00:01:08.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:35.000How do you believe Genesis applies to our times today?
00:01:38.000And so I just want to preface this by saying I'm by no means a biblical scholar.
00:01:43.000I do not speak biblical Hebrew, but I do study the word and I love it.
00:01:49.000And I'm actually spending a lot of time going deep into the Torah, which means teacher, through a mixture of commentaries, rabbi teachings.
00:01:59.000Dennis Prager's rational Bible is terrific.
00:02:01.000And then applying it to today, because what does the Torah or what does the Bible have to teach us today?
00:03:00.000But then it gets to the Garden of Eden and Cain and Abel and the sons of Noah and the Noahic covenant.
00:03:06.000And then out of nowhere, if you read the Bible, and I encourage you guys to read the Bible in one year, you could do that with my wife's ministry, Biblein365.com.
00:03:23.000Then you read Genesis 10, which is the table of nations, which is kind of this lineage.
00:03:30.000And then you read Genesis 11, and it kind of comes out of nowhere.
00:03:35.000So in Genesis 11, it says, Now the whole world had one language and a common speech as people moved eastward, they found a place in Shannar and settled there.
00:03:44.000Now, this is not about the Jews or the people, or the sons of Noah.
00:03:48.000The Jews don't really exist as a people yet.
00:03:50.000They have not been given that covenant.
00:04:19.000And by the way, I'm using the NIV version, New International Version.
00:04:22.000If that's not your version, then use the one you're comfortable with.
00:04:24.000Then they said, quote, come, let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that they can make a name for ourselves.
00:04:31.000Otherwise, we'll be scattered over all the face of the whole earth.
00:04:34.000So, really, they were building a centralized community, they were building an urban metropolis.
00:04:40.000Now, there's a lot of emphasis on the tower aspect, and some of the reading is they were trying to build a tower to challenge God.
00:04:47.000That is one reading, but that's a little exegetical, to be honest.
00:04:50.000That's the way I was taught the story, and it doesn't necessarily say that.
00:04:55.000It does say, Let us make ourselves a name.
00:04:57.000So, they were trying to do something big and bold and ambitious, but by not honoring God.
00:05:05.000You should do things that are big, bold, and ambitious, but you cannot ignore God.
00:05:09.000That was the first mistake of the Babel, would end up becoming the Babylonians or the people of Babel.
00:05:15.000But the Lord came down to the city and the tower they were building.
00:05:18.000And the Lord said, If as one people speaking the same language, they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
00:05:27.000Come, let us go down and confuse their language so that they will not understand each other.
00:05:31.000Now, Babel literally means confusion, Babel, which EL is God, and Bab is confusion, if you go to the Hebraic root.
00:05:40.000And so, it basically is God confused you.
00:05:43.000So, the Lord scattered them from all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.
00:05:47.000Again, not stop building the tower, but stop building the city.
00:05:53.000And that's why it's called Babel or Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world and from there scattered them over the face of the earth.
00:06:03.000You can make a rather robust argument that the Torah and Thomas Jefferson both hated big cities.
00:06:13.000Thomas Jefferson wrote, I view great cities as a pestentennial to the morals.
00:06:20.000I'm sorry, I don't use that word every single day.
00:06:36.000True, they nourish some of the elegant arts, but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere.
00:06:40.000And less perfection in the others with more health, virtue, and freedom would be my choice.
00:06:45.000Jefferson also said, I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
00:06:52.000And they will, as long as they shall be vacant lands in any part of America, when they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they'll become corrupt as in Europe.
00:07:01.000Thomas Jefferson said, he's saying the same thing that is the lesson of Genesis 11.
00:07:05.000The mobs of great cities add just so the support of pure government.
00:07:11.000As soars do the strength of the human body, it is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor.
00:07:17.000A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats at the hearts of the laws and constitution.
00:07:25.000Centralized government, centralized power by man bothered God.
00:07:35.000God made a deliberate attempt to value the decentralized over the centralized, to value the local over the dictatorial.
00:07:51.000Think of the biggest cities in America: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
00:08:25.000You see, Phoenix used to have height restrictions on buildings.
00:08:30.000Phoenix always had a horizontal growth strategy, not a vertical growth strategy.
00:08:37.000Phoenix used to say, go west, go buy land, go develop your community, go own an acre.
00:08:43.000That's why Maricopa County is one of the largest counties in America.
00:08:49.000You see, one of the political lessons of Genesis 11 is God does not like massive structures of centralized, clustered geographic power.
00:09:03.000One of the takeaways is that geography can impact your spiritual life.
00:09:09.000Now, I'm sure some of you live in New York or Seattle or Portland and are listening to this and you might disagree.
00:09:16.000But I could say in my own personal life, I live a more fulfilling, a more purposeful, and meaningful life.
00:09:23.000The more disconnected I am from urban chatter, from density of population, the more connected I am with God's creation, nature, the happier, the more joyful, the most peaceful, the more peaceful I am.
00:09:41.000And that's one of the things that God is saying here.
00:09:43.000And if you're trying to create a political community, do not try to make it urban metropolitan.
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00:11:53.000So, there are three types of people in the world, and there's more than that, but in this particular category, there are infants, there are protectors of infants, and there are predators.
00:12:05.000So, you could go into one of those three categories.
00:12:08.000Now, in the West, because we do have a Christian inheritance in the West, now you might not like that.
00:12:14.000You might be an atheist, you might be secular, you might be anti-Christian, but the values, the norms, and the customs that are baked into Western tradition and Western law is thanks to a robust Christian influence.
00:12:31.000That Christian influence has certain customs that we just kind of believe are standard.
00:12:37.000For example, the rich having some sort of obligation to give money charitably to the poor.
00:12:44.000That is not a custom found in every culture.
00:12:48.000It is inherited from a Christian tradition.
00:12:50.000How about this idea, this magical idea of natural rights?
00:12:57.000We take the natural rights doctrine for granted as if every culture or custom can come towards it.
00:13:02.000The 11th and 12th century was full of legal scholars that were steeped in Christian tradition that were pouring over the scriptures that came to verse after verse talking about human equality, human egalitarianism, natural rights theory that largely gets attributed to John Locke is actually an inheritance from robust Christian theological teaching.
00:13:29.000And to be very perfectly honest, largely Catholic.
00:13:53.000The one that is the most obvious, though, is how do you treat children?
00:13:58.000The treatment of children, traditionally, ancient civilizations would do the following to children.
00:14:05.000And it wouldn't just that they would have one-off examples, it's that they would endorse it, they would tolerate it.
00:14:12.000So, for example, you would either sacrifice children, you would eliminate children that are not genetically compatible with the long-term success or prosperity of your tribe, or you would sexually prey on children.
00:14:27.000In ancient Greece and in ancient Rome, but in particularly ancient Greece, it was well known that in the elite of society, rich men would have women for childbirth and boys for pleasure.
00:14:39.000It was Christian norms and customs that broke this.
00:15:49.000And it's kind of, if it makes you uncomfortable because you're like, I'm a parent.
00:15:53.000I am not that child parent, and I'm happy to do it.
00:15:56.000Okay, so this is Dylan Caput, who is offering to parents that he finds joy, that's his word, not mine, in teaching minor children who are autistic how to masturbate.
00:16:08.000So remember, three types of people: is this guy an infant, an infant protector, or a predator?
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00:20:20.000Initiation, that's not a word that you use all the time.
00:20:22.000When you think of initiation, what is the circumstance or the scenario that immediately comes to mind?
00:20:30.000For me, it's fraternities and sororities.
00:20:31.000Maybe you have a different immediate reaction.
00:20:35.000When I think of initiation, I think of hazing.
00:20:39.000I think of some sort of a process, albeit, that could mold or groom somebody towards a specific outcome.
00:20:51.000Now, they don't like it when you call them groomers, but that's what they are.
00:20:54.000And it's example after example after example.
00:20:57.000This is not some one-off thing, whether it be the Francis Parker School in Chicago that was giving out sex toys, whether it be a sixth grade field trip.
00:21:07.000I want to make sure I get my specifics right, but I saw this yesterday on the wonderful postmillennial.com, a field trip of sixth graders that they were all pole dancing on a field trip yesterday.
00:21:20.000Our team will get the specifics there.
00:21:22.000I'm actually flipping through to try to see where it is.
00:21:26.000Sixth grade, I think it was in Texas of all places.
00:21:34.000Because again, the left believes that initiation of the youth is necessary towards their perverted view of progress.
00:21:45.000Middle school teacher in Rochester schools allegedly took students to a strip club, sixth graders, where they tried out pole dancing during a field trip.
00:21:54.000The story is now being publicized by a board of trustee member after the district has reportedly refused to address it.
00:22:01.000Of course, the district's in favor of it.
00:22:39.000It's disgusting and there's nothing we could do about it.
00:22:42.000The idea that we find that repulsive means that you are the inheritor of a moral tradition that is worthy of preserving.
00:22:51.000The Greeks, the Romans, the Afghans, the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians, the Sumerians, the Aztecs, the Mayans, the Incans, some parts of Native Americans would exploit young boys and young children.
00:23:06.000The idea that adults will protect kids is a rare idea.
00:23:14.000Now, that's not to say that we're the only country that does that, of course not.
00:23:18.000But Europe is an inheritor of that same Christian tradition.
00:23:22.000Do you think children are protected in the Middle East?
00:23:40.000The idea that the adult, that the strong use their power to protect the weak, that is not common sense.
00:23:49.000And this is one of the great, man, it is so unbelievably short-sighted.
00:23:55.000And we're going to go about changing it.
00:23:56.000If there's one thing I could change, it's to get Westerners to realize that what you think is common sense is not so common and it's not sensical to the rest of the world.
00:24:07.000It, yes, is a mixture of Athens and Jerusalem.
00:24:10.000It's that cliche that drives me nuts, but it is true.
00:24:13.000Started by Harry Jaffa and repeated by many others.
00:24:17.000But there is something that happened that came from the study of the scriptures that then gets implemented into what many Americans would just say, well, yeah, of course we protect children, obviously, duh.
00:24:28.000And then you should ask them, where does that come from?
00:25:12.000He also has entire parts of the seminar about, quote, teaching ethical pornography, where to find pornography and ethical porn consumption.
00:25:35.000This guy really loves it, and he enjoys spending time around young children.
00:25:38.000Let's repeat the tape just for emphasis.
00:25:41.000Dylan Caput, who, just so you understand, though, Dylan Caput, outside of a Western framework, outside of the lens that you have been raised to look at the world from, that the left calls hierarchical and not hierarchical.
00:25:59.000They will call it misogynistic and exploitive and colonialistic.
00:26:04.000Outside of that lens, this right here, if you played this, many people in the Taliban would hear that.
00:26:53.000In fact, absent divine revelation, in my opinion, the passing down of that revelation, the state of nature is child sacrifice, child abandonment, child manipulation, or whatever Dylan believes.
00:27:10.000I have no evidence that Dylan is sexually molesting the children.
00:27:15.000I didn't mean to connect that with the Taliban and the raping.
00:27:18.000I am saying, though, that the Taliban would find nothing wrong with sexually exploiting children, which he absolutely is doing as a predator.
00:27:25.000Okay, email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:28:44.000But if you say, well, my God hasn't, you know, or my God, the God I believe in hasn't revealed anything, then you haven't really thought very deeply about what you believe and why you believe it.
00:28:53.000However, so let me build this out though.
00:28:56.000So wokeism, in some ways, I actually would prefer secularism.
00:29:38.000And I know almost all of you do as well.
00:29:40.000Okay, so therefore, if you believe in those things and you believe that we have a God-size hole in our heart, and you believe that there's existential despair, then something is going to have to fill that void.
00:29:53.000The power of what we call wokeism is not in their ideas.
00:30:00.000Because the ideas on themselves are insane.
00:30:03.000But I had this kind of incredible breakthrough as I was reading their garbage literature because, and I've just been thinking and praying on this.
00:30:11.000It's like, wow, I had this breakthrough that the reason why wokeism is so powerful is they have taken all Christian elements and repackaged them as immediate and temporal salvation.
00:30:38.000They took the idea of egalitarianism and they packaged it under a postmodern, post-structuralist framework that was obviously based with Mercuza Derrida.
00:30:50.000But they have hijacked the promise of Christianity and some of the premises straight into secular leftism.
00:30:55.000And I don't think this argument is made very often.
00:30:57.000The psychological and spiritual appeal of Christianity is universal.
00:31:33.000One of the strokes of brilliance, dare I say, of the designers and the adapters of American modern wokeism is that they have appropriated Christianity and repackaged some of the functioning elements of it for their own woke Marxist desires.
00:31:56.000Wokeism operates a lot like religion would have in the Middle Ages.
00:32:01.000Religious processions, for example, are dead, but wokeists love going to rallies and parades.
00:32:07.000Wokeism involves fundamentally metaphysical claims, like no matter what, this is really a woman, even though it's not physically that way, but metaphysically they could be whatever they want.
00:32:18.000Instead of saying original sin, that we are all flawed because we're human beings, they say you are all flawed based on your tribal group.
00:32:24.000So they just take original sin, which is a very compelling idea, and they apply it based on your melanin content or your sexual tendencies.
00:32:32.000Christianity is an eschatological religion, which means it's a view of time or the end times.
00:32:38.000Time has a beginning and end, unlike older religions.
00:32:41.000Wokeism is just like this as well, though.
00:32:44.000We're always one hill away from some sort of heaven on earth, from some sort of reushering of utopia here on the planet.
00:32:51.000Just have to tear down another statue or destroy another remnant of old America.
00:32:55.000Wokeism loves public confessions, just like how the early church handled wrongdoing.
00:33:03.000And wokeism, though, one of the flaws of wokeism, not one of the flaws, but one of the big points of vulnerability is you can never actually properly atone.
00:33:14.000That's why they say you have to be an ally.
00:33:16.000For them, there is no redemption from your original sin.
00:33:20.000That gives them unlimited and a perpetual power machine.
00:33:26.000Now, let's be honest, for a lot of Americans, Christianity is compartmentalized, only going on Sunday type of thing, but it's supposed to be guiding your every act.
00:34:18.000Nazism, communism, Pol Pot, Maoism, 150-plus million people murdered, displacing civilization, intentional attempted extermination of God's chosen people.
00:34:29.000Horrific, unimaginable tragedy because Nietzsche predicted, well, you should not clear that, because of the quote-unquote death of God or the de-emphasis of religion.
00:34:39.000Churches used to be the head, the center of the village square.
00:34:42.000Now they become kind of archaeological museums where people go and take pictures to go see what once used to actually have relevancy and meaning.
00:34:52.000We know a lot of people where their hobbies, their work, their friends, their relationship all now resolve, revolve around the religion of wokeism or the religion of anti-racism.
00:35:04.000In the 1700s, it would be the church at the center of New Haven, Connecticut.
00:35:09.000It would be the church at the center of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
00:35:13.000Now it is the woke temple that is at the center of the city.
00:35:19.000Why is the woke virus spreading with such intensity?
00:35:23.000It's because they've appropriated the tried and true and proven elements, both the physical, the metaphysical, the liturgical elements of Christianity and repackaged it in a heretical anti-racist religion.
00:35:43.000Our schools used to teach a Christian worldview as a center of thought.
00:35:46.000Now we teach wokeism from kindergarten on.
00:35:49.000Met God-size hole that we have in our heart is trying to be filled by a man-made, clumsy, sloppy, diabolical, patched-together worldview.
00:36:03.000The Christian saints replaced by the woke saints.
00:36:14.000The church says, I just want to spread the gospel, but in reality, what they're saying is I'm too weak to call out the heretical religion of our time, the religion of anti-racism.
00:36:26.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:27.000Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:36:31.000Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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