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00:01:59.000Well, thank you, Andrew, for your question.
00:02:02.000Yeah, so look, I think the biggest difference would have to be: well, first of all, the expanded audience is great on Real America's Voice, which has been terrific.
00:02:12.000You just have to also be a little bit more presentable when you're just doing radio.
00:04:07.000I think the Lord gave us a face for a reason.
00:04:09.000And especially for young children to be able to develop the necessary social cues.
00:04:15.000They say that 99% of communication is actually not in regards to the audible.
00:04:22.000It's also in regards to the facial, let's just say, responses and the intricacies of how we communicate visually and not just verbally.
00:04:33.000And the fact that most young people are wearing, most of the people wearing masks are young people.
00:04:38.000I think it's very telling for a generation that has been unnecessarily told to comply under the dogma and the regime of fear.
00:04:49.000But I think the self-conscious thing is very, very true.
00:04:53.000And I'm developing, I'm going to be developing a series of speeches and podcasts and articles that very well might turn into a book.
00:05:00.000I am more convinced than ever about the damage that these phones do to the development of a young mind.
00:05:08.000I want to just tell you right now that parents that give their kids phones, I think they have no idea that they are handing over potentially a form of digital heroin.
00:05:52.000We're talking right now, thanks to technology.
00:05:56.000But when you put a smartphone in front of an operating system ourselves that is designed to be in the natural world, then you are messing with fundamental neurology.
00:06:09.000And so what I think a lot of parents need to better understand, and there's some great books that articulate this, one that I just finished reading that is phenomenal, Comfort Crisis, Dopamine Nation, that talk about the erosion and the deterioration of young people's minds, which I believe directly plays into increased depression, suicide, anxiety, self-harm, medication, psychiatric drugs.
00:06:34.000I think 90% of it comes down to the digital pacifier in our right-hand pocket, the smartphone.
00:06:42.000It has become a mass coping mechanism.
00:07:19.000I think there's actually a big divide in the LDS community, just as there's a divide in American Christianity and in the Catholic community.
00:07:27.000I could say we have a lot of amazing LDS people that work for us here at Turning Point USA.
00:07:31.000And they tell us how awful and how terrible it is within the LDS church.
00:08:23.000And I do make the argument that we're going to have to hold our nose and suck up and vote for Republicans up and down the ballot.
00:08:28.000That's going to be something that I'm going to talk about getting closer to November.
00:08:31.000I'm one of the harshest critics of the Republican Party, but I still believe in the binary two-party system that it's much better to have Republicans in office and hold those Republicans accountable and get better Republicans elected than not have Republicans at all together.
00:08:46.000In Idaho, it's very difficult, though, Julie, to answer your question.
00:08:48.000It's a phenomenal point where you say you have Democrats that run as Republicans because of how conservative Idaho actually is.
00:09:17.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
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00:10:02.000So there's my question is that I'm aware that not so many people know that Russia and China are actually divorcing and there are so many signs showing that.
00:10:13.000And nobody knows that Ukraine, Ukrainian government, I'm not talking about the Ukrainian people.
00:10:19.000I'm talking about the government has been a puppet of China for so long time.
00:10:24.000They refuse to condemn China over the genocide over Uyghurs.
00:10:27.000They refuse, you know, every, I mean, almost all the edge-cutting technology, military technology, advanced armory from China, they all come from Ukraine.
00:10:41.000And Ukraine is a main door for China's one-bedroom road project to invade Europe and the Western fair.
00:10:49.000So all the money that all the or any advanced military technologies that we give to the corrupt Ukrainian government, it can eventually go to China.
00:11:03.000Yeah, so what are we going to do with it?
00:11:07.000Because I also have another thing to want to share, just 30 minutes, because actually I'm from Hong Kong and I just got assigned in Germany.
00:11:16.000And because I'm a leader of Hong Kong independence, and we have the intelligence and information network that we just know that many communists know there will be no another two years for China or there will be a very hard time for China.
00:11:30.000So they have to make sure that America cannot survive another two years of Biden manufacture disaster or they will tell Joe Biden to destroy America.
00:11:42.000So I think the question basically is about Russia and China.
00:11:46.000And look, Russia and China are actually not natural allies.
00:11:49.000They're both totalitarian dictatorships that want to try and reconquer lands that they believe are ethnically theirs.
00:11:56.000Now, Russia is no friend of the United States, but it doesn't have to be a bitter enemy.
00:12:01.000Russia very well should be in the neutral category.
00:12:04.000The same way that we used Russian power to defeat the Nazis, we should use Russian power to defeat the Chinese.
00:12:12.000The Chinese Communist Party and Russia, they're playing nice together, but they're not natural allies.
00:12:17.000You should always try to be dividing them apart from each other.
00:12:20.000Now, I believe that we must make the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government the clear and total enemy of the United States government.
00:12:29.000That's where we need to focus our attention and our time.
00:12:32.000Not on Russia, but instead the country that has well over a billion people, a growing economy, they're ruthless to the core, and they are really, quite honestly, ahead of pace in world domination.
00:12:44.000We have pushed Russia into closer CCP orbit due to bad Ukraine policy.
00:13:08.000He says, quote, if deterring evil requires making evil fear and respect us, would letting Russia rape and pillage its neighbor help or hinder that goal?
00:13:17.000And I responded with, is Ukraine a you state of the United States?
00:14:30.000And I responded, what would I rather have the money to?
00:14:33.000How about stopping the 7,000-person daily invasion of our border?
00:14:38.000Also, just as a matter of principle, I don't think we should be funding Nazis that call themselves the Azov Battalion in southeastern Ukraine.
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00:15:57.000If God does not exist, then life is futile.
00:15:59.000If the God of the Bible does exist, then life is meaningful.
00:16:02.000Only the second of these two alternatives enables us to live happily and consistently.
00:16:06.000Therefore, it seems to me that even if the evidence for these two options were absolutely equal, a rational person ought to choose biblical Christianity.
00:16:14.000It seems to me positively irrational to prefer death, futility, and destruction to life, meaningfulness, and happiness.
00:16:20.000As Blaise Pascal said, we have nothing to lose and infinity to gain.
00:16:24.000So, I want to ask you as a Christian, how can Christians appeal to non-believers on the evidence supporting the life of Jesus of Nazareth and open the doors to their hearts of balancing faith?
00:16:46.000So, look, I speak openly about my faith, and I encourage any of you that have questions about that to go to your podcast app and type in Charlie Kirk Show and listen to our conversation with Frank Turek.
00:16:57.000And I got this from Frank Turek, and I got it from many other apologists as well: which is you just have to ask two very basic questions of non-believers, which is: if God created the heavens and the earth and Jesus Christ rose from the dead, then those two things should dictate your entire religious view, period.
00:17:17.000And there are four questions that we need to ask about whether or not you believe Christianity is true: does truth exist?
00:18:01.000You know, Stephen Hawking, the most famous physicist on the planet, is an atheist.
00:18:07.000And he said, Quote, today, almost everyone now believes that the universe and time itself had a beginning at the Big Bang.
00:18:13.000But Hawkins actually had a different explanation than that for the beginning of the universe.
00:18:19.000And he fails desperately with this because he ends up admitting the data that space, time, and matter had a beginning out of nothing.
00:18:29.000So the scientific evidence for design was the second evidence for God, and particularly the fine-tuning of the universe.
00:18:37.000So if you change, for example, the expansion rate, that infinitesimal amount from the very beginning, that there is no universe, you can't make any evolutionary argument from this.
00:18:47.000You can't say the expansion rate evolved to this point.
00:18:51.000Because those initial things are the conditions for the universe.
00:18:55.000So it's rational and reasonable to believe that the same spaceless, timeless, immaterial, powerful, personal, intelligent being that created the universe is the same being that created the expansion rate to be precisely what it is right now.
00:19:11.000And by the way, we can also talk about morals.
00:19:13.000I mean, if you do not believe in a higher spiritual being, then your definition of right and wrong is merely an opinion from things like rape, slavery, holocaust, sexual abuse, arson.
00:20:00.000And then finally, is the New Testament reliable?
00:20:03.000From an archaeological standpoint and a historical text standpoint, the New Testament is remarkably reliable.
00:20:10.000It is the most reliable ancient document in history, period.
00:20:16.000More original source documents, closer to the actual events when they happened, more eyewitnesses and more archaeological evidence has been discovered that reaffirms the New Testament.
00:20:28.000I'm just talking about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the letters of Paul, James, and Peter.
00:20:35.000And there are some questions that atheists and non-believers have to wrestle with, which is if Jesus did not rise from the dead, then what happened to his body?
00:21:20.000So they plotted their own conspiracy to believe something fake and false so they all could die a sufferable death for that lie that they then created.
00:21:29.000So you have to explain it for some way.
00:21:31.000Also explain that if you were to create a lie in like first century Jerusalem, why would you have female witnesses?
00:21:40.000At the time of Jesus, females did not have the type of standing in court and their witness was not considered to be equal to that of a man.
00:21:50.000So if you were to create a vast conspiracy of stealing a body of someone who was just sentenced to death by Pilate, pushed forward by the Pharisees, why on earth would you have the least reliable witnesses you could possibly find to find, also known as women?
00:22:05.000How do you explain that the skeptics such as Thomas, Peter, and the half-brother of Jesus, James, went from people that were disinterested skeptics mourning the death of Jesus?
00:22:16.000I want to say disinterested, but not exactly motivated, to all of a sudden so enthusiastic they spread across the known world and all died deaths of martyrdom for what they knew was true.
00:22:33.000A Jewish, wealthy, Roman kind of a, he was, he engaged in massacres.
00:22:40.000What exactly was the incentive structure for Paul to go from wealthy, Jewish Roman to someone that all of a sudden went to the great theologian and church builder and communicator?
00:22:53.000Maybe he actually did have a divine interaction in that road to Emmaus.
00:22:59.000These are all questions that need to be answered, and skeptics have a hard time going through it.
00:23:04.000Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, which I think are called the synoptic gospels, I'm not mistaken, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the three, they have zero contradictions.
00:23:15.000They all say the same thing from different angles, and John reaffirms them from a separate perspective.
00:23:22.000And then finally, you have to explain Luke, Luke, a doctor sponsored by Theophilus, Theophilus, which literally means lover of God, who goes about in almost a non-partisan, non-religious, non-theological way, factually writing these letters back to his sponsor, Theophilus, and documenting the acts of the apostles.
00:23:42.000These are all things that must be asked.
00:23:44.000So, I encourage a skeptic to come on and ask those questions on a college campus or wherever.
00:24:47.000Well, we're holding down the fort here in Arizona.
00:24:49.000Well, Mike, you are in a great spot in Florida because you have great leadership in Florida.
00:24:53.000Ron DeSantis made quick work out of getting rid of the kind of mass mail-in balloting scheme that existed in Florida.
00:25:02.000Ron DeSantis did a phenomenal job of that.
00:25:05.000You might remember Brenda Snipes was in charge of Broward County and ran a much cleaner and clearer election in 2020 than what happened in Arizona.
00:25:17.000We must take a rule from Solinsky's rules for radicals and keep the pressure on.
00:25:23.000We have to keep the relentless pressure on our lawmakers non-stop to make sure that they reform our elections and that we do not let them go.
00:25:33.000We have to have them say, stop bothering me so much.
00:25:43.000This is something that we're going to start doing, by the way, at Turning Point Action, led by the great Tyler Boyer, where we are going to have the Keep the Pressure On project, otherwise known as the Town Hall Project, that once we go take back the House and the Senate, God willing, in this November, we're going to start showing up to town hall meetings time and time again to Republicans and ask the question, what are you doing?
00:26:11.000And the best way to do that is to look at them directly in the eyes and say, you are not representing me.
00:26:18.000You are not faithfully executing your oath.
00:26:21.000They don't get that kind of pressure enough.
00:26:23.000It has to be respectful, has to be direct, but it also has to be truthful and, of course, peaceful, as I mentioned.
00:26:29.000All right, everybody, I need to address a little bit of a, let's just say, it was a mistake that I made, but by addressing the mistake, I think it's going to be somewhat helpful.
00:26:41.000So I had this whole dialogue against Professor Miranda Yeaver or whatever from Wheaton College.
00:26:50.000And I totally admit I made the mistake.
00:26:55.000There's one in Massachusetts and there is one in Illinois.
00:27:00.000And so the one in Massachusetts is a private liberal arts college that was founded as a female seminary and has now changed dramatically.
00:27:11.000And the fact that there's two Wheaton colleges is just kind of interesting to me.
00:27:16.000Now, I will say this, though, is that this does present an opportunity to talk about how, yes, I was attacking Wheaton College in Massachusetts, but Wheaton in Illinois is not exactly blameless.
00:27:32.000Wheaton College in Illinois is where Billy Graham went to school, for example.
00:27:36.000And wokeism is infecting Wheaton College in Illinois top to bottom.
00:27:42.000And just in a little bit of research, I found one piece of evidence after the other.
00:27:47.000For example, this is from the Illinois Family Institute, illinoisfamily.org.
00:27:51.000The esteemed evangelical Christian Wheaton College is really woking up.
00:27:55.000The administration has decided to remove a plaque honoring Wheaton alumni and missionaries because it described them as savage, the indigenous Ecuadorian tribe that brutally and without cause spread Elliott, McCully, and three other missionaries to death in 1956.
00:28:11.000So these are missionaries that went down to Ecuador.
00:28:16.000They called them savage because they got murdered for going down there.
00:28:20.000And Wheaton College removes the plaque because of insensitivities to indigenous cultures, even though these people are heroes for going down there.
00:28:31.000Wheaton College has one diversity, equity, inclusion.
00:28:35.000I'm talking about Wheaton College in Illinois, piece of example after the other.
00:28:39.000For example, they have an Office of Multicultural Development at Wheaton College in Illinois, has a strong legacy of supporting students of color and encouraging our community towards diversity and Christian unity.
00:29:09.000The Office of Multicultural Development at Wheaton began during the 1970s.
00:29:14.000Since then, the department has gone through a lot of changes, including multiple names: the Office of Minority Affairs, the Office of Minority Student Development, the Office of Multicultural Development.
00:29:23.000They want to have people be able to engage with differences and conflict in a way that still says we're doing this as men of women of God.
00:29:30.000Part of being part of the body of Christ is understand what grace is.
00:29:33.000Grace says that we have to be patient with one another.
00:29:36.000We are preparing young men and women to know how to address that outside of Wheaton, how to engage with people with different and conflict in a way, still doing it away as men of God.
00:29:44.000So then, why do you have an entire department based on racial differences?
00:29:51.000It's playing straight into critical race theory, playing straight into theory, straight into Marxist conflict theory.
00:29:58.000In 2013, the Office of Multicultural Diversity was created at the lower level of the Beeman Center to get a snack, a cup of coffee, and a chance to reflect on our identity as it relates to ethnicity and culture.
00:30:14.000This is a Christian school that wants students to reflect on their race.
00:30:19.000It's a place to interact with people of diverse backgrounds and together work through questions of what it means to live as people of God.
00:30:49.000It's not like all of Wheaton's on board for this.
00:30:51.000And by the way, that's just one example of several of where Wheaton has gone completely and totally woke.
00:30:58.000Wokeism is impacting religion, as the California Conference in Illinois just dropped a bill that could legalize infanticide, drops opposition to the bill that could legalize infanticide.
00:31:10.000And so I am going to be a little bit intense and a little bit harsh, I'll be honest, with the once great Wheaton College in Illinois that's entertaining, for example, a religious ceremony where they had the inaugural racialized minorities recognition ceremony with Dr. Sheila Caldwell.
00:31:31.000I pray that the alumni of Wheaton and the good people at Wheaton, because I know there's still a lot of them, they excommunicate this anti-biblical, anti-American ideology that has infected Wheaton in Illinois top to bottom.