00:00:14.000So I'm only going to mention a couple things.
00:00:15.000Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of you that are generously stepping up and supporting our program at charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:01:41.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:48.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:07.000We've been having such success here at Freedom Night in America and Freedom Square, and we're growing it to Freedom Night in America, I should say.
00:02:15.000I want to share the success of how this event is growing.
00:02:18.000A couple nights ago, we were in Loudoun County, Virginia, where I know some of you are booing because you know what happened recently, right?
00:02:27.000And we brought Freedom Square, branded as Freedom Night in America to Loudoun County, Virginia, to Gary Hamrick's church at Cornerstone.
00:03:02.000We as Christians, conservatives, have to go places that we've never been before, especially the ones where we're not always in the predominant viewpoint.
00:03:11.000You know what was amazing is that we had a packed room, standing room only, in Burlington, Vermont last night.
00:04:08.000And so, but Eric has wrote a very special book.
00:04:11.000I've read Eric's books, unlike some of Eric's relatives, have actually read some of Eric's books.
00:04:18.000And this is a special book that we're going to get into tonight.
00:04:22.000And it's a full-on indictment of atheism and godless culture, which is something that has, I think, become kind of the predominant viewpoint on too many college campuses and high schools.
00:04:35.000And Eric has done such a phenomenal job of going into that.
00:04:38.000But I want to get to one really positive thing that I believe God gave me in the last month, which I was thinking about whether or not the ruling class and the people in charge, how are they feeling about the direction of the country?
00:05:16.000It's not what happened with the Taliban of us giving $85 billion of our own weapons to the enemies of America.
00:05:21.000No, the most important story is to show who they really are actually afraid of.
00:05:26.000The most important story is when the National School Board Association of America came out with a letter and sent that letter to the Biden White House.
00:05:34.000And four days later, the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland, issued a guidance letter saying that we're going to use the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:05:44.000We are going to use the Patriot Act to go after moms and dads that are showing up to school board meetings across the country.
00:05:51.000Now, everyone has a different reaction.
00:05:54.000Some people go and smash their phones because they're afraid they're being spied on.
00:05:57.000Everyone has a different reaction when I say this, but the truthful reaction is that they are getting frustrated, they being the people in charge, the ruling class, that for whatever reason, after they implemented the current president, that Christians and people of faith, people who understand the founding documents, people who believe in God, that for whatever reason, the more they throw at us, the actually stronger we become.
00:06:29.000They thought that they could go on a campaign of shock and awe, of almost making us want to sue for peace, that after January 20th of this year, we'd say, okay, you know what?
00:06:39.000Actually, let's go put Liz Cheney in charge of the conservative movement.
00:06:43.000And instead, here's what happened: Moms and dads started showing up to school board meetings.
00:06:47.000All of a sudden, we launched this event.
00:06:49.000We started to see regular, everyday people rise up in numbers we've ever seen before.
00:06:54.000That in the last 10 months, where we are right now, halfway through October, a little more than halfway through October, all of a sudden they're realizing that the conservative Christian movement, whatever you want to call it, that we are anti-fragile.
00:07:15.000And so, unlike this audience, they're hearing this for the second and third time, right?
00:07:20.000And so, what's the opposite of being fragile?
00:07:23.000Now, some people might say durable, tough.
00:07:25.000No, there's another word that was created by an author by the name of Nassim Taleb, where he said there's something where there's a group, an organization that actually goes stronger the more you attack them.
00:07:37.000He said, This is rare, but when an organization, a movement, a people, a group find themselves to have the mindset of being anti-fragile, there is nothing that can be thrown at them that will actually harm them.
00:08:42.000They're starting to realize the 60, 70, 80 million faithful out there, the people that believe in God, the people that read their Bible, the people that love this country, that despite their best efforts of writing letters to the GOJ or getting the FBI involved, they're starting to get frustrated because we did the one thing that we as Christians are commanded not to do, which is engage in self-pity.
00:09:04.000It's very tempting to all of a sudden want people to feel sorry for yourself.
00:09:23.000We're showing up in record numbers to the Scottsdale Unified School District, and we're doing something about what's actually happening in our local community.
00:09:31.000And so I just want to say for tonight that the people in charge, they look at these gatherings and say, what's wrong with these people?
00:09:38.000They say, why can't we get rid of them?
00:09:41.000And here's the truth of it, is that we understand that we are now in a new era, a new chapter.
00:09:47.000And that chapter is we understand the stakes of the game, that no matter what you throw at us, no matter how high the stakes are, we're going to keep on gathering, keep on praying, keep on fasting.
00:09:57.000And we know that what we are up against is only going to be beat by the matter of the will.
00:10:11.000But who's going to win the future for the temporary kind of future of our wonderful nation that we're in?
00:10:16.000As it says in Jeremiah 29, 7, the theme verse of our gathering, which is to demand the welfare, the peace of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:10:26.000Is it the side that gets offended when you use the wrong gender?
00:10:31.000Or is it the side that's willing to get fired after 30 years at a job because they don't want to take a vaccine?
00:10:42.000I'm going to leave you with two final thoughts and then we'll bring Eric up and we'll have some fun, which is number one, which is there's some good things happening.
00:10:50.000Delta Airlines and Southwest Airlines has now announced they are retracting the vaccine mandate.
00:11:57.000I want to put it up on screen for something very special.
00:11:59.000We'd love to have a strong Freedom Square presence at our upcoming event, America Fest, December 18, 19, 2021, at the Phoenix Convention Center.
00:12:11.000And I wanted to show you some of the speakers that we have here.
00:12:14.000We got Tucker Carlson coming, Kaylee McEnamy, Ted Cruz, Jesse Waters, Candace Owens, Jim Jordan, Donald Trump Jr., Madison Cawthorne, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and many others.
00:12:24.000If you guys use promo code Freedom Square, okay, promo, I think that's what we had it right.
00:12:30.000Promo code FreedomSquare at tpusa.com/slash AmericaFest.
00:12:34.000It's right down the street at the Phoenix Convention Center.
00:12:37.000We're going to be giving Dream City Church a free partnership and sponsorship for that because we want to continue to tell the people that are going to come to that.
00:12:44.000Hey, there's a great church in the valley to go to.
00:12:46.000So we are expecting anywhere between 10 to 15,000 people there and discounted tickets for everyone there at tpusa.com/slash AmericaFest.
00:12:59.000When we are done with the program tonight, Eric will be signing books outside.
00:13:04.000The books are for any, if you give a donation of any size outside of Turning Point USA, $1 or $100, you guys get a signed book from Eric Metaxas.
00:13:12.000I also have felt bad that I always have to dash after these things.
00:13:15.000I'm going to be outside to take pictures with you guys for a little while just to say hi after this because you guys have been so faithful and you've been taking this gathering so seriously.
00:13:24.000And so we're going to be doing that after we're done here.
00:13:28.000So I want to tell you about Eric Metaxas.
00:13:30.000Eric Metaxas wrote one of the most important books, not this book, the book on Bonhoeffer, is one of the most important books I think published in the last 100 years.
00:13:39.000It is the premier biography and the premier story of a man that stood for truth when it was difficult.
00:13:53.000And this book, Is Atheism Dead, is one of the most thorough, one of the most detailed pieces of literature done on the idea of how ludicrous it is to believe in atheism.
00:15:44.000I don't say that the Lord said this, the Lord said that.
00:15:47.000There have been times that the Lord has guided me clearly and directed me.
00:15:52.000And with this book, it wasn't anything like an audible voice or wasn't anything mystical, but it seemed really clear to me right at the beginning of COVID that like the idea for the book came to me.
00:16:27.000And I met him through some friends at a church in Houston, and he starts talking to me about the concept of abiogenesis.
00:16:36.000Now, does anybody here know what that means?
00:16:39.000If you know what that means, get out, because I don't want to talk to people that know about this stuff, because then you may catch me in an error.
00:16:46.000But what he talked about, this is kind of fascinating, right?
00:16:50.000We all argue about evolution and we have these big conversations about that.
00:16:55.000But you know what no one ever talks about, ever?
00:16:59.000It's like, okay, if you say to a scientist, where did life come from?
00:17:05.000They say, well, life appeared on planet Earth 4 billion years ago.
00:17:09.000The simplest life is a single cell and it appeared, you know, in the prebiotic soup, it appeared 4 billion years ago, okay?
00:17:18.000And then from that, it evolved into whatever.
00:17:20.000And he said, well, forget about the evolution and stuff.
00:17:50.000And it said that Miller and Uri did an experiment at the University of Chicago, and they put some chemicals together that they said was probably on the early Earth from like 19, I'm sorry, in 1952, they did this, figuring out what was on the early Earth 4 billion years ago, and they ran some electricity through it, kind of like lightning, and they figured that might have been the thing that sparked life.
00:18:11.000And when they did that, they got amino acids.
00:18:15.000Now, you don't need to be a genius to understand that amino acids are light years away from like a cell, right?
00:20:16.000So I thought about that and I thought about all these other arguments for science that I happen to know, but I thought this one is really extraordinary.
00:20:24.000And then I realized I met another guy in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
00:21:06.000And I thought, nobody knows about this.
00:21:08.000This is one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds ever.
00:21:12.000So at the beginning of COVID, I thought of these two people that I'd met and I thought about how nobody that I know, including intelligent Christians, has heard of either of these things.
00:21:22.000So I said, I really need to write a book where I put that information in there because Christians need to know the details.
00:21:29.000Like this is very exciting information, very exciting, open and shut.
00:21:35.000But there's all this other information that, like the fine-tuned universe and other stuff.
00:21:40.000And so I said, you know, I'm just going to put this all in a book.
00:21:44.000And then at the end, I'll write about atheism.
00:21:47.000And the reason I thought of the title is because in 1966, you'll remember Time Magazine had this famous cover article that said, Is God Dead?
00:21:58.000Because everybody thought, well, science is proving God doesn't exist.
00:22:01.000Well, the great irony is that all these years later, the real question is, is atheism dead?
00:22:08.000Because science, not just what I refer to, but scientific evidence so dramatically points to the existence of God.
00:22:16.000I said, every believer needs to know this information.
00:22:20.000So that's the long answer to why I wrote the book.
00:22:23.000If you prefer the short answer, I can give that later.
00:22:26.000And Eric, you know, I visit college campuses a lot.
00:22:29.000And I'd say in Vermont, half the room were probably atheists last night.
00:22:41.000You embarked on this book to show, hold on a second, it takes more faith to be an atheist than to be a Christian.
00:22:50.000Okay, that is like the understatement of the millennium.
00:22:53.000It takes, I mean, I've heard people say that Frank Turek has said that.
00:22:57.000Trust me, once you read just what's in this book, I mean, there's way more, but it has become, to my mind, if you read just this, you realize that real atheism is preposterous.
00:23:14.000And I don't just mean people who don't believe in God or idiots or they're wrong.
00:24:46.000And theory is the only way we can, you know.
00:24:49.000So when you start talking about this stuff, I think what we find is that people who want to know the truth can have a conversation and can look at it.
00:24:58.000But they're always going to be people to them, it is like a sports team.
00:25:18.000But what did you learn all of a sudden diving into this that just kind of in a spark notes version that you think most Christians should also know?
00:27:05.000But I was reading about Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, both of whom they didn't agree on everything, but they were French existentialists who believed we're living in a world without God.
00:27:18.000And we have to figure out how we can create a morality without God.
00:28:35.000If the two biggest atheists of the 20th century came to faith.
00:28:39.000And so I said, I'm going to put it in the book and it's going to blow people's minds.
00:28:44.000The other thing that I learned, this is so weird, I almost don't want to bring it up because people are going to, I don't have time to explain it.
00:28:51.000But when I was writing about biblical Sodom, the details are astonishing, like they're astonishing.
00:28:58.000So I said, I want to write about other famous biblical archaeological finds.
00:29:06.000I've read about this over the years, but there were a few that I hadn't, and I learned about them.
00:29:10.000Some of them are really funny stories.
00:29:12.000And I think it's important for us to communicate in a way that's appealing and to tell the stories of how these things were discovered is some of them are hilarious stories.
00:29:21.000So if you just read like the paragraph on why it's important, it's boring and you won't remember it, but they're crazy stories.
00:29:26.000But so I'm doing kind of general research.
00:29:39.000In Nazareth, they discovered a gigantic church that had been destroyed by the Muslims in the 8th century, built over another church that had been built maybe in the 4th century.
00:29:58.000And under that was a first century dwelling.
00:30:04.000And it seems without a doubt, because I've looked into this to be the home of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
00:30:14.000Now, when I read that, I thought this is not possible.
00:30:17.000This is like discovering, you know, Santa's workshop at the North Pole.
00:30:46.000It's like he said, okay, when you get really, really sophisticated and full of yourselves, when you know more science than you think you're God, I'm going to allow you to use that science to discover me.
00:31:03.000And that's exactly what I believe is happening with archaeology and with science and with discovering this stuff about Albert Camus and all this stuff.
00:31:12.000God is giving it to us to give us real hope in our time.
00:31:17.000In the book, it goes through scientific proofs that there is God.
00:31:24.000How does atheism make the world a worse place to live?
00:31:28.000I mean, so we talk about the verse of which has really inspired this gathering that we've been doing for a couple of months now, Jeremiah 29, 7.
00:31:36.000Demand the welfare of the nation and the city of which I've sent you in because your welfare is tied to the nation's welfare.
00:32:03.000I wrote a book called If You Can Keep It, where I show what I only learned recently, right?
00:32:08.000That there is zero question that faith and virtue are central to self-government and liberty.
00:32:19.000So, you know, if you want to be a libertarian or whatever you want to be, all I'm telling you is that every single one of the founders knew that without a virtuous population, generally speaking, you cannot have self-government.
00:32:36.000And they knew that practically speaking, you cannot have a sufficiently virtuous population unless there is faith.
00:32:45.000Now, you can know that like a sociologist.
00:32:47.000You don't need to believe in the faith.
00:32:48.000Franklin's theology was a little screwy, and Jefferson's theology was a little screwy.
00:32:54.000Nonetheless, they both knew that without a religious and moral populace, and they all mentioned this, it's not just the famous Adams quote, you cannot have self-government.
00:33:04.000People govern themselves and they're free.
00:33:07.000And they don't need somebody to govern them with a gun.
00:33:09.000You don't need a bureaucracy, a deep state, a tyrant.
00:33:15.000Well, the opposite of that, of course, is that when you find states that they don't believe in freedom, what is the first thing that they want to crush, that they must crush, that they find more threatening than anything?
00:33:55.000So, well, the answer to that is yes and no, right?
00:33:59.000Because that's the issue is that I would say practically speaking, based on just the evidence in the book, and it's not like there's anything magical about the book, but I've just kind of amassed some scientific stuff that I think it's going to blow your mind.
00:34:12.000You're going to say, wow, I'm really glad I know this.
00:34:17.000I think based on that and based on my discussion of atheism at the end and what atheism tends to, because you said what happens in a culture, what happens always happens the same.
00:34:29.000An atheist does not ultimately believe in anything.
00:35:15.000So I deal with that in the book because I said, look, you can say all you want, but you've got to deal with your history.
00:35:21.000Atheist regimes have been unspeakably brutal, unspeakably brutal, and that's just history.
00:35:29.000But the question whether atheism is dead, so I would say intellectually it is, but there are going to be people who have this tribal affinity who say, I'm an atheist.
00:38:42.000They think there's no reason I shouldn't live forever.
00:38:44.000There's no reason I shouldn't be able to destroy disease.
00:38:47.000So a lot of them actually believe this.
00:38:50.000And I think they're going to be in for a rough lifetime.
00:38:52.000So one of the reasons why some people say they become atheists is the biggest challenge Christians have in evangelism, which is the pain problem.
00:39:03.000How do you explain pain away in the world?
00:39:32.000In other words, I think sometimes we allow ourselves to get all tangled up and we're effectively casting pearls before swine, having an argument with some atheist who isn't really interested in the truth.
00:39:50.000There are a lot of foolish evangelical questions who think I can just pull some index cards out of my pocket and I've got the answers to all these things.
00:39:57.000Anybody who has an easy answer to pain and suffering and death and evil is foolish.
00:40:05.000We understand that part of that is not something we can understand on this side of the veil.
00:40:13.000It doesn't mean we have nothing to say.
00:40:15.000I mean, I've written about this in other books, but in this book, I didn't get into that just because I thought I am not playing the game of I'm going to prove God.
00:40:27.000I'm just going to put some things in a book that are going to make it obvious that there is literally zero chance that the world and the universe and you and me arose randomly.
00:40:38.000There is zero question that some intelligent creator made us.
00:40:44.000And when you look at atheism, it is incontrovertible that it is preposterous on a number of levels.
00:40:53.000And that's, I set a low bar for myself in writing this book.
00:41:17.000But this is what's so funny: you have people like Hitchens and Dawkins.
00:41:21.000And honestly, I lost any modicum of respect I had for them.
00:41:24.000When you start reading, it's kind of like when Freud wrote Moses and monotheism.
00:41:29.000You know, you have these people that they've got their field that they're really brilliant in, and then they decide, like, hey, I'm a genius.
00:42:54.000I mentioned the poet Dylan Thomas, I mentioned Woody Allen, I mentioned Inmar Brickman.
00:42:58.000There are people who don't believe there's a god, but you can see that they are troubled by it.
00:43:04.000In other words, they've really looked at it.
00:43:06.000Anybody who kicks up his heels and says hey, there's no god, so I can party and can sleep with my grad student awesome, like nobody.
00:43:13.000You know, that is so shallow and childish, it's self-refuting, and so I honestly think the atheist movement is filled with those kind of people.
00:43:26.000They think that you know we're moralists uh, and and I think we, we just have to be honest that in America you can, you can be that way, but don't expect me to respect your philosophy.
00:43:37.000And I I want to just say for the young people out there and the people you know the, the parents that have students that are going to be going to college soon.
00:43:45.000On some college campuses not all of them the Atheists evangelize with more fervor than Christians do on those campuses.
00:43:52.000And so Eric, what do you think the reason for that is?
00:43:55.000It seems that atheists are not comfortable being alone, and this is always.
00:44:01.000I say, if there's no, if you don't believe in an eternal life or a creator, you only got so much time left, like you, better live it up, right.
00:44:55.000That answers the question you're asking me, but keep going.
00:44:59.000The most important question when it comes to dealing with an atheist and we all know we all have atheists in our lives which is, do you hope you're wrong?
00:45:05.000It's the most important question yeah, which is, if you ask someone who believes in atheism, do you hope you're wrong?
00:45:11.000Because if you're dealing with an honest person, no atheist actually hopes to believe in nothing.
00:45:19.000There is no love, there is no justice, there is no eternal life, and so if an atheist says, you know what I do hope i'm wrong, then you're dealing with an honest broker.
00:45:28.000But if someone says, you know what, I want to be right more than what could possibly be good, then that that right.
00:45:34.000There is a completely different conversation that you're having at a very fundamental level.
00:45:38.000Even every single atheist should want to be proven wrong, every single.
00:45:43.000I don't know where I I heard that, but I know it's not original with you um, but seriously no, but the point is that that's exactly true.
00:45:52.000But the other thing and you just asked me this question and I want to answer this it's in the book.
00:45:56.000I couldn't find it, but if you believe there's no god okay, it follows logically, and this is the problem.
00:47:10.000They want you to, you know, to join their club, basically.
00:47:14.000And I believe a lot of the issues young people are facing right now can be attributed to the hypersecular, atheistic type temptation that's out there.
00:47:23.000And when you believe there's no reason for existence, you don't believe there's no God, there will be other kind of troubles that go alongside with that.
00:47:30.000Let's get a couple lines for questions and let's give it up for Eric, by the way.
00:47:34.000He's done such a great job with this book.
00:48:22.000So for a long time, there's been this thought that religion and politics should be separate.
00:48:28.000And we have operated under the assumption as a society that we should strive to have a pluralistic, can't say that word, political sphere, which has gradually just served to push Christianity out and move secular humanism in instead.
00:48:44.000So do you see pluralism starting to crumble under its own weight?
00:48:48.000And what should we as Christians do about that?
00:51:00.000Yeah, and I'll just add to that slightly, which is the problem is that we as Christians, we've abdicated our role as counselor to the king.
00:51:09.000And so we have allowed secular humanism to fill the void of where the church always should be.
00:51:15.000And so, you know, all throughout the Old Testament, Esther, Nehemiah, Mordecai, Jeremiah, Joseph, and many others, Daniel, were counselors to secular government for God's purpose.
00:51:27.000So pluralism, or a government that acknowledges the laws of nature and nature is God, that acknowledges the blessings of liberty to secure the blessings of liberty, but does not have people that actually believe in blessings or liberty, then it will fold upon itself.
00:51:43.000And this goes to show because too many churches, not this church, which is a phenomenal church and is an exception to the rule, obviously, and have just decided to kind of not play in that arena.
00:51:56.000And John Adams said it best where he said the Constitution was written solely for a moral and religious people.
00:52:02.000It's wholly inadequate for the people of any other.
00:52:04.000And this kind of goes to kind of one of the things Eric and I were talking about, which around atheism, which is the more secular society becomes, the less free it becomes.
00:52:20.000Which is, unless you're Plato, you're stealing from somebody at all times, right?
00:52:25.000Plato or Moses or Paul is religion makes America a better place.
00:52:32.000Any country that you go in that's more religious is better, and I'll prove it to you.
00:52:37.000And if anyone has a different answer to this question, they're lying.
00:52:40.000And I don't say that lightly, which is if you go, if you're in a dark alley in New York City at 2 o'clock in the morning and five men are approaching you and you have a choice, those five men either came from Bible study or from the bar, which would you choose?
00:52:54.000Every American would choose Bible study.
00:52:57.000Even the atheist would choose Bible study.
00:53:01.000And if they say the bar, they're lying.
00:53:15.000Atheism, if a society becomes atheistic, the government gets bigger.
00:53:19.000Every single country, this is the case.
00:53:22.000When you destroy the church, the government gets bigger and freedom and liberty goes away because liberty and freedom is impossible for a citizenry that does not have virtue and does not have faith as a center.
00:54:03.000But the reason why a lot of people are saying, well, pluralism might be a mistake is because pluralism can only work if Christians take their rightful role in impacting that pluralistic secular government.
00:56:07.000But my question to both of you guys, it stems from the unfortunate reality that both of my parents are either agnostic or atheist.
00:56:14.000They're the type of atheists that Charlie was mentioning, the ones that hope they're wrong.
00:56:17.000They do love the fact that I have my faith, but they're really well versed.
00:56:22.000They've studied the Quran, the Bible, the Book of Mormon, et cetera, every religious text out there.
00:56:28.000And the only reason why they have no faith is that, or they don't have a religion or a relationship with Christ is that they have no faith.
00:56:35.000So my question to you guys is, how would you approach a conversation about religion to people who want faith, but just don't know how to get it?
00:56:46.000I'm sure a lot of people in this room, this might resonate with you, right?
00:56:49.000And so I'll give my take and then Eric, you can go to yours.
00:56:52.000You have to know the type of atheist you're dealing with, and you're already kind of on that path.
00:56:56.000Some atheists will be convinced by Eric's scientific reason-based arguments.
00:57:01.000They want to try to see the argument for the unmoved mover or the fine-tuning argument or for how in the beginning was the big bang, therefore there must be someone who actually executed the big bang.
00:57:13.000These are rather reasonable arguments that I think are rather convincing, but not every atheist is convinced of that.
00:57:19.000Other atheists, though, and you have to know kind of what you're dealing with, they are atheists because they've been hardened by the world.
01:00:56.000I read a book by M. Scott Peck called People of the Lie.
01:01:00.000And at the end of it, he talks about exorcism and stuff.
01:01:02.000And I realized I would have been happy to see the devil because I realized then I would know there's something beyond this world and I would choose God.
01:01:10.000And I do believe exactly what Charlie said.
01:01:12.000We need to start understanding that the spiritual reality is reality.
01:01:17.000And even seeing the dark side, for some people, it is that that will make them understand.
01:02:54.000Time and space, I believe, were created 13.8 billion years ago in the Big Bang, okay?
01:03:00.000And science says that that's what happened.
01:03:02.000That space itself, not everything in space, but space itself and everything that occupies space and time were created 13.8 billion years ago.
01:03:14.000So you realize you can't go before that.
01:03:16.000And that when we go to heaven, people say it's going to be eternity.
01:04:42.000The rest of your life, you're going to be paying off the debt that your parents and grandparents gave you.
01:04:46.000And the $27 trillion will soon be $35 trillion and soon be $50 trillion.
01:04:50.000By the time you can vote, in eight years, you will be in a political circumstance that you did not earn that you were born into because of intergenerational theft.
01:05:09.000You just asked two very wise questions.
01:05:11.000Actually, the question: Have you ever heard on a plane when they say when the masks drop down, they say to the adults, put the mask on yourself first before you help the children next to you, right?
01:05:24.000That's not because they don't care about children.
01:05:26.000It's because that if you don't take care of yourself first, you will be in no position to help other people.
01:05:32.000And so I would say, I wish America would thrive so extraordinarily that we could give away so much money that we could give away, we could open up our borders and we could feed the world.
01:06:36.000So, obviously, it doesn't pertain to your friends then or your teachers who are probably right behind you.
01:06:43.000Which is it's been a massive disservice what we've done to young people in so many different capacities, the masking the vaccines.
01:06:52.000But also, there are students that truly believe that the greatest threat to their existence is this virus.
01:07:00.000And so, Dr. Macquerie, I'll give you a little statistic.
01:07:03.000If you go home and look up Dr. Macri in the Wall Street Journal, he did a study of 42,000 children that were all infected with the Fauci virus and went through and he found that zero died from the virus.
01:07:18.000The only ones that did die had underlying very serious comorbidities or underlying health issues.
01:07:25.000Did you ride in a car on the way to the event here?
01:07:31.000You were in much more danger as a passenger in that car, almost 10 to 20 times greater chance of dying in the car ride over than from getting the virus.
01:07:42.000So drive very carefully on the way home, is what I'm trying to tell you.
01:07:47.000Yeah, especially if it was a 72 El Camino, they're the worst.
01:07:54.000By the way, it's pronounced the doctor is McCary, you said Matt, or whatever, but he's a friend of mine, and he is, you know, there are doctors speaking the truth, and we need to make sure we do everything we can to get the word.
01:08:10.000We also, we have to say this: we know we're living in crazy times, right?
01:09:12.000And if you have a student in the Deer Valley School District, you need to question the Panorama Education Survey that they are trying to give your children.
01:09:53.000We still have to jump through hoops and we have to fill out a two and a half page survey on religious beliefs to get a religious exemption from this.
01:10:10.000We reveal everything about our beliefs.
01:10:14.000Yeah, well, first of all, then Southwest Airlines is lying because they sent out the press release today saying that they were not going to mandate the vaccine.
01:10:21.000I've had it with all these airlines, to be perfectly honest with you.
01:10:24.000And they know they have you because they're going to be like, what?
01:10:27.000What are you going to do differently, right?
01:10:29.000They know that they have you kind of over the barrel.
01:10:33.000I still think they're going to collapse.
01:10:37.000And I know you have to be careful the way you answer this, but the more sick days your husband and his co-workers might take in the coming weeks will make Southwest Airlines come to a grinding halt and sue for peace.
01:10:55.000I know you have to be careful in acknowledging that, but when pilots stop showing up and flight attendants stop showing up, they'll realize that the specialized workers they have for their airlines cannot and should not be abused.
01:11:08.000By the way, for a vaccine that is now being shown to be 3% effective, the Johnson ⁇ Johnson vaccine is being shown to be 3% effective in this month.
01:11:18.00076% of all deaths in the United Kingdom are now people that are fully vaccinated.
01:11:23.000What they're trying to do, they're trying to destroy people's careers.
01:11:33.000You're going to have to find other workers.
01:11:34.000You're going to have to stay with them.
01:11:36.000But I will say this, that Southwest Airlines, in particular, changed the rules of the game when all of a sudden their workers started to use their sick days and their ability to show their collective power.
01:11:48.000The only thing I would add is when somebody tells you to fill out a form like that, that is garbage.
01:11:54.000I would never fill out a form like that.
01:12:32.000My name is Kalena, and I'm a student at Greg Canyon University.
01:12:35.000And wanted to start by thanking you for having a great program like this and how inspirational it is to students like me who see you speaking out about all these societal issues.
01:12:45.000I was at a golf event at the GCU golf course a few weeks ago and I'd heard about the Dream Center and all these young girls and boys that are getting human trafficked every day.
01:12:53.000I was also looking on the Turning Point USA website a few months back, inquiring about a job, and had the thought of how we can maybe help these girls through Turning Point USA if there was some kind of chapter that maybe could be started or something.
01:13:07.000I know Ms. Barnett had mentioned earlier that the Biden admin has also defunded this program and I just wanted to know what more we could do to help these innocent people.
01:13:16.000Well, I mean, yeah, the best thing you can do is to support this church and to support what Angel and they're doing here at Dream City Church.
01:13:31.000And what Angel has done and what Luke and the Barnett family have done in this space is profound and it's real.
01:13:38.000And if you go up, if you ever want to take a road trip and you want to serve, go up to Colorado City and you'll see what they've done up there from The former polygamist colony now to a place of hope and a place of salvation.
01:13:54.000And so we at Turning Point will do everything we possibly can.
01:13:57.000And it really kind of comes down to this, you know, this issue of we're all made in the image of God and human dignity.
01:15:14.000Charlie, I believe you're meeting with us next week with Josh Yoder.
01:15:19.000I represent U.S. Freedom Flyers and Airline Professionals for Justice.
01:15:28.000We're currently 80,000 members strong, and I'm going to go out on a limb here.
01:15:32.000And I'm going to ask everyone in the audience that is related to or knows anyone in the airline industry, a gate agent, a ramper, a pilot, or a flight attendant, or anyone in the industry.
01:15:43.000They're coming after you and they're coming after me because we have until the 28th of this month to decide whether we're going to succumb to a vaccine that is made with aborted fetuses.
01:16:28.000I'm going to ask you to do three things.
01:16:31.000I'm going to ask for you to engage your representatives.
01:16:33.000I spent a half hour on the phone today with a Zoom conference with U.S. Freedom Flyers or Airline Pilots for Justice, speaking with Congressman Schweikert.
01:16:44.000And we're meeting with you, Charlie, next week.
01:16:48.000And I'm going to ask you to engage with your politicians, call them up.
01:16:52.000I'm going to ask you to not get frustrated with the gate agents if you're traveling during the Thanksgiving period because many of us are unfortunately going to be sick and not be able to fly.
01:17:08.000I have a sequence that I won't be flying.
01:17:11.000So don't get irritated with the flight attendants and the gate agents.
01:17:16.000So last thing, what else can we do to help?
01:17:19.000Because I just want to say you served our country in the military, and then you have to then be treated as if you're a living like science experiment.
01:21:17.000This will be our last question, and we'll do book signing outside, everybody.
01:21:20.000Okay, this was the only shirt that went with my faux pearls, and I wanted to dress up tonight.
01:21:26.000So first I want to say thank you for suggesting the free online Hillsdale classes.
01:21:31.000Our family's been doing it now for more than a month, more than a month, and really enjoying it.
01:21:36.000I work with a lot of teenagers, so I've been sharing what I've been learning on the Constitution 101 and saying, did you learn this in school?
01:21:50.000But my question is, there's a statistic that I've heard for more than a decade on TV, on radio, and it's a police officer is 18 times more likely to get shot by a black male.
01:22:06.000So my husband and I talked about this often.
01:22:09.000That statistic has not seemed to change over more than 10 years.
01:22:28.000So Heather McDonald from the Manhattan Institute did a massive study with the Wall Street Journal.
01:22:35.000And so she said that statistic like three years ago.
01:22:38.000In fact, I'd love to have Heather McDonald as one of our guests here because she is the premier expert on crime in America.
01:22:45.000And so I could follow up with you on that.
01:22:47.000But I think this is an important point too, though, that, you know, as we kind of talk about crime, by the way, crime is up dramatically in our country.
01:23:26.000But to your, I'm happy to follow up with you on that.
01:23:28.000But this, we need to know the true facts around crime in America because there's a war on police.
01:23:35.000And the war on police has made America a much more dangerous place to live.
01:23:40.000That the more we have criminalized our police officers and we try to go after them and defunding police or get or abolish police, we are now seeing anarchy.
01:23:48.000And especially in cities like Seattle and San Francisco, New York, Minneapolis, it's kind of the Ferguson effect where police officers just completely and totally withdraw.
01:23:58.000And so I want to thank you for wearing that shirt and God bless you.
01:24:18.000The country's falling apart in a lot of different ways, but our movement is growing.
01:24:22.000You just heard somebody who served in the military who's willing to organize fellow pilots to stand up against the mandates.
01:24:28.000You understand this is the only country that's happening.
01:24:31.000Yeah, I know they're doing stuff in UK and France.
01:24:33.000It's weak compared to what's happening in America.
01:24:36.000It still gives me hope that we have a percentage of people that are willing to stand and say, you could take my income, you could take my paycheck, you could take my career.
01:24:53.000So our last Freedom Night in America, Freedom Square will be, because we're not doing one in December because it's, you know, December is such a crazy month with all the amazing Christmas Christmas services here.
01:25:04.000By the way, you want to talk about the best Christmas service in Phoenix?
01:25:07.000You guys have got to come to the Christmas service here.
01:25:10.000November 30th, we'll be having the last Freedom Square in America for 2021.
01:25:16.000Boy, we're going to, I kind of, I'm glad to get this year out of the way in some ways, but in some ways, it's been the best year of my life because I got married in this year.
01:25:23.000And so, but I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you for showing up to school board meetings, showing up here, staying engaged, staying involved.
01:25:30.000More they throw at us, the stronger we are, everybody.
01:25:34.000For the young people that are here, get involved with Turning Point, for the adults out here to say, What can we do?