00:00:54.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:40.000I'm convinced that the American church has arrived at a significant moment of truth.
00:02:51.000We are only 75, 80 years removed from three separate regimes that killed 60 to 70 million people intentionally.
00:02:59.000The parallels with where the American church is now to where the German church stood in the face of the Nazi regime are unavoidable and grim.
00:03:18.000Churches need to understand really what Marxism is, which is to destroy the church, to destroy the word of God.
00:03:23.000So if you capture the seminaries, you capture the pastors, you capture the laity, you capture the soul of the world.
00:03:31.000Christianity is not just about saying Jesus loves you and then going to heaven one day, but that there's a war that's raging.
00:03:40.000The church is weakening, which is why Marxism is ascendant in America today.
00:03:48.000This is the hour of the American church.
00:06:03.000It's a true story of a man who saw what was happening in the church in Germany and tried desperately, like a prophetic voice, to wake up the church and to say to the church, church, it is your job to speak against this evil, to stand against this evil, to act against this evil.
00:06:19.000You need to put your faith into action now.
00:06:21.000If you do it now, we can defeat the Nazis.
00:06:25.000And most in the church at that time said, you know what?
00:06:35.000They didn't realize that by sitting on the fence, the devil owns the fence and he loves you when you sit on the fence in a church and you kind of think, we're safe.
00:08:07.000If you are a Christian, you don't have any excuse.
00:08:11.000You claim that you believe Jesus defeated death on the cross.
00:08:14.000So I can live out my faith and I can speak the truth without fear.
00:08:18.000People in countries, you know, for two millennia and around the world today are living their faith out, risking their lives.
00:08:26.000Why would it be okay when God calls you to risk your life or at least to speak up, to risk your job, you know, to be silent?
00:08:36.000Well, the American church is being silent today.
00:08:40.000And I'm saying, without a doubt, Bonhoeffer was saying to the German church, you are responsible for what happens in this country.
00:08:48.000And Charlie, there's no doubt in my mind.
00:08:51.000I mean, it's simply not really arguable.
00:08:54.000If the German church had spoken up, and again, some did, the numbers are in the film and in my book.
00:09:00.000There are about 18,000 Lutheran pastors, 18,000, 3,000 were heroic.
00:09:06.0003,000 were totally pro-Nazi, totally evil, totally in bed with, you know, it's kind of like in bed with woke ideology, 100%, you know, in bed with transgender lunacy.
00:09:26.000We don't want to be with those hotheads over there that say we need to stand against the Nazis.
00:09:30.000We're just going to stay right here where it's safe.
00:09:32.000There is no doubt that if any number of those quote unquote in the middle had done something, the nightmare of the death camps could have been averted.
00:09:43.000I mean, that's why Bonhoeffer was so vocal, because he knew that the church was the only institution in Germany that had the cultural power to stand against the Nazis.
00:09:52.000If they had done it, especially in the beginning, it would have been a different story, dramatically different story, because we think of the Nazis, we think of the death camps right away.
00:10:01.000None of that happened till the 40s, the death camps.
00:10:08.000All of that could have been avoided in 1933, 34.
00:10:13.000That's when the church had a chance to do something.
00:10:17.000And by dithering and saying, not our job, not our job, just going to stay in our lane, just going to do church, just going to preach the gospel.
00:10:22.000Because of that, the Nazis were able to seize control.
00:10:26.000And when the church finally began to wake up, it was too late.
00:10:31.000This is a deeply profound point that we're going to build out, Eric, which is evil is ever present in our world.
00:10:37.000And when we look at who to blame, if Christians are around, it's the Christian to blame if they don't stand against the evil.
00:10:46.000And that's a different attitude that you don't hear because people will say, well, the Holocaust, who's to blame?
00:10:52.000Obviously, the Nazis were the ones that did the evil, but who were the ones that had power, that knew better, that sat on the sidelines, refereed it, and turned the other way.
00:11:02.000Because that is an attitude that most Christians don't have in the West today.
00:11:06.000They say, well, evil is evil, not my problem as a Christian.
00:11:11.000Rarely in the counting or the telling or the teaching of the Holocaust, which resulted in millions and millions and millions of people dead, which remember, lots of Christians died in the Holocaust too.
00:11:22.000This is very important that there were a lot of people that were killed in the Holocaust.
00:11:27.000And so, so, Eric, it's the Christians that should be blamed if they do nothing.
00:11:36.000Well, my point, I mean, first of all, that's how Bonhoeffer saw it.
00:11:40.000Like, he said, Look, I don't know what to tell my pagan neighbor who believes nothing, but if you're a Christian, you dare to call yourself a Christian.
00:11:50.000Means you believe Jesus defeated death on the cross and he has come to live inside you to give you the power to live the way he wants you to live, to say what you want to say.
00:12:02.000And if you don't do that, it proves you don't actually believe that.
00:12:07.000So Bonhoeffer's point, he always talked about cheap grace because it's kind of like when people throw around the term in Germany, they would throw around the term grace.
00:12:15.000We're all under grace, effectively meaning we don't need to do anything.
00:12:30.000And the scripture says faith without works is dead.
00:12:32.000So if you're not living heroically, if you're not living courageously into your, what you claim your faith stands for, then it's obviously you don't really believe what you claim to believe.
00:12:46.000And that's the shock is that people act like, well, it's faith.
00:13:20.000All he has to do is worry about what God wants him to do.
00:13:23.000But if you don't really believe that God's going to intervene, if you don't really believe the gift of the job that you have comes from God, you're going to say, well, maybe I need to disobey God in this small thing because I need that job.
00:13:36.000And that's what many Germans did who call themselves Christians.
00:13:39.000And Bonhoeffer knew that this was the time.
00:13:41.000This was the test for German Christians.
00:13:44.000Do you actually believe what you claim to believe or are you simply playing church?
00:13:48.000Are you simply going to that building and doing church, but not being the church?
00:14:27.000And right now, you know, listen, the election that's coming up, if the church of Jesus Christ would vote for the right candidate and advocate for the right candidate, guess what?
00:14:43.000We will change the corrupt culture of Washington.
00:14:47.000All of that stuff depends on the church being the church.
00:14:50.000But if the church says, no, that's not my job, we're just going to, I just go to that building on Sunday morning and I have these thoughts in my head and I don't have to live out my faith.
00:14:58.000Scripture commands us to love our neighbor.
00:15:00.000If you don't advocate for the best candidate and if you don't get involved in that, you're effectively saying, you know what, I don't care about my neighbor that much.
00:15:13.000Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here from the New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas comes a riveting new film, Letter to the American Church.
00:15:19.000The film explores the parallels between 1930s Nazi Germany, Mao and Stalin regimes, and the infiltration of cultural Marxism in America today.
00:15:27.000The church's decision to stay out of politics undermines the very message of the gospel and its power to transform human existence.
00:15:32.000Metaxas issues an urgent call to the church, stay silent and abandon the mission of proclaiming liberty or stand up to the forces of evil.
00:15:39.000Join Eric and me and many others in the film as we explain how America and the church are at the precipice of destruction and the need to wake up and take action.
00:16:02.000We confront wokeism, we confront critical race theory, and we talk about what you, the believer, can do.
00:16:08.000Go to lettertotheamericanchurch.com for more information.
00:16:14.000Eric, some Christians will say, but it's just not morally clear which side is which, and how dare you compare the atrocities of the Holocaust versus what we're living through now.
00:16:28.000How dare you, as Greta Thunberg said, I mean, look, that's exactly the point.
00:16:33.000In 1933 and 34, the Holocaust was, you know, a dist, it was so distant, frankly, no one could see it.
00:16:42.000So, what I'm talking about is what led to the Holocaust.
00:16:47.000So, if you go back to Germany in 33 and 34, as the Nazis are rising, Bonhoeffer was saying, okay, church, if you stand now with everything you have, if you fight with everything you have and speak out and do what you can, we have a chance to avert a nightmare, which is down the road.
00:17:18.000There's not a Holocaust in a year, but if we do nothing, if we lose an election to a compromised, corrupt administration, to a deep state that weaponizes our tax dollars against patriots, I mean, if we do nothing down the road, we're going to approach a kind of a globalist regime.
00:17:40.000It's going to look more like a communist China.
00:17:46.000But if you dare to dissent, you will be crushed.
00:17:49.000We know in China today that, you know, if you're a Uyghur Muslim or you're anybody that dissents from the regime, you'll be put in a concentration camp and they will harvest your organs.
00:19:45.000Is all you need to do is call somebody a racist, call somebody a transphobe, call somebody a Christian nationalist, say, oh, you just care about politics.
00:20:43.000I'm in the film, Dr. James Lindsay, obviously Eric, Rob McCoy, Seth Gruber, David Engelhart, Victor Marks, Eileen Marks, Amanchuku, Pastor John Amanchukwu.
00:20:52.000It's a terrific movie, Letter to the American Church.
00:20:55.000And we want to do screenings all across the country.
00:20:57.000We want to bring this to lots of different churches.
00:21:00.000This needs to be a wake-up call, an alarm bell, fire alarm for the American church.
00:23:23.000I think a loud horse laugh is like the best response.
00:23:27.000I mean, we can talk and talk, but when somebody says something deeply idiotic, I don't think it warrants a response.
00:23:33.000And that film is designed to silence the voice of the church in America.
00:23:37.000And a lot of people will go along with it.
00:23:39.000I mean, look, Sky Githani, Phil Vischer, David French, Russell Moore, they're allying themselves with somebody like Rob Reiner, who is 1,000% pro-abortion, who is 1,000% anti-family, anti-American values, anti-constitution.
00:23:57.000I mean, he's got a globalist Marxist worldview, and he's entitled to it.
00:24:02.000But the idea that Christians would be helping him to make a film, which is effectively about silencing the church, let's be real clear.
00:24:10.000People wanted to silence William Wilberforce.
00:24:13.000Okay, I wrote a book called Amazing Grace, a biography of William Wilberforce.
00:24:17.000Because of his faith in Jesus, he said, I need to lead the battle to end the slave trade in the British Empire.
00:24:24.000He didn't say, my newfound faith in Jesus means I shouldn't be political.
00:24:28.000He said, my newfound faith in Jesus means I need to take my biblical faith into the marketplace.
00:25:27.000So the fact that Russell Moore and company would be so deluded as to really believe that if you care about your country, if you love America, you know, you're some chest thumping monster.
00:25:40.000You should just care about biblical values.
00:25:42.000I mean, one thing I got to say, Charlie, is like the lie that you have to choose between, are you about the kingdom of God or are you about America?
00:25:50.000That's just, it's like saying, do you love Jesus or do you love your family?
00:26:03.000They're actually saying, I mean, for the whole history of our country, people knew that if I love God, I will love America.
00:26:10.000Because America puts forth, maybe flawed, but the best version of the possibility of being free, having religious freedom, spreading the gospel.
00:27:56.000And I think, look, I think it's a combination of things.
00:27:59.000I think these people are genuinely deluded.
00:28:01.000They actually believe in much of what they're saying.
00:28:05.000And here's the thing, Charlie, is that, you know, if somebody's paying you a lot of money, it makes it easier to kind of go along with an idea that maybe would not be easy to go along with.
00:28:15.000If somebody is giving you saying, you know what, if you play by the rules, you'll get published in the New York Times.
00:29:01.000And all of these evangelical leaders that we're talking about and many more, Andy Stanley and many others, they really have a contempt for middle America.
00:29:14.000They want to be among the elite, among the cool.
00:29:17.000And, you know, if you want to be in those groups, you're going to have to change what you believe.
00:29:21.000If you believe the unborn are made in the image of God, you're going to have problems hanging out with those people.
00:29:26.000If you believe God has a biblical view, the Lord compels us to have a biblical view of marriage, a biblical view of sexuality, that's going to make you uncool in some circles.
00:29:37.000So you're going to have to find some ways.
00:29:39.000And that's basically what they're doing.
00:29:41.000They're basically saying, well, we don't do politics.
00:30:56.000I mean, look, you could argue that my book, Letter to the American Church, and the film, Letter to the American Church, are the reason that Tim Alberta and Rob Reiner are doing what they're doing.
00:31:08.000They're presenting the exact opposite view of things and trying to get churches that are a little confused to stop being political.
00:31:20.000But Tim Alberta and others, I mean, that's a very popular book right now.
00:31:24.000And it grieves me, you know, to see it on the bestseller list that there are people drinking this Kool-Aid, being fooled by this, not having the ability to see that what they're reading is simply wrong.
00:31:36.000I don't know Russell Moore's heart, but what they're saying is wrong, and the results will be disastrous.
00:31:41.000And I guarantee you, there were many good Christians in Germany in the 30s who they were not on the same page as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, but they were not evil.
00:31:51.000They were not aware that what they were doing by trying to sort of be neutral or I don't want to be like perceived like Bonhoeffer and those other hotheads.
00:31:59.000I'm going to stay right here and be sophisticated and everything will be fine.
00:32:05.000And I think there are many today, I believe they have no idea what they're saying not only is wrong, but it is opening the door to hell on earth.
00:32:50.000Eric, again, the website is letterto theamericanchurch.com, lettertheamericanchurch.com.
00:32:55.000I'm going to read an email from one of our listeners here, and it's all about this topic.
00:33:01.000Charlie, we have an amazing pastor, son-in-law, but he leaves politics out of his pulpit because, quote, millennials don't want anything to do with politics.
00:33:26.000This is the irony, Charlie, is that if you speak about stuff that matters, if you dare to be courageous, that actually is perceived as cool by a lot of people.
00:33:46.000The irony is that all the pastors that are trying to appeal to the millennials, you know, getting like a cool tattoo or, I mean, whatever, wearing their ripped jeans, it's like, look, here's the issue.
00:33:58.000If you are brave and you stand up, genuinely stand up for people whose lives are being destroyed by transgender lunacy, by open borders, by fentanyl pouring into the country by a corrupt monster named Joe Biden and his administration.
00:34:14.000I mean, the point is, if you actually care about working class Americans and you speak about it and try to help people understand that biblical values stand against this, you're going to attract more millennials than you're going to repel.
00:34:27.000And by the way, some people need to be repelled at some point.
00:34:30.000Some people need to see this is what the Bible teaches.
00:34:34.000And if God wants them to come back, they'll come back.
00:34:36.000But this idea that, well, we got them on the hook.
00:34:41.000Ladies and gentlemen, you know, the hour is late.
00:34:44.000And the idea that we just want to have a church full of, you know, bubbleheads who do not understand that there is evil around us, you know, cool young pastor, God will judge you for that.
00:34:56.000And it's a scary thing, but I say it because I want people to understand that this is not, you know, what we're talking about really concerns truth.
00:35:15.000We're not supposed to be afraid to speak the truth.
00:35:18.000And so this calculation that I want to keep, you know, people in the seats and I don't want to be political.
00:35:23.000Look, not everybody is going to be political the way you are or the way I am.
00:35:26.000But the point is, this is about reality and truth, not about politics.
00:35:31.000And if you don't see that lives are being destroyed by the transgender madness, by critical race theory, in the film, we talk a lot about James Lindsay.
00:35:41.000All of this stuff is pernicious, evil, atheistic.
00:35:46.000If you don't understand that this is harming human beings and you don't care about those human beings, I just kind of want to know what Bible you're reading or what God you think is going to honor your silence and your inaction.
00:35:57.000He didn't honor it in Germany in the 30s.
00:36:00.000They had all kinds of plausible reasons for doing nothing.
00:36:05.000But in the end, they realized, well, yeah, I wish I had known where this was going.
00:36:11.000And so that's the reason we made the film letter to the American Church, because I think there's some people who genuinely don't know where it's going.
00:36:47.000They know that 90% of permanent change comes from the mind, and they work on eliminating the reason you gain this weight in the first place.
00:36:52.000There's no shortcuts, pills, or injections, just solid science-based nutrition and behavior change.
00:36:57.000And finally, probably most importantly, I lost 30 pounds.
00:37:47.000Rob Reiner says Christian nationalists are responsible for January 6th, play cut 56.
00:37:52.000But I think for me, what was so new about what you did was the notion of nationalism and particularly how that really was on display at the insurrection at the Capitol.
00:38:04.000Yes, well, you know, the interesting thing is that it, you know, they go into the guise of a religious movement, but it really isn't.
00:38:15.000It's all about forcing your way of thinking on others.
00:38:19.000We're not saying that every person who stormed the Capitol was a Christian nationalist, but it was the foundation for the movement on January 6th.
00:38:30.000They're trying to lay a foundation to spy on us, to potentially treat us as if, well, you tell us, Eric.
00:38:39.000I mean, if you're listening to Christian Amanpour or Mike Meathead Stivik, I'm sorry, Rob Reiner.
00:38:46.000If you're listening to them, I just want to know what world you live in because there are plenty of people I know that they're listening to those voices, and it's all plausible.
00:38:55.000What happened on January 6th wasn't the work of Christian nationalists.
00:38:59.000It was the work of Nancy Pelosi and a weaponized FBI and a deep state, people who hate actual elections, who hate Trump voters, and who are convinced that they have the ability to do anything they can to crush those voices, to crush the voice and the presence of Donald Trump and the people who support him, basically to subvert democracy.
00:39:29.000And they kind of act like, oh, it's those Christian nationalists who, let me tell you, folks, I don't believe in corrupt elections.
00:39:36.000I don't believe in winning elections by being corrupt or lying or censoring people or knocking people off of social media, but that's what the left does.
00:40:55.000Eric, what is the argument for a Christian out there that takes their faith seriously, that still can't figure out how they should vote in this election?
00:41:26.000And you look at what the Biden administration has done.
00:41:30.000And I don't know what it would take for somebody to say, I don't care if they, whoever they are, because it's not Biden who's a husk, whoever they are, if they win the White House, the evil that will be unleashed is staggering.
00:41:49.000If you care about human sex trafficking, if you care about communities across this country, if you care about the whole world, because as America goes, so goes the world, you've got to do something.
00:42:04.000And so to say that I'm just going to sit back, I mean, this is this lie that I can be neutral.
00:42:31.000It is what is happening now because of the failure of the nerve of the American church to see what its responsibility is before God and before its fellow man.
00:42:42.000And so when I hear people say, like, oh, I don't know if I could vote for Trump, I just want to say it is utterly shameful.
00:43:22.000So the idea that you would not vote when things are this crucial, again, I can just say to my fellow Christians, if you want to do the biblical thing, you know, I dare you to watch Letter to the American Church.
00:43:51.000Uh, to those that are on the fence that don't get this because, like your friend whoever it was that said that it it's simply astonishing to me that they don't understand the power that god has given them to live in a free country and to have the ability to vote and to advocate for god's values for everybody, not for your sake, for your own sake, but for everybody.
00:44:12.000If you don't care about that or you pretend like well, I don't have any power, i'm just gonna, i'm just gonna avoid it, i'm not gonna vote.
00:44:18.000I just want to say that's frightening to me.
00:44:20.000It's a frightening level of ignorance and it's going to lead to a frightening level of evil that we're not going to be able to do anything about it once it has come.
00:44:29.000We are at that point in this country Charlie, where it's up to the church now and again.
00:45:09.000Uh, sometimes you just have to fight and pray and trust god with the results and if you do nothing, it's on you Lettertotheamericanchurch.com.