Learn English with Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, a pro-American student organization fighting for the future of our republic, at the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Columbia, South Carolina. Speaker: "Our nation has been in the crosshairs of a spiritual battle for a long time. And throughout history, at very critical moments, God has raised up leaders, voices of clarity and courage."
00:00:57.000You don't have to read the newspaper, listen to much news to know that our nation has been in the crosshairs of a spiritual battle for a long time.
00:01:05.000And throughout history, certainly throughout our nation's history, at very critical moments, God has raised up leaders, voices of clarity and courage, and you're about to hear one such voice.
00:01:18.000Turning Point USA has engaged hundreds of thousands of people, but young people.
00:01:24.000And I would say in the 2024 presidential election, the person, the individual most responsible for bringing out first-time voters, youth voters.
00:02:22.000Um, couple things I want to talk about, then we're gonna do question and answer here uh with Alex.
00:02:26.000Uh first of all, if we would have done this event a year ago, I gotta say our country's in a much better place today than it was a year ago.
00:02:43.000We're gonna talk about some of the challenges, and then uh we'll have a great chat.
00:02:47.000First of which is not only did Donald Trump win the White House back in November, which again, thanks to the glory of God, he did so in the most miraculous fashion.
00:02:58.000Donald Trump won the youth vote in several states around the country, including he won the youth vote in the state of South Carolina, just so we're clear.
00:03:05.000And for years we were told that younger voters were automatically gonna go to the left.
00:03:10.000We were told that younger voters were trending in the progressive liberal direction by default.
00:03:17.000You see, Gen ZM, I'm sure there's some Gen Z patriots here in the audience somewhere, they were part of, without a doubt, there you go, all six of them.
00:03:30.000They were told for a period of time, they were used as lab rats in one of the most inhumane social experiments in American history.
00:03:40.000Wear masks to school, shut down school, takeaway prom, take away graduation.
00:03:46.000We're going to silence your thoughts, we're gonna silence your speech, we're gonna make sure you give land acknowledgments.
00:03:51.000We're gonna call you racist, we're gonna call you toxically masculine.
00:03:55.000We're going to say that God does not exist.
00:03:58.000We want you to sit at home, watch a laptop, and just wither away into existence.
00:04:02.000It was without a doubt one of the most cruel things that we adults have ever done to our nation's children.
00:04:09.000And I do not believe that our nation's leaders have been held accountable enough.
00:04:15.000I believe Anthony Fauci needs to go to federal prison for the rest of his life for what happened during COVID.
00:04:23.000I don't care if Biden's auto pen signed his pardon, we should test that because that man did More damage to the next generation than almost anybody in particular.
00:04:34.000And so this generation, they lived through this social experiment.
00:04:40.000And while many of us saw our homes get more valuable, we saw our stocks go up.
00:04:46.000This generation saw themselves get poorer.
00:04:48.000They saw their relationships fall apart.
00:04:51.000They saw their friends commit suicide.
00:04:53.000They saw so many people fall to depression and anxiety and mental anguish and torture.
00:04:58.000And so the calamity that was presented in front of this generation set the table for a right wing correction, a right wing revolution that happened gradually and then suddenly.
00:05:12.000This last election, we saw the next generation, young men in particular, they moved 44 points more Republican from 2020 to 2024, delivering the White House for Donald Trump in record numbers.
00:05:26.000And it is not just that they are becoming more conservative, and this is the most exciting thing.
00:05:32.000We should celebrate that they're loving the nation again.
00:05:34.000We should celebrate that they want to get married.
00:05:36.000We should celebrate that they want to have children.
00:05:38.000But most importantly, everybody, they are on pace to be the most Christian generation in the last 50 years.
00:05:54.000They go on these college campuses and they don't want to just hear about North African lesbian poetry.
00:06:01.000They don't just want to hear about, you know, you're systemically racist because you are white.
00:06:07.000These failed postmodern secular ideas are falling apart in real time.
00:06:11.000And if there's only a couple things you remember that I say tonight, remember that America will not be a free nation if we are a nation without our commitment to God.
00:06:21.000If we we are one nation under God, not one nation under government, and if we are one nation under the state, then you will cease to be free.
00:06:29.000And what what where did we get COVID from?
00:06:44.000But we the reaction to COVID was largely because of two reasons.
00:06:49.000The first of which was because of a secular government that hates us and believes in wacky ideas.
00:06:55.000The second of which is a little bit harder truth, though.
00:06:58.000Too many pastors and too many churches sat idly by while our nation was closed.
00:07:03.000Too many pastors did not speak up and stand out.
00:07:06.000Now I know this might be controversial for some people, but in the summer of 2020, when they took Easter from us, they took Pentecost from us, when they were telling us that everything was racist and terrible and awful, we should have had more pastors marching out in the streets saying, Arrest me and throw me to prison.
00:07:22.000You will never call the church non-essential again.
00:07:25.000You see, COVID happened for those two major reasons.
00:07:28.000And now we are faced with this reality where the next generation they want something ancient, they want something true, they want something lasting, they want something good, they want something that will be around, not just for five minutes, but for the rest of their life.
00:07:43.000You see, when they go to church, they want to be struck with awe and wonder that only Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit can fill them.
00:07:50.000You see, they want a different type of Christianity than sometimes we've been tempted to present.
00:07:55.000You see, what we have been told is we have been told for the last couple of decades: hey, if you want young people to come to Jesus, never talk about biblical truths, don't talk about biblical marriage, don't talk about the family.
00:08:07.000Instead, just say, hey, all are welcome here.
00:08:45.000You cannot ever properly get someone to give their life to Christ and need a savior if they don't know what they need to be saved from.
00:08:54.000And if we don't talk about sin, which means being off target, then why would a generation ever Want to give their life to Jesus.
00:09:02.000The modern gospel is let's water it down so that everyone will come and we're gonna cast a wide net and then we're gonna give everyone the gospel of Jesus incrementally and slowly.
00:09:16.000Church attendance was going down, church attendance has sloped down, people are becoming less Christian the last 30 years because churches have become weaker and they stop teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ verse by verse, chapter by chapter, and truth by truth.
00:09:30.000Instead, what we've seen is people show up and they say, Yeah, you know, they say, why do you go to that church?
00:09:35.000Well, they have good parking and the coffee's above average, and it's like it's a rock concert with a TED talk, and I think you know, it's a lot of fun.
00:09:43.000Everybody, you don't go to church to have fun.
00:09:45.000If you have fun while you go to church, good.
00:09:48.000That means there, you know, that's extra bonus points.
00:09:52.000You don't go to church to be entertained.
00:09:54.000You don't go to church to have great music.
00:09:56.000You go to church to find out, make sure you're going to heaven to get your friends to go to heaven and you can live a more godly life.
00:10:02.000You go to church to find out what did Jesus say, what did Jesus teach, what is the Bible teaching and how do I act more like that?
00:10:07.000And this is where this is where this generation, they want more of that type of teaching.
00:10:10.000They don't want the watered down nonsense.
00:10:13.000They don't want the kind of, oh, well, you know, the kind of, you know, let's just say overly compassionate, nonsensical thing of saying, well, we don't want to talk about the transgender thing or the homosexuality thing or the abortion thing, because we might offend somebody.
00:10:25.000Everybody, if you are not actively being offended on a daily basis or as every weekly basis, when you go to church, your pastor is not doing his job.
00:10:33.000The Bible's supposed to be offensive to your flesh.
00:10:35.000The Bible's supposed to be offensive to your lower appetites.
00:10:40.000And so what we're what we're met with here is really a time for choosing for American Christianity.
00:10:45.000So many pastors, they failed the test during COVID, they failed the test during the lockdowns, and now they're wondering, well, if I want to grow my church, I have to try to water things down.
00:10:55.000I can tell you, as somebody who now draws thousands of people at our college events, by the way, I go to college campuses, so you guys don't have to.
00:11:06.000And when I go to these college campuses, anyone can go up to the mic.
00:11:11.000They're not going there to go hear the water down, happy, go lucky, everyone is great.
00:11:15.000They go there because they want to find the truth.
00:11:18.000And sometimes the truth might seem provocative and cut against your flesh.
00:11:23.000It might come again, well, that's kind of not what I've heard before.
00:11:26.000You haven't heard it before because we have approximated an entire culture that has gone used to accommodating people's and affirming people's sins.
00:11:35.000And then people say, Well, Charlie, Jesus says us that we should love one another.
00:12:10.000They the whole culture around them is ugly, from how people talk to how they increasingly dress to the words to the music, and they say, enough, this is, I don't want to live like this.
00:12:20.000So they're going towards something ancient.
00:12:22.000We are sitting on the precipice of the greatest Christian revival since Billy Graham.
00:12:28.000If we seize it, but it's not gonna happen with a bunch of weak needed wobbling pastors being afraid that they might get an angry email from somebody because they dare talk about, well, abortion is a sin.
00:12:41.000I hate you, pastor, because you just judged me.
00:12:44.000Okay, first of all, if you're the one writing those emails, you have a problem with the word of God, not with that pastor.
00:12:49.000But secondly, if you as a pastor are not trying to trim down your church to a manageable size every single Sunday, blessed subtraction, then you are not doing your job.
00:13:02.000You see, far too often we want to try to cast the widest net.
00:14:23.000They say, well, where in the Bible does it say be political?
00:14:25.000Well, let's open up how Daniel, Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Moses, Zerebabel, you want to pick almost any portion of the Old Testament.
00:14:35.000They're talking about either the moral or the civil law, how God is set up for us to live.
00:14:40.000You see, everybody, the kicker that I think that is in front of us is that we have this opportunity to reorient an entire nation back to what ultimately matters.
00:14:50.000What ultimately matters is that there is a God and you are not him, that we live under his teaching, and there is a natural law, and that it normativity is woven into nature, that there is a moral law that we should point towards.
00:15:02.000That no, you don't get to point to your own truth.
00:15:05.000You don't get to come up with your own values, that there is a way for you to live, and you don't get to choose your own way to live, that you should try to pursue something outside of you.
00:15:14.000And because of how the enemy overreached, God used it for good.
00:15:18.000We are living through Genesis 50, 20 right now.
00:15:21.000What the enemy meant for evil, God will use for good.
00:15:24.000And it is a prerequisite for an explosion of Christianity and commitments for Christ.
00:15:31.000But the second part is equally as important.
00:15:33.000And that's what I also want to talk about, which is the state of our nation, which is praise God, God gave us a respite, Donald Trump won, young people helped deliver it.
00:15:41.000But going even beyond that, what is the type of country that we want to live in?
00:15:45.000I want to live in a type of country where you don't have to lock your doors at night.
00:15:49.000A type of country where church attendance is going up, a type of country where people are going to get married and have children.
00:15:54.000A type of country where we are not going to have a Muslim Marxist mayor of New York City.
00:16:00.000There's something wrong with that, everybody.
00:16:03.000Now, this is where people say, Charlie, you can't say that.
00:16:06.000Let me repeat it for whatever stenographer for the media.
00:16:09.000There's something wrong when you have a Muslim Marxist mayor of New York City, our greatest city.
00:16:15.000In fact, we don't talk enough about Islam.
00:16:19.000There is a red-green axis that is trying to suffocate this country.
00:16:23.000We talk a lot about the red, which is the Marxist, but we don't talk nearly enough about the Islamist.
00:16:28.000We don't talk nearly enough about the hundreds of thousands of Muslims that we have voluntarily imported into our country that build mosques, implement Sharia law, they court.
00:16:39.000I don't know if you guys have this problem in South Carolina or not, but it's a I'm thankfully no.
00:16:43.000But you go to Minneapolis, you even go to Dallas, you go to New York, and it will metastasize, it will spread.
00:17:34.000Do you know that just the other day, an illegal alien that entered in this country by the name of Harbinger Singh, one of 400,000 illegal alien refugees that Joe Biden gave commercial driver's licenses to.
00:17:53.000A legal U-turn in the middle of a day on a two-way highway on a two-way highway in Florida, goes around and kills three Americans, everybody, there are 400,000 of them.
00:18:32.000We need to love the nation so much that we don't care about the insults that they throw at us.
00:18:37.000We need to care about our neighbors so much that we don't want them to die by an 18-right doing a U-turn in Florida and being killed by a foreign illegal alien that was given a commercial driver's license.
00:18:53.000We're honored to be partnering with Alan Jackson Ministries.
00:18:55.000And today I want to point you to their podcast.
00:18:58.000It's called Culture and Christianity, the Alan Jackson podcast.
00:19:02.000What makes it unique is Pastor Allen's biblical perspective.
00:19:05.000He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're facing today: gender confusion, abortion, immigration, doge, Trump in the White House, issues in the church.
00:20:04.000Literally, in Islam, you are pointing yourself to another nation.
00:20:09.000You're not pointing yourself to this nation.
00:20:11.000You're pointing yourself to Saudi Arabia and Mecca five times a day.
00:20:15.000One of the five pillars of Islam is to leave America and go do a hajj into Saudi Arabia.
00:20:21.000We as Americans are being played as suckers as we import hundreds of thousands of people that do not assimilate, take our government benefits, infiltrate, spy, and metastasize.
00:20:33.000And President Donald Trump has a once in a hundred year opportunity to say no more, and you're all going home.
00:20:39.000We're going to take this country back and restore it once and for all.
00:20:44.000And some people will say, well, Charlie, that is hateful.
00:21:54.000Everybody believes and some sort of truth.
00:21:56.000What book, what creed, what song, what person, what tradition?
00:22:00.000Where do you get your morals and your values from?
00:22:02.000We as Christians, we get it from the Word of God.
00:22:05.000And we get it from the place that built this entire civilization.
00:22:08.000From the Hellenic, which of course is the Greek, and the Hebraic, which is the is the Jewish scriptures that gave us, of course, the New Testament.
00:22:16.000Western civilization is this moment in time where all of us can participate in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:22:24.000But as John Adams famously said, if America ceases to be a moral and religious people, it will cease to be a free people.
00:22:31.000The Constitution was simply and solely written for a moral and religious people.
00:22:36.000It is wholly inadequate for the people of any other.
00:22:39.000It is not adequate for a people of modernism, secularism, materialism, or Muhammadism, another good word for Islam.
00:22:47.000What I'm what I'm saying, everybody, is that yes, the election of Donald Trump should give you hope and conviction.
00:22:52.000That is nothing more than scene one, chapter one, and what will now be a multi-decade fight against the people that have been waging a war against us these last couple of decades.
00:23:31.000That means you can't just sit idly by and say, Charlie, I'm not getting involved in any of this stuff because Jesus is coming next Thursday and I'm getting raptured.
00:24:10.000It's not falling apart, it's falling together.
00:24:12.000I've heard all the one-liners, and I roll my eyes and I say, while you are next life focused as you should be, you have never ever ever could show me a scripture where God tells you not to care about this life.
00:24:22.000He calls you to care for the children, to clothe the to clothe the poor, to feed the hungry.
00:24:28.000He carries you to fight the injustice, to go up against evil, to educate your children.
00:24:34.000You see, far too often we've allowed the over-emphasis on end times eschatology, which I'm all for.
00:24:40.000You guys can talk about it all the time, and it's an important conversation.
00:24:43.000But never once should you allow it to make you paralyzed, afraid, or inactive.
00:24:48.000In fact, that is the enemy using scripture and contorting it.
00:24:51.000Remember, when Jesus was tempted in the garden, it wasn't that Satan.
00:24:55.000Satan did not quote Buddhism when he was talking to Jesus.
00:24:59.000He quoted scripture back to Jesus, but he changed a couple parts of it.
00:25:34.000We can only know what evil is if we know what good is, because it's transcendent above us.
00:25:38.000And if Christians wake up, if pastors go alongside and we go, and every one of our series of influence into our churches and to our schools, into the streets, into our businesses on social media, and we realize this nation founded as a Christian nation, has been given a new birth of freedom by the grace of God on July 13th when Donald Trump could have had his uh brains blown out, but by this couple millimeters, we have a nation and a republic.
00:26:01.000It should invigorate you and fire you up to go out from this place and to save this nation for righteous and just purposes.
00:26:08.000Thank you guys so much and let's do some questions.
00:26:58.000For those that may not know, give us a website of TPUSA and uh where are you guys today and what are the next uh say one to three years look like for TPUSA?
00:27:08.000Yeah, um, first of all, I'm sure somebody here is involved with Turning Point USA in some way, So thank you and thank you.
00:27:13.000And by the way, for all of you that give five bucks a month, ten bucks a month, thank you, God bless you.
00:27:18.000You are investing in the future of the country, and you are making a sizable and measurable difference.
00:27:23.000We have 500,000 people that give us money every single year, and from 10 bucks, 15 bucks, that is a huge honor.
00:27:30.000That is humbling, and we say with heaviness, we work harder than every other organization in the country.
00:27:36.000We're on thousands of high school and college campuses across America.
00:27:39.000I'm doing 30 campus stops this upcoming campus tour, and uh, we're gonna be all across the country finishing at UC Berkeley.
00:27:47.000So I will tell you I will tell you firsthand what the gate of Hades is all about.
00:28:06.000Everybody, yeah, just about everybody.
00:28:08.000Uh, you if you're not, you guys can subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page, and the show is as hot as a pistol right now.
00:28:14.000Every day we talk about things from a pro-American biblical-based standpoint, and uh, we bring the heat, we bring the fire, and I'm sure we're gonna get some questions about uh some of the people that need to be removed from office here in South Carolina, but I'll allow you to guess and maybe ask the question and lead the questioner with that.
00:28:47.000Shout out to the Truth Network and Stu representing the and the guys back home.
00:28:51.000Um, Charlie, you are we're talking about a few uh topics that are uh key to society.
00:28:59.000What some people here might not know about, what you all do, is the realm of apologetics.
00:29:06.000And apologetics means a defense of the faith.
00:29:09.000Uh until I started listening to guys like Charlie Kirk and Alex McFarland.
00:29:12.000Alex McFarlane has a book out about answering questions.
00:29:16.000I started learning about apologetics, and I learned about how we can defend um our faith against science, history, biology, even astronomy.
00:29:57.000And we we need to keep on learning because what what you realize is the enemy will constantly change its maneuvers, but it goes down to the same five or six objections.
00:30:07.000And when I go to a college campus, almost every objection can go down to one major thing and then some subcategories.
00:30:14.000Who are you, Charlie, to tell me what I should do with my life?
00:30:19.000I'm gonna keep on doing what I want to do, leave me alone.
00:30:23.000Hilariously, they want me to leave them alone, and they come up to the mic to tell me to leave them alone.
00:30:29.000So I was leaving them alone until they came up to the microphone.
00:30:32.000Yeah, it's like I don't even know who you are, and you left your dorm room to come tell me to leave you alone.
00:30:37.000They're like, there are no moral truths, and it's wrong that you say there are.
00:30:42.000Yes, and by the way, that itself is a truth statement.
00:30:44.000You are making a truth claim by saying that there are no moral truths.
00:30:54.000We as Christians know this, we acknowledge it, and the ultimate form of truth is manifested in the life and the reality and the truth and the minute and the ministry of Jesus Christ.
00:32:14.000But if that's all you say to a sixth grader, and then their formation of that, they don't actually know how to reason towards the Bible.
00:32:22.000So as soon as they get very challenging questions when they go to University of Georgia or wherever they go, University of South Carolina or Clemson or whatever, you guys are gonna throw something at me.
00:32:31.000Um they'll say, Well, the Bible is true.
00:32:34.000And then someone will say, Well, how do you know that?
00:32:38.000And what what these other ancient Western texts do from Aristotle to Plato to Augustine to Aquinas is they will allow you to use the natural law, reason, and the moral law to make an argument pointing towards the ultimate truth of Jesus Christ.
00:32:56.000In Galatians 3, it says the law, which of course is the moral, the civil, and the ceremonial and the natural law, is a guardian of Jesus Christ.
00:33:05.000It's a guardian, is a school cheat teacher towards the gospel.
00:34:03.000Um I'm a firm I'm a firm believer that before we change the nation, uh, either politically and spiritually, we need to allow the word of God to cut us deep and transform us.
00:34:17.000I would like to ask you, in the millions of things that you do on a daily basis, when is the time that you separate to find one rest in God and to sharpen your sword to go back into the world?
00:35:27.000Why would you ever have something in your hand when you're trying to study and go closer to God that the enemy could use as an interference?
00:35:34.000Number two, I don't know you guys, but when I open up my Bible, there's something that the weight of it, the feel, the texture, the aesthetic, right?
00:35:41.000I it's almost like I'm picking up my sword, right?
00:35:45.000Like, for example, if I you could blindfold me and you could give me a hundred books, I would know immediately the weight of my Bible versus a hundred other objects.
00:36:06.000Finally, I'll I just more kind of technical than that.
00:36:10.000Um, I like to read the same way that the disciples read.
00:36:12.000I like the way the same way that the ancients read.
00:36:14.000I don't that's one thing I don't think we should change.
00:36:16.000Anyway, so physical Bibles, put away those digital Bibles, give young people uh physical Bibles.
00:36:21.000But the most important part of rest that we have, and I'm a big believer in this, is that I have a whole book coming out about this in December, which is that the least followed of the Ten Commandments to our own detriment is honoring the Sabbath.
00:36:35.000And I'm not here to tell you that you have to do it on Saturday or Sunday.
00:37:36.000You are no longer on your so for six days you shall work on the seventh day you shall rest to keep the Sabbath day holy, for you are no longer slaves in Egypt.
00:37:45.000He's saying that only slaves work for seven days.
00:37:49.000How many of you guys feel like slaves if you work for seven days straight?
00:39:33.000We must constantly be buying stuff for seven days straight.
00:39:35.000Okay, we might not be able to pass the laws, or maybe should we, but you can decide not to do that.
00:39:40.000So I think we as a Christian body, if we want to be freer, if we want to be happy, if we want to rest in the presence of the living Christ, let's dedicate a day to turning off our devices, rejecting modernity, and honoring the seventh day and giving it to Christ our Lord.
00:39:55.000Hey everybody, Andrew Colvet, executive producer of the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:41:21.000So it is it somehow justified because they're such a horrible criminal, or are they um eliminating or changing the trajectory of God's plan for what it was supposed to be because they murdered somebody and it you know they didn't go when God was ready for them?
00:42:39.000Basic, there's a there's a law of the 613 laws of uh Judaism, of which we are not bound to the civil uh the ceremonial law, which is one of them, that if an animal takes a human life, you must kill that animal.
00:42:54.000So it's like, okay, that's like why do that?
00:42:56.000Well, what are you gonna like have you know?
00:42:58.000Oh, yeah, that's Lenny, he killed my uncle, and you know, his say hi.
00:43:02.000Like you're gonna keep that animal around.
00:43:04.000The only punishment imaginable for taking the thing that only we are made in the image of God.
00:43:09.000So if you take another image bearer's life, what could possibly be a just punishment for that?
00:43:15.000Well, according to the economy of God, it's that you your life must also be taken.
00:43:19.000And according to um scriptural theology, we are not taking that person's life.
00:43:25.000When you take another person's life, you already took your own life.
00:45:58.000I've been to death row in a number of states.
00:46:01.000Many convicted murderers are brazen because they know they're gonna game the system, they're gonna spend decades and tons of money, they're not going to have to give an account for the life that they took.
00:46:12.000I've I've had a lot of conversations with people on death row.
00:46:15.000And let me say I I love people, I want people saved, but we need to have a lawful society where justice is carried out and carried out uh consistently, and um it is a deterrent, the death penalty for convicted murderers, if it were utilized, it actually is a deterrent and makes for a safer America.
00:46:36.000Yeah, and again, just that really important kill and murder.
00:46:38.000I want you just to, that's the most important thing.
00:46:40.000Because if you do not read the Ten Commandments, it says do not murder, which is a completely different moral designation in Hebrew than kill.
00:46:54.000Um, because uh uh it says it's um an abomination in the Bible for same-sex marriages or anything in relation.
00:47:01.000Should we, as people who abide by the Bible, are we should we supposed to avoid or disassociate from people that we know that are in that category?
00:47:18.000Actually, in Mark 7 20, uh Christ our Lord talks about what what is in will will come out.
00:47:24.000He actually uses the Greek word pornea, which is a catch-all term for sexual immorality, which would be like bestiality, homosexuality, adultery.
00:47:31.000So Christ our Lord actually rejected using the own coigne Greek of pornea.
00:48:00.000If someone says, well, again, I there's plenty of homosexuals that I know, and I do everything I possibly can to try to get them to repent, try to get them to know the love of Jesus Christ.
00:48:17.000I think marriage can only between be between a man and a woman.
00:48:20.000Not that it I think you could be same-sex attracted, I think you could be homosexually active.
00:48:26.000And here's the other thing, though, that's very important.
00:48:28.000That's the most provocative thing I could say on this topic that most people are afraid to say, which is that we have lost when we start acknowledging that people are gay or they are lesbian.
00:49:01.000It says, Thou shall not lay with another man.
00:49:03.000So such is an abomination to the Lord.
00:49:05.000It says in Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy, it is an abomination for a woman to dress like a man, for such is an abomination to the Lord.
00:49:11.000What I'm getting at, though, it's not an identity.
00:49:13.000No different than if someone says, Well, Charlie, I'm a serial adulterer, and that's my identity, and I want an entire month of the year dedicated to us, serial adulters.
00:51:06.000If the president does it in a room alone and writes a note, and then he dies five seconds later, that note is valid.
00:51:12.000It does not require a notarization because constitutionally says a president shall, not a president plus a committee or president plus a notary.
00:51:34.000If you don't know, it's a growing scandal that the last couple of, and I'll tell you why it matters.
00:51:39.000The last couple of days of Biden's presidency, there were a ton of pardons issued that were signed by the presidential autopen.
00:51:45.000Now that that and of itself is bad, but if Biden would have had a meeting and he would have been like, hey, I approve all 15 of these pardons, go use the autopen.
00:51:54.000That probably would pass court muster.
00:52:20.000Anthony Fauci's auto pen, or pardon, was signed by an auto pen the last day of the presidency.
00:52:25.000So was all the January 6 people of Adam Schiff, who should be in prison, and Liz Cheney, who should be in prison, and Adam Kinzinger, who should be in prison.
00:52:37.000The Trump Department of Justice should indict the entire January 6th committee, should indict Anthony Fauci and test the pardon.
00:52:45.000Make it go up to the United States Supreme Court, have the Supreme Court demand any and all available evidence of actually was Joe Biden behind this?
00:52:54.000And if so, the pardon will be correct, and we'll never talk about this again.
00:52:57.000I have a seeking suspicion that Joe Biden was not involved in this, that Joe Biden personally signed his son's pardon, and that was the only one he cared about.
00:53:07.000Remember, he signed the Hunter Biden one, and he didn't care about the other ones.
00:53:13.000It matters for the most obvious of all reasons.
00:53:15.000This is yet another example of a gang of criminals that abused our country, stole an election, and nearly robbed our nation without any accountability, and they need to go to prison.
00:53:54.000A lot more toward the abortion area of that.
00:53:57.000I had gray areas where I didn't know what to think and Everything.
00:54:00.000I had a very rough upbringing with my mother with drugs and everything, poverty, all that.
00:54:05.000And this is where I this is my question.
00:54:08.000I've noticed that a lot of the liberal leaning individuals, they like to ignore the actual victims in situations, and they like to change the subject and throw insults as soon as you mention them.
00:54:18.000My question to you would be: what is your message to them saying that babies born into poverty and struggle are better off dead when I have an amazing life with my child and my family, and I'm very happy.
00:55:21.000What they're saying is that a moral worth is connected to how much money you have in the bank account.
00:55:28.000That if you are poor come into a broken family, you're not totally human, you're like half human.
00:55:34.000Like you become more human the less debt you have.
00:55:40.000This is the morality that they teach on college campuses.
00:55:44.000And I always say, even if you told me that this person was going to have a rough life, it is never an excuse to take that person's life away, because that person is made in the image of God.
00:55:55.000Now that would be murdering a human life, not killing a human life to the point earlier.
00:56:00.000But to the left, this is why it's so important.
00:56:02.000If you do not believe in God, then a human being in utero is just a clump of cells.
00:56:09.000If you do not believe in God, what's exceptional about a human being?
00:56:37.000They're really excited because they test for down syndrome and utero, and they do mandatory abortions for all people that have down syndrome.
00:58:27.000Every single there is no good Pro-abortion argument.
00:58:31.000It does not exist because at its core, it is a spiritual asymmetrical attack to try to wipe out the thing that comes from Jesus Christ and God directly, which is life and life itself.
00:59:03.000I don't know that it ever came to the Lord.
00:59:05.000But even the atheist Christopher Hitchens, we were emailing up until two days before he died.
00:59:10.000He he became very vocal in his pro-life stance, much to the chagrin of his fellow atheists.
00:59:16.000But he said, look, the uh declaration, uh bill of rights, declaration, preamble, constitution, bill of rights, guarantees the right to life.
00:59:25.000Uh the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness, said Hitchens, means nothing if they're not first predicated on life.
00:59:32.000And he said, if we can just arbitrarily deny the constitutional protection for life, legal protection for the unborn, if we can just arbitrarily remove that from a subset of the community, w who's to say that we won't at some later point remove your right to life and your right to life.
00:59:50.000Even an atheist, Hitchens, who was a pretty logical guy in many ways, he became pro-life.
00:59:56.000Um, and that really, and we've not even invoked Christianity yet, because uh college uh professors will say, Well, don't enforce your Christianity on me.
01:00:05.000I think you can defend legal protection for the unborn without even opening the Bible.
01:00:10.000It it's just natural law and the Constitution.
01:01:18.000Um, you were talking a little bit earlier about COVID.
01:01:21.000Um, I want to thank you personally, and and probably a lot of you heard in here, but during COVID, you shared uh our obedience to the government actually does not come from the government itself.
01:01:30.000But we are uh, you know, we have a government that's for the people and by the people.
01:01:34.000So thank you very much for making that very clear during COVID.
01:01:39.000Um I have a question for you, and it might take a little bit of thinking, but um if you think over the last year or two, a lot of people ask you questions.
01:01:48.000Um can you think of a time that someone kind of challenged you to the point where you had to maybe rethink something or maybe change uh a view on what you had before and and uh what that was and how that came to be.
01:02:23.000I mean, look, I have so many exchanges and so many dialogues.
01:02:27.000I've had some look, uh I encourage you guys to check out the longer form videos on our YouTube channel too, because the you know, the short clips they go viral.
01:02:35.000But we have very respectful, long conversations as well that sometimes don't always get the same virality that are phenomenal.
01:02:43.000You really see where the kids are coming from, you can really see how they're presenting their ideas, and so uh yeah, and then I will uh you gotta have to think about that.
01:02:52.000I'll revisit it on a Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
01:02:54.000So can can I officially say that I stumped you?
01:03:10.000Uh I got two things to uh ask you, and then one request if I can make that.
01:03:15.000Um first thing is I'm a junior in high school.
01:03:18.000Um just going into junior year in a couple days, so getting nervous about that.
01:03:23.000But uh going into high school, um, I was never offered any scholarships, at least that weren't with anything in relation to color of my skin or where I came from.
01:03:37.000There's a lot of people that go to my school, and we're an ethnically diverse school, which is great.
01:03:41.000I love having conversations with people from different backgrounds, but I feel because of my race and because of my heritage, I'm not getting the same treatment.
01:03:52.000People that are of African American descent are getting pushed.
01:03:55.000I mean, not having merit-based scholarships in a school is very hard for a private school, especially my poor mom who has to pay uh I mean so much money here to send me to uh school, which I'm so grateful for.
01:04:06.000It's a wonderful community, but it's very hard to express my concerns to them without you know being labeled or being told that I'm a racist or I'm a bigot, and especially at my young age, that's hard for me to hear.
01:04:27.000Um the question is, how do you navigate that basically?
01:04:31.000Or how do I navigate it or um bring up my concerns in a way, not that I should say, because I'm not worried about offending anybody, but um, you know, in the most respectful way I can.
01:04:52.000No, there is no scholarship that exists for you.
01:04:55.000But until Trump came along, if you wanted to go to Harvard, you could go into Harvard with a far lower score if you were a black woman than if you were a white man.
01:05:04.000That's wrong for that's bad for everybody, okay?
01:05:06.000We should have admissions that are based on merit and character, not skin color and race.
01:05:13.000Diversity should not matter when it comes to college admissions, and it certainly shouldn't matter for pilots, air traffic controllers, the United States military, and president of the United States, might I add.
01:05:28.000And so you're not from South Carolina, right?
01:05:33.000So we have a house down here at my home down here.
01:05:35.000Well, I do want to talk because it's actually important.
01:05:37.000So the if you were in school in South Carolina, my answer would be a little bit differently, so I want to give you that answer.
01:05:42.000I find that too many white Christians in the South overcompensate and are so afraid of being called racist that you invite some DEI racist, not like anti-white stuff way too easily in the South.
01:05:59.000And I don't know if you guys agree with that or not.
01:06:03.000It happens, and it does you can simultaneously, you don't have to like I don't know, raise the you know your fist for like the South will rise again.
01:06:19.000I'm not gonna play that game to just bend a knee and to just kind of give in to this, quite honestly, this secular humanist garbage of race politics.
01:06:33.000No more DEI in our schools, no more affirmative action, we need no more disparate impact.
01:06:39.000And the final thing is this, which is I would love to live in a country where no one talks about race, but think about how ridiculous these categories are.
01:07:00.000The entire idea of racial categorization is flawed from the beginning.
01:07:05.000It shouldn't even exist when you think about it.
01:07:07.000Like someone who is Greek is white, and someone who is British is an Anglo is white, someone who's French is white, and someone who is Slovenian is white.
01:07:16.000You're talking about a whole continent.
01:07:19.000All it is, it's a means to end for massive population control.
01:07:23.000That's what it that's really at the core of what it is.
01:08:28.000Pretty easy questions for you here, Charlie.
01:08:30.000I wanted to just thank you for all you do.
01:08:31.000I don't think there's another human being that affected the outcome of this election more with all your efforts and what you did to move the votes and register people.
01:10:02.000In fact, if you believe what I with I believe, shouldn't you want me to be friends with people that don't agree with us?
01:10:07.000Shouldn't you want me to also be a tool of influence?
01:10:10.000And so I I think the world of Candace, she's a great mother.
01:10:13.000She certainly has very, very fun opinions at times, and she's a great talent.
01:10:19.000She says a lot of stuff that sometimes I don't agree with, but that's what makes the relate our relationship and our friendship interesting.
01:10:25.000My advice to all of you you might not like somebody, but never tell somebody like me to stop being friends with somebody on an interpersonal level just because of disagreement.
01:10:33.000It's bad, it's what the left does, and we should rise above as conservatives.
01:11:48.000And but everything you just said is how it should be and how it was, but how it no longer is.
01:11:54.000It was a country that's dead, and it died, and we don't know the death, we don't know exactly when, but 30 or 40 years ago, a moment happened when they decided to destroy Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearing.
01:12:06.000I think the country changed for the worse.
01:15:07.000It is someone that has demonstrated through objective measurements and markers that this is home, that you have more than respect or reverence, that you're willing to die, that you are all in, that this is a place that you're willing to bleed for and sacrifice for.
01:15:21.000This is not a dumping ground for the third world.
01:15:26.000You are you are you you had a tear in your eye on July 4th, that you worship God, not Allah, that you have you have a you have a sense of weight and responsibility, that you care about your fellow neighbor.
01:15:40.000An American is more than just someone that has U.S. passport.
01:15:44.000And I think we we need to get better at articulating it, defining it, and defending it, and removing people that are not Americans that call themselves Americans in the United States of America.
01:16:17.000We're honored to be partnering with Alan Jackson Ministries.
01:16:20.000And today I want to point you to their podcast.
01:16:23.000It's called Culture and Christianity, the Alan Jackson Podcast.
01:16:27.000What makes it unique is Pastor Allen's biblical perspective.
01:16:30.000He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're facing today gender confusion, abortion, immigration, doge, Trump in the White House, issues in the church.
01:18:50.000And I had a quick question about anti-Semitism online.
01:18:54.000Another questionnaire they asked about Candace Owens, and you know, I was I'm a big fan of you.
01:18:58.000I was a big fan of her, but she's obviously been going down this anti-Semitic bent.
01:19:04.000And I through her, I'm kind of finding out about these other characters online, like Nick Fuentes, I'm sure you've heard of him.
01:19:10.000And these people, they they've been active for a long time, and it seems like they've just been ignored, which is working, but now they're kind of surging in popularity.
01:19:18.000And as someone who I enjoy watching your debates, is are they people you'd be willing to engage with and maybe shut them down in a way through a debate or something like that?
01:19:28.000Well, I mean, I'm not gonna debate Candace.
01:19:30.000Um, but no, look, I'll debate anybody that shows up at our campus events first and foremost, but I do want to take what you say and extrapolate it.
01:19:36.000That there is a corner of the internet of people that want to point and blame the Jews for all their problems.
01:19:42.000Everybody, this is demonic and it's from the pit of hell, and it should not be tolerated.
01:19:47.000But it goes to a deeper, more structural problem of an entire generation that has economic resentment, they don't own anything, they're not getting married, they're not having children, they're depressed, they're anxious, they're staring at their screens all day long.
01:20:00.000And if all of a sudden your extrapolation of all that is, well, it's the Jews' fault, that is sloppy and shallow thinking.
01:20:08.000And not only that, they say, oh, it's the Jews' fault.
01:20:11.000Okay, let's let's kind of play this out.
01:20:23.000You know those were 500 million lives that were saved over the last 50 years because of people that were Jewish scientists that were working on things.
01:20:29.000They'll never say, thank you, the Jews, but they'll always say, shame on the Jews.
01:20:52.000Instead of that, what are what could you possibly do in your own personal life to improve your own state of being?
01:21:01.000If you are blaming eight, let's point zero two percent of the world's population for all of your problems, that is not going to be good for your soul.
01:21:10.000It's not good for your future in any way, shape, or form.
01:21:14.000And so I would just say this that any young person that goes into this hyper online brain rot, you are serving yourself over to your own demise.
01:21:25.000You are serving yourself into a suicide mission that will not make you happier and not make you healthier.
01:21:32.000Instead, here's what your attitude should be.
01:21:34.000Your attitude should be like, I can't own stuff.
01:21:36.000I got it, can't own a home, that not getting married, I don't know who to date.
01:21:40.000And said, wow, the challenges are immense.
01:21:43.000I'm gonna now overcome all those challenges and go on an adventure.
01:21:56.000I'm gonna use my agency, I'm gonna use my ability, and I'm not just gonna go point in the corner and be like, I'm overweight because of the Jews.
01:22:05.000Women don't want to date me because of the Jews.
01:22:09.000As Jordan Peterson would say, sit up straight with your shoulders back, follow the rules for life, make yourself interesting, learn something new every single day, and instead of pointing at a small group of people and engaging in this brain rot, become a better person.
01:22:24.000You'll be a happier and healthier, more joyful and productive person because of it.
01:24:58.000There are true pastors, pastors that are in the mold of Alex McFarland, there are trembling pastors that are shaking like a leaf all the time when you dare mention something political, and then there's traitorous pastors, those that have the gay pride flags outside of their churches.
01:25:10.000The traitors need to be forgotten, the forgotten, the trembling needs to be ministered to.
01:25:14.000How many of you go to a trembling church?
01:25:18.000You need to confront your pastor if you go to a trembling church and be, why are you so afraid?
01:25:23.000Why are you not speaking out biblically?
01:25:25.000We need more true pastors that are talking about the word of God, talking through a biblical worldview every single day that are unafraid to go verse by verse, chapter by chapter, what does the Bible say?
01:25:37.000And then most importantly, making sense of the news through a biblical worldview.
01:25:43.000Because if the churches are not doing that, and if the pastors do not do that, your congregation will go find secular non-Christian ways to make sense of this ever confusing world.
01:25:54.000Yeah, I wanted to ask you in your career, you've had a lot of people that you've met, and in that career, have you met any people that have fallen away from the faith that you have experience trying to talk to them and trying to bring them back to Christ?
01:26:07.000Um I'm sure there is, but honestly, thankfully, my experience is the opposite.
01:26:12.000I'm I'm surrounded by people like Russell Brand, that is now a committed Christian, an amazing believer.
01:26:33.000Uh this is something that's like always made me anxious.
01:26:36.000So I was wondering if you had an answer to this in the terms of like uh an abortion mindset.
01:26:41.000And the conversation between who to save in terms of like complications during childbirth, which like the mother or the child would you say is more the I guess the godly choice to save, like in that.
01:26:53.000So it's a little bit of a false choice because you can have a cesarean section and lift the baby out, thus saving the mothers, um, thus saving both the lives.
01:27:02.000You should always try to save both lives, but in that situation, for example, if you have an ectopic pregnancy or the uter on the wall uh rips, you should save the mother's life.
01:27:12.000Well, I believe the Republican Party is the better of the two when it comes down to it.
01:27:16.000As humans, there are problems on both sides.
01:27:18.000I was curious to know you if you have any personal problems with the Republican Party, and if you're how much time would you have?
01:27:26.000Uh if if you do, how would you make like I guess since we're low on time, the like biggest ones in your mind, how would you make those changes?
01:27:35.000Well, I would start by retiring Lindsay Graham from the state of South Carolina.
01:27:43.000Um the Republican Party is better than the Democrat, but the Republican Party's not good.
01:28:02.000The Republican Party locked down the country too much during COVID.
01:28:06.000The Republican Party pushed the vaccine too much during COVID.
01:28:09.000The Republican Party has been responsible for the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war, the Syria debacle, and partially Libya, that's mostly Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
01:28:19.000The Republican Party is far too invested in giving Ukraine more and more money while our own country continues to fall apart.
01:28:29.000However, this is why we support President Trump, and with it, we'll vote for some Republicans, because President Trump fixes so many of those things.
01:28:36.000President Donald Trump stands for mass deportation, strong border, amazing tax cuts, no tax on tips.
01:28:42.000He wants to by the way, he's trying to solve this Russian-Ukrainian war.
01:28:47.000They should give them the Nobel Peace Prize right now.
01:28:50.000This guy, blessed are the peacemakers, as it says.
01:28:52.000Republican Party needs to go more in a populist nationalist direction, in a constitutionalist direction.
01:28:59.000We need to be a party of and by and for the American people, not for foreign interests, not for foreign invaders, not for foreign invaders.
01:29:06.000Not for some sort of aim or some abstraction of diversity.