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00:02:54.000Charlie, if you're unaware, about, well, is it almost eight and a half years ago, Biguette pioneered a movement, really.
00:03:04.000I don't know if you knew it was going to turn out to be a movement, but you had some big ideas that we've talked about over the course of this weekend that seems that God has actually taken you further than you could have imagined.
00:03:15.000And it's really a pretty beautiful thing.
00:03:17.000You really have a heart for this country.
00:03:19.000You have a heart for the next generation, which we're going to talk specifically about the next at the next service.
00:03:25.000But just real quick, how many of you actually already subscribed to Charlie's podcast?
00:03:35.000It's been extraordinarily helpful for me to try to navigate a lot of the things that we're being faced with.
00:03:41.000A lot of the ideas that we've been, you know, we're hearing.
00:03:45.000Some of us heard these ideas in school, but they're actually making their way to the forefront once again in a very sincere, I call it a threat.
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00:04:10.000It's been very helpful and edifying to me.
00:04:14.000But so anyway, we want to spend some time today kind of going back to school because we're hearing a whole lot about socialism, democratic socialism.
00:05:19.000And I guess we're going back to school.
00:05:20.000The great irony is I never went to college.
00:05:22.000So I guess, you know, you get to learn from someone who actually deals with this stuff every day.
00:05:27.000And it's actually interesting because I've become, in a lot of different ways, a subject matter expert in kind of how these ideas have materialized in the public space because I have visited over 155 college campuses and spoke at them over the last five years, debating countless professors, understanding the kind of root philosophy that these things actually come from and the consequences, not just in just chalkboard philosophy, but actually how it materializes into our society.
00:06:43.000So Karl Marx wrote two big pieces of literature that he's known for.
00:06:47.000Of course, the Communist Manifesto, but more importantly, Das Kapital is the one that really started to articulate his philosophy.
00:06:54.000Now, Karl Marx did not just come onto the scene and start to invent a lot of stuff.
00:06:57.000He was just a better articulator of these ideas, more so than anyone that came before him.
00:07:02.000The idea that there shouldn't be private property, the idea that people should be communal in nature, was not just, he didn't all of a sudden just get in the laboratory and discover it.
00:07:13.000It was kind of being experimented with many thousands of years before.
00:07:17.000So prior to Karl Marx being hired to write this piece of literature, he was heavily inspired by a French philosopher by the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:07:26.000Jean-Jacques Rousseau probably has had more of an impact on kind of the current political climate that we're living in right now.
00:07:34.000Rousseau rejected the biblical view of human nature.
00:07:38.000He believed that in the state of nature, human beings are wonderful to each other.
00:07:43.000We do not hold that view as Christians.
00:08:03.000He valued the infant over the adult, the primitive over the civilized.
00:08:08.000And his argument was that the reason there's bad in the world is not because people are bad, but the systems were improperly built around people.
00:08:18.000And if we build better systems, then we can live in a state of heaven or a state of harmony.
00:08:23.000This should be completely rejected by any Bible-believing Christian whatsoever.
00:08:27.000It is completely antithetical to the gospel and to just basically the first couple chapters of Genesis, right?
00:08:34.000So Karl Marx wrote this piece of literature and it was actually condemned.
00:08:39.000It was mocked when it was first published.
00:08:42.000Marx never lived actually to see his ideas materialize.
00:08:46.000And then something very interesting happened.
00:08:49.000The transition happened from the farms to the factories almost overnight.
00:09:14.000The idea is how do you manage that inequality?
00:09:16.000His argument was let's obliterate the entire system because eventually he believed that the destruction of the capitalist superstructure was going to be one of demise.
00:09:28.000And so the ideas really didn't catch fire.
00:09:32.000And there was a couple small movements up until the Russian Revolution.
00:09:36.000And so Russia was under Tsarist rule for hundreds of years.
00:09:41.000And there was a lot of anxiety growing because as all of Europe was industrializing, the agricultural part of kind of the Russian landscape felt to be they were very disenfranchised.
00:09:53.000And it's actually a way to break apart World War I. Vladimir Lenin was sent out of a German prison, equipped with a communist manifesto, and started a Russian revolution that we know as the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
00:10:04.000This was the first real experiment of communism.
00:10:41.000The communists also believe inherently that work is a form of slavery.
00:10:47.000That if you are toiling, if you are working, there's something wrong with that.
00:10:52.000They believe it to be inherently exploitation.
00:10:55.000The Bible doesn't believe that as well.
00:10:57.000The Bible believes a man does not work, he shall not eat.
00:10:59.000Now, that's not to say all work is created equal, right?
00:11:02.000That some work is more fulfilling than others.
00:11:04.000But the complete and total rejection of all labor is not something that is biblical.
00:11:09.000But communists also, the big fight that they really make is that the workers should own the means of production.
00:11:14.000This is their biggest thing, is that, for example, if you were to go to Home Depot down the street or Walgreens, their biggest complaint, and you'll see this a lot of times in kind of veiled terms by certain people in the political discourse in our country, is that if someone works at Walgreens, they should own an equal share of the toothpaste that is being sold or the equipment to make the toothpaste as the person who started the company.
00:11:39.000This sounds like a pretty good idea, but the danger is that why would anyone take a risk then?
00:11:43.000Why would anyone start a new business to try to invent something new or innovative or exciting if you had to share all the profits among people that had no risk, right?
00:11:52.000Why would you ever try to start something of any sort of with any adventure in the marketplace?
00:11:58.000And so I hope that's helpful to just kind of set terms as to what communism and Marxism is.
00:12:02.000If I had a Marxist sitting next to me, which I don't, he would agree with everything I just said.
00:12:08.000Nothing I said was pejorative or negative in nature, right?
00:12:30.000And there was a lot of wealth being created.
00:12:33.000There were a lot of communist failed movements.
00:12:36.000And someone by the name of Antonio Gramsci, who spent time in an Italian prison, coined this term called cultural Marxism.
00:12:44.000He argued that Marxists should not just talk about economics, which again, all Marx really cared about was the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, was the working class versus the business owners.
00:12:54.000Antonio Gramsci argued that there should be a cultural struggle to all of this stuff.
00:13:00.000It took many decades for this to really take root.
00:13:02.000It finally kind of played out in postmodernist thinking and eventually the Frankfurt School of Critical Race Theory of Herbert Marcuse.
00:13:12.000Is that what started as just an economic struggle is now a struggle of power dynamics, right?
00:13:18.000So it's not just that it's the rich versus the poor.
00:13:21.000Instead, they say it's the white people versus black people, overly generalizing that every single white person in the country is in a position of power and every black person is not, or men versus women, right?
00:13:32.000All men must be in power because they believe that we live in a patriarchy and that all women must not be in power.
00:13:38.000So that's kind of how they transitioned it into just the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat to a much broader idea of the oppressor versus the oppressed.
00:13:47.000And so when we start to talk about these sorts of terms and the significance of them, we should ask the question of, you know, do we support this as Christians and kind of, you know, how we build it out more?
00:13:57.000But if is there any specific you want me to do?
00:14:18.000It is much harder to oppose these ideas and articulate a framework that relies upon responsibility, virtue, hard work, waking up early, going to bed late, and taking ownership for your life than one where you can take other people's stuff, redistribute it at your liking, and have to work less.
00:14:35.000My job would be so much easier if I came here today and said, you get healthcare, you get education, you get a car, you get a home, just take it from the guy down the street.
00:15:02.000It's been tried 100 times over the last hundred years, only resulting in the intentional slaughter of 100 million people, right?
00:15:09.000And you name a continent, any continent from Rhodesia that turned into Zimbabwe to Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Vietnam, to the Korean Peninsula, where people still live in absolute darkness in North Korea because of these horrific ideas.
00:15:21.000And I hope you all understand the significance of ideas that translate to politics, which translates to real life.
00:15:27.000Christians sometimes say, I don't like that sort of stuff.
00:15:31.000I'm going to give a little side note of how politics really impacts every person in this room, whether you know it or not, and just the Calvary family.
00:15:37.000You're all here today and you're enjoying your time of worship because salvation is essential and church is essential.
00:15:42.000However, the difference between Tennessee politics and California politics is this, is that right now today, my pastor, Pastor Rob McCoy, head of Calvary Chapel Thousand Oaks, is facing the fifth straight week of arrests and criminal prosecution because he's doing what you guys are doing right now.
00:16:00.000And some of you might be taking for granted.
00:16:01.000Yeah, I'm going to church, had a long night last night.
00:16:04.000It's illegal to do what you're doing in California right now.
00:16:09.000So if you don't get involved in the public square, you don't contest in the kind of government you want, all of a sudden in your family of Calvary Chapel pastors, three pastors right now that I know of, James Cadiz, Jack Hibbs, and Rob McCoy, are all facing massive criminal prosecution for what you guys get to enjoy in the state of Tennessee because you have made choices that are not perfect, but better around the idea of respecting religious liberty and peaceful assembly.
00:16:33.000That's just one example of the consequence of these things.
00:16:35.000So some people say, it doesn't matter for us Christians, but your brothers and sisters in the faith right now might be arrested today in Thousand Oaks, California.
00:16:46.000No longer do I have to use like these examples distant.
00:16:47.000I'm talking about California because they open their church.
00:16:51.000Meanwhile, marijuana dispensaries are open, liquor stores are open, abortion factories are open, home improvement stores are open.
00:16:57.000And if you support BLM Incorporated, you can march in the streets.
00:17:00.000No social distancing, no masks, 100,000 people in the streets.
00:17:03.000So there's serious consequences of these things.
00:17:05.000And it's been tried all across the planet in isolated examples and big examples, Soviet Union to Cuba to Southeast Asia, and there are all different variations of it.
00:17:13.000And the long and short of it is this, is that we believe absolute power corrupts absolutely.
00:17:21.000And the whole idea, what ends up happening is that if you don't trust a lot of power to be in a small subset of people's hands, then you should completely reject this.
00:17:29.000The idea of a representative constitutional republic is trying to keep the power away from a few people.
00:17:35.000That's the entire premise, is that the few should not dominate the many, that the strong should not dominate the weak.
00:17:41.000That is the idea of a constitutional republic, that your right to disagree, your right to say something contrarian will be protected by your government to not be infringed upon.
00:17:52.000And it's easy to take those things for granted.
00:17:54.000And so what are we as Christians supposed to do as we unpack this?
00:17:57.000Well, first of all, I believe we should look at things empirically with wisdom, right?
00:18:01.000We have a whole book that is rooted in wisdom, the book of Proverbs.
00:18:04.000When there's an idea that's been tried 100 times over 100 years, resulting in 100 million people dead, we should probably say that's probably a bad idea, right?
00:18:12.000That's probably a good, that's probably a good pause.
00:18:15.000Now, so I think that there's a universal rejection of that, but then like, oh, then what should replace it, right?
00:18:20.000Because some people say, well, I definitely don't like that, but, you know, I don't like capitalism.
00:18:33.000Of course it does, because you have competence hierarchies, and people are going to be better at certain things, and some people are going to work harder, and some people are going to work weekends, and some people are born with certain God-given gifts that other people aren't, right?
00:18:44.000And it's actually the Matthew principle.
00:18:46.000We derive this from the book of Matthew, which is a very harsh teaching, which is that the many will be given more, and the least will be, and you know the verse better than I do.
00:18:55.000And it's literally the Matthew principle.
00:18:57.000And so, but the question is, first of all, what is capitalism?
00:19:00.000People say Adam Smith invented, I hate that term capitalism.
00:19:03.000By the way, it actually was a Marxist term.
00:19:45.000In a lot of different ways, the Scots built the modern world.
00:19:47.000A lot of what we have came from what was the poorest country in Europe that all of a sudden sprang up these amazing ideas of John Locke, Burke, Hume, Smith, and many others.
00:19:56.000And so, what Adam Smith was asking, and the title is so important into the, we call it the wealth of nations.
00:21:10.000Also, when common sense was written, how have we done as humanity?
00:21:13.000Well, from Christ's resurrection to 1776, life expectancy went up maybe five years.
00:21:21.000We didn't have access to modern medicine, international transportation, all these sorts of things.
00:21:27.000From 1776 to today, we have things so unbelievably good with a standard of living that is so hard for us to comprehend that you look at where things were and where they are, we have to ask ourselves the question, why don't we do an inquiry into why things are so good in 2020?
00:21:46.000I think that government should play a bigger role in certain areas, smaller role in others, but to just indict the entire capitalist system is lazy and it's wrong.
00:21:55.000During this pandemic, despite all of the kind of runs on toilet paper and all the different things that happen, our market experienced the greatest stress test we could possibly imagine.
00:22:18.000We were able to have the supply chain continue.
00:22:20.000If you needed something at your home, a lot of you had the opportunity to have it delivered straight to your home through some sort of home delivery service, Amazon or otherwise.
00:22:55.000Poverty rates that will take them decades to break out of.
00:22:58.000And so, yes, we went through a lot of pain the last six to nine months, but we are so far ahead of other countries that didn't have a sort of market-based system after we experienced this kind of stress test.
00:23:25.000I mean, but look at how amazing our companies and our options adapted, right?
00:23:31.000Where all of a sudden mobile order was given and curbside pickup.
00:23:34.000There wasn't a government, there were some government orders that suggested it, but the market just kind of did it, right?
00:23:39.000They saw what people were worried about and they adapted to it in real time.
00:23:43.000And that's what Adam Smith called the invisible hand.
00:23:46.000And albeit was clumsy and plenty of companies made mistakes, but generally in this country, I think we took that for granted the last nine months.
00:23:54.000That still generally our population was able to have access to medicine, have their prescriptions filled, put food on the table, have the supply chains uninterrupted.
00:24:03.000And so, anyway, what do all these terms mean?
00:24:05.000People say, well, Charlie, a Christian can't be a capitalist.
00:25:33.000And we just kind of have the one-sided argument of liberty, but not on responsibility.
00:25:37.000And so as we start to unpack what does that mean for the capitalist society, we have to understand that the framework for enterprise systems is a framework.
00:25:47.000And so if you're blaming other people's problems on the framework, I think that also just has more of an idea of are we communicating virtue and are we communicating values?
00:26:32.000So when you have agency, when you have choice, when you're given liberty and freedom, let's say that you're a carpenter like Jesus was.
00:26:40.000Let's say that you were, you know, a fisherman.
00:26:42.000Or let's say that you run a church or you have a convenience store and you want to do everything in the pursuit of the gospel.
00:26:49.000Now, mind you, that doesn't mean that if you're making shoes, as Martin Luther would say, you have to put a cross in every single shoe, right?
00:26:55.000Martin Luther said you live it out in how you treat people and how you communicate people, right?
00:27:00.000The question is then, what kind of system has allows Christians to multiply not just on the wealth side, but their impact to the most amount of people?
00:27:10.000The answer is, of course, a free enterprise system.
00:27:13.000And by the way, socialism violates two out of the 10 commandments.
00:27:15.000Thou shalt not covet, thou shalt not steal.
00:27:18.000And it's rooted in taking other people's stuff.
00:27:20.000Capitalism is rooted, or free markets are rooted in creating new things.
00:27:24.000It's rooted in building things up, new innovations.
00:27:26.000And I actually think it's a really good thing that we can have open heart surgery, brain surgery, lung transplants, kidney transplants, dialysis machines.
00:27:48.000I think that certain companies need to be kept in check.
00:27:50.000And I think that monopolistic behavior needs to be cross-examined.
00:27:54.000And so I'm not trying to argue in a dogmatic sense.
00:27:59.000Instead, I am arguing in a framework sense.
00:28:01.000And I think that we as Christians need to lean into this more and say the system that we currently live in, which is generally a private property-based system.
00:28:11.000By the way, private property is a biblical idea.
00:28:13.000Abraham bought Hebron, and you can visit it in Israel.
00:28:26.000And so, and I think that if you, the final thing is this, and we can kind of build out other ideas, which is what system uses the worst of human nature and behavior for the pursuit of betterment for the whole?
00:28:57.000It's not impossible, but people generally don't want to work for you.
00:29:01.000They don't want to buy your products and they won't keep showing up.
00:29:04.000I know from the best places that I like to shop from, it's people that care about their businesses the most and treat you the best.
00:29:10.000Now, that's not to say everyone is great.
00:29:12.000However, there's an incentive to act closer to the biblical mandate of treating people the way you want to be treated in a market, closer to that.
00:29:23.000Whereas the other side, one where you have no commerce, no markets, none of those sorts of things, I'm afraid it actually gets closer away from that sort of illustration.
00:29:47.000But given the choice between a bondage or some ruler, some ownership over you, and the chance to have true liberty, still requires a lot of responsibility.
00:29:58.000You know, it requires a lot of responsibility.
00:30:00.000When you talk about those other systems, the Marxist, the socialism, communism, and capitalism, which of those would be most antagonistic to our faith, the exercise of our own faith?
00:30:12.000Would you find in socialism and communism that we still have this kind of liberty is still granted since we want it seems so fair, so nice?
00:30:21.000So I think that the default position for believers should be to allow people to make choices as they see fit, and it's actually better for the kingdom, whereas socialism is the antithesis to that, right?
00:30:33.000So it doesn't create a framework for choice or for the capacity to be able to pursue means as you see fit.
00:30:41.000And we would all want that in this construct.
00:30:44.000So the real question is this, is where do rights come from and what are rights?
00:30:47.000That's also the really important question, right?
00:30:49.000So are rights stuff or are rights something that God grants you naturally?
00:30:54.000And this was the question the founding fathers wrestled with.
00:30:57.000And it's very popular to say that certain things are a human right.
00:31:00.000And, you know, for example, people say Netflix is a human right, or people say that, you know, you're joking.
00:31:16.000So, and this is a harder argument to make because it's so much easier to say, no, no, no, free education is a right.
00:31:21.000Again, I reject that from a pure philosophical and principle standpoint.
00:31:24.000My argument's a harder argument to make, but it's true, which is that in the state of nature, who are you?
00:31:30.000Consciousness, you have speech, you have ideas, and you should have the capacity to protect yourself and not have your stuff stolen from you.
00:31:37.000That's basically the entire construct of natural rights.
00:31:41.000Whereas you have a position that doesn't have natural rights, where it's more of a positive rights standpoint.
00:31:47.000People believe that rights are things that should be given you the convenience to be able to live.
00:31:52.000And mind you, that sounds very acceptable on the surface.
00:31:56.000The question is, well, then at what point do you start to draw lines on what are rights and what aren't?
00:32:01.000And so people say, well, I know my rights.
00:32:04.000And sometimes they don't actually know their rights when they say that.
00:32:08.000But basically, it's the rights of cross-examination, the right of criminal, you know, lawyer, legal representation against an accusation, a right of due process.
00:32:16.000And so, look, if you just look at these systems, again, I said it very clearly, capitalism is the best of the worst systems.
00:32:22.000All these things are flawed because we're dealing with sinful human beings and acting, kind of interacting together.
00:32:29.000However, if we just look at the data, and this is a very interesting thing that we as Christians need to look for, we like helping poor people, right?
00:33:43.000They work in a way that a lot of us can't even explain.
00:33:46.000Where all of a sudden you could go to Walgreens right here, and they have more choices of stuff than you could possibly ever imagine without you ever having to fill out a form for it.
00:33:54.000It's because somebody out there is taking a risk to try to satisfy that for you.
00:33:58.000And I think the other part of this is, look, what system allows you to have work that is meaningful?
00:34:07.000And I think that we need to talk more about entrepreneurship, which is starting something from nothing.
00:34:11.000And I think we're losing that in our country in a lot of different ways.
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00:35:20.000Yeah, something we know a little bit about here.
00:35:22.000We, you know, my wife and I moved here 20 years ago, just the two of us.
00:35:27.000Start a little Bible study in an apartment, and you look around here and you see that there's this great thing that God has done, you know, through the agency of individuals that say, What do you want to accomplish?
00:35:44.000Life is either what it is, life is either a discovery of what God created us to be, or it is, in a sense, this sort of drudgery of becoming trying to, you know, in a sense, make yourself make something.
00:35:57.000And it's just a thrill to look on and go, well, what is it that God wants to do?
00:36:02.000And he wants to be generous and kind, and he wants to shine light through us and to others.
00:36:07.000You've said in a couple of our gatherings that the most important thing anyone will ever do is put their faith in Jesus Christ.
00:36:15.000And the second thing is to make sure that that can actually happen.
00:36:20.000And that, I think, is something that we're toying with right now because these ideas that sound so fair, so equitable, you know, it's going to be, we're going to come and solve the problems by tearing down the system that has its flaws.
00:36:34.000And we're going to just make it all, it'll all be equal.
00:37:09.000You guys, I'm just going to let's remember the parable of the talents, which Christ challenges us to multiply.
00:37:16.000Where in the parable of the talents, you have an owner of sorts or an employer, and it depends on the translation of how you interpret it, and three subjects.
00:37:28.000And they're all given a certain piece from the owner.
00:37:32.000One of them does nothing with it and hides it under a rock, the second of which multiplies it minorly, and the third of which multiplies it majorly.
00:37:41.000And in one of the most harsh verses that we have that Christ ever uttered, he condemns the person so unbelievably clearly that puts what is given to them under a rock.
00:37:54.000And the person who multiplies it faithfully gets some of the highest praise and reward from our Lord and Savior.
00:38:02.000Well, I think it's pretty clear that we're pushed every day to get up and try to multiply the kingdom in every single vertical in the arts and the sciences and markets and of course the church.
00:38:16.000And I don't think God would want a stationary or sedentary Christian body.
00:38:21.000And so when we ask ourselves the question of, you know, what sort of framework creates that, I think it's one where Christians are being pushed to try in a good way, you know, to aspire and thrive to the highest level possible for The betterment of the kingdom.
00:39:08.000And so for the church to have the liberty and the freedom to be who it is that God has called him to be, and then, you know, create something that may, in a sense, turn out to be an extraordinary blessing for other people, as opposed to mandates that say that this is how we're going to make sure everything, again, sort of gets distributed equally so that there isn't anything unfair.
00:39:30.000Where do you think the sort of the idea that's rising, it's got to be fair, any inequality, any inequity, where does that sort of, you know, sort of to these, at this time, it seems to sort of be hitting sort of a fever pitch, you know, with now is the time for this.
00:39:50.000There's so much injustice, and the injustice is that things just aren't fair out there.
00:39:55.000And again, capitalism is sort of, you know, in the scapegoat.
00:40:15.000We're the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:40:18.000We're the most generous, benevolent, forward-thinking, open-minded country ever that has brought in more people into our country successfully ever in any other country ever.
00:40:27.000We gave away $500 billion to charity last year.
00:40:30.000We bring in a million immigrants to our country every single year, whether it be a earthquake, flood, natural disaster, it's always our country that steps up disproportionately more so than any other country in the world.
00:40:40.000And it's been good for the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
00:40:56.000Because of the United States of America, because 30,000 people, many of whom from this beautiful state, went and fought the forgotten war to push back the Chinese Communist Party and Korean military forces to now the DMZ zone, where it would have been all of Korea be communist, where all now half of Korea is communist.
00:41:11.000So now 100 million people live in a neoliberal democracy where the kingdom is on fire in South Korea.
00:42:09.000And when I talk to first-generation immigrants from countries that are war-torn and that there are people living in the slums and the sewers, we have things very, very good here.
00:43:13.000And those other three things play into the fourth thing, right?
00:43:16.000But for example, a young white kid that is born to a single mother, who are heroes, by the way, this is not an indictment of single mothers.
00:43:25.000But a young white kid born to a single mother is less likely to succeed than a black kid who is raised by a mother and a father.
00:43:32.000It's two parent privilege in our country more than anything else.
00:43:34.000And 77% of black kids in our country are born without stable fathers in the home.
00:43:38.000That's a moral injustice, the likes of which is the true concentration, should be the true concentration of our outrage.
00:43:44.000And it's not just the black community.
00:43:46.000In certain states, such as West Virginia and parts of Tennessee, the fatherlessness rate in the white community is 38%.
00:43:54.000You know a lot, you guys have ministry work that deals in a lot of those parts of very, very poor Appalachia.
00:43:59.000So it's not just pertained to just one specific group.
00:44:03.000And so you look, again, I think that there's some very, like, again, I could talk about all the things that have gone wrong, but you look at this really short experiment we have in self-governance and liberty in a constitutional republic, and you kind of got to give America a little bit of credit that we've gotten some things pretty amazingly right.
00:44:18.000And that considering that the track record of governments are self-implosion, civil war, genocide, power-hungry maniacs, what have we done that has actually set the example for any sort of stable government?
00:44:32.000And that is the decentralization of power, checks and balances, representative government, fair and free elections, all these sorts of things.
00:44:39.000And if you have a problem with it, you're able to run for government, run for office.
00:44:42.000You're able to actually serve in the government, which is a citizen-led government.
00:44:46.000And so we kind of look at these things right now.
00:44:49.000And I think, so, for example, only 43% of my generation thinks that America is a great country, 43%, right?
00:45:02.000That is like civilization-ending stuff, everybody, just so you understand.
00:45:06.000A country's ability or inability to replicate its values and what it believes to the next generation will be the reason whether or not that country continues to exist.
00:45:17.000And I believe firmly that we should be thankful for what is given to us.
00:45:22.000I believe that gratitude is one of the least talked about biblical virtues.
00:45:28.000And gratitude is almost the fruit that makes everything else after it tastes sweet, right?
00:45:34.000When you are thankful when you wake up, things just get a little bit better.
00:45:37.000When you're unthankful, things don't get better.
00:45:39.000And so I think that we should have a position of gratitude that we live in this country, that maybe there are some things that we got right.
00:45:45.000Maybe that we are living in the exception, not the norm of human history, which we are.
00:45:50.000And it's pretty remarkable when you look at the incredible, I mean, just another example is this: is that, you know, the poorest people in America are still in the top 1 to 2% on the planet.
00:46:04.000And again, I'm not discounting that there's not poverty in this country, but it's very relative.
00:46:09.000And it's very relative, is that the standard of living that we enjoy in the West versus almost all of Southeast Asia or the developing world should really give a lot of people pause.
00:47:32.000I was in Germany once, and I was sitting around the table with a group of Germans and Europeans, and they had nothing but negative stuff to say about our country.
00:48:51.000We keep buying our electronics from them.
00:48:53.000But you're funding the concentration camp surveillance empire in China.
00:48:57.000China's building islands in the South China Sea.
00:48:59.000They released a virus that killed 200,000 Americans, lied about it, probably a bioweapon from one of their labs.
00:49:03.000The very least, it was absolutely covered up at the highest levels of their government, and time will tell about that.
00:49:08.000That has now infected the top levels of our government.
00:49:11.000They have the Belt and Road Initiative where they're buying up natural resources and minerals and ports of entry of Africa, Southeast Asia, all across the world for their own betterment and their own enrichment.
00:50:30.000Any other nation have any other of their dead buried on it?
00:50:34.000I mean, I mean, we're not, Great Britain, other Western countries do that.
00:50:38.000But I'm saying, look at the look at the power we have with a $26 trillion economy, more airports, more airplanes, more scientific discovery, 18 out of 20 of the top research institutions, a standing army that is unprecedented, incomparable, nuclear warheads, all this stuff.
00:50:54.000What would another country do with that kind of magnanimous power?
00:50:57.000And the question is, why don't we do that?
00:50:59.000And the reason is, despite all of our clumsiness and all of this, there is a pursuit to try to say, we want to do something good in this world.
00:51:11.000It's because we were not comfortable with the entire Korean peninsula being under totalitarian rule.
00:51:16.000100 million people are living free thanks to that today.
00:51:19.000And the same could be said for other, you know, other, World War II is another phenomenal example of that, where the European continent was in absolute crisis.
00:51:30.000And many people from this region of the world rised up to never come back, to go fight land that their relatives would never visit, to go liberate a continent from absolute ultimate evil so that the intentional extermination of the innocent would stop.
00:51:46.000Yeah, that's a country I'd be proud of.
00:53:12.000Just give us a couple very, very practical action steps as people that, you know, I've been sharing with the congregation, and it, you know, to me, it boils all down to Ephesians 6's spiritual warfare, that there are principalities and powers that at the end of the day, there is a great conflict between truth and lies and light and dark and life and death.
00:53:37.000And I think that what it is that we're facing in these ideas, because ideas have extraordinary consequences, right?
00:53:43.000100 years, 100 million people slain because of ideas that are godless.
00:53:49.000And so I've said in each of the services that it's just, you know, my simple conviction that we face not ideas, but an evil behind those ideas that is not in any way.
00:54:01.000The enemy comes to kill, he comes to steal, he comes to destroy.
00:54:06.000And so there's a unique role that the church plays in the restraint and the pushback against evil.
00:54:16.000And so we've got an election that many believe for our country.
00:54:20.000Some would say it's the most important election that our country's ever seen or in the last hundred years.
00:54:25.000I mean, it's been stated in different ways.
00:54:28.000What are just some practical things that we need to be aware of, or maybe just some practical ways in closing how that we might engage?
00:54:35.000Because we have a role that simply others, even just Americans, you know, don't.
00:54:40.000I mean, we have an understanding that's a little different.
00:54:42.000Yeah, look, I mean, whether it's something that you enjoy hearing or like talking about politics matter.
00:54:47.000As I mentioned, another Calvary chapel might go to prison today while you guys get to go back home and enjoy watching football.
00:54:52.000So politics matter because you have better governance here than in California.
00:54:57.000So while they're dealing with public health officials and trying to negotiate police bail bonds, you guys get to go watch the Tennessee Titans or whatever, right?
00:55:05.000So politics matter, and it's happening in this country right now.
00:55:08.000So look, I'm not going to say that one party's perfect and one party is, you know, more fitting into the perfect fit, I should say.
00:55:16.000But I will say this, there's a couple issues that I think almost every Christian should be able to agree on.
00:55:21.000The first of which is the fight for those that can't fight for themselves, which is the fight for life.
00:55:29.000And let me say, I think that we as Christians need to do a much better job of communicating the necessity to adopt, the need to make it financially easier to adopt, to make the laws easier to adopt children in our country.
00:55:42.000And secondly, I think that a lot of times in churches that I visit, we do not do enough to talk about how women that have had abortions should not be condemned.
00:55:52.000We should have a ministry to help heal them.
00:55:54.000And instead, our critique should be after the abortionists that lied to these young ladies and told them that this was a victimless act.
00:56:01.000And when in reality, there is serious spiritual, physical, and emotional damage that is done to women that do that.
00:56:08.000And so I think we need to do a better job of that.
00:56:10.000So I just want to preface it with that.
00:56:11.000With that being said, I think that it's a moral travesty that 61 million lives were terminated since Roe versus Wade in our country.
00:56:18.000That's twice the population of Canada that we have terminated in the womb.
00:56:24.000And it's disproportionate to the black community, by the way.
00:56:26.000And this is something that does not get talked about enough.
00:56:28.000If you see a pregnant woman, a black woman, on a subway in New York City, she's more likely heading to the Planned Parenthood than to the delivery clinic.
00:56:36.000And so the question I think that we Christians should be asked, and it might be asked at the highest levels of, you know, when we go face our Creator, is, what did you do when those people that couldn't defend themselves were being, you know, terminated?
00:56:51.000So the question is, when does life begin?
00:56:53.000I think we as Christians have a very simple answer to that.
00:56:56.000Believes that it begins at conception.
00:56:58.000When that unique DNA is formed, when that unique image, we're made in the image of God.
00:57:02.000I knew you before you were in the womb.
00:57:04.000When that life is created, I believe that that right should have the same sort of protection as an older life.
00:57:11.000And so I believe that every Christian should get behind an agenda that of some people that speak at the March for Life, people that challenge our public funding of Planned Parenthood.
00:57:21.000And yes, appoint justices and judges to the United States Supreme Court to challenge the unconstitutional ruling of Roe versus Wade.
00:57:29.000I believe that every Christian should be involved in that.
00:57:31.000The second issue, and I'll just do three because I did 11 last service and it took like an hour.
00:57:36.000So the second issue is the issue of Israel.
00:57:40.000Every Christian, Bible-believing Christian, should have a reverence for God's chosen people in the State of Israel.
00:57:46.000And Israel has been under attack, condemned.
00:57:49.000From the moment Israel was formed, they were invaded by every direction, by every power, all at once, trying to suffocate and destroy the Jewish people to have their own sovereign state.
00:58:02.000From that point forward, Israel has had to deal with rockets being shot at their civilians and children, suicide bombers being subsidized by the Palestinian Authority, a three-front war from Gaza to Hamas to the Palestinian Authority.
00:58:17.000And for the first time in a couple decades, all of a sudden we are seeing an incredible peace deal that has come through between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, negotiated by a president that many of you support, some of you don't, in a way that you might not like his style.
00:58:30.000But my goodness, you bring the Emiratis and the Israelis in a room together to agree on peace.
00:58:36.000Someone's doing something that's not getting mentioned in the media.
00:58:46.000Of course, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Golan Heights.
00:58:49.000If any of you have visited Israel, it makes you a stronger Christian and makes you a more convicted Christian.
00:58:54.000And I believe that it is imperative for Christians to also defend our relationship with Israel for the archaeological discoveries, for making it the Bible in technical and real life.
00:59:06.000And I think that if the state of Israel were to fall in this period of time that we live in, it would be an unspeakable tragedy and travesty.
00:59:15.000So the third thing that I think that Christians should care about, and I mentioned this a little bit, is the judges and justices, is interpretation of the rule of law as it is written.
00:59:24.000With the United States Supreme Court as it was back in August, Calvary Chapel, another Calvary Chapel fighting for its life, everybody, in Las Vegas, sued because they were not able to open.
00:59:39.000And the mandate put forward by the state government said no more than 50 people, but they said the casinos are allowed 50% capacity and they get 15,000 people because their fire codes are so high.
00:59:48.000They sue up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:59:50.000John Roberts ruled incorrectly, 5-4 decision and said, church is not essential.
01:00:09.000And right now, you have a woman who has seven children, two of them adopted, five natural-born children who loves the Lord, who's about to be on the United States Supreme Court.
01:00:21.000That's a fight that every Christian should get into right now.
01:00:25.000And so, and also, just to close, 200 federal circuit court judges, the most in recent history, if not in all of U.S. history, since George Washington, and now three Supreme Court justices.
01:00:58.000He's in a very difficult position right now, and one that just makes me sick seeing how some people react to it on television and social media, just so it shows you the brokenness where I don't even need to get into it.
01:01:11.000So, but yeah, look, I think that he gets a really bad rap by a lot of people.
01:01:14.000And understand, if you have a problem with him, remember, you're voting for two people, too.
01:01:17.000You're also voting for Mike Pence, who's been loyally married to the same woman for 35 years, Bible-believing Christian, who prays over the president every day, who does Bible studies in the Oval Office, who brings ministers into the White House.
01:01:32.000And you have this combination of street fighter and Midwestern Christian together into the most pro-life, most per-Israel, most successful judicial appointment administration in American history, which I believe justifies four more years.
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