The Charlie Kirk Show - July 09, 2023


The Culture of Life and the Culture or Death — LIVE in North Dakota


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Pro-Life and Pro-Death: A Conversation with Charlie Kirk in Bismarck, North Dakota on abortion and the culture of death. Charlie Kirk is the President of Turning Point USA, an organization that fights for freedom on college campuses across the country.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Sunday, a conversation that I had in Bismarck, North Dakota, about life, the culture of life and the culture of death.
00:00:08.000 We contrast those two things.
00:00:10.000 As always, you can email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, and get involved with TurningPointUSA at tpusa.com.
00:00:17.000 That is tpusa.com.
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00:00:22.000 That's right.
00:00:23.000 We have our upcoming event.
00:00:24.000 We have President Donald Trump going to speak there, Tucker Carlson.
00:00:27.000 We have Steve Bannon.
00:00:29.000 Dan Bongino, tpaction.com.
00:00:31.000 That is tpaction.com, West Palm Beach, Florida, tpaction.com.
00:00:37.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:38.000 Here we go.
00:00:39.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:40.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:43.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:46.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:49.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:50.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:51.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:53.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:00.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:08.000 That's why we are here.
00:01:12.000 Thank you.
00:01:14.000 Thank you, Father, and honor to be here.
00:01:16.000 I love North Dakota.
00:01:18.000 I make a habit out of coming here between May and September every year.
00:01:25.000 It does seem like every year, though, I don't get a lot of invites in December, or I don't think I acknowledge the invites in December, January, and February.
00:01:35.000 Honor to be here.
00:01:36.000 Several things I want to talk about today.
00:01:38.000 Congressman, thank you for fighting.
00:01:40.000 The FBI is totally out of control. 0.98
00:01:43.000 They become a Soviet institution, and we need to expose them. 1.00
00:01:47.000 And if I had my way, we'd do a lot more than expose them. 0.96
00:01:50.000 But exposing them is the first step.
00:01:52.000 And so thank you for that.
00:01:53.000 I'm glad that the majority is using their political power to expose Christopher Wray.
00:01:57.000 And if you want to see how broken DC is, so they're going to hold Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress, right?
00:02:03.000 So where do criminal referrals go to?
00:02:06.000 Yeah, Christopher Wray.
00:02:07.000 I mean, so it's like, okay, he's going to proceed with his own contempt.
00:02:11.000 There's got to be a whole different way.
00:02:13.000 This fourth branch of government is totally out of control.
00:02:15.000 And the founding fathers never intended to have an untouchable, unelected, unaccountable fourth branch of government that does whatever they want.
00:02:24.000 But nevertheless, we have to fight it.
00:02:27.000 So I want to talk about life tonight.
00:02:29.000 I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.
00:02:32.000 And as many of you, as many of you know, this is really where the battle is going to be decided.
00:02:39.000 We were talking at dinner tonight.
00:02:41.000 Charlie, are we going to win?
00:02:42.000 Are we going to lose?
00:02:44.000 I have no idea, and I'm going to say that later.
00:02:47.000 Things are not looking good on a lot of different fronts.
00:02:50.000 At the same time, there's a lot of place for promise and for hope.
00:02:53.000 When I visit college campuses, we can't find rooms big enough to fit all the students that want to attend and hear our speeches.
00:03:00.000 When I go to Ohio State University or when we bring Candace Owens to North Dakota, for example, like we did last year, we had to turn away hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of students.
00:03:09.000 So there is an appetite and there is a desire.
00:03:11.000 Sorry, is my mic cutting in and out?
00:03:13.000 I think, okay.
00:03:14.000 There's an appetite and there's a desire to hear these ideas in a very profound and serious and special way.
00:03:22.000 I will, I'll tell you, I fight 100% on the abortion issue.
00:03:26.000 When I mean I'm 100% pro-life, I am 100% pro-life.
00:03:29.000 You know, they come up, they say, well, Charlie, what about this and this exception and this and this?
00:03:34.000 I say, life is life, created in the image of God and is worthy of our protection 100% of the time.
00:03:42.000 And this issue is not going away.
00:03:49.000 You know, one of the things we're going to talk about tonight is the repeal of Roe versus Wade.
00:03:54.000 Praise God that that was repealed.
00:03:56.000 I think we have to remind ourselves, though, what it took to get Roe versus Wade repealed, because I think sometimes we leave out part of that story.
00:04:04.000 And it also involves many of you who prayed and fasted and went through the spiritual disciplines for your nation for multiple decades when you were told that this was never going to happen.
00:04:16.000 You deserve a lot of credit for that.
00:04:20.000 But let's take a step back before we go into some of the details and kind of define some of our terms here.
00:04:25.000 We are currently living in a culture of death, not a culture of life.
00:04:31.000 It's a culture that celebrates the worst and the ugliness of all society. 0.90
00:04:36.000 And I mean, this is happy Pride Month, by the way, everybody. 0.99
00:04:39.000 Yeah, it's great.
00:04:40.000 Hooray.
00:04:42.000 And by the way, all these issues are tied together, right? 0.77
00:04:44.000 Pride Month, abortion, life. 0.56
00:04:48.000 It's really an affront to the natural law and to how God wants us to live and how we ought to live. 0.99
00:04:55.000 And especially when they're going after children, and that's the commonality, right?
00:04:59.000 So you see Target, which is down 20%, and I hope they keep on going down.
00:05:05.000 Because you see, they put this Target has, you know, this propaganda for children in their stores.
00:05:17.000 And there's three types of people in the world: there are children, there are predators, and then there's the protectors of children.
00:05:33.000 Once you no longer become a child, hopefully in your mid-20s, you have to make a decision.
00:05:42.000 Am I going to be a predator or am I going to be someone who fights the predators?
00:05:48.000 This is something that plays out all throughout the scriptures.
00:05:51.000 Every society, every civilization.
00:05:54.000 This is how I know that there is evidence to the scriptures and why the Bible is always true.
00:05:58.000 Isn't it interesting? 0.74
00:05:59.000 Civilizations that never came in contact with one another, Mayans, Incans, Egyptians in this river valley, they all had this very bizarre fascination with sacrificing children.
00:06:10.000 Isn't that strange? 0.67
00:06:12.000 It's almost inexplicable, right?
00:06:15.000 You know that the Bible was the first document ever to say that the sacrificing of children is completely evil and off-limits?
00:06:22.000 That God actually intervenes and tells Abraham directly not to sacrifice your son.
00:06:29.000 It was not just common practice.
00:06:30.000 It grew you closer to the gods.
00:06:32.000 The Egyptians considered it no big deal.
00:06:34.000 In fact, the Egyptians thought that ox were a bigger deal than man.
00:06:41.000 So you're one of three things.
00:06:43.000 You're an infant, you're a protector of an infant, or you're a predator.
00:06:46.000 Look at the scriptures as how Exodus begins, which, by the way, the first couple books of Exodus, it's very similar to what we're living through right now.
00:06:53.000 One of the most powerful, one of the most powerful verses in the entire Bible, let alone the Torah, is, then rose a Pharaoh or a king who did not know Joseph.
00:07:04.000 Basically, Joseph, of course, who saved Egypt from famine, who interpreted dreams and saved Egypt from near extinction.
00:07:13.000 What is that?
00:07:14.000 What is that?
00:07:15.000 How does that verse, what does that teach us?
00:07:16.000 Torah means teacher, right?
00:07:18.000 In the first five books of the Bible to be called the Torah or the kind of core center of the Hebrew Bible.
00:07:25.000 What is that teaching us?
00:07:26.000 Boy, you could replace it right now.
00:07:28.000 Then came Generation Z that did not know George Washington.
00:07:33.000 Then came Generation Z that did not know the value of life.
00:07:38.000 It is the habit, it is the custom of a nation to forget the sacrifices that come before you.
00:07:44.000 If you do not teach it, they will not know it.
00:07:49.000 So it says, and then it goes on further: what is the first thing that the new Pharaoh wants to do?
00:07:54.000 Go after the kids.
00:07:57.000 What is the thing that makes Jesus have to, well, Mary and Joseph flee going after the kids?
00:08:03.000 It just repeats itself, everybody.
00:08:06.000 There's a spiritual dimension to go after the children.
00:08:08.000 What was one of the harshest teachings of Christ, our Lord?
00:08:12.000 You go after the kids.
00:08:15.000 It is better for you to have a millstone around your neck.
00:08:20.000 So much of our spiritual testing plays out around children.
00:08:27.000 So let's just use our natural reason given to us by God.
00:08:30.000 What is the obvious reason that we should allow our children to be groomed by these alphabet mafia predators?
00:08:38.000 Because once innocence is lost, you can never get it back.
00:08:44.000 Once an eight or nine-year-old is no longer, there's no going back there.
00:08:48.000 And we say, let kids be kids.
00:08:50.000 Well, we need to use our strength as adults to protect children from the poison of the culture of death that comes after them.
00:09:06.000 And it all ties together.
00:09:08.000 So it's the easy and the comfortable way is to convince ourselves that we don't need to intervene.
00:09:18.000 They're going.
00:09:19.000 Look, when I see they, you could fill it in, okay?
00:09:21.000 I don't want to overly politicize because allegedly this is bipartisan.
00:09:24.000 I don't know there were Democrats in North Dakota, but allegedly this is bipartisan, right?
00:09:27.000 If there are, I'm glad you're here.
00:09:28.000 I'd love to meet you.
00:09:29.000 That's really interesting.
00:09:32.000 So.
00:09:35.000 But it's great.
00:09:36.000 Good for you guys.
00:09:37.000 So when I mean they, I mean people that are embracing a secular postmodern view of what I call the culture of death.
00:09:50.000 I believe one of the defining reasons we're in the mess that we are in in our country is that we decided to embrace secularism as the state-run religion of the United States.
00:10:04.000 Now, when I say this, the media calls me a Christian nationalist and all this whatever stuff.
00:10:09.000 I am a Christian and a nationalist, and if you put them together, I don't know really what you're trying to call me.
00:10:14.000 But here's the one thing.
00:10:15.000 America was a freer, better country when kids were praying in school. 0.81
00:10:22.000 America was a freer and better country when we taught abstinence and saving yourself for marriage. 0.77
00:10:32.000 It was. 0.95
00:10:34.000 That's objectively true.
00:10:36.000 Look, secularism, we teach this lie of the separation of church and state, which is not in the Constitution, okay?
00:10:44.000 It's a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention saying that the state will not go after the church.
00:10:50.000 That will keep those two things separate.
00:10:53.000 The founding fathers, as John Adams beautifully said, he said, the Constitution was written solely for a moral and religious people. 0.87
00:11:01.000 It is wholly inadequate for the people of any other. 0.52
00:11:04.000 You can't have a republic with people that do not believe in some sort of eternal logos.
00:11:11.000 Now, of course, there is some diversity in that.
00:11:15.000 Catholic, Christian, you can, of course, there's all sorts of different.
00:11:18.000 The founding fathers never wanted a state-run church, but they had great objection to secularism.
00:11:25.000 They believed in ethical monotheism.
00:11:27.000 God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.
00:11:30.000 In fact, the end of the Declaration is basically a prayer.
00:11:34.000 It could be read as almost a prayer and an appeal.
00:11:36.000 We appeal to the divine creator of the world, the supreme judge of the world, it says.
00:11:41.000 And so, post-1960s, the state-run dogma of America is secularism.
00:11:48.000 How's that working out?
00:11:51.000 Pretty poorly.
00:11:52.000 We have the most suicidal generation.
00:11:55.000 We have the most alcohol-addicted generation, the most drug-addicted generation, the most miserable generation.
00:12:01.000 And that ties into, as we're here, right to life, if we're serious about advancing life, let's talk about how the culture of death infects every portion of society.
00:12:12.000 And before we can say, hey, we want to revitalize a culture of life, let's get back to basics.
00:12:19.000 Why are we here?
00:12:23.000 Every founding father, every founding father believed in Genesis 1-1.
00:12:30.000 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
00:12:34.000 I truly believe you could divide America into two buckets.
00:12:38.000 People that believe Genesis 1-1 and people who do not believe Genesis 1-1.
00:12:44.000 Now, the rest of the scriptures are very important.
00:12:47.000 We'll get to that.
00:12:48.000 But let's start there.
00:12:50.000 If you believe in Genesis 1-1, by definition, you being here is not an accident.
00:12:57.000 That means that your existence had intentionality.
00:13:02.000 That's a big deal.
00:13:04.000 Do you know that most campuses, most colleges do not make that argument to young people?
00:13:08.000 University of Mary does a great job and they should be recognized.
00:13:11.000 I had a great time visiting there last night.
00:13:13.000 So when I'm, I'm going to bash campuses.
00:13:16.000 I don't mean to bash University of Mary.
00:13:18.000 They do agree.
00:13:19.000 They warmly welcome me, and I really appreciated that because most campuses do not warmly welcome me at all.
00:13:26.000 Genesis 1-1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
00:13:30.000 That means that there is a beginning.
00:13:35.000 You know, they say religion is outdated and science is ahead of it.
00:13:38.000 You know that it took science thousands of years to catch up to Genesis 1-1?
00:13:45.000 Now it is accepted in every scientific circle.
00:13:49.000 The universe had a beginning.
00:13:53.000 Thanks, pal.
00:13:54.000 We knew that since Moses transcribed it from the Lord.
00:13:58.000 Keep reading.
00:13:58.000 You'll learn more.
00:14:01.000 Science is finally catching up.
00:14:04.000 Trust the science, right?
00:14:06.000 We'll get to that.
00:14:06.000 No, no, no.
00:14:07.000 They mean trust the scientists they like.
00:14:09.000 It's not about trusting the science.
00:14:11.000 So then we continue.
00:14:12.000 All right, so we're here for a reason.
00:14:14.000 So God gets to creating.
00:14:17.000 And probably one of the most infinitely deep and beautiful passages of anything ever written is God saying, we will make man in our image.
00:14:31.000 A little bit of a wink in the first book to the Trinity.
00:14:37.000 Again, you read how some of the rabbis try to reconcile it.
00:14:41.000 It's really something.
00:14:42.000 Oh, no, he's talking to the angels and he's talking to the animals.
00:14:45.000 And then it's the Trinity.
00:14:46.000 It's right there.
00:14:47.000 The Trinity is right there in Genesis 1.26, 127.
00:14:50.000 Okay.
00:14:51.000 That's a deeper theological point for a different time.
00:14:53.000 Anyway, we are made in the image of the divine.
00:14:58.000 That's the biggest of all the deals, actually.
00:15:00.000 You think about it.
00:15:02.000 So here you have, everybody here tonight believes that there is a God and we are not him.
00:15:13.000 You can't get out of the first book of Genesis if you believe that with a dividing line where half the country believes that there is no God and if there was a God, I would be in charge.
00:15:25.000 So what does that mean if a God breathed life into you, that breathed existence into you, that you're here with a mission and that every single life is made wonderfully and fearfully and uniquely in the image of that divine?
00:15:41.000 Modern secular academia will tell you that they're an accident, that you are an accident of millions of years of Darwinian progress and evolution, that you are here through an accident of rolling of the dice.
00:15:57.000 And we can't quite tell you how mathematically improbable it is, but you are a result of all of this.
00:16:04.000 And it just so happens that the earth is perfectly positioned to the sun and that we are able to have an environment where you have oxygen and carbon dioxide and carbon being the essence of all life.
00:16:16.000 It just so happens to be that way.
00:16:18.000 And the next thing that you have to say is that takes a lot more faith to believe that this is a happy accident than a God created it with intentionality.
00:16:31.000 That is a step of faith.
00:16:35.000 The state-run religion is blind faith.
00:16:37.000 We do not have blind faith.
00:16:39.000 You know, somebody asked me the other day, they said, Charlie, do you believe in miracles?
00:16:42.000 I said, we live in a miracle.
00:16:45.000 Creation itself is a reflection of the Creator.
00:16:48.000 It is a miracle that we're able to be here.
00:16:52.000 Therefore, it answers the next question: what is a human being?
00:16:56.000 A human being is something with a soul.
00:16:58.000 It is not just cells.
00:17:01.000 Do you notice they say that?
00:17:02.000 Oh, it's just a clump of cells.
00:17:04.000 Just a clump of cells.
00:17:06.000 No, it has a soul.
00:17:09.000 Therefore, what does a people, what do you do when souls are massacred?
00:17:16.000 And the answer to this beautiful organization is you guys do what most people don't do.
00:17:21.000 You say, I'm going to stand up for those that can't defend themselves.
00:17:26.000 You could tell a lot about a society based on what do you do, what do the powerful do to people that have less power than them.
00:17:36.000 The answer to almost every country, whether it be the Nazis, the Soviet Union, the Mayans, or the Incans, is the powerful use their power to stay in power and to crush the less powerful.
00:17:46.000 That's what they do.
00:17:49.000 The outlier is when the powerful get in the way of the less powerful or the weak being crushed. 0.86
00:17:58.000 This is why secularism is such a poison and an arsenic on society.
00:18:04.000 Because if we allow America to continue to be a religious and secular, what is the argument against mass annihilation of people weaker? 0.75
00:18:14.000 There is no secular argument.
00:18:16.000 They could say, oh, well, it's, you know, human beings are humanists, we're special.
00:18:21.000 No, no, no, no.
00:18:22.000 If you do not make an argument that those people have a soul, therefore are infinitely valuable, then you're going to get to a place where they are eliminated and they are abolished.
00:18:32.000 And it might not manifest in the way that you will always recognize or realize.
00:18:37.000 You see, this kind of anti-life culture of death thing is manifesting in ways that's really interesting.
00:18:42.000 And I hope you guys fight this here in North Dakota because your neighbors to the north, Canada, which is, my goodness, you want to talk about a country that has become totalitarian.
00:18:52.000 Canada is what happens when you allow secularism to take over an entire country.
00:18:59.000 Medical-assisted suicide. 0.94
00:19:02.000 And the Catholic Church deserves a lot of credit.
00:19:04.000 They've been against this for a very long time.
00:19:06.000 They deserve a lot of credit for this, more so than my Protestant friends. 0.92
00:19:10.000 And so there's this TikTok video. 0.99
00:19:13.000 I got to share this with you.
00:19:14.000 I did a whole podcast on it.
00:19:16.000 There's this TikTok video of this Victoria Secret model with her grandmother.
00:19:23.000 She does this TikTok video and she says, This is the last dinner I'm going to have with my grandmother because she's deciding to do medical-assisted suicide because of a terminal diagnosis.
00:19:33.000 And the grandmother's dancing and she has agency and consciousness.
00:19:37.000 And it goes totally viral, right?
00:19:39.000 20 or 30 million views, celebrating the, I'm going to kill myself in a medically comfortable environment.
00:19:49.000 Now, the most alarming part of it is the comments in the video and the reaction is overwhelmingly positive.
00:19:57.000 This is amazing.
00:19:58.000 This is terrific.
00:20:00.000 She's dying on her own terms.
00:20:03.000 She is, you know, what a champion.
00:20:05.000 And I just, this is what happens when you don't know what life is.
00:20:10.000 This is what happens when you believe that life is a burden, not a blessing.
00:20:15.000 Not to mention, let's just take the obvious thing, this video that was seen 15, 20 million times.
00:20:20.000 What you just did is you made it more acceptable for a teenager who's contemplating suicide to think that that is an acceptable outcome, what you just did on your way out.
00:20:31.000 And she says, well, I'm totally at peace.
00:20:33.000 And I will say this, I mean, she's now dead, but you believe that you did everything God's been called.
00:20:42.000 You are so arrogant to believe that as you have breath given to you from the divine, that I get to push a plug.
00:20:47.000 You're trying to tell me you've counseled every person you can, that you have every person that you can, you know, that you can speak to, that every family member has access to you.
00:20:56.000 No, you want to talk that right.
00:20:58.000 By the way, it's legal in seven states in the United States.
00:21:01.000 One in three suicides in Canada is medically assisted suicide.
00:21:04.000 They're running advertisements like you would have believed.
00:21:06.000 It's subsidized by the state.
00:21:07.000 It is flat out widespread depopulation euthanasia and it's coming to the states very soon.
00:21:12.000 But why wouldn't it come?
00:21:15.000 Because if you have a culture that doesn't celebrate life, wouldn't you then just have a cottage industry of Dr. Kvorkian that makes it easier and more comfortable to die?
00:21:24.000 Instead, the opposite should be said.
00:21:27.000 It said, no, no, no, you have a duty to the divine to live courageously.
00:21:31.000 And it might, and it might not always be comfortable.
00:21:37.000 It might be tough.
00:21:39.000 You know, I'm so moved by some of you in the audience.
00:21:43.000 I see you, and it's like this running competition I think you guys have of who can have the most kids.
00:21:47.000 And it's, I have 10 and I have 12. 0.94
00:21:50.000 Once it gets over six, I know you're Catholic. 1.00
00:21:52.000 It's a guarantee, right? 1.00
00:21:53.000 So, and either that or Mormon, it's uncertain. 0.86
00:21:58.000 But we're not in Utah, so it's definitely Catholic.
00:22:04.000 And my question is, and I always, because I love learning, as I say, well, was it easy?
00:22:08.000 They said, no, it was really hard.
00:22:10.000 And I say, why'd you do it?
00:22:12.000 And the answers vary, but they're usually of, because God said to be fruitful and multiply.
00:22:16.000 And it now has been an amazing blessing, and we're called to do that.
00:22:20.000 That is the right answer.
00:22:22.000 It is not because I wanted something simple.
00:22:26.000 It's not because I wanted the easiest possible thing.
00:22:30.000 And we have an entire generation, I talk to them every day, who want the easiest way out possible.
00:22:38.000 And ironically, it actually creates a very, very miserable existence where they want all the dopamine highs and all the pleasure, but none of the anchored responsibility.
00:22:50.000 So I was talking to someone Who said, you know, they had 10 kids, 12 kids, I can't keep track.
00:22:53.000 And they say, I could tell you, though, my life is the most fulfilling that I could have possibly am.
00:23:00.000 It was adventurous.
00:23:02.000 It was complex.
00:23:03.000 It was difficult.
00:23:05.000 It was uncertain.
00:23:08.000 But honestly, I look back at my life and I know that I've done everything I possibly can to fulfill the biblical mandate.
00:23:14.000 I see that my kids share my values and like 49 grandkids or something, which is amazing.
00:23:21.000 And that's a life well lived.
00:23:25.000 You contrast that with the average secular life that is advertised to the kids I talk to on campus who tell me that they want to be able to have free sex, abortion on demand, do whatever I want to do whenever I want to do it, every pleasure, every substance. 0.84
00:23:39.000 And then I'll get a degree and I'm a young lady and I'm going to go work for corporate America, get a bunch of cats, you know, still have a bunch of free sex, not get married, right?
00:23:49.000 Wait till I'm 32 or 33 to maybe pick out a metrosexual bet beta husband that barely passes as a man, you know, maybe have, maybe have a kid before my clock runs out and wonder why I'm on antidepressants going into my early 40s.
00:24:07.000 And it's like, hello, you embarked on a secular lie that was not what you are called to do.
00:24:16.000 And so we have an entire generation fighting their nature, and we have the rise of this belief that I must be my own God.
00:24:26.000 I must be in the center of the entire universe.
00:24:30.000 And that's part of the medical assisted suicide thing, but it's also part of Pride Month, which, by the way, we just need to remind all of our friends, pride is a sin, everybody, right?
00:24:37.000 You got to remember that.
00:24:38.000 Pride comes from, I tweeted that out, and people are like, that's so controversial.
00:24:43.000 How is the father?
00:24:44.000 Is that controversial saying pride is a sin?
00:24:47.000 It's the deadliest of all the sins.
00:24:49.000 Thank you.
00:24:52.000 He's a good father right here.
00:24:53.000 He knows what he's talking about.
00:24:57.000 Pride comes before the fall.
00:24:59.000 I say, since when do we have a whole month based on the deadliest of all sins?
00:25:03.000 I mean, it's just so perplexing.
00:25:06.000 And by the way, a whole month? 0.98
00:25:08.000 It's like we've been conquered by a foreign country, right? 0.78
00:25:11.000 You've got rainbow flags everywhere because I'm the most important thing.
00:25:15.000 See me?
00:25:16.000 You must celebrate alongside.
00:25:17.000 And by the way, let me just talk on the pride thing for a second.
00:25:19.000 If I offend you, you're in the wrong place.
00:25:21.000 I got to be honest with you.
00:25:22.000 So, you know, it started with you must tolerate it and then you must accept it and then you must celebrate it and then you must participate it with your kids.
00:25:31.000 Like, whoa, I thought this is about tolerance.
00:25:34.000 And now it's about mandatory participation.
00:25:38.000 So, and then I will connect these, all of this together.
00:25:43.000 You guys done a great thing here in North Dakota.
00:25:45.000 You've passed some great legislation.
00:25:46.000 I'm thrilled the governor has signed it into law.
00:25:49.000 I'm awfully critical of the governor, and I do not know why he's running for president.
00:25:52.000 Maybe someone can fill that in because that is a strange thing.
00:25:55.000 So, but I'm being honest.
00:26:00.000 I'm glad he signed the piece of legislation.
00:26:02.000 If someone has an answer, please contact me because that is a puzzle I have not figured out yet.
00:26:09.000 So, he signed into law.
00:26:14.000 You guys did a great job with that.
00:26:16.000 But the animating force of somebody that wants to crush an unborn child is the same unclean spirit that makes somebody want to chemically castrate or take the breasts away from a 12-year-old.
00:26:31.000 This is what God has designed, and I'm going to use my will, my scientific technology, to go above what is natural, beautiful, and good.
00:26:45.000 You see, science was actually a Christian endeavor originally.
00:26:49.000 It was about exploring the natural world, understanding God's creation.
00:26:53.000 Sir Francis Bacon, the kind of modern founder of science, and Sir Isaac Newton, who actually wrote more about biblical prophecy than he did even about physics, they use their reason to say, okay, if creation has a creator, therefore there's a reason we're here.
00:27:12.000 So let's understand the natural world better because there must be discoveries that can help us then flourish.
00:27:20.000 That was what really drove the scientific revolution.
00:27:24.000 It was a Christian endeavor under the premise that this is not an accident. 1.00
00:27:28.000 Then something changed with those pesky Germans. 1.00
00:27:31.000 I know like half you guys are German descent. 1.00
00:27:33.000 So it's don't mean to offend you, but it's like every other name is Schmacht and Schwann, this.
00:27:40.000 It's like, okay.
00:27:43.000 Great folks. 1.00
00:27:45.000 But when you get German scientists in a room, it has been a catastrophe for humanity of the last 150 years. 1.00
00:27:54.000 All right. 0.99
00:27:56.000 And so you got German scientists in a room and they're like, wait, hold on, no, no, they got this whole thing wrong. 0.94
00:28:00.000 We are going to, science should be about controlling and changing nature, not seeking to understand nature. 0.88
00:28:08.000 And that's a totally different moral approach.
00:28:11.000 That I'm seeking to change it. 1.00
00:28:12.000 What is the trans thing seeking to do? 0.98
00:28:15.000 What is the abortion thing seeking to do? 1.00
00:28:17.000 I'm going to change that which God has designed.
00:28:20.000 I am going to become like God.
00:28:24.000 I'm going to use power against those that can't defend themselves to actually change the naturally created order.
00:28:31.000 And so I suppose the question is, well, then what can be done about this?
00:28:36.000 Well, you guys are in a great spot here in North Dakota.
00:28:38.000 I love this place.
00:28:39.000 Please hold on to your values.
00:28:41.000 You know, there's going to be this big movement of people that say, oh, you know, we have to try to be more like other states.
00:28:47.000 Just do not become like other states, okay?
00:28:50.000 You guys are doing a great job because you have your core values.
00:28:54.000 You have an amazing commitment to family and to life.
00:28:58.000 And so please stay that way.
00:28:59.000 And I really mean that.
00:29:01.000 And I anticipate that you will because there's going to be so much pressure to try to make North Dakota turn into something that it's not.
00:29:07.000 But more macro, which I think is really important.
00:29:10.000 A lot of you are here.
00:29:11.000 And this is what really animates me: is that, look, there's a huge opportunity in front of us as we now get to articulate what really is life.
00:29:23.000 And there's no easy way to answer that.
00:29:26.000 But here, let me give you the wrong answer, as I've said.
00:29:29.000 Life is not about instantaneous enjoyment.
00:29:39.000 And it's certainly not about always doing what you want to do when you want to do it.
00:29:43.000 Life well lived in the biblical promise, Western society was founded on this, is about fulfilling the duties and obligations to the divine, to your family, to your community.
00:29:56.000 Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:30:03.000 And this room is filled with people that have done that.
00:30:06.000 And I mean, you'll know people by the fruit.
00:30:08.000 The fruit is pretty remarkable, right?
00:30:10.000 In a country that's falling apart, you know, you have your lives together and you have the wealthiest of all currencies, which is lots of kids and lots of grandkids. 0.82
00:30:19.000 That's a lot better than a secular millionaire in Brooklyn that's wondering why they're so miserable. 0.91
00:30:26.000 And so the final thing I'll say, because I know that I'm tight on time, I want to be very precise on time, is we have to stop the happy talk. 0.99
00:30:37.000 And this is something that I'm pretty good at.
00:30:39.000 And they're saying some things I'm not good at, I'll be very honest.
00:30:46.000 I currently believe, yes, the country's on a precipice.
00:30:49.000 Who knows where it's going to be headed?
00:30:51.000 But we need truth tellers to rise in a very serious way right now.
00:31:01.000 The amount of outright lies that we allow to spread is unlike anything I've ever seen.
00:31:07.000 When you see something untrue, say something.
00:31:11.000 When you see a lie, say something.
00:31:13.000 In the beginning was the word, which is the logos.
00:31:16.000 That is the harmony of existence.
00:31:18.000 That means that there is a way, a truth, the truth, the light.
00:31:22.000 And that truth is not, as the beautiful speaker said earlier, it's not subjective.
00:31:29.000 There is no your truth.
00:31:31.000 There's truth.
00:31:32.000 And the issue with your truth very quickly becomes man will do whatever is right in his own eyes very, very quickly.
00:31:40.000 So going back earlier, am I pessimistic or optimistic?
00:31:44.000 So if I told you I was optimistic, you would go home and you would say, boy, Charlie thinks we're going to win.
00:31:50.000 I don't have to do anything.
00:31:52.000 If I said I was pessimistic, you would go home and say, yep, Charlie said it's all over.
00:31:56.000 I don't have to do anything.
00:32:00.000 The honest truth is, it shouldn't matter.
00:32:05.000 You do it because you love what is beautiful, you love the eternal, and you commit to action and you fight because it's the right thing to do.
00:32:15.000 You do it out of an act of obedience, not out of the wager at the Caesar's Palace of whether or not, yo, what are the gambling odds today of whether or not we're going to win?
00:32:23.000 I don't know.
00:32:23.000 It's up, it's down.
00:32:25.000 I know some of you, I could see by the way you're looking at me, you can say, look, Charlie, I've done everything that's been asked of me.
00:32:30.000 All right?
00:32:31.000 I watch Fox News and I don't know if you watch it anymore, but...
00:32:38.000 Or how about this?
00:32:38.000 I bought the pillow, you know, I did.
00:32:46.000 Promo code Kirk at mypillow.com, by the way, just so we're clear.
00:32:51.000 I got a closet full of relief factor.
00:32:53.000 I reverse mortgaged my home and I got more gold than I know what to do with.
00:32:59.000 No, no, no, no.
00:33:00.000 It's the man in the arena that counts.
00:33:03.000 It might feel comfortable and safe here in North Dakota, right?
00:33:06.000 Your liberal to conservative ratio is very impressive.
00:33:11.000 We need every single one of you to fight.
00:33:15.000 And you'll know what that is.
00:33:16.000 Pray for wisdom and God will give you abundantly, James 1.5.
00:33:19.000 But pray for your nation, you fast for your nation, your local schools, how you educate your kids, raising a generation that is anti-fragile and tough and challenging and sending them out into the world.
00:33:30.000 And let me just say for the moms out here in the audience, what you're doing to raise strong kids, we're going to need every last young person to fight alongside me in the trenches because I'm 29.
00:33:41.000 I'm getting too old for this stuff.
00:33:42.000 So we got to send in reinforcements.
00:33:45.000 I got like a decade or two decades left.
00:33:47.000 And we got to...
00:33:48.000 That matters more than I could ever tell you.
00:33:51.000 Look, the country is macro, not in a good spot.
00:33:57.000 But as long as we have agency and we have the ability to speak truth, I have hope.
00:34:04.000 I truly believe that.
00:34:06.000 And more importantly, I encourage you to make hope happen.
00:34:11.000 The fight for life is the most important fight.
00:34:14.000 I truly believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that God is going to hold us to account to what we did or we did not do when children were preyed upon in the womb, where children were played upon in the classroom, where children were preyed upon in Target, where children were preyed upon on TikTok.
00:34:31.000 Did you sit idly by and say, eh, not my kid, not my problem?
00:34:35.000 Or did you say, I'm going to fight for legislation, I'm going to fight for virtue, I'm going to fight for goodness, because every single kid is made in the image of God.
00:34:44.000 That's the call to action.
00:34:46.000 And so we must fight and speak the truth.
00:34:53.000 And I could tell you, we are on the precipice, possibly on something very, very special.
00:34:59.000 And this is the greatest of all fights.
00:35:01.000 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
00:35:04.000 Man is made in the image of the Creator.
00:35:07.000 There are three types of people.
00:35:08.000 You can make a decision tonight.
00:35:10.000 Are you going to be someone that sits idly by, or are you going to stand up to those pesky predators that are coming after our kids?
00:35:16.000 If you love God, you must hate evil.
00:35:18.000 Psalm 97:10.
00:35:19.000 It's time for us to start fighting evil.
00:35:21.000 God bless you guys.
00:35:22.000 Thank you so much.
00:35:27.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:35:33.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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