.000But if you're a marathon athlete, we're not going to infringe on your liberties or freedoms because some expert tells us.
00:32:11.000Anyway, so, boy, I get a lot of angry emails when I say that.
00:32:52.000He was just there in the fourth branch of government, all this power.
00:32:55.000And expert worship is very tempting because you can believe that people, quote unquote, smarter than you can come in with all the answers, all the solutions, and you have to stop thinking for yourself.
00:33:06.000You have to stop making your own independent solutions.
00:33:09.000And this one is not the most dangerous.
00:33:11.000I think that the DEI one is the most dangerous, but this is the one that is most institutionalized in our government.
00:33:16.000And I'm very afraid because I mean, whether it be the experts that told us economic forecasting, banking news, the experts that told us on stuff with COVID, the experts that told us on stuff with Ukraine, the experts, and you go through it, you say, wow, these people have a really low batting average and the highest stakes, which is, I don't know, our whole civilization.
00:33:35.000And the founding fathers saw this ahead of time, which is so simple, that instead of trusting committees or trusting bureaucrats or the Leviathan, that if it's not a proper role of government, send it back to the people or the states and empower you to get informed, literate, do research, and make the responsibility on you, the American people, to actually figure out what is best for your life.
00:34:01.000And instead, we have over the last hundred years have given up so much of our liberty and freedom to the centralized government.
00:34:41.000I don't want to say never, but it doesn't look like in his code of conduct or behavior, if he would actually issue a genuine heartfelt apology.
00:34:47.000But they don't think they did any wrong, anything wrong, so then why would they apologize?
00:34:52.000Because all of it, according to them, is according to the plan.
00:34:55.000So anyway, let me summarize this all and then we'll do some questions, which is we're living through an existential crisis in the West.
00:35:01.000It's serious and it's real, but the solution actually isn't that complicated.
00:35:05.000The solution is just restore what built this place.
00:35:08.000And my contention is Texas Christian University should be educating young people on the five fake religions, on where they come from, the threat, and how Christianity is the solution to every one of these synthetic and poisonous ideologies from spreading across our country.
00:35:27.000Texas Christian University should be standing up for that.
00:35:34.000And so Why I will not dwell on why I believe Christianity is true, and you can ask me about that.
00:35:44.000I think I made somewhat of a case of the danger what happens when you close the book on the thing you're told you're supposed to hate.
00:35:50.000When all of a sudden you turn your back on the foundation, the moral foundation of your civilization, and you act as if a council of experts can find an ideology to take its place, it's probably not just worse, it's probably diametrically opposed.
00:36:03.000When Friedrich Nietzsche said God is dead in the 1800s, he was not saying it in a way to celebrate the death of God.
00:36:09.000He was warning that God is dying in the West.
00:36:11.000And I'll tell you that he was a little bit of a nutcase in some ways.
00:36:14.000But the fact that he said that God was dying in the 1870s was almost prophetic.
00:36:19.000I mean, he saw this 160 years ago, and he issued a warning in the book Beyond Good and Evil, where he said, listen, Westerners, God is going to die in public opinion.
00:36:46.000Turn around, go back to our roots, put the Bible at the center of education, and we Christians have to fight for what is good, true, and beautiful.
00:37:22.000Let it be known to every liberal watching that conservatives want people who disagree to let their voice be heard.
00:37:28.000But let me say one thing on that, which is if somebody who disagrees with me says something you find to be laughable or objectionable, do not mock them.
00:37:39.000Do not ridicule them and do not interrupt them.
00:37:41.000Give them an opportunity to say what they want to say and give them respect and give them a platform to be able to communicate.
00:38:46.000I do not do it because I believe I'm bound to the law.
00:38:48.000I do it because God, I think, created and revealed it in the scripture in the buffet line of blessing that I then can live a more beautiful and complete and full life.
00:38:56.000So I'm not saying you're bound by it, but I think you're missing out if you don't do it.
00:38:59.000I have a better marriage because of it.
00:40:31.000Hi, so how do you suggest we inform those close to us against these five fake religions or these pseudo-religions without outright bashing them or tolerating their corrupt ideology?
00:40:40.000Because as a Starbucks barista person, I face this a lot.
00:41:38.000If somebody says that I care more about the raven, you know, in the sky than a human being and they say they're a Christian, they would never say something that bluntly, I hope.
00:41:46.000But you can ask, what is the scripture to support that, right?
00:41:49.000All throughout the first 11 books of Genesis, it is repeated, the earth is there for us, that we take dominion over the earth.
00:41:55.000So you see, we have to understand that the Torah, the first five books of Moses, were written in a time of polytheism and paganism.
00:42:02.000And so there are some not so subtle refutations all throughout the Torah where they're jabbing at the kind of consensus view, if you will.
00:42:10.000This idea of monotheism, one God who speaks things into existence, is a profound, world-changing view that you have one God that is not in nature, but above nature.
00:42:24.000You must understand that when the Torah was written, the river civilizations used to worship the sun or worship the river or worship the dirt or worship the sky.
00:42:33.000The Hebrews had something different to say.
00:42:35.000They said, no, there's a God that's above all of that.
00:42:38.000And so that would be my recommendation is just always have God's word as the center of refuting any of these fake religions because when you study God's word and share it, it never turns up void.
00:43:15.000My one question, more so of a clarifying question, is what you've said is that in Genesis, which is true, that God did give his followers and creation, us being human, dominion over the earth and to take care of things and that every plant is good and that every animal is for our help and for our feeding and well fruits.
00:43:34.000However, with things such as being concerned with the environment, such as like our production of certain things, like I'm saying, I agree with a lot of the points you say, like we should continue to use fossil fuels.
00:43:45.000That's definitely a good resource that God has provided to us.
00:43:49.000However, with things like littering and pollution, as we saw in East Palestine, it's definitely a big concern because if God gave us dominion over creation, should we not take care of his creation to honor him as his creation is a reflection of him and his intricacy and divine?
00:44:49.000There's a doctor, not a medical doctor, but a PhD doctor that I listened to, Dr. Tyrone Hayes, and he talked about atrazine in the water, which is the chemical that turns the freaking frogs gay.
00:45:01.000You're a lot more base than I think you.
00:45:04.000He was talking about that, and he was talking about the importance of if this has this detrimental effect on frogs, what does it have on people?
00:46:33.000It is not even for self-defense, but that's very important.
00:46:36.000Defending your home, defending your family is a moral good.
00:46:40.000The unpopular to say, but morally correct reason we have a Second Amendment is so that free people can defend their rights given to them by God in case government becomes tyrannical.
00:47:01.000If you make that argument that people should be able to own firearms against a usurptatious potential tyrannical government, you're going to have negative externalities.
00:47:32.000If airports have armed guards, schools should have armed guards.
00:47:35.000And so you must come after it morally clear.
00:47:38.000I will never say that we'll get gun deaths to zero because we live in a broken world and we live in a place where there's a lot of nut jobs and a lot of evil people.
00:47:46.000But the choice that I'm unwilling to make, I am not willing to say we get rid of all of guns.
00:47:52.000Because even more evil than an isolated incident there and an isolated shooting there is a tyrannical government that wants to exterminate its citizens.
00:48:02.000And so that is the way we must talk about guns.
00:48:05.000Reduce and minimize the criminality and the shootings through prudent and proper restrictions, which most of the times mean good people with a firearm to protect against a bad person with a firearm.
00:48:18.000And so how do we make sure the government doesn't come after our guns?
00:48:20.000We need constitutional carry in every red state.
00:49:19.000But because in most states, it's a lifeline and is kind of like an escape pod out of government-run schools and teacher unions where kids can't read and they're teaching woke DEI nonsense.
00:49:31.000I come from a state with the most robust school choice measures in the country, Arizona.
00:49:36.000And I could tell you, it's worked wonderfully.
00:49:38.000We have classical charter schools popping up all over the valley.
00:49:42.000We have more kids that are studying Socrates and Plato and Aristotle and with no DEI departments and no woke nonsense.
00:50:14.000Number one, in the city of Chicago, they went through 40 schools.
00:50:18.000They could not find a single kid that could read at grade level.
00:50:21.000I think school choice is a pretty good idea for those inner-city Chicago kids that are our fellow American citizens that are being crushed by the Chicago Teacher Union.
00:50:30.000Same in Baltimore, same in Washington, D.C. Anything that drives the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association nuts, I usually think is a good idea.
00:50:40.000I'm very against the cartel, not the Sinaola cartel, the teacher union cartel that has done such damage to our kids.
00:50:49.000I'd love to hear the argument why it's a bad idea.
00:50:51.000That would be a new one because conservatives for years have been the pushers and the advocates for school choice.
00:50:56.000The only reason I could think that it's bad is two.
00:50:58.000Those of you that live in zip codes where you paid up to try to go to a better school, you're afraid that all that money you paid in property tax will be null and void because of somebody that doesn't pay as much in property tax.
00:51:08.000Okay, I could understand that argument.
00:51:10.000Number two, it could be that Bill Gates and Zuckerberg come in with a bunch of woke charter schools and they use the school choice voucher system to then push critical theory and Common Core.
00:51:22.000The risk of those two things is insignificant compared to mass illiteracy that's happening in the inner city schools.
00:51:28.000And maybe in Texas, your inner city schools are amazing.
00:51:31.000I can tell you that in Chicago, D.C., Philadelphia, New York, Boston, San Francisco, LA, Seattle, and Portland, they're a moral outrage, and school choice would be a solution.
00:51:52.000First, I wanted to say I was actually really surprised when you kind of told everyone not to boo or shout down.
00:51:58.000I was a little nervous getting up, but I feel I spend a lot of my time in more left-leaning circles.
00:52:06.000I don't personally think I'm left-leaning, but I guess people say I do.
00:52:10.000But when I look on your Instagram and on your social media and other people that would align pretty parallel with you, I feel I'm not seeing a big reconciliation with a lot of the division in the country because I'm a big American fan, but I would definitely like to see us get back to where two parties or multiple parties could be more unified and less divisive.
00:52:34.000And I'll admit there's a lot of divisive ideology on the left.
00:53:01.000How many left-wing events do you know that would allow disagreements and encourage them to go to the front of the line and tell the audience not to vote?
00:53:55.000Yeah, but I just would be curious to see how the rhetoric you send forth.
00:54:03.000Like, I get the feeling when I look at your Instagram and people similar, I'm seeing a lot of like derogatory statements and I guess a lot of things that are meant to get a reaction.
00:54:53.000Number two, it's a plainly spoken thing that is true, that resonates on a deep fundamental level, that we fire people left and right for blackface controversies, yet we allow people with woman-face controversies to win woman of the year and NCAA championships.
00:55:28.000Well, I guess because if you look at someone who's transgender or someone who's, again, I'm not literate in a whole lot of STEM things, but I also know there's a lot of psychological things going on there.
00:55:40.000It's not completely, I mean, okay, I'm actually evident in STEM.
00:55:43.000No, but I mean, so let me just get in.
00:55:45.000Let me just kind of zero in on this one.
00:55:47.000The intention is completely irrelevant.
00:55:49.000It's the action that we must judge, correct?
00:55:52.000Well, so if somebody robs a bank because they're poor, they should still go to jail regardless if they're poor or rich.
00:55:59.000If somebody appropriates a womanhood identity, they could say, well, I just wanted to be happy, or I just wanted to win the NCAA championship because I just, I wasn't able to compete against men.
00:57:38.000Just because you're poor and you commit a crime, it's insulting other poor people that don't commit crimes, saying that poverty is an excuse to crime.
00:57:46.000I think intention, what I mean by intention is how much control someone had over their decision.
00:57:52.000I think there's a lot of social, pardon?
00:58:11.000Probably studied it in theology class.
00:58:13.000Logos means you could change and pivot immediately.
00:58:16.000It means you are not set and bound to the previous atoms that came before you.
00:58:20.000Reason means you could do deductibility.
00:58:22.000You can have rationality, freedom of choice.
00:58:25.000You made a choice to come here tonight.
00:58:27.000Now, the relevant neuroscience, which Sam Harris is a part of in his book, Moral Landscape, you would say, well, we're all just kind of a combination of cause and effect.
00:58:34.000What we think is free will is not free will.
00:58:38.000And I'm going to tell you why, because in the beginning was the logos and the logos was God and the logos became God, right?
00:58:44.000And John 1 is there for a reason to show us that the logos is a properly ordered universe that free beings can point up and aim high, find virtue and eternity.
00:58:55.000You see, the issue with the neuroscientist argument is that it's impossible to prove, but it's impossible to disprove.
00:59:01.000Determinism, which is basically what you're beginning to enter into, takes way more faith than believing in free will because you exercise free will every single day.
01:00:12.000Property taxes is what pays for school.
01:00:13.000So what they're telling us is that we're going to pay our property taxes and then they're going to give us our money back in terms of vouchers so we can then take it to a private school, which costs way more than anything they're going to be able to give us anyway.
01:00:24.000So people that are still private's less than public, but keep going.
01:00:29.000But they give you a $5,000, even if they give us an $8,000 voucher, which they're not per kid.
01:00:35.000But even if it was $8,000, you're still not going to a good private school here in Texas.
01:00:40.000So, I mean, their $10,000 is about minimum.
01:00:43.000But anyway, aside from that, once it's government money, once I have paid my property taxes and now it's government money and they are giving me my money back, it is government money.
01:00:54.000They now get to say what I have to teach my children.
01:00:57.000What, you know, private schools that have freedom of religion right now, they eventually, I mean, maybe not year one, maybe not year two, but eventually they will see that they have the ability to put restrictions on that.
01:02:53.000So while I appreciate your opposition to the environmental fanaticism that seems to infect most of the political left of today, my question is kind of that, well, certainly not perfect.
01:03:04.000Would you say that certain green initiatives are on net positive in terms of either producing employment or reducing pollution?
01:03:12.000And if not, how would we avoid tangible pollution effects that are happening in cities like Beijing and China where they have such terrible smog and things that actually have true human effects, like you said, were so important earlier?
01:03:26.000Just give me an example of a green initiative.
01:03:45.000And so that, you know, obviously that's an argument against it.
01:03:48.000But clearly, those types of things have created more employment in the area for people who have to clean them, who have to build them, who have to do all these different types of things.
01:03:57.000And they provide, you know, as of conservative, I'm very in support of free market like opportunities.
01:04:02.000And it's provided a challenge to like the monopolization that natural gas has right now.
01:04:06.000So I'm wondering, you know, given that it could potentially have like, you know, economic benefits and, you know, pollution reduction benefits, do you think it is at all positive or could have positive benefits?
01:04:19.000Okay, so solar panels in Minnesota, I think, is probably a bad idea.
01:05:02.000Cobalt is terrible for the environment, right?
01:05:05.000So while in a free market, I'm not opposed to people putting up solar panels, but I hate to break it to you.
01:05:11.000Your examples of solar panels in Minnesota proves the insanity of the green energy fervor because that's a really bad idea.
01:05:19.000Instead, if some free market person can make solar panels in Minnesota work, that's great.
01:05:24.000I'm sure you could go like drill for oil in Illinois, but good luck, you know, getting financing on that.
01:05:32.000The point being is this, is that there's a cost to all things, and there's a prudent medium that I'm sure you agree with that a lot of the fanatics do not.
01:05:52.000And so, but people don't want to talk about it because of Three Mile Island, which is legitimate, but it's also an outlier.
01:05:58.000So as far as the job creation, I find that to be very unpersuasive because I could say right now, everyone has a job to go dig a ditch and fill it back in again, right?
01:06:07.000Or like go build a bridge to nowhere, right?
01:06:09.000Job creation needs to only come if there's value being created in the correlation to job creation.
01:06:14.000And so therefore, if you're exploring natural gas in Midland, Texas or Odessa or in West Texas, you're creating value and those are high-paying jobs that not only help those families and have made Midland Odessa into an incredibly prosperous part of Texas that used to not be as such.
01:06:54.000My question is with a growing need to be taught faith-based educational principles in U.S. schools.
01:06:59.000How do we respond to those who make the argument of freedom of religion or the separation of church and state, especially in regards to public schools?
01:07:06.000Okay, so I would first ask them, find me where it says separation of church and state in the U.S. Constitution.
01:07:13.000And what they will do is they will, as a smart aleck, point you to the First Amendment, which says Congress shall make no law establishing a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
01:07:25.000That's the establishment clause, which means that Congress or America will not have a state-run religion or an official religion, specifically Pentecostalism, Episcopalianism, or Presbyterianism.
01:07:36.000The word, the phrase separation of church and state, is derived from a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention, hilariously actually assuring them that the government won't come after them, saying that the government will stay away from you.
01:07:48.000And it was twisted by the Warren Burger Court in the 1960s and 70s to erroneously, unconstitutionally take prayer out of school, something that never should have happened in our school because then they reinvent this kind of constitutional standard where they say separation of church and state.
01:08:04.000And so people that say that, Christians say that, first of all, they don't understand their civics.
01:08:08.000They don't understand constitutionalism at all.
01:08:13.000I'm not recommending a national church or a national religion, but it is a fact that God appears four times in the Declaration of Independence.
01:08:20.000The Lord appears in the Constitution of the United States, whether your teacher taught you that or not.
01:08:25.000It says that in the Constitution of the United States.
01:08:27.00055 out of 56 of the signers of the Declaration were Bible-believing church attending Christians.
01:08:32.000And as it says in the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bans that have tied them to another, deriving the separate but equal station, goes on to say the laws of nature and nature is God.
01:08:44.000That is not a God that is polytheistic, pagan, or obviously atheistic because it says God.
01:08:50.000There was a belief in an ethical monotheistic God at the cornerstone of the United States project.
01:09:27.000So you touched on how the world is moving so far away from Christianity and how it's becoming really secular.
01:09:33.000I wanted to know your thoughts on Hollywood and how they're imposing so many satanic ideas through music lyrics, movies, concerts, and even all over social media out to society.
01:09:47.000And, you know, people like adults and even younger children look up to all these influencers, celebrities.
01:09:53.000And so what are your thoughts on all these satanic ideas going on?
01:09:57.000Yeah, you know, I struggle with what is more dangerous people that worship Satan or don't believe he exists.
01:10:19.000Okay, but anyway, yes, I mean, Hollywood doesn't really care.
01:10:22.000There's no price anymore to their outright Satan worship, whether it be Sam Smith or Lil Nas or all of this, with Luciferian imagery and outright satanic incantations.
01:10:37.000If I were to get theological on you, I think that Satan no longer has to hide.
01:10:44.000And because he is the most prideful and the most rebellious and the least self-controlled, looks at spiritual vessels to be able to show his temporary dominion over that sphere of cultural influence.
01:10:57.000And we must remember a couple things theologically, right?
01:10:59.000Jesus in his dialogue with Satan called him the prince of this world.
01:11:05.000Paul called him the God of this world.
01:11:07.000C.S. Lewis said we are an enemy-occupied territory, and we must launch a sabotage campaign.
01:11:12.000And so we must understand that until Christ returns again, which I believe he will return, happy to talk about that as well, is that we are in a place that is currently the dominion of the fallen angel, right?
01:11:25.000And that is a hard concept theologically for a lot of Christians to reconcile.
01:11:40.000Do you have a follow-up thought really quickly?
01:11:42.000So it's just like what you were saying, everything they do now is they turn into a joke.
01:11:46.000Like there's this one movie about LeBron James's house, and there's a scene in it where they go through this whole ritual about like sacrifice and the whole Illuminati thing.
01:11:58.000But now like media will go through it as it's like funny and it's a joke, but it's literally just right in front of you.
01:12:48.000Hey, Charlie, thank you for being here.
01:12:50.000I agree with you politically, basically everything, but I disagree with you on something that you said earlier tonight in regards to the Lord's Day.
01:13:00.000I keep the Seventh-day Sabbath myself, and the more I study it out for myself and see what the Bible says, the less evidence I see that there's indication that the Bible says Sunday is the Lord's Day.
01:13:34.000But the reason that Resurrection Day has become Sunday in the Western culture is you have Good Friday.
01:13:41.000And boy, I had this down perfectly a couple of years ago, but there's a space of interval that I think Mark in particular shows that he was resurrected on what we now call Sunday.
01:13:51.000But if you go to the Eastern world, they don't view it that way.
01:13:54.000They view Friday night to Saturday night as the Lord's Day.
01:14:23.000Talking about the baptism, or not the baptism, I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself.
01:14:27.000Talking about the resurrection, Lord's resurrection becoming the Lord's Day.
01:14:32.000I think in Romans chapter 3, 3 through 6, we see that it's written that Jesus' resurrection and death represents our baptism, that whole process, dying and rising again, new life.
01:14:46.000I guess I would counter on the point of not coming from a legalistic point, but from we look back at the Ten Commandments and we see the fourth commandment says, remember the Sabbath days, remember it and keep it holding.
01:14:59.000Because you were once slaves in Egypt.
01:15:01.000And we see throughout the whole Bible of the Sabbath is the time to remember what God has done for us and how he's worked in our lives.
01:15:23.000Yeah, I just, whether you honor it with rest or stop in the Hebrew Shabbat on Saturday or Sunday, I don't think is the most pressing theological question.
01:15:33.000The question is: are you leaving modernity for a day to try to honor the divine and your duties as a follower?
01:16:27.000Wall Street Journal poll came out today and said, when I was five years old in 1998, 70% of Americans thought patriotism was very important.
01:16:35.000Now it's 38%, according to the Wall Street Journal.
01:17:48.000Thank you for coming here, Charlie Kirk.
01:17:51.000And I'm the president at UT Dallas, but I'm part of a Christian organization at UTD, and they've been kind of, and I've been kind of distancing myself from them because of the fact that they are somewhat going woke in some senses, and they just don't really seem to take a stance on anything.
01:18:10.000So how would you go about like solving that problem?
01:18:14.000Yeah, I mean, this is a huge issue, everybody.
01:18:16.000I mean, I could have spent my whole speech on this, but wokeism, like a virus, has attached itself to the healthy host of American Christianity.
01:18:23.000And boy, does Dallas have its fair share of woke pastors throughout?
01:18:26.000I mean, I could name some names, but these people are so off base.
01:18:29.000You might say, okay, how do I know my pastor is woke?
01:18:32.000Well, let's first find out if your pastor is cowardly.
01:18:34.000Did your pastor mention and celebrate the reversal of Roe versus Wade?
01:18:39.000If the answer is no, you should find a new church.
01:19:43.000But look, how do you know if you're being led by a woke pastor?
01:19:45.000If they start talking about race, if they start talking about all these different things, I mean, I'm just amazed at how many of these pastors are talking about they need to have racial struggle sessions, about marching with BLM and all this nonsense.
01:20:00.000And I don't think they quite understand, first of all, that the role the church should have as the ecclesia, the gathering point, the community impact center that should happen.
01:20:11.000Number two, I don't think they understand politics, which is the highest form of community, according to Aristotle, because it combines morality and sociability.
01:20:17.000And number three, I don't think they understand Psalm 97, 10.
01:20:42.000The woke is always worried about turning people away, but that's all they're good at is turning people away.
01:20:46.000The woke pastors and their churches are crumbling.
01:20:50.000They're no longer growing or thriving.
01:20:52.000And American Christianity has never been less popular today than it was 20 or 30 years ago.
01:20:57.000We need a new generation of courageous pastors to rise up, preach the word verse by verse and chapter by chapter, and not care about budgets, baptism.
01:21:44.000How do we emphasize the importance of being involved in local government?
01:21:48.000So I think that if I had to give the biggest piece of critical feedback to conservatives, it is to complain about the macro and to allow the macro to impact the micro.
01:21:58.000So I just went through all of those trends.
01:22:01.000And the most important critical way to answer all those trends is, well, then what are you doing?
01:22:07.000Do you believe patriotism is important?
01:22:09.000Do you believe having children is important?
01:22:11.000Do you believe going to church is important?
01:22:13.000And sometimes you have to put the duty above the expediency.
01:22:17.000The country does the opposite right now.
01:22:19.000That's why money is going up in the value and everything else is going down.
01:22:23.000And it's not easy, but boy, is it fulfilling and it's life-giving.
01:23:06.000And I want to challenge a big demographic here, which is we got about 100 emails on this genre and about 30 that were really explicit and 10 that would take your breath away of all of our listeners and our viewers of grandmothers that said, I hope my grandkids don't have kids, I wouldn't want a kid to be born into this world, and I think that is an unbelievably evil thing to believe it is.
01:23:37.000You have an obligation to be fruitful and multiply as an act of worship to the divine.
01:23:41.000Yeah, I mean, people say Charlie, you gonna have kids in this mess, of course, because maybe they'll be smart enough to solve it, maybe we're gonna raise good people.
01:23:50.000How do you have hope without having children?
01:23:52.000I get these emails of these people and they say, it's all so dark and broken.