The Democratic Party is fighting for foreign gangbangers, not American citizens, and then a really important conversation about the ancient roots of Christianity with Dr. Ken Calvert from Hillsdale College. The moral confusion of the left is one of the greatest things we can learn from Dennis Prager.
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00:02:07.000The Moral Confusion of the Left is one of great...
00:02:13.000The first person who taught me this is the legendary Dennis Prager.
00:02:18.000He noticed it, let me put it that way.
00:02:20.000Something that Dennis Prager would mention time and time again is how the Democrat Party would emphasize a tyrannical approach to things that do not matter and would ignore things that obviously do matter.
00:02:35.000The Democrat Party will fight like none other to make sure that boys can go in female locker rooms.
00:02:41.000The Democrat Party will go into the courtroom.
00:02:44.000In fact, they will fly to foreign countries to fight for foreign gang members.
00:02:53.000But for American citizens or for girls in locker rooms that want privacy, they're viewed as kind of an annoyance.
00:03:10.000This was on full display yesterday where you had the tale of two political parties.
00:03:15.000One political party decided to go fly to El Salvador and get on their metaphorical hands and knees and beg for an illegal alien to be returned to the United States of America.
00:03:52.000So on one side, you have the Democrat Party that is acting as if this was just a random person scooped up off the side of the street and teleported down to El Salvador.
00:04:04.000But that is what gets the Democrat Party so...
00:04:08.000They will refuse to protect female sports.
00:04:12.000The moral confusion left is one that we've all called anarcho-tyranny.
00:04:16.000They want anarchy in the streets, but tyranny against political parties that they do not like.
00:04:22.000The Democrat Party is now a party of 80-20 issues, which is why their approval rating is 21%, because they are on the 20% of all the issues.
00:04:34.000Men and girls sports, illegals over Americans.
00:04:42.000The Democrat Party right now, as fairly as I can make it, is to get MS-13 gang members out of prison and get biological boys into girls' locker rooms.
00:04:54.000And yesterday, it broke the internet where the mother, the mother of Rachel Morin, showed up to the press briefing room.
00:07:22.000Let me reiterate, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an illegal alien, MS-13 gang member and foreign terrorist who was deported back to his home country.
00:08:56.000Voters favoring the government trying to deport all 11 million of them.
00:09:01.000Back in 2016, just 38% of voters wanted the government to try to deport.
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00:09:09.000Compared to where we are in 2025, 56%, the majority, the American people have come a long way on this issue, much closer to Donald Trump.
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00:09:29.00056% of Americans support what President Trump is doing with immigration.
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00:12:17.000Of all the things that animate me, of the great libels, I have to say this short clip from CNN might be one of the great lies, one of the great falsehoods, one of the great sick, twisted narratives that I have seen aired out of all the nonsense from Russia hoax to...
00:12:40.000For CNN to say that there is no left-wing equivalent of political violence is one of the most repulsive things that I've seen.
00:12:52.000Anyway, so this clip here, this post by the econ student at George Mason, Nicholas Decker, he says, the ultimate source of political power is and always will be violence.
00:13:03.000If the present administration should continue on its course, there is no choice but war.
00:13:11.000Now, mind you, I remember when somebody showed up to my event in Idaho about four years ago asking the question, Charlie, when do we use the guns?
00:13:19.000Obviously some sort of provocateur or fed or maybe just some sort of twisted person from Idaho.
00:13:24.000And I denounced it and it was national news.
00:14:40.000That's what this sub stack is coming to.
00:14:42.000By the way, you have elements of black America that are lifting up Carmelo Anthony, the murderous thug who stabbed Austin Metcalfe to death.
00:14:55.000They're making t-shirts with Carmelo's face on it.
00:14:59.000They are acting as if Carmelo is this wonderful person.
00:15:24.000There is simply no equivalent on the left.
00:15:27.000I mean, first of all, Oklahoma City was in the 1990s.
00:15:32.000Charlottesville resulted in one person dead, and that was back in 2017.
00:15:37.000Not a mention of the summer of love, the race hate, not a single mention of the spike in crime, vandalism, arson, murder, the increase in violence rates.
00:17:51.000There was an ancient Christian historian, the Venerable Bede, out of northern England who talked about this goddess Easter that some people worshipped but had no connection with Christian Passover, Christian celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
00:18:09.000And really it shows up first in print in, of all places, William Tyndale's Bible when he's talking about this celebration.
00:18:19.000And from then on, it's connected to the celebration.
00:18:23.000But in the rest of the world, the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus is referred to in its original Greek and Hebrew, the Pascha, which is related to the Passover.
00:18:40.000To this idea of sacrificing a lamb and the blood of the lamb at Egypt with the passing over of the Hebrews into freedom from slavery in Egypt.
00:18:55.000And the last of the great plagues of the ten plagues of the firstborn.
00:19:03.000And the establishment by God of the Passover feast, which was celebrated by the Hebrews, never a pagan feast, never a pagan activity, up until the present day.
00:19:16.000And the Christians, of course, celebrate Passover.
00:19:20.000In a similar way as an extension of our Jewish roots, because of course Jesus was Jewish and the New Testament is the fulfillment of all of the prophecies, all of the looking ahead by the Jews,
00:19:36.000by the Hebrews, the coming of the Messiah, the fulfillment of the covenants.
00:19:40.000And what you have here in Passover and in what Christians do every Easter, and unfortunately we still use that word, Is celebrate that feast, the Passover feast,
00:19:58.000So this is not a pagan activity at all.
00:20:02.000One of the misconceptions, actually, that comes out of this is the Council of Nicaea in 325, where people claim that Constantine took a pagan feast and made it Christian.
00:20:30.000And the Council of Nicaea, now the Council of Nicaea did discuss the proper date for the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus, but it had nothing to do with paganism.
00:20:44.000And so, you know, as you often point out, actually, in your debates with students on university campuses, there are very shallow...
00:20:55.000levels of understanding of history and of ideas that really do not come out of any profound understanding of the actual facts.
00:21:23.000Everything from even wedding rings to Christmas.
00:21:27.000Talk about how they are not pagan in origin or nature, but at times there might be terms used, but the Spirit was all about redemption to get people that were so attached to their pagan traditions and bring them into Christianity.
00:21:43.000If I get that right, please keep going or correct me if I'm mistaken there.
00:21:49.000Yeah, I think it's very complicated because remember that the Christians and the Jews were not part of the pagan world.
00:21:58.000And so there was a definite desire to stay separate from paganism.
00:22:05.000And so when we look at the celebration of Christmas, for instance, and the celebration on the 25th of December, That was done 200 years really before Constantine.
00:22:18.000And the idea that somehow this was taking over the celebration of Sol Invictus, a pagan divinity, that's just not true.
00:22:30.000That's not what the Christians were doing.
00:22:32.000And so there's a lot of misunderstanding, and much of that came actually out of the 1700s and 1800s AD, scholars trying to connect Christianity back to ancient paganism.
00:22:46.000Now, when the Christians do adopt some aspects of their culture, such as the use of wedding rings or the use of other aspects of the culture, it's not what you would call a full-blown adoption of pagan activities.
00:23:08.000Persecuted by the pagans and not particularly wanting to take on the worship in some way or even the hint of worship of pagan gods, of pagan divinity.
00:23:22.000Looking at this historically, one has to be very careful about that.
00:23:27.000Now, along the way, did Christians build churches on top of old pagan sites in order to Christianize them?
00:23:36.000But it was a Christian message that they were making and not the pagan message.
00:23:41.000Did they sometimes use the old pagan temples as Christian churches?
00:23:45.000And you do find this every once in a while, that they will adopt those structures and make them.
00:23:52.000Christian, like the Pantheon in the city of Rome.
00:23:55.000But when we talk about the fusing of pagan and Christian activities, you might find some of that at the local level.
00:24:07.000Among Christians who are maybe confused about the transition that they have just made from paganism, you might have some confusion there.
00:24:19.000But really on the whole when you talk about what Christian leaders are teaching, what they're really trying to get across to their people, is this idea that we are, as Christians, very much separate from the pagan world.
00:24:36.000I would argue that a lot of the confusion in the modern world about, for instance, Constantine or the use of pagan ideas or sites or pagan divinities within Christian practice,
00:24:52.000that that is actually more modern confusion than it is the actual practice of what's going on in the ancient world among ancient Christians.
00:25:04.000About a couple minutes remaining here, Dr. Calvert, so you are a phenomenal professor.
00:25:10.000People should check out charlie4hillsdale.com.
00:25:14.000If you had to isolate amongst your Christian students, those that...
00:25:18.000are schooled in the Bible, that have a good understanding of the canon.
00:25:23.000What are one or two corrections around this topic of ancient Christianity that you feel you really have to zero in on, things that people come in believing that, quite honestly, do not have any historicity to it,
00:25:38.000that do not have any foundation to it, of well-meaning Bible students at Hillsdale that sometimes you have to correct and clarify?
00:25:48.000Yeah, I think that a couple of things.
00:25:51.000Number one, that Christianity did not appear out of nowhere on its own.
00:25:58.000That it's rooted in the Old Testament.
00:26:05.000That Jesus is a part of that Jewish world.
00:26:09.000And this is a very, very important point that I think sometimes we miss.
00:26:14.000If you don't read the Gospels, for instance, In the thick of the Greek and Roman history, in the thick of the Jewish history, you really miss a lot of what Jesus is saying.
00:26:28.000And so that, I think, is very, very important.
00:26:30.000In fact, the fact that he is attacked really from day one, Herod goes after him because the Magi have called Jesus the King of the Jews, and Herod was named King of the Jews by the Roman Senate.
00:27:37.000And this gets the leadership of Rome, excuse me, of Jerusalem very upset because the potential for warfare, the potential for bloodshed, all of this arrives with Jesus in Jerusalem.
00:27:52.000This is why they want to get rid of him.
00:27:54.000And the very fact that he is crucified, that's how they get rid of traitors and rebels.
00:29:05.000So I want to broaden this discussion for a second, Dr. Calvert.
00:29:10.000Can you explain the uniqueness of Jesus, of his movement, and what his followers accomplished?
00:29:16.000Something that some people will say is, oh, there were plenty of other religions or cults in the Mediterranean, the Middle East that believed in a virgin birth or rise from the dead.
00:29:26.000What made Jesus of Nazareth different, unique, and the impact?
00:31:10.000And he gives some really good counsel and directions, of course, to his disciples that he is not going to pick up the sword and he's not going to be this bloody military Messiah, but rather he is the Messiah that atones for the sins of the people,
00:31:27.000which was also a part of all of that Old Testament prophecy.
00:31:31.000That he is indeed God incarnate, atoning for the sins of these people.
00:31:38.000So he's answering the question of how to deal with sin, with personal sin.
00:31:44.000And then, of course, in the resurrection, that this is the Messiah that is going to conquer death, that he conquers death itself.
00:31:53.000Now, one moment I love in Scripture is in the book of Acts when Gamaliel...
00:32:00.000This Pharisee, this leader of the Pharisees, stands up before the Sanhedrin.
00:32:09.000And he basically says, if this is the real thing, if he's the real Messiah, we need to be careful.
00:32:16.000If he's not the real thing, if he's not the real Messiah, and he mentions, you know, we've seen this before, there have been other Messiahs, and it always ends up in a bloody mess, right?
00:32:28.000And that's what they're afraid of, that this is going to end up in a war.
00:32:36.000One of those kinds of messiahs, it'll go away and it will all end.
00:32:41.000But if he is truly the real messiah, the true messiah, if this is of God, we need to be careful.
00:32:49.000And I think that that moment in the book of Acts says so much about...
00:32:55.000Who Jesus is and his peculiar, his uniqueness as Messiah.
00:33:01.000Now, when we talk about virgin birth and these other things, you know, there are references to Egypt and the Isis and Osiris mythology and other things.
00:33:11.000There is nothing like the virgin birth and what happens in...
00:33:19.000And you look in the Gospel of Luke and the story about Mary and receiving the announcement from the angel Gabriel and she gives her free will assent to the idea that God wants to become present on earth through her.