00:00:29.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:15.000I was watching some of the news reports of the communion service you guys held on Palm Sunday, which very well might have been like the cleanest room in the history of the planet.
00:01:25.000And they still found a way to attack Pastor Rob on that.
00:01:28.000And so Rob has been proven to be one of the few pastors who's willing to engage in the public square, who is willing to have very clear and respectful conversations around what truth actually means and is willing to fight and contest for that truth.
00:01:45.000And so, Rob, I'm honored to call you my pastor.
00:01:47.000He's absolutely terrific and tremendous.
00:01:54.000If you like me, you probably feel as if we've gone through 30 years of change in three weeks.
00:02:01.000And not all that change, in fact, most of it is awfully troubling.
00:02:05.000We have a new country in our country as of today.
00:02:10.000I'd like to welcome the 156th country to the United Nations Chaz, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
00:02:18.000We have people that are losing their positions as commentators and in the public eye for saying things that should be agreeable statements, such as the Sacramento Kings broadcaster, who was fired last week from two of his radio positions for simply saying all lives matter.
00:02:36.000Gone with the Wind is no longer allowed on HBO Max television, despite it being the first film ever that has awarded an Oscar to a black female actress, first ever, 1930s.
00:02:48.000We have Legos no longer are going to be making police officers, which is very bizarre.
00:02:57.000So what we see right now, and I hope today to be able to offer you some clarity on what's happening in the country, some very actionable ways you can do something about it, and then where this is headed if we do nothing.
00:03:11.000And so I feel with you a sense of angst and unease because I, like you, feel as if we've been on defense for the last couple of weeks.
00:03:21.000That those of us that believe in truth, we feel like we're outnumbered.
00:03:25.000We feel as if there's not enough people that are standing with courage and contesting for that truth in the public arena.
00:03:32.000And there's reasons for this, and I'm going to go through the specific rules and the playbook of the people that wish to sow discord and disharmony and anarchy in our country because their rules are made public, and I think it's imperative that we understand where they're coming from.
00:03:49.000And I also want to take a more broad picture of root causes.
00:03:54.000And what can we do to actually fix it?
00:03:56.000So in the last couple of weeks especially, I have been told by the intelligentsia and the media, by certain pastors and by certain members of the political elite, that I must stop talking at this moment in our history because of nothing that I did, but because of my immutable characteristics.
00:04:17.000I've been told by media members and other individuals that since I'm a white male, I must sit down and shut up.
00:04:26.000So I've been speaking louder than ever before.
00:04:37.000And one of the things that the Christian ethic teaches us, which is so fundamentally different than any other religion, is that you're made of the image of God.
00:04:47.000We're all in total need of redemption.
00:04:51.000And what's also very important is that you as a singular unit, despite what your father or mother or grandfather or grandmother did, you need salvation.
00:05:01.000Your bloodline can't save you for you.
00:05:04.000What preceded you is not your destiny.
00:05:07.000Where you came from is not necessarily your future.
00:05:09.000Christ disrupted this whole idea of tribalism at once.
00:05:13.000Galatians 3.28, doesn't matter slave nor Jew nor free person.
00:05:20.000So this idea of the sovereignty of the individual, how God made you, your immutable characteristics, must be recognized, must be understood.
00:05:29.000And also, that you will not be judged by something that happened many generations prior to you.
00:05:37.000That now if you do something wrong, if you sin against somebody, the sin of racism, then go atone to that person personally and look at them in the eyes.
00:05:47.000However, this idea that certain individuals, because of the melanin content in their skin, must atone for something that they did not do is, Western society was built against that idea.
00:06:04.000And what's very important to note is that if we study history carefully in the 20th century, there are a couple big takeaways.
00:06:55.000It's actually today, as I'm giving this speech.
00:06:59.000But for whatever reason, and I could talk about this separately, we've decided to not focus on this chapter in history, and I believe learn from it correctly so that we can never go that way again.
00:07:12.000There's three big lessons from the 20th century.
00:07:14.000This is not an exhaustive list at all.
00:07:16.000But number one, the promise of utopia is a death sentence.
00:07:23.000That when someone comes and tells you that they can create utopia, which actually means nowhere.
00:07:29.000You actually look at the root of the word.
00:07:31.000It actually means it's never going to happen.
00:07:33.000If they say they're going to create heaven on earth, run the other way.
00:07:37.000In fact, the founding fathers, what was the brilliance behind the founding fathers, is for the first time they were given a blank sheet of paper.
00:07:46.000Like, what kind of country do you want to create?
00:07:48.000And instead of giving themselves ultimate authority and control, they could have created the Washitonian or the Hamiltonian or Jeffersonian ruling class.
00:07:55.000They could have created themselves to be monarchs of this new place called America.
00:07:59.000They were one of the first successful military revolutionaries that gave up power.
00:09:04.000Very important that the government is not the sovereign, that we, the people, are actually the sovereign.
00:09:08.000It's such a fundamentally different philosophy than what we're starting to see happen in our country.
00:09:15.000And so because of this, what we've seen in the 20th century when people were promising utopia, which would never, of course, happen, they said we can create heaven on earth.
00:09:38.000That we can actually be so unbelievably brutal to each other.
00:09:42.000That if you want to see what human beings are capable of, if they just decide moral restraints don't matter, go read the Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solshenitsyn.
00:09:52.000Go read what Stalin did to tens of millions of innocents.
00:10:46.000But the mobilization of them towards the oppressor-oppressed conflict or paradigm is guaranteed to end poorly, guaranteed.
00:10:55.000For example, mobilizing the Bolsheviks versus the Mensheviks in the Russian Revolution, mobilizing Mao's conquest of China.
00:11:04.000And I talk to so many students on universities, and they can't tell me what the cultural revolution was in Mao's China.
00:11:11.000One of the most murderous, disastrous moments in human history just conveniently disappeared from our history books.
00:11:17.000And that regime still exists to this day.
00:11:21.000And let's just say we've experienced the deceitfulness and the byproduct of what a godless regime can do here and the way they handled this recent outbreak.
00:11:32.000When you mobilize resentments, you immediately get into a competition of who is more, who deserves the product of the award more.
00:11:43.000Like, no, I'm actually the most oppressed human being.
00:12:33.000I think that should be a pretty good lesson from the 20th century is that we should never say that someone's skin color gives them a certain amount of either advantage or makes them better or worse or any of that.
00:12:45.000Or they have to atone because of that.
00:12:48.000That is so unbelievably dangerous and is guaranteed conflict.
00:12:53.000We see it where individuals based on them, they themselves not doing anything incorrect for the specific thing that they're being criticized of have to apologize or do something to, for example, this idea of white privilege, which is all throughout our schools and all throughout our country.
00:13:14.000And people have to say, well, you have to atone for that.
00:13:17.000Well, first of all, if I had to atone for anything, I definitely won't do it to you, okay?
00:13:26.000I don't know what construct you think I have to pay penance to, but I'm not kneeling to your man-made idol or whatever just because you say I've done something wrong.
00:13:58.000So even if you are guilty of that accusation, it sure as heck isn't another human being's business to try to tell you what you have to try to atone for.
00:14:07.000Secondly, what an unbelievably dangerous, baseless accusation to try to turn people against each other.
00:14:16.000See, as Dennis Prager says, there's the American Trinity, E pluribus Unum, out of many one.
00:14:29.000That means no matter your skin color, no matter your background, we are one people.
00:14:32.000There is only one race, the human race, which, by the way, conveniently is considered to be hate speech in the University of California system, and you're not allowed to say that.
00:14:40.000Saying that there's only one race, the human race.
00:14:44.000So believing in e pluribus unum, the second part of the American Trinity is in God we trust, that it's on all of our currency, it's in the halls of Congress, that God is greater than government, and that the rights that government is not supposed to take from you come from God.
00:14:59.000It's a Lockean idea of natural rights.
00:15:07.000And understandably, it was not completely fulfilled from our founding.
00:15:11.000In fact, they laid this really ambitious goal in the preamble of the Constitution that even the founders themselves were hypocrites in writing some of this.
00:15:32.000Don't throw out the truth in the preamble of the Constitution because of the sins of the founders.
00:15:37.000Instead, ask yourself, did we ever get to a place where we achieved that?
00:15:42.000What they won't teach you in history class is in year 1777, one year after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Vermont abolished slavery.
00:15:51.000So with inspiration from the founding of our country, states were already starting to rise up to abolish slavery, rising up against an unspeakable evil.
00:16:00.000And so eventually we fought a civil conflict over it.
00:16:03.000There was years and decades of discussion.
00:16:06.000But guess who were the people that were on the side of abolishing this evil?
00:16:20.000And this idea of racial hierarchy is evil.
00:16:23.000Stop grouping people based on their immutable characteristics.
00:16:26.000And that was the inspiration for the Civil Rights Act and for the idea of allowing people equal under the law, equal rights, not equal outcomes, completely different thing.
00:17:06.000First of all, more so than any other time I think in American history, truth tellers are being ridiculed and attacked and silenced at a record rate.
00:17:16.000That's why Rob McCoy and this church is so special to me, because people that stand for truth and fight and contest for truth is so unbelievably important in this country because we have seen people that are in positions of leadership turn their back on the teachings of the fundamental truths of American society.
00:17:42.000And so I want to get to root causes, but I think it's really important to know how the left operates.
00:17:48.000And I don't mean the left as this amorphous object.
00:17:51.000I'll say it, I should be more specific in my language.
00:17:53.000How the people that wish to sow discord, disharmony, against the teachings of the Bible.
00:18:06.000This is about reason versus unreason and right versus wrong, to be perfectly honest with you.
00:18:11.000And so we must understand that there are people in this country right now that wish to sow disharmony, that actually wish to have people hyper-focus on differences, not on similarities.
00:18:23.000I am told every single day now that we are a systemically racist country.
00:18:28.000We are a systemically unracist country.
00:18:49.000Why do we welcome them with open arms every single year?
00:18:53.000If we are such an awful country, why is it that we have over 130 languages represented in our country?
00:18:59.000And we're generally pretty civil to each other.
00:19:02.000Show me any other country that's passed the stress test of this many different groups of people.
00:19:08.000However, we're told that we must atone for something and we must pay penance for something that you didn't even do.
00:19:16.000And so I always laugh at this because they tell me this and I say, wait a second, you're talking to pretty much the wrong person about this for a variety of reasons.
00:20:17.000That even if they were trying to indict an entire race of people, it's actually that there were individuals that rose up and that did pay significant sacrifices for the rights and the progress that we enjoy in our country.
00:20:30.000However, the other side thrives on demagoguery, thrives on saying something that feels somewhat symbiotic with deeply held emotion, but not rooted in truth or data or science or a deeper belief.
00:20:49.000A lot of you have been made familiar in the last couple years of a book that has been more instrumental to the American left than almost any other book.
00:21:58.000Some I think are more applicable to today, but I think it's going to start to harmonize with some of the confusion you're feeling about what's happening.
00:22:06.000Number one, power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
00:22:13.000They're not as strong as they make themselves seem.
00:22:16.000This should give you a lot of confidence that their number one rule is to make them seem like they have more support than they really have.
00:23:34.000They are not equipped to talk about first principles or natural rights.
00:23:38.000So they have taken us off our terrain, and we have these fumbling members of Congress that are trying to say, well, we're not really a racist country, and they can't give three reasons why.
00:23:48.000And by the way, the even presupposition of trying to defend a negative should be rejected.
00:23:52.000I'll say, I'm not even going to tell you why we're not racist.
00:23:54.000I'm going to tell you why we're decent.
00:23:56.000I'm going to tell you why we're generous.
00:23:58.000I'm going to tell you why we're the most benevolent, most forward-thinking.
00:25:27.000Pressure campaign against every single individual they can find.
00:25:30.000On the Sacramento Kings announcer, on the statues, keep the pressure as if it's unrelenting.
00:25:36.000Now, there's a philosophy to all this, and one of the reasons why they've done more in the last three weeks than in the last 30 years on some of these issues is for the first time, we, because of things outside of our own power and within our own power, we as moral believing people that just want a good, a decent country and civil government, we have been on defense.
00:25:56.000You see, when we play offense, all these rules go out the window.
00:26:00.000When they have to defend their terrain, all of a sudden they're disorganized.
00:26:22.000They're admitting to their own people that the threat that you're putting forth is usually actually more terrifying than what you're actually going to be able to do to them.
00:26:29.000Number 10, it's a little bit of a complicated one, but the major premise for creating tactics is the development of operations that will allow you to maintain constant pressure.
00:26:40.000So everything that they try to do is to make sure that you feel pressured all the time.
00:26:45.000Corporate boycotts, constant protests in the streets.
00:27:03.000It's breaking through on the counterside to now 68% of Americans that believe the police are in significant need of reform and 70% that think that conservatives are woefully unprepared for this because we're off our terrain.
00:27:18.000We're playing on their turf right now.
00:27:21.000Number 12, the price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
00:27:26.000It's a more complicated one, and it's not as applicable today.
00:28:30.000Well, we know this, first of all, the number one thing, and this is what makes the Christian experience, the Christian religion, the Christian following, the Christian experience, the Christian ethic, you can feel in it, so different, is that the absolute ultimate thing that matters most to us is truth.
00:28:47.000Now, it's not that the most important being, Christ, God in human flesh, it's not that he said true things, where most religions will say, Yeah, we have someone that says, no, no, no, no.
00:29:07.000That's why he's literally called Logos in the book of John.
00:29:10.000He was the embodiment of all things that are true.
00:29:14.000And so when you look at the hierarchy of what matters, a commitment to that truth, and Rob said it, whatsoever is true, but the inverse must be equally true.
00:29:26.000That you should stand up against whatever is not true.
00:29:31.000That it is not enough to contest for the positive.
00:29:34.000You must stand up and call out what is being spread that is not true.
00:29:38.000And so, for example, there is a massive movement happening in this community, many other communities, pushing forth the most radical elements of society.
00:29:48.000One of the groups, blacklivesmatter.com, I encourage you to go to their website.
00:29:54.000I'm quoting: we seek to disrupt the nuclear prescribed Western family.
00:30:08.000Well, that's a little different than I think most people even recognize that they're fighting through.
00:30:13.000So that, wait, hold on, destroy the family?
00:30:17.000That's a lot deeper and bigger than reforms around law enforcement.
00:30:22.000That's a much different type of agenda.
00:30:25.000So now, truth and all things that are true, from physics to science to mathematics to history, requires us to stand up against these widespread falsehoods.
00:31:16.000And for me, the most liberating thing for me is that I've been attacked mercilessly for six straight years.
00:31:26.000That I've been had death threats against me, followed through the streets, kicked out of restaurants, showing up at the office, whatever you met.
00:31:33.000So at some point, it's almost like, what, are you going to call me bad names in all capital letters now?
00:31:41.000I mean, it's as if, what else you got, right?
00:31:47.000And of course they got more and they're going to try to do more.
00:31:49.000But when you surrender to Christ, which all of us do, what you're also doing is surrendering to truth.
00:32:03.000Ultimate surrender is very, it's a very deep psychological understanding.
00:32:09.000It's not like the, I believe it, got it.
00:32:14.000Belief and surrender, there's sometimes a disconnect there, but the ultimate surrender is my job, my house, everything I love might disappear for the pursuit of the truth that I care most about.
00:32:29.000It's a hard thing, especially for those of us in Western societies to embrace.
00:32:34.000It's easier for countries like in Syria, for example, where they have such third world desolute poverty, and they say, what else do we have to lose?
00:32:43.000That's actually, I don't want to say it's easier.
00:32:45.000That's not the correct way to word it.
00:32:54.000We have decades of career advancement, decades of relationships, friends, family, capital expenditures, all of it that very well could evaporate and disappear in a moment's notice.
00:33:09.000And so for me, I do my best to do this every single day, which is they could take it all away from me.
00:33:16.000Turning point USA, the office, everything that we have, right?
00:34:50.000And she, of course, was with us at Turning Point USA for a couple years, and we had some wild times.
00:34:56.000And it was one of the most proud things of my short career to be able to see her flourish and grow into the thermonuclear weapon against the left that she is.
00:35:47.000I'm talking about pastors who approached me at physical events, actual events, when we used to have those things, and said, I love your content.
00:36:10.000And someone finds out that this individual liked a couple of my social media posts.
00:36:16.000And so, instead of correcting the record and saying that I'm not a horrible, awful, dangerous person or whatever, goes on stage and apologizes and cries and throws me completely under the bus, right?
00:36:27.000Says that I'm racially insensitive and all this garbage, right?
00:37:45.000Because we thought we had this big, vast group of people, and all of a sudden it's whoop.
00:37:51.000It's like, okay, that should be reaffirming for all of you because now you can concentrate on the people and the organizations and the individuals that are really going to fight when it matters, which is now.
00:38:07.000And so the Christian pastors that I have been going back and forth with, the ones that even here in Southern California at certain churches, and I'll privately tell you which ones.
00:38:22.000But that have been going to the Black Lives Matter protests, that have been making the signs and bringing their kids there.
00:38:28.000Despite where I say on their website, our goal is to disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family on their website.
00:38:38.000Don't understand how that is consistent with Christianity.
00:38:42.000Must have missed the verse where it says, let's destroy families.
00:38:48.000I mean, that must have been in some sort of extended teaching that I'm not familiar with.
00:38:53.000The point is this, is that you have a group of people in the Christian community that, and it puzzles me to no doubt, because they say they don't want to offend and they want to build big bridges.
00:39:06.000And I know some of these guys, and I've been to their sermons, and they go on for like 40 minutes about hell is a real place and eternal damnation.
00:39:15.000And I'm like, that's probably the most offensive thing you could talk about.
00:39:19.000Like definitionally, like you're going to burn forever.
00:39:23.000How could you think of something more offensive than that?
00:39:47.000And Gideon's army is, he starts with this huge army, and God winnows it down and winnows it down.
00:39:52.000And you remember, they go to the river, and he says, only the people that drink out of the river with their hands instead of going down will fight.
00:40:25.000It always has been, but more so than anything else.
00:40:28.000The founders anticipated that the church would be the fire guard for liberty and freedom.
00:40:34.000And so, and what's really interesting is that I actually find so many Christians that are coming to my podcast, coming to what we're doing.
00:40:40.000We talk about Christianity, how it intersects with the world and organized thinking and civil society.
00:40:45.000And there's so many Christians that are reaffirming their faith because of what we're doing, that are coming to Christ for the first time, or that they're stronger than ever.
00:40:52.000And the reason is that when you're only focused on conversion and not discipleship, it actually creates Christians that walk away from the church.
00:41:01.000They start to be tempted by Eastern religions with the hyper-focus on spirituality and more Eastern focus.
00:41:10.000And all of a sudden, there's no application beyond the one and a half hour of when they're actually physically in the church.
00:41:41.000I'm looking for clarity because, you know, when the gospel intersects with the real world, that's where discipleship really comes into play.
00:41:48.000And most pastors either stay away from it or they give some sort of very, let's just say, questionable answer.
00:42:07.000It's supposed to transcend into every portion of human action and human existence, not just a very specific part of human conversion, of a specific person's conversion.
00:42:22.000If you have a why, you can figure out the how.
00:42:25.000And our why is the most important why ever: is that we're created by a merciful, omnipotent, omniscient God that is ubiquitous, that loves us, that brought his son, and we know we're guaranteed hardship and challenges and persecution.
00:42:43.000I know that sounds counterintuitive, but a lot of human anxiety and nervousness and stress is this story we tell ourselves that we can avoid all persecution.
00:42:57.000And when you admit that it's going to be pretty, there's going to be a price of admission here that'll beat you up and all that, it actually sets you free.
00:43:06.000It actually, and then you have comfort in Christ and comfort in the word, and then you're battle ready and ready to fight for that.
00:43:11.000So the final thing is this, and I want to get for questions.
00:43:13.000I don't know where Rob went, but and I know I have to be very specific on time.
00:43:18.000So I call this woke Christianity on the other side, by the way.
00:43:23.000If you don't know what woke is, ask a teenager.
00:43:35.000So I think far too often the church and conservatives are always treating after effects, not root causes.
00:43:43.000And a root cause for all of this is how we as Christians and decent-minded, reasonable people have completely abdicated our responsibility and involvement in the education of our children.
00:44:00.000If you really look just objectively and strip yourself of all preconceived notions and restraints and look at how we have interacted with higher education for 40 years, it's incredibly illogical.
00:44:15.000So we tell students that go through high school and work their tail off, and they're under parental and moral observation almost continually, that you must go borrow a bunch of money that you don't have to go study things that don't matter, to go find jobs that don't exist.
00:44:35.000And it's even worse than that because it would be okay if they just studied a bunch of stuff that doesn't matter.
00:44:41.000Actually, they study things that make them sow bitter resentment for the very country that they're about to enter into.
00:44:48.000That challenges the idea that there's a God.
00:44:50.000Where students are the most moldable, where they're the most easily to be converted, they're being taught by persuasive atheists more so than any of the charismatic Christians could possibly imagine.
00:45:04.000That sow real seeds of doubt, which we know is a weapon of the enemy.
00:45:20.000We will have students that unfortunately and tragically, and I hope I'm wrong, that will be hospitalized because of their activism at Turning Point USA.
00:46:08.000And that should be the most optimistic thing you take away from it.
00:46:11.000That there's a rising generation of thousands and thousands and thousands of freedom fighters that are willing, excited, able, and ready to go into the front lines this September and go put all of Western society on their back and they might get a fist in the chin because of it.
00:46:42.000We had an individual that came to our office recently and many others, and one in particular, which I don't want to say his name in the live stream.
00:46:50.000I want his permission before I say this publicly, but I'll use the story, which is he confided in me that I said one sentence that made him go from a liberal atheist to a Christian conservative.
00:47:02.000And I said, wait, wait, wait, one sentence.
00:47:06.000It's like, come on, you've got to give me more credit than that.
00:47:09.000He's like, Charlie, you don't understand.
00:47:10.000And I've had these moments listening to some of the great thinkers and lecturers and pastors where you're following them, and all of a sudden there's like a breakthrough moment, like that one organized thought, you're like, that's it, I got it.
00:47:21.000And is a black individual, and I said the following, and it wasn't even, I think, one of the most insightful things I've ever said.
00:47:28.000But I said, if America is such an awful place, why does everyone want to come here?
00:47:32.000Again, it's okay, it's a pretty good take, right?
00:47:34.000But for him, it all of a sudden crushed everything he's ever been told negatively about America.
00:48:56.000And if you think you are alone, they want you to think that.
00:49:00.000If you have felt like you've been in isolation, that is a tactic, not a reality.
00:49:04.000That is a hypnotic technique that they use, semi-hypnotic, I should say.
00:49:08.000If you look into actual social psychology, where they make you feel the way that they program the news, of all these big groups of people, of every corporation, this drumbeat, it's a minuscule of the American population.
00:49:20.000Because we, as civil-minded people, we're not likely to go pick up a sign and protest.
00:50:32.000But knowing the truth and operating in the crypts and not advancing truth, I think actually does a disservice to what you're carrying.
00:50:43.000I actually think it does a disservice to what you believe and why you believe it.
00:50:49.000And so that's the second part, is the standing and fighting for truth.
00:50:54.000And as Christ is the embodiment of that truth, everyone should ask themselves privately, am I willing to lose every earthly thing that has been granted me from God?
00:51:08.000Because it's not your stuff, it's God's stuff, to fight for truth.
00:51:13.000And if so, what level of exposure am I willing to have?
00:51:16.000Now, mind you, there's three types of people, and Dennis Prager talks about this quite often.
00:51:21.000There's the enemy and the people that do nothing.
00:51:24.000There's the fighters and the people that help the fighters.
00:51:27.000So maybe you're not the type of person which is okay to go do what I do and get thrown at and all that crazy stuff.
00:51:38.000Be the medics in the military analogy, right?
00:51:40.000Be the prayer warriors, all that stuff.
00:51:43.000Because we've been convinced that somehow there's a disconnect between like it's a spectator sport.
00:51:49.000Like, you go, Candace Owens, you go get them.
00:51:52.000Like, no, no, you could be just as much on the team on the court wearing a jersey as much as the person that's doing the absolute most public thing imaginable.
00:52:03.000And so a specific thing I always say, it's very simple.
00:52:06.000Spend more on cultural truth or politics than you spend on coffee every single year.
00:52:14.000That should be a rule, I think, for every civil and decent-minded, reasonable person.
00:52:18.000Average American spends, on average, $10 a day on coffee, more or less.
00:53:13.000There's going to be a high price of admission for that.
00:53:15.000But we need the help in a variety of ways.
00:53:17.000That's why when you give to this church, as of, you know, I'm a member of the church, and so I tithe the best I can to this church because the only church that stands for anything anymore that actually fights.
00:53:33.000Is this that everyone's called to do their part.
00:53:38.000And I believe it's what an optimistic opportunity for all of us to be in a moment when the Republic is in crisis.
00:55:12.000And interestingly enough, a month later, I wrote my first ever political article on Breitbart.com a month after Andrew Breitbart died.
00:55:19.000If you did not know Andrew Breitbart, he was a magnanimous American patriot who's one of the most self-deprecating, funny, happy warriors in the history of our country.
00:56:30.000However, an entire scandal unfolds because more people said, yes, Anthony Weiner is doing some very inappropriate things to me.
00:56:36.000Now, interestingly enough, Anthony Weiner was formerly married to Huma Abedin.
00:56:41.000Now, Huma Ahmedine is the best friend of Hillary Clinton and a top advisor of the Clinton family.
00:56:46.000Fast forward a couple years, past Andrew's death in 2016.
00:56:49.000The Federal Bureau of Investigation was doing a huge inquiry into Anthony Weiner because of originally that screenshotted tweet and did, let's just say, some not good things that he did.
00:56:59.000However, when they confiscated his hard drive, they found a lot more than just that.
00:57:03.000They found emails that Huma Ahmedine was having with an unclassified, unrestricted, let's just say, unregulated server with Hillary Clinton that prompted James Comey, of all people, eight days before the election in 2016, to issue that letter that says she's actually still under investigation.
00:57:21.000That the Democrats say totally changed the polls and changed the direction and maybe Donald Trump won as a contributing factor that only Andrew Breitbart could win an election five years after he screenshot something on Twitter at 3 a.m.
00:59:11.000And you guys supported him, but there were so many people that had the knives out for Rob.
00:59:15.000And he had to resign because he stood for truth.
00:59:17.000And he's been vindicated and I think validated because of what he stood for.
00:59:21.000But that's the other thing: we have to take local government a lot more seriously.
00:59:27.000And then, Charlie, the question was: when someone, what's the simple answer, especially in this day and age with the rhetoric when the term racist is used on a community that, gosh, during T.O. Strong, Officer Healis didn't see color when he went into the borderline, and the white privilege of Blake Dingman didn't exist when he was shot by that gunman.
01:00:25.000Because then they almost as if, oh, there's no difference between someone like you and someone who is a very hateful person, of which they exist, but they are a micro, of a micro, of a subset of the American population, whereas we are a very decent and very accepting country.
01:01:22.000But that's a guaranteed level of persecution.
01:01:27.000When I interviewed, and especially for last night, when I interviewed MAGA Hulk and then Candace Owen, it's racist because if they're calling you a racist, but yet they're speaking to a black American and they're calling them a racist, it's simply their ideology.
01:01:46.000No, and so this is a very important point.
01:01:48.000That this was written by this phenomenally foolish author.
01:01:56.000She wrote this book called White Fragility, where she said it's not enough to not be racist.
01:02:04.000And here's the thing: she argued that racism is no, I kid you not, this is what they teach our kids.
01:02:09.000Racism is no longer about race, it's about power.
01:02:13.000And so that black people that ascribe to the white agenda are actually just as racist because they're, I kid this is literally what they teach, is that it's actually not about race and all that.
01:02:24.000And so that's why they try to invalidate.
01:02:26.000But it's so unbelievably and ridiculously foolish to say something like that that I don't think it resonates.
01:02:32.000But it takes four years at a university to believe something like that.
01:02:35.000I mean, after four years of just being fed that pablum and then tested on the pablum as if your career is going to be judged on your ability to recite the nonsense, it's awfully, awfully dangerous and pernicious.
01:02:50.000But I do want to say I sympathize with those of you that come under those accusations because it's not a fun or an easy or a desirable position to be in.
01:03:02.000But it is a commonly used tactic of the left.
01:03:30.000I know that I believe I've gotten there.
01:03:33.000But there was a time about two and a half years into this thing, Turning Point USA.
01:03:37.000I'll never forget it, where I had to make a very conscious decision whether I was going to stand for truth or I was going to try to moderate and kind of be in the middle and be this amorphous whatever that doesn't get any, you know.
01:03:52.000And it all came to a head at this, when all my high school friends, all the people I grew up with, were aggressively saying, you don't actually believe this stuff, do you?
01:04:26.000So, like, just whatever gets, whatever gets, whatever God wants to purge from your life when the pursuit of ultimate truth and whatsoever be true, that's liberating, I'll tell you.
01:04:37.000And now I want to be very clear because people sometimes misinterpret what I'm saying.
01:04:41.000They think that's a license to be provocative or offensive.
01:04:45.000And look, I say truth, data, science, Newtonian physics that I never thought would be a controversial thing, the classics, all this.
01:04:53.000I never go out of my way to provoke or to be offensive.
01:04:57.000It's not who I am, and it's not Christian.
01:04:59.000However, if I say something true and someone is offended by that, that is not my problem.
01:05:04.000Nor am I going to stop saying it because they are offended.
01:05:09.000And so it's a very important point on approaching these conversations, which is you should not in your heart, God knows your heart, seek conflict, seek being offensive.
01:05:20.000Charlie, share like you did last service about how you get folks, you ask them questions like Jesus did.
01:05:26.000So look, we can learn from the greatest communicator in the history of the world, which is Christ.
01:05:31.000I mean, what other person has had more of a communicate, more of dialogue implemented into the modern world than Jesus Christ?
01:06:37.000The best definition of humility is not like cowering into a corner and never moving.
01:06:42.000I think that's, I don't think that's correct.
01:06:44.000And the better definition of humility is acknowledging how little you know, how ignorant you actually are.
01:06:50.000And it's that old expression, which is, I always trip up with this, but it's, I wish I was able to acknowledge how little I knew when I thought I knew it all.
01:07:06.000And so, you know, reading in scriptures is the most important thing.
01:07:10.000There's two questions I'll tie them together since we're already at the bottom of the hour.
01:07:17.000This one's a little dicey, but I'll do my best.
01:07:22.000With the tearing down of statues across the country, defacing the World War II memorial, going back, and anyone who has any connection to slavery, even if they don't, as we saw with the Massachusetts black militia, the monument for them in Massachusetts was defaced.
01:07:42.000And we've watched a quarter, if not half, of the history of the Democratic Party erased from their website.
01:07:52.000Shouldn't we go back and change the name or demolish the Democratic Party?
01:07:58.000Yeah, look, I mean, there's two points here.
01:08:34.000I'm not defending what they did or any of that, but I understand exactly why they're doing it.
01:08:38.000This is a cultural revolution tactic to remove our history, to insult an entire portion of American society geographically and culturally.
01:08:46.000And the history is much more complex than how they describe it.
01:08:49.000So they're taking down statues of Christopher Columbus.
01:08:51.000And look, I won't defend everything Christopher Columbus did, but there was a symbology and an archetype behind Christopher Columbus, which is we are going to go forth and create something new, something righteous, and something moral.
01:09:03.000And he embodied that, the boldness of Christopher Columbus.
01:09:06.000And I'm not going to defend everything in his life.
01:09:08.000Winston Churchill is impossible to defend everything he did.
01:09:12.000In fact, he's a very conflicted historical figure, but he's a hero.
01:09:15.000In fact, he was probably the greatest man that lived in the 20th century.
01:09:18.000I will never defend what he did in India.
01:09:22.000But I will defend him putting all of Western society and looking true evil in the face and in the eyes when London was under constant bombardment and keeping that all together and pushing forward and eventually literally playing offense.
01:09:34.000And so this idea that we can overly generalize every figure in history, I think is so lazy, wrong, and sloppy.
01:09:42.000And the second thing is this, it is a war on the American South.
01:09:45.000And for those of you that grew up in the North, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
01:10:20.000Number two, 48% of the entire act of the United States military comes from seven states.
01:10:26.000So when people want to go fight their sugar-happy wars overseas, it's the boys and girls from Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia that are stepping up and rising in huge numbers.
01:10:39.000They are the two most underperforming per capita voluntary enlistment states in the entire country.
01:10:45.000And so this entire righteous Malibu, Manhattan, Ivory Tower syndrome that we're going to go tell the South about their slavery, like, excuse me, when you wanted to go fight the Korean War and we had 35,000 people die, it was the South that rose up in huge numbers.
01:10:59.000When we wanted to go fight in Vietnam, or we fought the war on terror, it was the South that rose up in even higher numbers, 55, 60%.
01:11:05.000And they didn't rise up in the way that you thought.
01:11:08.000They said, I'm going to go sacrifice my life so the person in Malibu can still enjoy their vegan milkshake and tell me how awful that I am, right?
01:11:23.000And even more so, as it is a war on the American South, it's a war on the American military.
01:11:30.000We are a complicated nation historically, but we're a beautiful nation historically.
01:11:37.000And the hubris, the pride, and the provoking that they are trying to put into the entire part of the American experience is intentional.
01:11:45.000It's intentional for a variety of reasons.
01:11:47.000And even as someone who, again, does not list this as the highest level of my hierarchy of what I care about, I will not give them an inch.
01:11:54.000I refuse to, because I know exactly why they're Doing what they're doing.