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00:01:32.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:17.000It not only gives you increased purpose and increased meaning, but also, you know, in the culture fight that we're in right now, so much involves children.
00:04:03.000I know there's so much, but it's amazing when I visit some of these other states, even though they might seem freer politically, they do not have a spirit of boldness or action or community that you have at this church.
00:04:42.000Well, you know, whenever the media prints something, I always believe the opposite is true right now because they're freaking liars.
00:04:51.000So they tried to print a couple of hit pieces about how Christianity is dying in America and people are leaving the church in droves.
00:04:58.000That's certainly not the experience from the pastors that I'm talking to.
00:05:02.000Christianity to me is rising in America, but I heard you on a podcast talking about the five different religions that are seeking to replace Christianity.
00:05:16.000Yeah, so there's, we are all inheritors of a Christian tradition, whether we like it or not, and we should be so thankful for it.
00:05:24.000Things that we take for granted that your secular, non-religious friends would act as if is common sense, protection of children, for example, or natural rights, the idea of borders, the idea of private property.
00:05:36.000These all come from a biblical Christian inheritance.
00:05:39.000And so as Christianity has become less popular in America, and certain churches are seeing church attendance go down, this one's increasing because you're not woke and you're biblical and you have great leaders.
00:05:51.000But in certain churches, they are seeing it go down.
00:05:55.000And that's important to note that we have a God-sized shaped hole in our heart, and something will always seek to fill it.
00:06:03.000And so if you read the first five books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, through a very specific lens, understanding the context of which it was written was a refutation of pagan, polytheistic, river civilization fake religions.
00:06:25.000Now, the way that we teach our children, though, it's as if, oh, there's Christians, then there's non-religious.
00:06:32.000This idea of not believing in God is a hyper-radical, kind of new phenomenon.
00:06:38.000The norm is actually believing in fake gods.
00:06:42.000And so this idea of saying, I don't believe in God, is very modern, and it's actually not very sustainable.
00:06:48.000Atheism is a problem, but a bigger problem is somebody that creates a fake God or a fabricated version of Christianity, uses some of the worship elements, tithing, offering, community, atonement, promise of the afterlife, appropriates Christian promises and puts them under a fake religion.
00:07:09.000That's actually much more attractive and actually will grow a lot more.
00:07:14.000This idea of convincing wide swaths of people that there is not a divine order or there isn't somebody in charge or some reason for existence actually is probably going to fall flat on its face.
00:07:24.000I'm not saying it's totally unpopular, but the greater threat is the five fake religions that are filling the void.
00:07:30.000I did a whole speech on this earlier in the week.
00:08:17.000God will tell you what is right and what is wrong.
00:08:19.000God makes judgments, but also God is not in nature.
00:08:24.000This was a profound moral breakthrough of Genesis, especially.
00:08:29.000Because prior to the Hebrews, prior to the people of Israel, prior to the beginning of the truth developing in written form, God was supposed to be found in nature.
00:09:04.000The environmentalists that are really earth worshipers are doing the very same thing that Gnostic Hermeticists did 2,000 years ago, where they say the world is about to end, and the tree, the delta smelt, the river, the cacti, they matter more than man.
00:10:00.000You must teach a child manners at dinner.
00:10:03.000Then nature is to be rude and to burp and to belch and to the idea of manners, where does that come from?
00:10:11.000It's kind of a silly example, I think.
00:10:12.000It's out of the respect for others because of human equality, that they do not want to hear your bodily noises.
00:10:19.000They want you to act in a certain code of conduct.
00:10:23.000Now, but if we were to say that nature matters, we would never have rules, customs, codes, or traditions that would restrain your own pre-programmed way of conduct either at a dinner table or otherwise.
00:10:37.000Now, when you say that God is above nature, this is very important.
00:11:20.000But earth worship is one that dominates our time.
00:11:23.000The second one that I think is probably the most dangerous and the most widespread is the religion of anti-racism or the cult of diversity.
00:11:31.000This is largely, this is the most dangerous of all five in the immediate.
00:11:38.000This manifests in a lot of different ways.
00:11:40.000Hyper-focused on race, black-only dormitories, Grand Valley State University, for example, Columbia University.
00:11:48.000They have black-only graduation ceremonies now, Jurgen, where they do not allow whites to go to these graduation ceremonies.
00:11:55.000And what's so perplexing about the religion of anti-racism is that this is not being led by Hispanics or blacks.
00:12:04.000That the cleric, the people, the clergy of the religion of anti-racism are white liberal suburban wine moms.
00:12:15.000And that's what's so strange about it, right?
00:12:19.000Is that this is not being driven by your average middle-class black American.
00:12:24.000These are people that reject Christianity, engage in secularism, realize they're empty, find something that looks like a religion, and their meaning then is to hate themselves, and they think they can atone for it by donating to BLM or apologizing for how they look.
00:12:44.000That gives them almost a quasi-religious experience.
00:12:47.000If you dive into the BLM code of conduct, they basically have taken Christianity and they totally, they put it through a lens.
00:12:56.000They say, okay, we're still going to meet.
00:13:20.000This is why I think it's the most dangerous, is that it's the one that people are the least willing to fight on.
00:13:26.000If I go through the five, you'll realize that some are, wow, this is the one that paralyzes people.
00:13:31.000And they do it through the weaponization of name-calling.
00:13:34.000And more so than any other time in American history, have we seen good people that are afraid to act because of a name that they might be called.
00:15:20.000In fact, Psalm 97, 10, if you love God, you must hate evil.
00:15:26.000That hating evil actually shows how much you love the divine.
00:15:30.000The religion of tolerance gives us insane pathological ideas that are institutionalized into our culture, institutionalized into our system and our code of conduct, where good people know it's wrong and they do nothing because they say they must be tolerant.
00:15:46.000For example, Thomas, the swimmer, that competes and wins a NCAA championship as a man against other women, and we say we must do nothing.
00:15:56.000Where track championship after track championship are being won by biological men competing against women, and so, and not just competing, but winning.
00:16:05.000And they're bullying them, and they're antagonistic, and they're narcissistic, and they're cheaters, and they're all those things.
00:16:11.000And so, some, you know, criticism I receive is, well, Charlie, aren't you a Christian?
00:16:46.000If someone is anorexic and says, I need liposuction, you'd say, no, no, you're suffering under a mental delusion.
00:16:53.000If somebody says, I'm offended every single time I see other people eat in public, do we stop eating in public?
00:16:59.000Do we now reaccommodate society for other people's mental struggles or issues?
00:17:03.000What we are living through is that we now have to change our customs, our code of beliefs, our behaviors for people that are personally struggling with something.
00:17:22.000And so the religion of tolerance tells us that we worship this idea of tolerance because it's really, I think I'm a good person religion, when in reality, you are weak.
00:17:34.000You're weak when you see the strong that are willing to crush the weak.
00:17:39.000And that is the question of a society.
00:17:41.000Are the strong willing to use their power to protect those that don't have as much strength?
00:17:45.000Only Christianity mandates the strong to use their power to protect those that are not as powerful.
00:17:51.000That is a uniquely Christian principle.
00:17:53.000Going back to what I talked about, nature, though, if you look at nature, what does nature tell you?
00:17:58.000That the strong get stronger and the weak die.
00:18:01.000The religion of Christianity says, no, no, no, no.
00:18:04.000We stand up for the least of these in our society.
00:18:06.000We stand up for those that can't defend themselves.
00:18:17.000There's several examples of this, mostly in our political elite.
00:18:21.000These are people that have made it their life's purpose to dominate others.
00:18:26.000I will get to Fauci in the final one because he could qualify there, but he really is the archbishop of a different religion.
00:18:34.000I'm going to instead, I've talked about this religion before at this church, but I'll expand on it.
00:18:38.000I'm actually going to go more micro than macro because I could talk about James Comey and I could talk about Andy McCabe and I could talk about Mayorkis and people that worship power.
00:18:47.000But a different subcategory of the population actually worship power and all of us have experienced it.
00:18:53.000They find their purpose, their meaning, their drive in being able to terrorize others.
00:19:00.000So the more stupid rules you have, the more stupid people you need to enforce the stupid rules because good people refuse to enforce stupid rules.
00:19:09.000So during the lockdowns, during the COVID-19 tyranny, when we had all these rules, all of a sudden an emergence of a new subgroup, an undercurrent we never knew existed, of people that find their religious significance in enforcing whether or not you're wearing your mask correctly, right?
00:19:28.000And these are people, Starbuck baristas, who were never ran for elected office.
00:19:34.000They've never had to really be in a position of power for any other reason, except they happen to work in Starbucks.
00:19:41.000But because a silly, stupid rule all of a sudden came out of nowhere, they look around.
00:19:46.000They're like, well, someone has to enforce it.
00:19:47.000We're going to have this 19-year-old North African lesbian studies major from San Diego State University have all this power to police my breathing when I'm trying to get a cold brew.
00:19:58.000And you go and you try to pick up the cold brew, and your mask is a little bit down.
00:20:05.000And that person, she, whatever pronouns that person uses, ridiculous, what's happening in our society, this person gets off and is excited about enforcing the dumb rule because they become unbelievably important for the first time in their life.
00:20:34.000When, if Christianity was in that person's life, that rule would not be as important because they would look at themselves as a son or a daughter of the divine.
00:20:44.000That rule would then be looked at completely differently, not as a way to exert power or authority, but instead as, well, that's probably a cruel way to treat another person made in the image of God, right?
00:20:54.000So the religion of power is very attractive, as Christianity is not as popular.
00:20:59.000Okay, the fifth religion is really the religion of scientism.
00:21:03.000And that's where Fauci could be the archbishop.
00:21:06.000He's in both the religion of power and the religion of scientism.
00:21:10.000Never was it about trusting the science.
00:21:13.000It was about trusting the scientists that they liked over the last couple of years.
00:21:18.000Those are two completely different things.
00:21:21.000And the religion of scientism has been around for over 100 years.
00:21:26.000The entire fourth branch of government really came to be with this idea of the council of experts, that there are people that know better than you, that committees that you'll never come in touch with can meet privately and they're going to make decisions and they'll be able to get our society closer towards a utopia.
00:21:48.000I don't need to bore you with all the details, but we've seen how dangerous that religion of scientism is able to be enforced.
00:21:55.000But what was even more disappointing is not just the people that enforce it-Francis Collins, Walensky, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson, and Johnson.
00:22:05.000Is that the religion of scientism could actually be more broadly into really kind of the idolatry of experts is another way to put it, which is the experts have told us to do this, even though you know the rule is so silly.
00:22:25.000And again, scientists, well, accurate historians are going to go back in time, the ones that have any sort of courage to find the truth, and they're going to be perplexed.
00:22:34.000They're going to say, wait a second, help me understand this.
00:22:36.000So you lock down all of society and then you allow people to go on airplanes and you hyper-enforce the mask policy, except, of course, when they're eating or drinking, right?
00:22:48.000Because when they're eating or drinking, the virus is just in complete suspense in the air.
00:22:54.000And that if you're not eating or drinking, you have to wear the mask properly.
00:22:59.000And you could do that at 35,000 feet with 350 people packed like sardines, but the restaurants are closed in Newark, New Jersey, and the restaurants are closed in Los Angeles, the two cities you're flying from, but shut up and trust the science.
00:23:12.000And you really have to wonder: is it actually about science?
00:23:26.000Sir Francis Bacon invented the scientific method.
00:23:29.000Sir Isaac Newton wrote more about biblical prophecy in Isaiah than he did even about physics.
00:23:34.000So, this idea of the inquiry into the natural world is a very uniquely Christian idea because if you believe that there is a logos, a cosmological harmony to our existence, then therefore the universe is worth exploring and understanding.
00:24:05.000That it's not as if we want to try to understand why it is that, you know, where does wind come from, or why are temperatures increase or decrease, or you know, germ theory, or how can we possibly create, you know, better resistance to viruses or antibiotics.
00:25:17.000That is why they are trying to put hormone blockers in kids' hands, is because they're trying to make it possible in the scientific arena that you can change what was naturally put into place.
00:25:31.000And so science made a complete diversion.
00:25:32.000So I am a big fan of science if it's done under the correct presupposition, which is, do we believe that there's a logos and we desire to know and understand and stay in awe and wonder of the beauty and the intricacy of what God created?
00:25:48.000Or are you going into science instead with a spirit to alter, with a spirit, with a spirit of contempt?
00:26:00.000The religion of scientism is filled with a dark spirit of I can do it better.
00:27:28.000Genesis 1-1 should crush those five fake religions.
00:27:33.000Genesis 1-1 is the shield and the sword against those five pagan river civilization religions.
00:27:39.000Now, understand that those five religions are not new.
00:27:43.000They're just repackaged manifestations of an unclean spirit, a Luciferian desire of all sorts of different types of pagan river civilizations in Egypt and Mesopotamia that the Hebrews were fighting and challenging against.
00:27:58.000You have to understand this idea of monotheism, one God, is so unbelievably rare in the history of fake religions.
00:28:07.000I mean, there's all these fake religions, and all of a sudden, monotheism comes along and God spoke it into existence.
00:28:15.000And not only that, but God chooses people not based on characteristics that we think matter, beauty or how they look, but instead on moral character.
00:28:26.000God chose Noah because he was a righteous man in his generation.
00:28:30.000The pagan river civilization of Mesopotamia said the gods would choose based on the best looking.
00:29:36.000Politics is a question of power in human beings, okay?
00:29:39.000You might say, Well, I don't care about that question.
00:29:41.000That is such a silly thing to say because the Bible has a lot to say about who gets power and how they get power and when they get power.
00:29:50.000In fact, the Bible says that power should be separate, that there should be checks and balances, that the people need to have consent.
00:29:57.000If only a country adopted those ideas and put them into their constitution, which, by the way, is why the constitution is the greatest political document ever written.
00:30:39.000Therefore, that necessitates human equality, human rights, and that government politics should not be able to crush that human being.
00:30:47.000That that human being is a reflection of the divine order, as we know.
00:30:51.000That's such an huge concept you could spend the rest of your life just mulling over and praying over.
00:30:57.000So, the question of what is a human being is the most important question because the secular humanists, all five of those fake religions, would not answer that a human being is made in the image of God.
00:31:09.000They would say that a human being is a mistake, or we don't know, or that it's a mystery.
00:31:24.000This is an unbelievably important question.
00:31:27.000If human beings are naturally good, then we must be able to explain all the evil in the world.
00:31:33.000And by the way, the secular humanists, the scientists, the earth worshipers, the cult of diversity, the anti-racism folks, they explain evil not in the heart of man, not with original sin in the fall.
00:31:45.000They say that evil comes from the systems and the structures that we have inherited.
00:31:51.000Therefore, we get rid of evil by getting rid of Western society and getting rid of the patriarchy and getting rid of Christianity.
00:31:58.000If you can't answer where evil comes from, then you're going to make really bad political decisions afterwards because they say we must tear all this stuff down and then we'll be able to usher in some form of goodness.
00:32:10.000Genesis says clearly the heart of man is flawed from birth, that we know that we are dealing with a broken raw material.
00:32:19.000Therefore, we should have awe and wonder anytime we do anything right or good.
00:32:25.000In fact, we should say, wow, the fact that we aren't tearing each other apart every single day is a massive moral advancement.
00:32:36.000And then finally, and JĂĽrgen, you alluded to this.
00:32:39.000My favorite political verse of my political chapter that I wish every pastor taught correctly is Genesis 11.
00:32:48.000Genesis 11 is exactly what happens when you try to build a metropolitan centralized government to honor yourself and to not honor God.
00:32:58.000As it said very clearly there in the people of Babel, which means God confuses, by the way, they said that we are going to make a name for ourselves, that it will come and touch the heavens.
00:33:10.000Both the American founding fathers and our Lord do not like major cities that want to make themselves gods.
00:33:18.000The American founding fathers believed in decentralized power.
00:33:21.000And so a pastor says, I don't believe in politics, then why on earth would God put Genesis 11 right there?
00:33:27.000That's the final thing you read before God calls Abram.
00:33:32.000The last thing you read before that we know is recorded history.
00:33:35.000Because Genesis 1 through 11, you could debate of the exact time.
00:33:39.000We know exactly down to like 100th, like 30th year when Abram was called.
00:33:44.000And so history starts in Genesis 12, as we know at Genesis 11, because that final reminder that God is giving you, the interlude, the bridge, is, hey, when you build a political system, when you build a city, you better believe that that power is not centralized.
00:33:57.000You better believe the heart of man will try to do something to terrorize others.
00:34:05.000He offers judgment as a way to say to us, Hey, you try to build something in your own way, World Economic Forum, Globalism, Great Reset, that that will be scattered and that will be dishonored.
00:34:21.000Come on, mic drop, mic drop, mic drop, mic drop.
00:34:24.000All right, we're going to do question and answer.
00:34:26.000I've got one more question before the question and answers, but we're going to line up on the sides of the stage and we're going to have mics.
00:34:50.000Just like in the days of Elijah, there were 450 prophets of Baal, 400 prophets of Asherah.
00:34:58.000The Bible says that they were fed by Jezebel at Jezebel's table, meaning that these were government, PBS, these were government-funded, government-sustained, and they were voices.
00:35:10.000There was one voice crying out for God, 850 voices giving everything else.
00:35:25.000So the people were really so discouraged, they lost their voice.
00:35:28.000I know that you've been talking a little bit lately about a rise in like almost like a pessimistic nihilism, hopelessness, the world's gone to the evil are in control, the darkness.
00:37:13.000You should be acting more courageously and boldly, not retreating and surrendering.
00:37:20.000Second, the second that I need to talk to is an unfortunate thing that really manifests in the last two weeks where there is just kind of this, Charlie, I don't think that my grandkids should have kids.
00:37:32.000I would not bring kids into this world.
00:37:46.000And there's a verse from Ecclesiastes that says something very similar, which is, you don't just look at the winds of whether or not you sow.
00:37:53.000Too many people, I think, check the weather in the stock market before they say, I am going to act.
00:37:59.000My main message to every church, every campus, every believer is that you could be disgusted, depressed, disgruntled at the macro, but you have zero excuse to not act boldly and courageously in the micro.
00:38:13.000You must continue to pour in to build big families, to build strong churches, to expand businesses.
00:38:22.000The enemy would love nothing more than to create a sense of paralysis amongst believers, the last best hope for liberty, because things look really bleak on the outside.
00:38:34.000Of course, there's a lot of negativity.
00:38:38.000It's actually irrelevant to what I try to end every speech with, which is, what are you going to do?
00:38:45.000And if you ask the question, well, Charlie, what else am I to do?
00:38:47.000We'll talk about at the end of what you can do.
00:38:50.000It's a very simple question, which is, if you have not lost anything significant in the last couple of years, you're a spectator and you're not in the arena.
00:39:18.000We have the battle wounds and the scars to show it.
00:39:20.000Praise God, we fought through it and we're leaning in and doing more.
00:39:24.000But I find the people that are doing the most are saying, Charlie, I'm glad I lost those things because actually God has now freed me up to fight even harder to be able to win.
00:40:07.000I go to San Diego State University with the North African Gender Studies barista at my school that you had mentioned earlier, and she says hi.
00:40:18.000So my question is related to homelessness.
00:40:23.000I'm from San Diego, but I do live out here near Temecula.
00:40:27.000But in San Diego, our mayor, Todd Gloria, has worked with Gavin Newsome to start a conservatorship program where homeless people would be basically taken off the streets and given to the hands of government, where they would be given prescribed medications, provided housing, provided psychological services, all at the expense of taxpayers.
00:40:50.000On the surface, this program does seem like a good idea to someone who's not like us.
00:40:55.000But my question is, what is the conservative answer to addressing homelessness without using big government, big brother to take them off the street and address their alcohol, drugs, and all their problems?
00:42:21.000So if what you're telling me right now is the government is going to come in with housing and money, you're going to get more homelessness, not less homelessness.
00:42:30.000And finally, it's a very complex issue.
00:42:35.000I have spent some time in homeless encampments and going through it.
00:42:39.000There is a group of people there that, of course, are mentally going through struggles and they need help and they need compassionate care.
00:42:46.000However, this goes to the entire trans thing as well.
00:42:49.000We should not have to accommodate clean streets, safe streets, and a society that functions because of somebody else's problem.
00:42:59.000And so you think about it, it's exactly the same thing as the trans thing, right?
00:43:02.000That I have to go walk through, you know, I don't know how San Diego is, but downtown LA, where it depresses your mood.
00:43:21.000And so I don't think we should tolerate the act of public encampments, all the while having, of course, a moral prerogative to give the people compassionate care.
00:44:00.000One is in elementary and then one is in high school.
00:44:04.000So with the school district right now with CRT and then gender equality.
00:44:12.000So the parents right now are being labeled as domestic terrorists.
00:44:19.000What advice can you give us parents or what can you do to help us fight our fight?
00:44:26.000Because we're kind of losing the battle with the school district right now, with the books that are in the library right now, that we cannot really, we cannot really, you know what I mean?
00:44:49.000But let me tell you what, you might say, Charlie, what do you do?
00:44:53.000I think I'm just beginning, if God wants me to continue on this path, hopefully a very meaningful and purposeful daily task of educating people, millions of people, three hours live on radio, podcasting.
00:45:27.000And while I appreciate the compliment, Charlie, you're going to run for office.
00:45:33.000I would rather have a program and an organization, Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action, all working in harmony to be able to rise up a new generation of people to run for office and hold the people that are already elected that have run for office and then be able to be a daily drumbeat to hopefully encourage you, clarify the lies and challenge it.
00:45:55.000So that's what I feel personally called to in this moment in my life.
00:45:58.000And I think, and I pray, that actually might be a bigger impact than just being a single office holder in Washington, D.C.
00:46:26.000But I want to say you have a beautiful heart because your kids are being taught outright lies.
00:46:33.000And you could turn that negative into a positive, but you have to remind your kids every day that they are lies.
00:46:39.000And if you do this correctly, your kids will graduate tougher and more resilient because of the nonsense being thrown at them.
00:46:46.000So while the situation is not ideal, I don't have any sort of profound plan to be able to remove CRT from a local school board because even taking over the school board, they have ways to dodge it and all that.
00:46:56.000What I can tell you, though, is that your daily, hourly involvement in your child's upbringing can create them with a missionary spirit to be in that high school, to separate the lie from truth.
00:47:07.000And they will be so tough by the time they enter college.
00:47:22.000So, as we're doing this, just one way that you could personally bless me, by the way, it's no charge, is just to follow this QR code and subscribe to our podcast.
00:47:31.000We work very hard, three podcasts a day, in addition to all the travel and Turning Point USA.
00:47:51.000So, I'm 11 years old in sixth grade, and I just want to ask you what you can say to the youth directly on how we can show wisdom in these schools and show how can we fight for our battle in this generation as well.
00:48:15.000That's hope for the future right there.
00:48:19.000Look, when people tell me to stop having children, you know, stop having children, I say, really?
00:50:26.000And this is why the founding fathers, I believe, people say, Charlie, how do we restore America?
00:50:31.000The founding fathers gave us a roadmap.
00:50:33.000We just have to take a U-turn and go back to the starting point of the promise of the Declaration and the Constitution.
00:50:39.000The more I study the framers and the founders, the more thankful I am to God that we live in this country.
00:50:46.000I can't tell you how profound I believe, divinely inspired.
00:50:50.000I truly believe that you look at Genesis 1-1, Mount Sinai, the resurrection of Jesus, and then you could go fast forward in time, the creation of America, are some of the most important moments in history.
00:51:02.000And of course, the resurrection is much more important than the creation of America, but there's nothing quite like America in the history of self-government.
00:51:49.000And I'm just curious, what would be your explanation as to why there is such an attack on the seemingly infinite human hierarchies that we have in the world?
00:52:01.000Yeah, that's a really important question.
00:52:03.000So they say they want egalitarianism, but in reality, they want to be on the top of the hierarchy.
00:52:09.000These are people that have the religion of power.
00:53:05.000Because Stalin aside, because he didn't believe the promise of the scriptures, obviously, but he did outwardly want to challenge God, is that they believe this is all there is.
00:53:16.000And they believe this is the whole ballgame.
00:53:19.000If you look at your existence, that there is no eternity and there is no judgment, then you can get to yourself to the belief of I better collect as much stuff and as much power and make myself like God today.
00:53:34.000That is what motivated every Caesar, king and czar, Alexander the Great.
00:53:38.000But if you then believe a little bit that even no matter how many lands, spoils, you know, pieces of gold or silver that you might accumulate, that there is a God above you that should then restrain your action just from temporal material accumulation.
00:53:53.000Why are they trying to get rid of the hierarchies?
00:54:32.000I'm in the HR industry and I'm in the hiring space.
00:54:36.000And in a few weeks, I have the opportunity to speak at an HR event where I'm pushing against DE and I, which is diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:54:44.000And I'm encouraging other HR leaders to disrupt hiring practices based upon race and gender.
00:54:50.000If you could give me one to three main points of why you think why DE and I should stop, what would those be?
00:56:02.000If they say yes, then say, okay, then the spirit of DEI puts a preference of segregation above that of a meritocracy.
00:56:09.000That's the final thing, which is, wouldn't it be beautiful if we restored the ideal that I don't know existed 10 years ago in HR departments?
00:56:16.000That merit, character, commitment matters a lot more than melanin.
00:56:23.000So the final question I would ask with you is you have to ask your people, and you don't have to be confrontational, just be clear.
00:56:36.000Are we going to have an HR culture based on melanin or merit?
00:56:39.000Because right now we are saying merit does not matter, but melanin matters.
00:56:42.000And then finally, you should say, I personally find it objectionable and wrong that we are going back into a trend where all of a sudden we think that race matters and decisions should be based on race.
00:56:53.000I want to live in an America where Martin Luther King said very clearly, I don't care about the color of your skin, but the content of your character.
00:57:01.000That's what I would say at your conference in a couple weeks.
00:57:05.000Oh my, How many people can see the spirit of Solomon resting on a young man over here?
00:57:20.000So since you are a new father, I was wondering, a personal question, but for your kid in homeschool, what are you going to do with the internet, phones, and the newly established AI and its biased information it gives kids, high schoolers for papers and all that type of stuff?
00:57:35.000So what am I going to do about internet like phones and AI with your so we're going to do our best to not have our daughter have a smartphone till she's 17 or 18.
00:57:48.000I didn't get a smartphone till I was 21 because they didn't exist till I was 21.
00:57:54.000I'm going to try my best and I might fail to create an existence of awe and wonder of playing outside and using your imagination, not scrolling through TikTok.
01:00:04.000I have that thing that goes up the stairs.
01:00:07.000Charlie, I've done everything that's been asked of me.
01:00:14.000My challenge for you here tonight, because you already go to an excellent church, you have a fabulous pastor, you have a great community, is to dig deeper, pray, fast this Easter season, and ask the Lord to say, What else can I give?