00:00:29.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:52.000The media might not have told you about it, but we had 3,300 students from all across the American Southwest come to Phoenix.
00:01:00.000And it was actually pretty incredible because that was 3,300 more people than would have showed up to a Joe Biden rally.
00:01:07.000So I think he had like four people show up to the last socially distanced, whatever that was.
00:01:14.000But it was incredible to see because in the middle, it was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do.
00:01:18.000And we've done some pretty interesting things at turning point these last couple of years.
00:01:23.000But in the midst of what we're going on, go through in the country, going through the country right now, there was huge backlash from the city council.
00:03:34.000And to be perfectly honest with you, organizations that call themselves churches are very involved in what's happening right now in America.
00:03:42.000And it's very disappointing to see how some of the biggest churches across the country, within a moment's notice, put their entire congregation and the people that were there entrusted towards what I believe to be one of the most disingenuous, divisive, destructive political movements in American history of what we're seeing right now.
00:04:06.000And so first we had the virus and the lockdowns, which played a huge toll on every single American.
00:04:11.000Almost no one was unaffected unless you owned Clorox, because they did great.
00:04:15.000I mean, besides them, you know, Clorox or hand sanitizer companies had the greatest year ever, or if you make masks, and if you do, you're probably Chinese, made.
00:04:24.000But besides that, it's just, you know, it's just a tough time.
00:04:39.000And it was a very interesting calculation that happened here because as they locked up Christians, we weren't getting ecclesia, what it says in the Bible, which means gathering of believers.
00:04:50.000And the Bible tells us very specifically, do not forsake the fellowship of believers.
00:04:56.000And why I love the whole Zoom Skype thing, if you are in, you know, if you are in the category of potentially, you know, getting harmed by the positive technological innovation, I think that the way the church just totally said, we're not, you know, we're going to just forsake that for months, I think that was generally, you know, a mistake.
00:05:15.000And so then people are not getting their moral connection every week.
00:05:19.000And then something happens that didn't divide.
00:05:21.000That was what was so perplexing is that you had a Minnesota police officer do something that no one supported.
00:05:27.000Even police officers said that was an improper way to go about it.
00:05:30.000And instantaneously, the media says we're divided over this.
00:05:38.000But they're like, oh, yeah, this is really going to stoke racial tensions.
00:05:41.000It's like, well, first of all, how do we even, this is a bad police officer against this citizen.
00:05:46.000Like, you guys are actually imposing racial tensions on this situation.
00:05:50.000Like, this is more about abuse of power and much less against white people and black people.
00:05:55.000And the hyperracialization of it was very, very concerning how they did it.
00:05:59.000And then in the last couple weeks, you saw complete and total silence from most people in the conservative Republican circles.
00:06:06.000I was told I had to shut up and stop talking because I was a Christian white male, so I've been louder than ever at great expense to all of our well-being, but it's whatever.
00:07:12.000We know that's the silliest thing that you could possibly believe because we have a book that tells us that.
00:07:18.000And we also have observational evidence to show that in human behavior, that human beings are flawed by nature.
00:07:26.000In fact, we believe in some form, and I'm not a Calvinist, but some form of the depravity of sin, like the depravity of man, like we're so irredeemable that we need Christ to be able to save us, right?
00:07:37.000And that's all Christians will believe some form of that.
00:07:41.000And so, but the left doesn't believe that.
00:07:43.000The left believes in a Rousseauian idea.
00:07:46.000And if you don't know who Rousseau is, I encourage you to check it out because he wasn't the first one to articulate this, but he was probably the most popular.
00:07:54.000He said, no, no, no, human beings are actually perfect.
00:07:59.000This is what they teach our kids, by the way, in our schools, just so you know.
00:08:02.000The human beings are not flawed by nature.
00:08:05.000The human beings are corrupted by all the forces that we created around them.
00:08:11.000And if we actually just put them in a state of nature, that we would just be wonderful and harmonious and terrific.
00:08:55.000Let's try to bring people to Christ, which is the ultimate truth.
00:08:58.000But this idea that we can eradicate evil in the world, that us human beings that are evil to eradicate evil, that's making you God is really what it is.
00:09:06.000This is a quasi-messianic complex that people get in the world right now.
00:09:11.000And so what you see, what you've seen this happen now is that the lack of believers, and there's some great ones that are out there, but there's just not enough.
00:09:20.000And the lack of people standing for truth right now, and I do want to talk about truth because it's such an important point that we as Christians don't always dive deeper into what that actually means.
00:09:30.000Because we say it and we just kind of move on, and I want to talk about that.
00:09:33.000Is if you don't confront a bad idea immediately, it becomes like really popular really quickly.
00:09:43.000So if you don't say, this is a lie, for example, when they say America is a racist country, our elected officials should have linked arms.
00:09:51.000They said, we are the most decent, benevolent, generous, charitable, open-minded country in the history of the world.
00:09:57.000We're the most unraced country in the history of the world.
00:10:02.000No other country has brought in so many people from different backgrounds or different languages and been able to operate generally cohesively and harmoniously as the United States of America.
00:10:38.000However, that is not the only sin that exists in the world.
00:10:41.000If we convinced ourselves that's the only sin, how about the sin of you think you're God?
00:10:47.000Like, that's actually one of the original sins that you're not supposed to cross when all of a sudden you think you can design society to get rid of everything.
00:10:54.000I think that took one commandment in the uploaded moral app that Moses was given from God, right?
00:11:00.000And what's so incredible is that the hyperfixation on this in our country has now brought us into a more racist society.
00:11:07.000Where now you can't walk the streets in New York and you're just in New York without people coming up to you and potentially challenging you because you're a white person, say, take a knee because you're white and apologize for things that happened before you.
00:11:18.000It's happening right now in our country, where now we have black-only dormitories on hundreds of campuses across the country re-segregating our kids.
00:11:26.000Where we're not judging people on the content of their character or their worldview.
00:11:29.000We're not judging them on their skin color.
00:11:39.000And this really bothers me because I've had an opportunity to travel across this state and across many states that have predominant white populations.
00:11:47.000And when I go and I see the opioid clinics and I see the communities that have been suffering because of jobs that were eliminated because of the war on coal or the war on manufacturing, and I say to myself, did they use that white privilege card?
00:12:16.000Because then all of a sudden you're going to start categorizing people and it's anti-biblical.
00:12:21.000I mean, Jesus tells us, Paul tells us in Galatians 3.28, neither slave nor Jew, you're all free under Christ.
00:12:28.000And basically the idea of the West, what we have all participated in, growing up in, and now it's all been put in jeopardy, just so you understand.
00:12:35.000We're entering a country that is so tribalistic, we're going back to like the 400s.
00:12:42.000It's happening in our university system and in our public school system, where now it's like, no, no, no, I understand that this whole idea of you as an individual, what's your skin color?
00:12:50.000And then the space not skin color, you have to either apologize, you have to repent, or you have to atone for that.
00:12:56.000And that is not an overgeneralization.
00:13:00.000It's happening on university campuses and high school campuses all across the country.
00:13:04.000And so, and then this is where the church has to come in, because the church has to recognize that, first of all, they're coming for you now and they're coming for you next.
00:13:12.000The left has total contempt for the American church.
00:13:15.000In fact, one of the leading Black Lives Matter activists by the name of Sean King says that we should take down statues of Jesus Christ if the melanin skin was not perfectly correlated with that of someone from Judea and Samaria.
00:15:02.000Like, that's an unspeakable thing, right?
00:15:05.000And so instead of saying, no, actually, what Charlie's saying is true, right?
00:15:10.000That idea of truth that makes the Christian faith different than any other religion in the world, because it's our unrelenting commitment to truth.
00:15:21.000He then goes on stage and says, oh, I'm so sorry.
00:16:26.000And there have been some amazing pastors, Jack Hibbs, Rob McCoy.
00:16:29.000I work with Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr., who's one of the few just awesome, strong Christians that gets it right now.
00:16:36.000But really, what's happening right now is Gideon's army.
00:16:38.000And if you guys know the story of Gideon's army, where huge battle conflict is pending, and God continues to winnow away the troops, and eventually it brings up the troops to the river.
00:16:47.000It says, Those people that get on their knees, you know, they got to go home.
00:16:50.000And the people that drink like this, they can effectually 300 versus like 35,000 people, right?
00:16:54.000And the delivery was the victory was delivered to the 300 people.
00:16:59.000And it wasn't because, necessarily, because of what they did.
00:17:03.000Instead, the story was not because you guys should go to a river before you're going to fight.
00:18:50.000However, if we have truth as when we have to cross, that means that we actually care about something that is a commitment to truth.
00:18:58.000There are other things that can be true, not equally as true, such as America being a benevolent, generous, accepting country.
00:19:07.000What Paul's really saying is we should have tolerance, we should have no tolerance for lies anywhere, is what he's saying.
00:19:12.000Is that we should be okay just walking around having people say, Yeah, you know, we're a really bigoted, awful country.
00:19:19.000Like, that should bother anyone who's in the truth business, and those people are Christians, right?
00:19:24.000And it's like we shouldn't be tolerating anyone that says, Well, yeah, you know, I'm the world's best basketball player ever, and it's obvious that they're not.
00:19:52.000Okay, it can save you, it can give you eternal life and give you salvation.
00:19:55.000However, the next piece, though, is I think what's missing a lot right now.
00:19:59.000It's because if you just know the truth, and if you use Jesus' parable, if you have light and you just keep it underneath, you know, I believe the parable says underneath either a bowl or something of that.
00:20:11.000I could be incorrect, but essentially don't allow the light to spread.
00:20:14.000What good is that light, essentially, is the idea.
00:20:16.000It's the idea of we're calling you to be bold, right?
00:20:52.000Everything human beings are involved in that will happen.
00:20:55.000And some churches are better than others, but don't try to go on the pedestal and say that the church has been immune to that kind of behavior.
00:21:19.000And you're trying to tell me that somehow that, the one segment of society that touches every other segment, we're just supposed to not involve ourselves in?
00:21:41.000And so we as Christians should absolutely say, I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.
00:21:46.000Then we've got to ask ourselves the question, are we still going to be able to do that in 10 years?
00:21:51.000Is the world a better place because the United States of America has the kingdom of God spread or not spread because of the United States of America?
00:22:08.000After World War II, when we were war-weary, we stepped up and sent troops to a war that we would never benefit land from, no wealth from.
00:22:16.000This whole idea that we're colonialist is one of the most pernicious lies that has ever pervaded the United States school system ever.
00:22:22.000In fact, we have fought more wars for nothing in return except the land to bury our dead than any other nation in the history of the world.
00:22:28.000We just ask for the land to bury our dead and say thank you, enjoy your life.
00:22:32.000So we pushed back the Korean and Chinese communists with Russian Soviet support.
00:22:39.000Now tens of millions of Christians committed their life to Christ on the Korean Peninsula.
00:22:43.000Basically, next to none are doing that in North Korea because of totalitarian communism.
00:22:48.000So thanks to the United States of America, more people, no Jesus, no eternal life.
00:22:54.000And I can go example by example, by the way, of where the church is on fire in places like India, the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, where we have no investment.
00:23:25.000We don't teach any of this to our kids, by the way.
00:23:27.000That's very important because everything that is taught to our kids, and I'm generalizing, there's plenty of good schools and good teachers, but trust me, if anyone knows how we communicate to kids, the person who's visited more college campuses than any conservative in the last five years, I've visited well over 150 turning point USAs on 2,000 high school and college campuses across the country.
00:24:08.000Are you grateful or ungrateful that you live in America?
00:24:11.000Now, all throughout Paul's teaching, he talks about how thankful he is.
00:24:14.000Gratitude is a huge element of Paul's letters to the early church.
00:24:19.000Basically, it says, be thankful, my friends, for the persecution.
00:24:22.000This idea that because you're born in Christ, because what you've been given, have that joy, that gratitude is almost the fruit that makes everything else sweet.
00:24:29.000In fact, I think if you don't have gratitude, you're going to be a very unhappy person.
00:24:33.000I actually think that if you want to be content, it's because you're thankful.
00:24:36.000If you're not very content, it's because you're not thankful.
00:24:38.000Same could be said for a country, though.
00:24:40.000Do you think the people that are marching in the streets right now, do you think that they're thankful?
00:24:45.000You think, well, do you burn down that which you are thankful for?
00:24:49.000Do you riot for that which you are really thankful?
00:24:52.000What you are thankful for, you protect, right?
00:24:54.000You protect your family, you protect your grandkids, you protect your church.
00:24:58.000Think about the thing where you would take up arms to protect.
00:25:02.000Whatever that thing is, is something you're thankful for, right?
00:25:06.000And think of the thing that you wouldn't, but then you're not, I mean, you might be somewhat thankful for, but that's exactly what's happening.
00:25:11.000So what we do is we teach ingratitude to kids.
00:25:20.000This whole thing's a failed colonialist experiment.
00:25:22.000And yet what we do not see right now is, by the way, this could have been the greatest moment for conservatives and Republicans in American history.
00:26:04.000Wyoming's going to be better off because of the work she's doing.
00:26:06.000The 1619 project is funded by the New York Times.
00:26:09.000It's in hundreds, if not thousands, school districts across the country.
00:26:12.000So the idea of the 1619 project is that it's completely post-modernist, it's anti-American, and the founder is a complete work of, I mean, she's a piece of work, okay?
00:26:21.000You see her, she calls white people total barbarians.
00:26:24.000She says white people have done more damage to the country, to the world.
00:26:30.000And so she comes up and she makes this ridiculous argument, and it's so foolish, yet it's new, that only someone who has a doctorate from like Brown could believe in something like this, right?
00:26:41.000So these elites are like, oh, yeah, that's really fashionable.
00:28:07.000There are slaves right now in the Middle East under Islamic theocratic fundamental dictatorships.
00:28:11.000We don't teach our kids that the world's largest religion, the thing that they, the truth that they value most, is not Christ, but Muhammad was a slave owner himself.
00:28:20.000That would be a nice little piece of contribution of information, right?
00:29:07.000I encourage all new believers to read John as their first book, just because it's so, it's written in a very narrative form that brings you through.
00:29:15.000But it starts with this idea, and it's the only gospel that goes out of its way to describe Christ as Logos, right?
00:29:22.000Which literally means ultimate truth, right?
00:29:25.000That this is what is good and right and true in the world.
00:29:28.000And so it's that commitment to truth is why Christianity has always been on the right side of scientific, medical, societal, and civilization advancements, right?
00:29:37.000It's because when you create a society that's around the discovery of truth and you create a whole culture around that, then you're going to do awesome and amazing things.
00:29:47.000You're going to eradicate polio, you're going to have amazing inventions.
00:29:51.000But the opposite of that, what has the atheist secular worldview ever done for the betterment of humanity?
00:29:58.000Well, let's look to the 20th century, right?
00:30:48.000I go into a school at Brown University and I ask them who Alexander Solshenitsyn is.
00:30:52.000They have no idea what I'm talking about.
00:30:54.000These must be the brightest kids across our country.
00:30:56.000Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who wrote the Gulag Archipelago.
00:30:59.000I mean, if you guys want to see how dark human beings can get, just read a chapter of that book.
00:31:04.000Read a book that's called KGB's Most Wanted by a friend of mine, Joseph Bartarenko, who was a pastor who was arrested at age 26 in the Soviet Union and imprisoned for two decades because he dared talk about the gospel of Jesus Christ in the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg, thrown into the worst aspects of society.
00:31:22.000This would be highly instructive for the next generation to know, right?
00:31:26.000Because history, if you want to know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
00:31:30.000It's not as if these people that are on TV, you have Alexandria Casio-Cortez and all these fools, right?
00:31:35.000They act as if they're the first people that have ever thought of these ideas.
00:31:39.000Oh, everyone before us has gotten it wrong.
00:31:41.000I mean, all we have to do is take from these people and give to this people, and we have all this sort of incredible amount of justice.
00:31:47.000And you can start to see the little dictator in them start to get up, right?
00:31:50.000I mean, you give them a standing army, they can take over a small Central American country with that message, because those ideas have.
00:31:58.000And America was always resistant to these ideas, though, because of the church.
00:32:04.000You have to understand that the only reason we didn't go into communism and socialism in the 70s and 80s, and by the way, the Soviet, we have this ridiculous belief that we were the only ones sending spies into Russia, that they weren't sending spies back.
00:32:20.000Like, we have this belief, like, oh, yeah, all these people were trying to infiltrate the KGB, and we had all these sleeper cells in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
00:32:28.000You ever think they were trying to do that to us, too?
00:32:30.000Like, of course they were, and they did.
00:32:32.000And in fact, Yuri Besmanov, who I highly encourage you guys to check out, the declassified files, he was in charge of the American file and the KGB that killed him a couple years later, sudden heart attack in Canada.
00:32:42.000But all the videos are on YouTube where he says, oh, we infiltrated universities, we infiltrated Hollywood, we infiltrated the political system.
00:32:48.000And so, and but what always made it different, the one thing they couldn't quite get their way into was this.
00:33:15.000But the Civil War and the idea of the Emancipation Proclamation was the churches that were driving that change.
00:33:21.000The abolitionist movement was a Christian movement.
00:33:25.000And yet, now what we have today is the last population that could save us from absolute and total dissent into barbaric tribalism is the American church.
00:33:34.000And so, people, Christians, and there's two pockets, in my opinion, of what happens.
00:33:56.000And if that is you, I have a way that I can suggest how to involve.
00:34:01.000The second group of people is what I call the excuse of eschatology, where people are like, oh, the world's going to end in like five days.
00:34:27.000I think that's actually against what Christ tells us to do.
00:34:29.000The third category, though, which is very important, is people that have been misled in seminaries.
00:34:35.000People that have been hypnotized into believing that Christ was actually a socialist.
00:34:42.000Believing that America is actually a force for bad and for evil in the world, not for good.
00:34:47.000They're the ones that actually are the most clear and present dangers.
00:34:51.000I think that the people that have those kind of eschatological beliefs, I think they could be brought over to the category of standing for what is right and what is pure or what is true.
00:34:58.000I do, because they do believe in the Bible.
00:35:01.000The people that are like, well, I don't know how to do it, that's okay.
00:35:04.000So there's three types of people in this fight right now.
00:35:06.000There's the people that are doing nothing or helping the opposition.
00:35:09.000There's the fighters and the people that help the fighters.
00:35:12.000So understand in a war type analogy or a metaphor, you don't have to be the first person on the front lines or the ones flying the planes.
00:35:19.000Be someone that helps in the supply line, right?
00:35:22.000World War II is not just one by the people that storm the beach.
00:35:26.000It was the mostly female force that's worked 24-hour shifts in the factories to make sure we had the physical infrastructure to be able to fight two wars in two different theaters at the same time.
00:35:38.000And I think that's the kind of broad perspective we have to take.
00:35:41.000Because people say, well, Charlie, I can never do what you do.
00:35:50.000But, you know, having death threats, dost, having personal security all the time.
00:35:54.000See, Wyoming, I don't need as much personal security because I figure the moving average is someone somewhere is armed that likes my worldview that they might stand up for me.
00:36:01.000And I saw Hercules over here and I was like, you know, you're going to have my back.
00:36:05.000But all kidding aside, is that there has to be a very clear, clarion call to action for that.
00:36:12.000And so here's the optimistic part: right, is that we don't have the tech companies.
00:36:46.000Because if you look at in Hebrews, Samson is talked about in the Hall of Faith.
00:36:50.000If I go into a Sunday school class full of seven and eight-year-olds, I can't tell the story of Samson without like watering it down.
00:36:58.000God came to Samson when he was in the prostitute's bed, who was philandering around the entire town and city.
00:37:05.000God called Samson to go take a jaw of a donkey and go kill a thousand Philistines.
00:37:10.000Like this is pretty aggressive stuff, right?
00:37:12.000I mean, that's not exactly PG, but God called Samson for a very specific purpose because the people of Israel were not standing, ready to stand and fight.
00:37:21.000And we see this theme repeat itself all throughout the Bible.
00:37:30.000But I mean, he basically had someone murdered so that he'd go commit adultery.
00:37:33.000Like, that's a double whammy against the Ten Commandments and put a bow on that one.
00:37:36.000But he was still a guy after God's own heart, right?
00:37:39.000And so what you see with Donald Trump is someone who has done more for the evangelical cause, more for the kingdom in America, fought harder.
00:37:45.000And I kind of look at him as a bodyguard, a bodyguard for America and a bodyguard for truth.
00:37:50.000Like, do you want your bodyguard to like always be the most polished guy?
00:37:53.000No, he's a guy that's going to take the arrows and the bullets for you.
00:37:56.000A guy that's going to punch the other side of the face for you when it's needed, right?
00:37:59.000A guy that's going to allow you to be safe.
00:38:01.000A guy that's going to be the bulwark and the titan that's going to be like, stand behind me.
00:38:33.000Or someone like Donald Trump, who, by the way, I understand completely some of you guys, well, Charlie, he's twice divorced and three times married.
00:38:40.000He's on the cover of the Playboy magazine.
00:38:42.000Let the first among us without sin throw the first stone.
00:38:45.000But would you rather have someone who's so polite and all this, but never spoke at the March for Life like George W. Bush?
00:38:51.000Never even, because you didn't want to offend someone.
00:38:53.000But Donald Trump, first president ever speak for March for Life, to stand on the side of the unborn, who actually has cut Planned Parenthood funding, where we have Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, 200 circuit court judges, who has signed executive orders for religious liberty that has allowed churches to operate without the threat of audit or subpoena or being closed by the federal government that happened under Barack Obama.
00:39:14.000So what I'm saying is that we as Christians, in my opinion, have to understand that knowing truth is critical.
00:39:53.000It's time that we start to contest for this right now.
00:39:55.000And so what I see is really interesting.
00:39:57.000And here's my incredibly optimistic point, is that I believe in the Galatians 3 model, where I'm a principled constitutional conservative who's a Christian.
00:40:10.000Christianity is more important than those things.
00:40:11.000But when I go to a college campus, I'll weave in and out themes of Christianity.
00:40:15.000I'll never apologize for it, and I'll debate atheists all the time.
00:40:17.000But my primary message is about the ideas of a civil society and governance and the Constitution and all that stuff.
00:40:24.000We've brought more people to Christ talking about organized political thinking.
00:40:30.000And then people say, well, Charlie, where's the root of all that?
00:40:33.000We get our free branches of government derived out of Isaiah.
00:40:36.000We get the idea of moral governance out of judges.
00:40:38.000We get the idea of laws from the Ten Commandments.
00:40:41.000We get the idea of private property from Abraham, who literally bought the plots of land in Hebron to be able to bury which is now the Hall of Patriarchs.
00:40:49.000These ideas didn't just like arise out of someone in the 1600s.
00:41:27.000But what happens to you have these young kids that are 21 years old that give their life to Christ, and then all of a sudden they say something that is even remotely organized in political thinking, saying, maybe we shouldn't have statues be pulled down.
00:41:38.000And their friends call them names and they kicked out of sororis and they're kicked off of social media.
00:41:42.000And they go to their pastors and the pastors say, well, you know, we don't really get involved in politics around here.
00:44:33.000So let me talk a little bit abstractly first, and I'll talk more concretely, if that's okay.
00:44:40.000So abstractly is that everyone should be sacrificing and surrendering something right now and being willing to lose everything in the pursuit of the truth.
00:44:51.000For me, it's like, yeah, they'll take everything that I've worked for, all my advertisers, my podcast, turning point, USA, our buildings, and all of it.
00:44:57.000At this point, it's like I've already kind of come to the conclusion that if they take it all away and I'm still advocating for what's right in the world, I win, they lose.
00:45:51.000Every Sunday service, we should be lifting up our school board members by name and saying, we pray for these people to make informed moral decisions for our local community.
00:45:59.000And the school boards are a huge thing.
00:46:01.000Number two, more specifically, spend more on cultural and political engagement every single year than you spend on coffee.
00:46:09.000And by the way, the average American will spend about $10 a day on coffee.
00:46:21.000But it's amazing how people, and I'm not just being financially that, that's part of it, right?
00:46:25.000But it's like, it's one of those things, and I feel your fatigue, right?
00:46:29.000Because you feel as if, my goodness, I'm doing all this stuff.
00:46:31.000However, what you're already doing is what I always tell people to do, because this is what makes the left and the right different is that we actually believe the greatest prism to be able to create a better world starts with you.
00:46:41.000They believe the great prism to create a better world starts with destroying everything else around you.
00:46:44.000And these are the people that are total schleps.
00:46:48.000They're up till three o'clock, you know, doing drugs and drinking, and they're incredibly disorganized.
00:46:52.000And they're the ones telling me I got to get our life together.
00:46:55.000I'm like, wait a second, come to me when you've shaved, showered in the last month, can speak a coherent sentence and can pass a drug test, and then let's have a conversation about what it means to create a better world.
00:47:05.000And that's the entire thing: we have not laid into the next generation about if you want to be an activist for a great world, be the most productive, moral, responsible person you can be before you start telling us that the rest of the world is unjust, right?
00:47:20.000Make sure your room is perfectly tidy.
00:47:22.000Make sure you dress nicely, you conduct yourself, never tell a lie.
00:47:26.000Like the things that are basic, as Jordan Peterson would say, rules for life.
00:47:30.000If you're not following those things, don't go pick up a sign and take on the rest of the world.
00:47:34.000So I want to commend you, though, because you're already doing those things.
00:47:37.000And so don't, my encouragement to you, though, is don't get disheartened if you're already doing the correct things that other people should be doing.
00:47:45.000Because that's already going to be, it's kind of, it's in some ways, it's the categorical imperative, which is not a Christian ethic, but it's very applicable, which is if you think that you can get away with doing something and you don't think the rest of the world will not do that something, then you're not acting morally.
00:48:02.000And so Kant, who is really screwed up in a very tough read, he would argue that you should not lie because if you should not lie, because then it would give permission for other people to lie.
00:48:14.000Like you should act as if other people should act.
00:48:16.000It's the same Christian ethic as do unto others as you want to do unto yourself, right?
00:48:20.000And I interpret that as like if you're not in your individual life not contesting for these things, it's not a spectator sport, right?
00:48:28.000It's not like you show up to an auditorium and be like, you go, Trump, like, yeah, and then you just kind of go home and like, no, it's everyone involved at all moments from education to finance to politics to governance to church to religion to shopping to all everything you do should be around that prism of the pursuit of truth.
00:51:31.000And I can only imagine how awful it is to go through something.
00:51:35.000I mean, I do know because I see it every single day.
00:51:42.000I'll actually piggyback off that, but ask you questions that will maybe you can answer.
00:51:47.000When you're dealing with a local government that has council members and a mayor that tell the community that they're God-fearing and answer to the authority of the Lord, and you are in a current situation where you feel like they're not standing up for what's right, and you turn to your community and you're getting great response, but you're not really getting any response from your pastors and from your church members.
00:52:17.000And I mean, I've talked to my own pastor about this, and he always defaults back to Romans 13.
00:52:23.000Yeah, Jesus, hope, love, and turn the other cheek, love your enemy.
00:52:27.000And that's why, you know, I hear most of the time we get excuses from the church of why they won't get involved in something that's a little messy and standing up for what's right.
00:52:34.000But I have this holy conviction inside of me to deliver the message of truth, but do it in a way that's not hateful.
00:53:09.000So, it's very interesting that actually, we, the people, as a chartering document, is completely different than Thessalonica or the Middle East or any of the parts or Rome.
00:53:17.000That was like that was just a hereditary body.
00:53:21.000The leaders are just temporary in our system.
00:53:50.000And so, because as it says in the chartering documents of the United States Constitution, never does any leader have a sovereign right to authority, no leader has penetrability to be removed, right?
00:54:03.000And so, pastors with good intent use that piece of scripture, but it's a misapplication there.
00:54:10.000And so, the other thing is this, which is how do you contest for these things?
00:54:15.000And so, here's a really interesting thing: is that I think one of the misapplications of one of the they say, well, love other people how you want to be loved, right?
00:54:25.000Well, I know for me personally, if I was doing something unbiblical, I'd want to be removed from office.
00:54:31.000So, this idea that love other people the way you want to be treated or treat other people you want to be treated, or I'm paraphrasing Matthew 5, right?
00:54:38.000Somehow, you must always be easy and soft on people.
00:54:42.000I don't necessarily find that to be true.
00:54:44.000In fact, first and foremost, if you use the logos, the commitment to truth, you should never have an elected official you are anything but true towards.
00:54:54.000And if they're stepping out of line, imagine you would what would you want out of your people?
00:54:57.000You'd want to be told the truth from your citizens, right?
00:55:01.000And so, this idea that, well, treat other people you want to be treated.
00:55:04.000Okay, I think it's fair to say that you don't want to physically retaliate against them.
00:55:07.000I wouldn't want to be treated that way.
00:55:08.000I wouldn't want to be treated unfairly.
00:55:18.000And so I think that's a very important thought exercise because we take that verse and we assume that means automatic and total softness with every person we interact with.
00:55:28.000I know for me personally, I prefer very firm, delivered truths over passively delivered lies.
00:58:48.000Do you think that a kid from rural West Virginia whose family is a broken family and his dad might be addicted to opioids and they're earning $32,000 a year and a coal mine just got shut down, you think he can afford the same attorneys as Brock Turner?
00:59:00.000Or do you think LeBron James, who's worth $600 million and to sign another $100 million contract, do you think the LeBron James kids got in trouble?
00:59:07.000Do you think that they'd have good representation?
00:59:08.000Do you think Oprah Winfrey's kids, if she had any, or loved ones, would be treated the same way?
00:59:15.000Do you think that Denzel Washington's kids would be treated that way?
00:59:17.000I'll call him Powell, kind of Lisa Rice.
00:59:20.000And so they use that example commonly.
00:59:24.000And it has nothing to do with the kids' skin color.
00:59:26.000In fact, that's a racist reading into that story.
00:59:31.000So it kind of goes along the same lines.
00:59:32.000They oppose, like, okay, so Tamir Rice was a young kid that was, you know, fatally shot.
00:59:40.000They bring up a lot of cases where the black person was obviously innocent or whatever.
00:59:45.000And then they'll say, but look at the Aurora movie theater shooter, that Dylan Roof or whatever and the shot of the black church and all these white.
00:59:55.000You know, and I'm not saying I'm like on the liberal side or anything.
00:59:59.000I'm just kind of plain devil's advocate a little bit to hear your point.
01:00:02.000So I was just wondering what you thought, because they'll say, oh, all these white people shoot masses of people, but then they just get calmly arrested.
01:00:10.000And I just want to know about your point.
01:00:12.000I don't think that's trying not to say shooters' names, but I don't think that the Columbine shooters and the Charleston shooters were calmly arrested.
01:00:22.000I think they were quickly killed in the instant of them doing it.
01:00:25.000And so, but then also it begs the question: why were they doing that?
01:00:29.000They weren't doing it by racial motivation.
01:00:32.000They were doing it because of sick and twisted misinterpretation of, first of all, an undiagnosed mental health illness, coupled with what I think an over-push of psychiatric drugs, and a third element of total, complete social isolation and all that combined.
01:00:48.000So here's the interesting thing, though, is that what they're trying to say, though, is, oh, these people treat them differently than other people.
01:00:56.000If that was the case, if that was really the case, then, and we just completely treated black deaths as tragedies as they are, then my goodness, last week in Chicago would be one of the greatest moral outrages in the history of our country: 120 people shot, 40 people killed, and two kids under the age of six that were killed, or under the age of 10, two infants and toddlers.
01:01:18.000And so it also begs the question: so, let's just look at statistics: where are, who, who in America are actually committing the most amount of homicides?
01:01:26.000Despite being 14% of the population, black individuals, 6% being males, 58% of all homicides are committed by black men in America.
01:01:35.000Now, the main reason is not because they're black, that's not what I'm saying, it's because 77% of black males are raised without a father in the home.
01:01:51.000It's interesting, there's a direct correlation between the indulgence into violence and not having a father in the home.
01:01:58.000And I actually attribute a lot of this to the hyper-feminization of America, which has created a culture where men completely abdicate authority.
01:02:07.000They withdraw from ever having to raise the child.
01:02:10.000The government comes in, and women metaphorically marry the government instead of marrying a man.
01:02:15.000And so, here's the way that you can debunk all this: is that a white child who's raised by just a single mother, by the way, single mothers are heroes.
01:02:24.000I'm just talking about data and statistics and the ideal, especially the biblical ideal, or a black child raised by a mother and father, the black child is statistically far more likely to succeed in every single metric you can gather than a single mother individual raising a white child.
01:02:42.000So, it's actually two-parent privilege that we have in America that we should be talking about.
01:02:46.000When you all of a sudden break it apart racial lines and you go two-parent privilege, it goes absolutely upside down.
01:02:51.000Now, certain cultures have a lot different disparities with, let's just say, marriage rates than others.
01:02:59.000And there's a lot of different reasons for that.
01:03:00.000But there was one other point you wanted to make.
01:03:02.000Was there one other one you wanted to digress?
01:03:03.000That was just kind of, that was pretty much.
01:03:08.000And so white privilege, the idea of white privilege and categorizing people on the melanin in their skin is the opposite of the Christian ethic.
01:03:14.000It's the opposite, where we're all made in the image of God.
01:03:17.000You all have an independent journey that you must make, a salvation that you must have with Christ.
01:03:29.000Mind you, thousands of years ago, this was not believed.
01:03:32.000In fact, it was believed in Aztec or Incan or Egyptian culture that your bloodline would dictate your future, that you would be banished for generations if you did something bad, that your kids and your grandkids and five generations later will have almost karmic blood guilt.
01:03:46.000It was the Christian idea and ethic that liberated you from all of that.
01:03:50.000It was like, no, no, no, it doesn't matter what your father did or good or bad.
01:03:52.000Like, if your father's a good guy, he won't get you to heaven.
01:03:55.000If your father's a bad guy, that doesn't mean you have to go to hell.
01:03:57.000And so we've built an entire civilization around this idea called America.
01:04:09.000That what preceded you is not your destiny.
01:04:12.000And you only have that because the Bible, that great leap forward that we all take for granted, there was no guarantee that that was going to happen.
01:04:47.000And that's actually why you see the most Christian conversions in India happening in what I believe they call the untouchables, which is the lowest class in India.
01:04:55.000Because they're like, well, you're trying to tell me I can be something more than just what I've been for the last 10 generations?
01:05:00.000It's a message of hope and of optimism and faith and forgiveness.
01:05:03.000Everything the left is talking about is opposite of that.
01:05:06.000And so the just kind of close the point on white privilege, I highly encourage every single person to reject it completely because I want to be a country that judges people on character and worldview, not skin color.
01:05:17.000Our descent back into thousands of year old tribalism is so incredibly regressive and also very dangerous for a society.
01:06:52.000To try to tell them that without God, you wouldn't have the ability to believe in nothing.
01:06:56.000And then, also to go deeper, is the most important question an atheist can answer.
01:07:00.000And I've seen very viral videos around this that have gone millions and millions of views, which just ask them the very simple question, do you hope you're wrong?
01:07:07.000Because a good truth-seeking atheist should say, yes, I hope I'm wrong.
01:07:11.000If an atheist says, no, I hope I'm right, that means they believe in something that's awful over something that might be true.
01:07:18.000And therefore, most young people believe in atheism because it makes you into your own God.
01:07:22.000It's very appealing for a person that wants to drink what they want to drink, have whatever indulgence they want, anytime, at any place.
01:07:28.000So, the most important thing in the world that turns you into almost a deification of the individual, especially when you're 19 years old, it's very tempting.
01:07:34.000The reason why we're seeing all this happen in the culture in the country is the church has not been bold enough to spread the gospel.
01:07:40.000In fact, we should be putting atheism on trial in our country.
01:07:43.000And young Christians are completely ill-equipped in apologetics.
01:07:47.000They have no idea of the ontological arguments for God, the idea of the metaphysical arguments for God.
01:07:53.000They go to campuses and they either don't believe in God at all or they end up becoming, you know, just kind of passive Christians and they deviate away from the church.
01:08:08.000And all this will be put on YouTube as well.
01:08:10.000So we'll happy to put all this up there.
01:08:13.000I think you just answered my question.
01:08:17.000I really appreciate that you do go to college campuses.
01:08:20.000I just had a conversation with a young woman who goes to a liberal arts college and engaged in one of the recent protests.
01:08:28.000And I think what my response was to her was that I don't, my belief system is such that I do not believe change warrants or is justified by violence and destruction of property.
01:08:45.000And man, did she come back with this list of things that was like from a brochure or a professor or something?
01:08:53.000And my question would be, how, you already just said it, I think, but how do you counteract that type of belief system that's being talked to our young people?
01:09:06.000Yeah, well, first of all, the people that are advocating for violence, and it's very interesting, and destruction, I always say, destroy your house first and go destroy somebody else's.
01:09:15.000In order to be morally and logically consistent, once you burn your own house down, then fine, go burn someone else's down.
01:09:22.000And by the way, I think this whole like stay-at-home movement, it should apply especially to the arsonists because then they go destroy all their own homes.
01:09:29.000But then they use these ridiculous misapplications of history.
01:09:32.000They say, well, the best kind of change always comes with violent retaliation.
01:09:36.000Well, first of all, if you're talking about the Boston Tea Party, that was an act of war against the British Commonwealth.
01:09:42.000So if what you're doing right now, if you're admitting you're an act of war, I'll have the FBI visit you tomorrow and you're going to get arrested.
01:09:57.000The second thing is that's just not true.
01:10:00.000Look, Henry David Thoreau wrote the book Civil Disobedience, and it is the best way to effectuate change is actually through civilly disobeying, taking the punishment.
01:10:08.000Letters from our Birmingham jail, what Gandhi did.
01:10:13.000They want to not go to jail, want to get bailed out of that, want no responsibility.
01:10:16.000If you're an actual protester, if they really believe in what they were doing, they'd be willing to serve whatever sentence was given to them and then make a point out of it without ever retaliating against it.
01:10:44.000You think they're going to stop at the statue of George Washington, which, by the way, has been taken down in Portland and not going back up?
01:10:49.000You think they're going to stop at the statue of Abraham Lincoln, which is going down in Boston and not going back up?
01:10:54.000And that should bother, like that, that alone should bother you.
01:10:56.000But now they're going after statues of Christ.
01:10:58.000They're going after burning down churches.
01:11:00.000And people are like, well, we just got to get it out of their system and their steam.
01:11:04.000First of all, anyone who believes in that doesn't understand how mobs work, doesn't understand how children work.
01:11:08.000And that's actually a really important point: is that if you actually look at what this is, it is the infantilization of America.
01:11:14.000It is a return back to something is better about being a child than being an adult.
01:11:20.000And the romantics got this all wrong in the 1800s.
01:11:22.000And there's some stuff that they got right, but it's almost like, yes, the innocence of being able to destroy and flow through the world.
01:11:38.000This is what, and by the way, what I love about this whole thing is they say, oh, yeah, children are good from birth.
01:11:42.000Like, why do you have to teach them goodness?
01:11:44.000Like, I mean, if they're so good, why do you have this is the greatest way for young parents that believe this nonsense that are marching to Black Lives Matter stuff.
01:11:54.000And I've communicated with some of them.
01:11:55.000They say, well, my, you know, children are great, you know, from birth and blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:11:59.000And I say, okay, well, you're a young parent.
01:12:00.000I say, you ever have a kid manipulate the mother and the father against each other?
01:13:59.000Like, why are you guys not drawing the lines?
01:14:01.000By the way, the country is more important than a Supreme Court justice, right?
01:14:05.000And so, look, I'm not going to say any names, but I have to be careful the way I say this, but just ask yourselves the question: like, why is the most conservative state with your lawmakers?
01:16:44.000And could you imagine a country where they take down statues of Washington and Lincoln and the Republican Party is basically like issuing press releases?
01:19:00.000So I have two kind of clap each other, but something like you said a minute ago, man, I was talking to a girl or chatting with a young person from another part of the state.
01:19:08.000And she was saying that I asked her, you know, what are you going to do?
01:19:12.000She's like, depending on the rioters and everything.
01:19:13.000And I said, well, what are we going to do if they come to your house?
01:19:16.000What if they burn your business in your home?
01:19:18.000And she said, as you know, I think, I mean, anybody can change and believe that description should be prayer for change for anybody.
01:19:49.000Yeah, I mean, that's foolish, beyond foolish.
01:19:52.000And here's the other thing: what's so sick, and this is why I'm just so upset because, like, since when is like every white person that's ever existed in this country the problem?
01:20:00.000Like, I get it that there's plenty of people in the South that did unspeakable sins.
01:22:00.000Like, our ancestors sacrificed so much.
01:22:03.000Like, you know how hard it was to go west in the 1800s?
01:22:06.000You guys probably have heard stories to Homestead.
01:22:09.000That's not something that should be taken lightly.
01:22:12.000And again, you have to make your own life as a basis of that.
01:22:15.000But for someone to say something like that, I don't wish that their home to be burned, but if it was to be burned, their foolishness would probably warrant something like that.
01:22:25.000So, do you have another follow-up on that?
01:22:26.000Yeah, it's sort of, I don't know, same attention to it or you talk about infiltration in churches and Marxist stuff getting the churches.
01:22:34.000And talking about people who change is a woman, I don't know if you're Bella, but she was a woman, she was a communist organizer, and she became a Catholic through Trails on Hillibrand and Dietrich Hillbrand.
01:22:48.000But anyway, she, after she converted, she said explicitly that she had, they were questioning like, how can this stuff be happening in the church?
01:23:01.000And she would get silent, and then she said, well, when I was a communist, we infiltrated the churches.
01:23:09.000We found young men, mostly atheists, often homosexuals, to infiltrate thousands of them, mostly South American seminaries, South Transparency seminaries.
01:23:18.000And that's what led to a lot of the crisis in the Catholic Church.
01:24:29.000They want to double the amount of abortions.
01:24:31.000They want to abolish police and abolish prisons.
01:24:33.000That's what your pastor is wearing to church.
01:24:38.000Probably inconsistent with like seven out of ten of the Ten Commandments and like all of Matthew 5, right?
01:24:43.000So it's like, right, at what point do you think that it's probably not good to be doing that?
01:24:47.000And the problem with the left is I've got to give them credit is their messaging is phenomenal because they picked a name of a movement that is in itself the name is true.
01:24:55.000Of course, Black Lives Matter, all lives matter.
01:25:12.000And that's too bad because, and they're phenomenal at being able to message in that way.
01:25:17.000And so the final point I'll say about churches in general is that you look at the money trail, you look at the gospel coalition, you look at George Soros.
01:25:25.000They're pumping in tens of millions of dollars funding Christians every single year, Christian pastors, funding churches, funding groups that are working to teach the gospel incorrectly.
01:25:35.000And so I highly encourage all of you guys to follow the money because a lot of Christian ink out there is funded heavily by the left-wing sub-socialist atheist secular forces.
01:25:45.000And as I said before, this entity, the church, was always the reason why we did not go the way of other socialist revolutions, right?
01:25:52.000It was the church because it was a weekly, if not bi-weekly, if not daily gathering of moral believers that had a commitment to what was true.
01:26:01.000Therefore, when something that was untrue came into the world, they would say, well, let's work this out as a congregation, right?
01:26:07.000Like, is it a good idea to follow someone like Lenin?
01:26:29.000It was a singular letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention.
01:26:33.000And it's even misinterpreted in the context of what he said.
01:26:35.000Thomas Jefferson had local churches performing ceremonies and musical performances in the building of the Supreme Court.
01:26:44.000I mean, the early founders were all Bible-believing Christians, and people said, well, they were deists.
01:26:48.000Okay, well, you could be a Christian and also have started as a deist.
01:26:52.000There were different variations of Christians, but let's start with George Washington.
01:26:55.000He was a devout, Bible-carrying Anglican Christian.
01:26:59.000Abraham Lincoln read the Bible every single night before he went to bed, and he said it was the most instructive piece of literature that inspired him to eradicate slavery.
01:27:07.000Thaddeus Stevens, the absolute abolitionist in the 1860s and 70s, used the Bible as the main reason why he believed in the eradication and the abolition of slavery.
01:27:17.000And so the church and America have been so intertwined throughout.
01:27:23.000And then what happened in the 1960s and 70s, you had a hyper-humanist secularization movement that came in where we got rid of prayer in schools, we legalized abortion, and young kids said they wanted the sexual revolution.
01:27:34.000And you kind of can see where that led us.
01:27:36.000You know, 50% divorce rates, 55% fatherlessness rates in certain communities, 77% the black community, and we're more miserable than ever before, right?
01:27:45.000So you actually think to yourself, my goodness, has that made America more equitable and fair?
01:28:10.000And we always, not always, but most churches teach them in such a legalistic lens, like you're going to burn eternally if you don't do these things.
01:28:31.000You're going to have more peace with yourself.
01:28:33.000And if you follow the teachings of Christ, you don't tell lies.
01:28:35.000It's actually a very helpful tool to live a good life, right?
01:28:40.000If you honor your mother and father, if you honor the true father, and I think we've gotten away from that in a lot of different ways where we have allowed the culture to pose us as, if you follow these things, you're going to have an awful life.
01:28:54.000And again, that should be the only communication tool we have because obviously there's a more important purpose to what we're doing.
01:28:59.000But I think that's also highly instructive and very important.
01:29:01.000So happy to answer other questions if you guys have them.
01:29:34.000Well, I am a conservative Christian, and I really do appreciate your viewpoints on things.
01:29:39.000I'd say, for the most part, I haven't heard you say a single thing I disagree with.
01:29:44.000But as somebody that is running for office, what would be your advice for reaching our audiences out there, for convincing them that this really is a war for our minds, for our culture, for our hearts?
01:29:59.000I have a contrarian view on this, which I actually think that when you run for office, you should care more about saying things that are true than winning.
01:30:08.000And that's a very contrarian view that not everyone holds.
01:30:12.000I actually think that if you're only in the pursuit of electoral victory, that's the only thing you care about, which of course is why you're doing it.
01:30:21.000Then I think that it just defeats the process.
01:30:23.000And actually, the ironic thing is if you really pursue truth and you really say things that are correct and factual and statistical based and rooted in logic, you're actually going to win.
01:31:14.000No, it's like usually this guy's like, according to my free 33-point plan that's been poll tested in all these states, I believe that we should have corporate tax cuts.
01:31:44.000But I think what Trump also did so amazingly in 2016, what you can do, is he also captured the imagination of the American people.
01:31:50.000It's that for the first time, he actually made very big and bold promises that were tangible to us, that almost pushed our boundaries of what was possible.
01:31:58.000And he almost raised the tone level in the country where he's like, yeah, I'm going to bring back jobs from China.
01:32:04.000No one would ever say something like that, right?
01:32:06.000Instead, they'd be like, we're going to attempt our best to bring manufacturing.
01:32:10.000You guys are going to win so much, you're going to be sick of it.
01:32:26.000I think he's got to get back to capturing our imagination again.
01:32:29.000Because I actually think as the country is such in this crisis moment, and a very turn towards the positive and towards almost like we're going to go to Mars, we're going to do the Space Force, we're going to go we've never gone before, I think is actually going to be more resonant than ever before against Biden who's this era.
01:32:44.000So that's kind of my advice to you is just be obviously be very disciplined, but come from the outset that like I'm prepared to lose.
01:32:51.000And it sounds really weird, but like once you surrender that, truly, then you'll be on a true pursuit of saying what is right and true.
01:32:59.000And then more technical things is outwork every one of your candidates.
01:33:03.000Do more events, do more fundraisers, do all that sort of stuff, knock on more doors, and you'll be richly rewarded for that.
01:33:08.000And so that's, I know it's kind of somewhat contrary, but I think that true victory is actually telling the truth, not just getting more votes than the other person.
01:33:49.000You touched on most things, but I did want to ask because two things I wasn't too sure of, and I wanted to make sure it's most things I search out for the truth.
01:34:47.000It's rooted in ideas that were perfected in the French Revolution and other communist revolutions, which is to pit people against each other on the most tribal lines.
01:34:55.000And they found in America that they could do that in skin color.
01:34:57.000And that's a very, and so that's there.
01:35:00.000They're trying to make us, they're trying to destroy the American idea of e plurbus unum, which is on all of our currency, which is Latin for out of many one.
01:35:09.000There instead of trying to divide and conquer.
01:35:11.000And look, the Marxists, they went through many, and for those that don't know, when I say Marxist, it's Karl Marx or the Communist Manifesto, mid-1800s literature.
01:35:20.000He was inspired heavily by Rousseau and Hegel, who wrote the Hegelian dialectic, one of the most disastrous, destructive thinkers ever, who actually could be the only person who could be pinned for both the tragedies of the Soviet Union and of the Nazis, interestingly enough.
01:35:35.000However, the interesting thing is this, is that in the 1960s, they went through kind of a rebranding, and we're now experiencing the rebranding of the Marxists.
01:35:42.000So the Marxist struggle was always like, okay, it's the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, right?
01:35:46.000It's the working class versus the rich people.
01:35:48.000But they realized because of markets and because of hardworking people, specifically Americans, that that kind of a message was not resonating as much.
01:35:56.000It was like, ah, okay, I should be a shared Marxism.
01:35:58.000So instead, they tried something different.
01:35:59.000They went through a complete and total philosophical rebranding.
01:36:02.000And you could blame a guy by the name of Jacques Derrida because of this.
01:36:05.000And he was the guy that has influenced your children more than any other thinker.
01:36:10.000French, all bad ideas come from France.
01:36:13.000They're experts in making sure we learn volunteers.
01:36:16.000And they were, where do they want to spread their foolishness?
01:36:34.000And now, what they said was not at the output of their first observation was not necessarily incorrect, but the second deviation was incorrect.
01:36:41.000So it came from this idea of frame theory, right?
01:36:43.000So like you look at this water bottle and there might be a billion different things.
01:36:46.000This could be this could be a water bottle.
01:36:50.000Okay, so that's more semantic so than anything else, right?
01:36:53.000There's really only one true usage of this, which is to deliver water to me, right?
01:36:58.000And so what they were trying to first and foremost do is invalidate the Bible, right?
01:37:02.000They're trying to invalidate the teachings of Christ and all the great works of Western literature, where they're like, well, no, the true story of Christ is not that it was someone that was trying to save the world.
01:37:13.000The true story is that Christ should have fought back or something like that, right?
01:37:20.000So you kind of see all of a sudden they're trying to invalidate everything that we built our society around.
01:37:24.000What they were really doing is they were liberating young people to believe things that were their own truth.
01:37:29.000And this idea of like, well, you're the most important thing in the world, so you must believe whatever you want to believe.
01:37:34.000And so what they did is they went to this rebranding and said, okay, instead of the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, it'll be oppressor versus oppressed.
01:37:40.000That's like their new paradigm, right?
01:37:42.000So it'll be the people that are oppressed versus the oppressor.
01:37:45.000And the oppressed people are black and people of color, and white people are the oppressors.
01:37:49.000That's where they came up with the idea of white privilege and white fragility.
01:38:16.000Quote from one of my favorite movies, and it's unbelievably true.
01:38:20.000Some people love, they get a sense of meaning in the arson around them.
01:38:25.000They miss their calling as pyrotechnics, okay?
01:38:28.000And they, I'm kidding, of course, but they're societal and civilizational arsonists.
01:38:34.000And because they have so much resentment, they have so much self-hatred and self-loathing, and they're missing the true truth of surrendering themselves to a higher power, their only sense of meaning is to make sure other people suffer around them.
01:38:43.000It's that old thing we say all the time: we love company, right?
01:38:46.000We say that all the time, and that's actually what you're seeing now, is it spreads and this resentful revolution.
01:38:52.000And so then now you're seeing it play out, and you're seeing an entire generation that has grown up with none of the struggles that the generations before had them, right?
01:38:59.000Young people today have it better than any other generation in American history.
01:39:02.000They're generally provided for food-wise, medically, housing.
01:39:05.000There's, of course, exceptions to all this, but 99.8% of Americans, young people, generally able to get the food they need to survive.
01:39:12.000They have the medicine they need to be able to get to their teens, right?
01:39:14.000Like, we don't have infant mortality rates that are concerning.
01:39:17.000So, because of that, all of a sudden, they take that for granted.
01:39:20.000They're not taught the sacrifices before them that were made.
01:39:23.000And it creates an incredibly resentful generation.
01:39:25.000And so, what they teach young people in particular, and you guys have probably experienced this, is where real meaning comes from responsibility, right?
01:39:32.000Responsibility to God, responsibility to Christ, responsibility to your family, responsibility to your job.
01:39:37.000We've taught young people that just doing whatever you want gives you meaning.
01:39:41.000You know, that's an awful way to live, okay?
01:39:44.000So, you get really unhappy people by the time they're 23 years old because they've tried every substance under the sun, they've done everything you could possibly indulge in, and they're wondering why they're still miserable, right?
01:39:54.000And so, then they want to burn the world though, and it creates perfect little activist revolutionaries.
01:39:59.000Final thing about George Soros that you ask, yeah, he's heavily involved in all this.
01:40:03.000We have a huge, there's huge projects and research projects that have been done that there's multi-billion dollar funding streams that are going to destroy our country from within, from the Iranians, from the Middle East, from the Chinese, that we're helping fund a lot of this disarray and chaos.
01:40:17.000And isn't it convenient that right after a virus that kills over 100,000 people and locks down our country and causes 30 million people out of work, and anywhere between 30 to 40,000 people committed suicide?
01:40:27.000We don't know the number yet because they haven't come in.
01:40:44.000It's unbelievably dangerous, and we saw the results of that.
01:40:47.000But also, but the person, the reason all that happened is because China lied, and I think China is an incredibly dangerous, malevolent, sinister, atheistic regime that we must take more seriously.
01:40:57.000But many of them have purchased our political leaders and the leaders in our political elite.
01:41:02.000As soon as we're starting to get serious, we'll hold them accountable.
01:41:04.000All of a sudden, we have like a racial revolution in our country, right?
01:41:07.000And there's a lot of evidence that's coming up that the Chinese Communist Party has been funding these revolutionary groups.
01:41:12.000And if you look at the videos online, you see that the activists are walking down the streets, and all of a sudden they pull down a couple things, and there's a nicely delivered bricks for them to be able to destroy.
01:41:20.000You saw these incredible, if you haven't seen these videos, it's unbelievable.
01:41:23.000It's like perfectly placed all throughout the inner cities with exactly what was needed.
01:41:27.000And so, yeah, look, there's what we have is a true insurrection right now.
01:41:31.000Now, what's interesting, though, and why I think that they're going to hit a plateau at some point, and it's not to say they're not going to win, because I don't think they will, is that they're the first inter-civilizational insurrection that is against the country they're trying to take over.
01:42:16.000But, I mean, what's happened is amazing.
01:42:17.000And we've fallen, somebody said this, we've fallen hypnotized by the trappings of Western luxury, right?
01:42:24.000Is that we have things so good that we just file complacent, where you have leaders like Elon Omar and Alexandria Yucasi-Cortez and Diana Presley that are bigger anti-Americans and anti-Western individuals that just get blended into mainstream American politics as if they should be taken seriously.
01:42:40.000And no, I mean, they want a very, very, very fundamentally revolutionized America.
01:42:45.000It's not anywhere close to what is true or good.
01:42:48.000And so, yeah, I think that summarizes that question rather well.
01:43:20.000It just kind of, it's not as critical.
01:43:24.000I think that's probably the best way to word it.
01:43:26.000So, if you guys want to check out that speech, it's in a couple hours, I think, at the Camplex, if you guys want to come by to that.
01:43:33.000So, I have a couple asks out of you guys.
01:43:36.000Number one, I barely touched into the cartel of the colleges, which is the most disastrous, insidious force, and not the most, one of the most, that is create the next generation of activists where we have a generation of young people borrowing money they don't have to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist to go learn from people that hate our country so they too can become bitter revolutionaries within a country that has given them so much.
01:43:57.000And so I highly encourage you a couple things.
01:43:59.000Be very careful and prayerful before you send a kid off to college.
01:44:02.000Ask that kid why are you going to college, not where are you going to college?
01:44:05.000Four-year college is not needed to succeed in our country.
01:44:08.000All you need to have is good character and outwork the person next to you, and you'll be able to succeed in our country.
01:44:13.000This idea that you can be a certificate, that you need to go to college to be able to succeed in certain trades and professions, it's nice.
01:44:20.000It's an accreditation more than an education.
01:44:22.000Very, very important to make that clear.
01:44:24.000I never went to college, and I try to be a testament and give people a confidence that YouTube and that need to go to college to hopefully be able to succeed in this country.
01:44:31.000That also kind of goes to extrapolate that for parents.
01:44:34.000For parents out there that are just pushing your kids to college, this state is less than other states.
01:44:53.000They could never imagine their kid not going to college.
01:44:55.000They don't want to be able to look at their parents in the eye and say, yeah, their neighbors in the eyes and say, yeah, my kid didn't go to college.
01:45:02.000That's like an unspeakable sentence in some communities across America.
01:45:05.000So what you have is a cartel of colleges that are charging more money than ever before that's not worth the price that they're paying.
01:45:12.000And kids are going $60,000, $70,000, $80,000, $100,000 in debt with very little skills to show for it.
01:45:17.000I make an argument that an 18-year-old in high school is far more mature than a senior in high school.
01:45:23.000In fact, college actually infantilizes children.
01:45:25.000It allows you to indulge into the worst aspects of human society with very little parental guidance or supervision, very little expectations given out of college, because there's kids that rise above it, of course, there are.
01:45:36.000But generally, they're allowed almost complete and total utility to believe nonsense and to act in nonsensical, foolish ways.
01:45:42.000So people say, what can I do about it?
01:45:45.000I think a gap year for young men in particular is a very important, good thing to do.
01:45:50.000I also say there's nothing wrong with community colleges.
01:45:52.000I think we need more welders and plumbers, electricians, HVAC, people that know how to code and do things that are applicable, and far less people that know, you know, I don't know, 16th century lesbian poetry or something, whatever they teach in school, based on some sort of backwards stuff.
01:46:10.000Another thing is I don't imagine this audience has a lot of people like this, but please do not give money to your alma mater unless you went to Hillsdale or Liberty University.
01:46:23.000Let them go through some formal reckoning process, have them have to lay off staff, have them have to actually go through some sort of thinning process.
01:46:47.000I know the University of Wyoming is really close to a lot of people, but I'll tell you, we hosted Dennis Krager there last year, a year and a half ago, one of the most venomous receptions that we've ever, right?
01:48:05.000I was just saying that every senior that we have sent to that has either gone into the ministry or is doing a productive work outside of the church in either teaching or different things.
01:48:20.000I mean, it literally has an impact on their life if they've got a good foundational teaching from the church that can be built on and it gives them the tools to understand what's coming at them so they're not shocked.
01:48:34.000Because I don't think the church does a good enough job at teaching them what they're going to go into.
01:48:55.000I just know how they do it so well, right?
01:48:58.000And so I think that, and I wasn't even equipped with Christian apologetics until I fell backwards in a lease stroll, right?
01:49:04.000And that was the church, your church does a great job based on what you just said, but generally the church does not do a proper, I think, a really good job of equipping Christians in that sense.
01:49:39.000Most countries are just like plummets by the idea that parents would become teachers.
01:49:42.000Like, why wouldn't the state do such a thing like that?
01:49:45.000And so, I'm a huge advocate of homeschooling.
01:49:47.000If we can double homeschooling population in five years, I think it'll be one of the saving graces in our country, I really do, against what they're trying to do through government-run schools.
01:49:54.000So, I know this state has actually one of the highest per capita homeschooling rates in the entire country.
01:49:58.000And that's why I think you guys are so believing in truth in this state.
01:50:02.000You guys, you know, do a lot of good stuff there.
01:50:04.000And then, demand more of your elected officials, guys, please.
01:50:30.000I don't know if this is your church or not, but it's worthy of your support because the truth, every church needs to be involved in the public square right now.
01:50:36.000So, God bless you guys, it's been great.