On today's show, we have a special guest, Eric Metaxas. He's the author of "Letters to the American Church," a book that takes a look at Christian nationalism and its role in the modern world.
00:00:14.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:21.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:46.000It's about the fact that God demands that his people take him and his values into every sphere, into the political sphere, into how you deal with your government, your culture, and everything.
00:02:00.000So when you get these people who are saying Christians shouldn't be involved in politics, it is utterly unbiblical.
00:02:08.000It was Christians that abolished the slave trade through politics.
00:02:13.000It was Christians living out their faith to abolish slavery.
00:02:17.000Christians living out their faith who brought about the civil rights movement, which ended up as legislation which is political.
00:02:23.000It was Christians getting involved against Roe v. Wade.
00:02:26.000If you don't bring your faith into politics, you allow satanic ideas to rule and reign in your world, which, if you don't care if it hurts you, it's hurting other people.
00:02:47.000Yeah, well, Hitler's idea of a nation is different from George Washington's idea of a nation.
00:02:53.000And shame and Michael Beschloss and all of the buffoons who are out there talking as though there's some comparison between loving America and saying Heil Hitler.
00:03:05.000They need to be mocked and not taken seriously.
00:03:07.000So I hope everyone understands, give it up for Eric, everybody, is that going into 2024, we see this with the Rob Reiner film in Russell Moore.
00:03:17.000We see this with Tim Alberta, who is doing the media rounds out of nowhere.
00:03:22.000He has this book all about this, and he gets like 10 minutes uninterrupted on Morning Joe.
00:03:28.000Morning Joe doesn't want to talk about his own adultery, so he'd rather talk to Tim Alberta.
00:03:33.000Amongst other things that he's been accused of.
00:03:35.000But there's obviously a war room where one of the things that they are trying to do is they're trying to set a narrative coming into 24 to weaken, maybe by five points, maybe by 10 points, Christian enthusiasm.
00:03:52.000And they're doing it with allegedly highbrow Christian intellectuals.
00:03:57.000So Russell Moore, you've met him before, right?
00:04:03.000I embraced him and told him Merry Christmas at Mike Pence's Christmas party, which tells you how far I have come in a couple of years, right?
00:04:51.000They don't have the chutzpah to do it.
00:04:53.000Well, they don't even understand the history.
00:04:55.000So when they hear Donald Trump, you know, use a certain word, they go, I think Hitler used the word the, and Donald Trump used the word the.
00:05:02.000So that's, you know, he needs to be more careful because he's like Hitler.
00:05:06.000Or they say, you know, Hitler had a dog.
00:06:38.000There are action items for us Christians.
00:06:40.000I think that some of these pastors either miss it or they're too cowardly because they want to go on MSNBC like Tim Alberta and they don't say it.
00:06:52.000The point is, if you have citizenship in heaven, if you've been born again, if you love Jesus, it makes you want to work in this world for God's purposes, not to check out, not to go to your root cellar with the Slim Jims waiting for the rap.
00:07:06.000But you think about it, what Tim Alberta is saying is the easy way out.
00:07:10.000If you get on MSNBC as a Christian author, you're doing something wrong.
00:07:50.000So, these sort of Christians who are trying to get attention there, they've turned their back on the actual gospel and the actual scriptures.
00:09:30.000They would not be doing this preemptive strike if they did not see that the church was the reason why 2024 is going to go in the proper direction.
00:09:38.000They're trying to preemptively strike the Christian base.
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00:12:59.000We're going to have a young lady come up in the next segment where she goes to public school in Oregon and in high school and men watch her undress and there's nothing that they can do about it.
00:13:08.000Men who say they are women go into the locker room and while she undresses, she's going to come up in the next segment.
00:13:13.000And what is the local church doing about that?
00:13:21.000Here's the number one thing you can do.
00:13:24.000If you are going to a church that is not awake to these issues, if you're going to a church where the pastor is timid on these issues, for the sake of your soul, get out of that church.
00:13:37.000For the sake of your soul, take God's money out of that church and tell your friends to get out of that church.
00:13:43.000Guys, we're changing our messaging a little bit.
00:13:46.000For a couple years, we said, you know, challenge the pastor, challenge the elder board.
00:13:54.000If you guys did that and nothing has changed, you need to go rebuke that pastor and say, I warned you, I am going to now take as many people as possible, and this church might turn into a Denny's.
00:14:06.000But you will be responsible, and you're going to have to answer in front of an almighty God for being a secular pastor who doesn't care about church.
00:14:12.000Okay, and that's exactly the parallel to Nazi Germany.
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00:18:14.000So I'm blessed that God has given me that opportunity.
00:18:16.000But I tell you what, three hours of radio is a lot of work.
00:18:19.000So when y'all listen to me, I'm working hard to make that happen.
00:18:22.000Yeah, it's more than I think people realize because when you get done with one day of three-hour radio, you got to do another day of three-hour radio.
00:19:32.000I mean, they're open to at least this idea of the trans thing being a cancer, the pro-life message that the black community has not necessarily improved through left-wing policies and ideas.
00:19:44.000100%, but I think it's easy pickings to a certain degree because growing up black in America, most of us go to church.
00:19:52.000When I was growing up in Texas, we played football and went to church.
00:19:55.000And with the biblical worldview, it's easy to tap back into it.
00:20:00.000Sometimes we get allured by political foolery, leftist lunacy.
00:20:05.000But when you start going back to the root of what the foundation is, going back to your church roots, what your parents have taught you all these years, black people are inherently more conservative.
00:20:15.000It opens your mind up and people are more susceptible to listen to.
00:20:19.000What do you think that Donald Trump needs to do to do better with black voters and/or improve his margins?
00:20:31.000I think a lot of things that he already does is incredible.
00:20:34.000What he's done as the president was incredible.
00:20:36.000I do think that Donald Trump, if he can just focus on the message of truth and leave out criticizing some of these black people, I think it'll help.
00:20:45.000And let me say this: LeBron James, let me talk crazy about LeBron James.
00:20:50.000Because I'll dog him out 24 hours a day.
00:20:53.000But I think with Donald Trump, he doesn't have to get into that dogfight because at the end of the day, he really wants more people to understand him and listen to him.
00:21:01.000You start talking about the beloved Cardi B and all these other people that somehow have a stronghold of influence, it turns people off to a certain degree.
00:21:09.000So let people like me and others do the talking, and I want him to stand up and just continue to tell the truth so he can be more received.
00:21:17.000There is a prediction from the New York Times says that we're headed for a sizable realignment in how non-white voters cast their ballots.
00:21:26.000Do you think that's going to materialize?
00:21:51.000I had my son's birthday party, went home.
00:21:53.000All my uncles are there, and it was hilarious.
00:21:56.000They said, I never vote for Joe Biden again, never vote for a Democrat again.
00:22:00.000And the reason is because they can see the proof in the pudding.
00:22:03.000This man has done a work on our country, and America can see it.
00:22:07.000They can't push the rhetoric of Donald Trump anymore and say he's a racist because now that they're in power, we can see what their true colors are.
00:22:15.000So, kind of diving into that, the trans issue.
00:22:21.000Is the trans issue something that can open black voters' eyes?
00:22:25.000It seems to be deeply unpopular in black America.
00:23:38.000Well, I can't tell you how I want to handle it without going to jail.
00:23:42.000But I will say, I will say that the fathers, I look at the listen, y'all, there is no way whatsoever that I would allow a man to go in a locker room with my daughter, not over my dead body.
00:24:15.000It's nothing wrong with you standing in front of that locker room, standing in front of that bathroom, and saying, you're not coming in here if you a biological school.
00:24:23.000Honestly, if a thousand men from that community just sat in front of the school, be like, oh, school's closed today.
00:25:51.000I think it's because we're a nation of cowards and low-T men and beta males that just put up with these deranged lunatics that call themselves trans.
00:26:01.000I think that when you look at the totality of people, not everybody has the strength and courage to do it, but the men who do need to step up and the rest will follow.
00:26:12.000It's just like you and I and Candace and others.
00:26:15.000It took us young people to stand up and make a stand.
00:26:19.000And now you see there's thousands of people that have the courage to stand up just like we do.
00:26:24.000So, Brennan, we're going to bring her on.
00:26:48.000We at Cambie High School in Oregon, there was a Title IX law that I'm sure that has been talked about and whatnot.
00:26:56.000But we have tried, we've talked, I've spoke at board meetings and whatnot.
00:27:01.000You go in the locker room, and there's a guy sitting there in sweatpants and a hoodie with a hood on, just watching girls change, not changing himself, just walking around with his cell phone, doing God knows what, but just walking around, just watching people change.
00:27:31.000So, you're 16 years old, and you speak at these school boards.
00:27:34.000Is there a female teacher that has actually talked to my, so there's a female teacher that needs to stay inside the PE locker room with us.
00:27:43.000And I asked her, I was like, all of these girls in here are feeling so uncomfortable.
00:29:12.000And I know there's a lot of great, passionate, and patriotic adults, but a 16-year-old has to say, yeah, I don't want to have to change in front of men.
00:29:23.000And we're going to be, if there is a focus of some of our programming, the Civil Rights Act that we worship as conservatives has done so much damage to this country in a way that you don't understand.
00:29:35.000They're now using Title IX as a way to allow biological men in locker rooms to watch 16-year-olds undressed.
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00:31:24.000We got Officer Katum Maddie, who is a Turning Point USA leader.
00:31:28.000That is what Turning Point is all about, everybody.
00:31:30.000That is what Turning Point's all about.
00:31:31.000And Sam Sorbo, Sam, you said something interesting.
00:31:35.000Yeah, I think that the reason that we have so many fathers who refuse to stand up for their daughters is because they went to school, and school is emasculating for young men.
00:31:45.000The whole system emasculates young men.
00:31:48.000So they are taught to sit quietly at their seats, don't talk out of turn.
00:31:55.000They have to ask permission to even ask a question.
00:31:58.000They're just standing on the sidelines waiting to be told that they have permission to speak on behalf of their daughters.
00:32:05.000And meanwhile, their daughters are being abused in the system.
00:32:09.000And parents, I want to tell you, raise your kids so that they won't put up with some guy sitting in your locker room watching you change with his cell phone handy.
00:33:46.000If you are trusting an institution that purports to educate your children, that is willing to lie to your children, that is no longer an institution of education.
00:34:27.000Again, the left is all about feelings and protecting women and all this, that you have to sit there and undress while some perv looks at you.
00:34:35.000This is where we're at in the name of progress.
00:34:38.000Right, and I have to point out, you know, Rhonda Santis in Florida has done an incredible job putting an end to this stuff and not allowing them to have children or having grown men going to the locker rooms of children.
00:34:51.000I think that this should be spread across the country.
00:34:53.000We should look at the examples of politicians who've done it the right way.
00:35:27.000There will be no renovations in a bathroom.
00:35:30.000If you are trans and you're questioning, you are the outlier.
00:35:35.000Maybe you should use the restroom at home.
00:35:37.000Maybe they should do something different about what you need to do and not do, I would say, not harm or hurt young women who are just trying to exist as women.