00:00:00.000Hey everybody, happy Sunday, a conversation that I had in Bismarck, North Dakota, about life, the culture of life and the culture of death.
00:00:53.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:00.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:18.000I make a habit out of coming here between May and September every year.
00:01:25.000It 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.
00:02:07.000I mean, so it's like, okay, he's going to proceed with his own contempt.
00:02:11.000There's got to be a whole different way.
00:02:13.000This fourth branch of government is totally out of control.
00:02:15.000And the founding fathers never intended to have an untouchable, unelected, unaccountable fourth branch of government that does whatever they want.
00:02:24.000But nevertheless, we have to fight it.
00:02:44.000I have no idea, and I'm going to say that later.
00:02:47.000Things are not looking good on a lot of different fronts.
00:02:50.000At the same time, there's a lot of place for promise and for hope.
00:02:53.000When I visit college campuses, we can't find rooms big enough to fit all the students that want to attend and hear our speeches.
00:03:00.000When 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.
00:03:09.000So there is an appetite and there is a desire.
00:03:56.000I think we have to remind ourselves, though, what it took to get Roe versus Wade repealed, because I think sometimes we leave out part of that story.
00:04:04.000And 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.
00:05:59.000Civilizations 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.
00:06:43.000You're an infant, you're a protector of an infant, or you're a predator.
00:06:46.000Look 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.
00:06:53.000One 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.
00:07:04.000Basically, Joseph, of course, who saved Egypt from famine, who interpreted dreams and saved Egypt from near extinction.
00:09:37.000So when I mean they, I mean people that are embracing a secular postmodern view of what I call the culture of death.
00:09:50.000I 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.
00:10:04.000Now, when I say this, the media calls me a Christian nationalist and all this whatever stuff.
00:10:09.000I am a Christian and a nationalist, and if you put them together, I don't know really what you're trying to call me.
00:11:55.000We have the most alcohol-addicted generation, the most drug-addicted generation, the most miserable generation.
00:12:01.000And 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.
00:12:12.000And before we can say, hey, we want to revitalize a culture of life, let's get back to basics.
00:15:02.000So here you have, everybody here tonight believes that there is a God and we are not him.
00:15:13.000You 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.
00:15:25.000So 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?
00:15:41.000Modern 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.
00:15:57.000And we can't quite tell you how mathematically improbable it is, but you are a result of all of this.
00:16:04.000And 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.
00:16:18.000And 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.
00:17:09.000Therefore, what does a people, what do you do when souls are massacred?
00:17:16.000And the answer to this beautiful organization is you guys do what most people don't do.
00:17:21.000You say, I'm going to stand up for those that can't defend themselves.
00:17:26.000You 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.
00:17:36.000The 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.
00:18:22.000If 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.
00:18:32.000And it might not manifest in the way that you will always recognize or realize.
00:18:37.000You see, this kind of anti-life culture of death thing is manifesting in ways that's really interesting.
00:18:42.000And 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.
00:18:52.000Canada is what happens when you allow secularism to take over an entire country.
00:19:16.000There's this TikTok video of this Victoria Secret model with her grandmother.
00:19:23.000She 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.
00:19:33.000And the grandmother's dancing and she has agency and consciousness.
00:20:05.000And I just, this is what happens when you don't know what life is.
00:20:10.000This is what happens when you believe that life is a burden, not a blessing.
00:20:15.000Not to mention, let's just take the obvious thing, this video that was seen 15, 20 million times.
00:20:20.000What 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.
00:20:31.000And she says, well, I'm totally at peace.
00:20:33.000And I will say this, I mean, she's now dead, but you believe that you did everything God's been called.
00:20:42.000You are so arrogant to believe that as you have breath given to you from the divine, that I get to push a plug.
00:20:47.000You'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.
00:21:15.000Because 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?
00:22:22.000It is not because I wanted something simple.
00:22:26.000It's not because I wanted the easiest possible thing.
00:22:30.000And we have an entire generation, I talk to them every day, who want the easiest way out possible.
00:22:38.000And 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.
00:22:50.000So I was talking to someone Who said, you know, they had 10 kids, 12 kids, I can't keep track.
00:22:53.000And they say, I could tell you, though, my life is the most fulfilling that I could have possibly am.
00:23:25.000You 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.
00:23:39.000And 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?
00:23:49.000Wait 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.
00:24:07.000And it's like, hello, you embarked on a secular lie that was not what you are called to do.
00:24:16.000And so we have an entire generation fighting their nature, and we have the rise of this belief that I must be my own God.
00:24:26.000I must be in the center of the entire universe.
00:24:30.000And 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?
00:25:22.000So, 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.
00:25:31.000Like, whoa, I thought this is about tolerance.
00:25:34.000And now it's about mandatory participation.
00:25:38.000So, and then I will connect these, all of this together.
00:25:43.000You guys done a great thing here in North Dakota.
00:26:16.000But 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.
00:26:31.000This 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.
00:26:45.000You see, science was actually a Christian endeavor originally.
00:26:49.000It was about exploring the natural world, understanding God's creation.
00:26:53.000Sir 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.
00:27:12.000So let's understand the natural world better because there must be discoveries that can help us then flourish.
00:27:20.000That was what really drove the scientific revolution.
00:27:24.000It was a Christian endeavor under the premise that this is not an accident.
00:27:28.000Then something changed with those pesky Germans.
00:27:31.000I know like half you guys are German descent.
00:27:33.000So it's don't mean to offend you, but it's like every other name is Schmacht and Schwann, this.
00:29:11.000And 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.
00:29:23.000And there's no easy way to answer that.
00:29:26.000But here, let me give you the wrong answer, as I've said.
00:29:29.000Life is not about instantaneous enjoyment.
00:29:39.000And it's certainly not about always doing what you want to do when you want to do it.
00:29:43.000Life 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.
00:29:56.000Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:30:03.000And this room is filled with people that have done that.
00:30:06.000And I mean, you'll know people by the fruit.
00:30:08.000The fruit is pretty remarkable, right?
00:30:10.000In 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.
00:30:19.000That's a lot better than a secular millionaire in Brooklyn that's wondering why they're so miserable.
00:30:26.000And 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.
00:30:37.000And this is something that I'm pretty good at.
00:30:39.000And they're saying some things I'm not good at, I'll be very honest.
00:30:46.000I currently believe, yes, the country's on a precipice.
00:30:49.000Who knows where it's going to be headed?
00:30:51.000But we need truth tellers to rise in a very serious way right now.
00:31:01.000The amount of outright lies that we allow to spread is unlike anything I've ever seen.
00:31:07.000When you see something untrue, say something.
00:32:00.000The honest truth is, it shouldn't matter.
00:32:05.000You 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.
00:32:15.000You 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?
00:33:16.000Pray for wisdom and God will give you abundantly, James 1.5.
00:33:19.000But 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.
00:33:30.000And 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.
00:34:06.000And more importantly, I encourage you to make hope happen.
00:34:11.000The fight for life is the most important fight.
00:34:14.000I 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.
00:34:31.000Did you sit idly by and say, eh, not my kid, not my problem?
00:34:35.000Or 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.