00:00:48.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:57.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:22.000And there are a few good things and not so good things that have come from Illinois.
00:01:27.000Jury's out, if I'm one of them, but Turning Point for sure.
00:01:31.000Thank you for all the amazing work that the Turning Point Academy team has put in to putting together this event.
00:01:38.000Hutz and Jennifer and Francine and Scott have worked very hard on the whole Turning Point Academy team.
00:01:43.000For those of you that follow Turning Point, we are a busy bunch.
00:01:46.000We just had our Young Women's Leadership Summit last weekend where we had 2,500 young women leaders in Dallas, Texas.
00:01:55.000And if you saw any of the media coverage about it, it's a completely different type of gathering than you would expect.
00:02:03.000First of all, we said that there's no men pretending to be women allowed at our Young Women's Leadership Summit, which shouldn't be a controversial thing to say.
00:02:12.000And of course, now we have our Educators Summit.
00:02:15.000And then coming up in a couple of weeks, our sister organization, Turning Point Action, in West Palm Beach, Florida, we're hosting Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Dan Bongino, and any presidential candidate that wants to show up.
00:02:28.000And so if you guys are looking for, if you're bored in July, you want to come down to West Palm Beach, Florida, that lineup is going to make some headlines for sure.
00:02:37.000But this is one of the most important things that we're doing.
00:02:39.000I'm thrilled with Hutz's leadership and it's full circle.
00:02:42.000I gave my life to the Lord thanks to Mrs. Weber.
00:03:31.000I can't say that that school is in a good place anymore, which is too bad because the trends that we are seeing nationally, unfortunately, infected that school.
00:03:55.000And I mean, our whole vision, our broad vision, everything we do at Turning Point, and I forgot to mention, we just had our pastor summit where we had 1,100 pastors in Nashville, the largest pastor summit of its kind, and we have another one coming up in a few weeks.
00:04:10.000Is our big picture vision is we believe firmly that Western civilization is special and unique, rooted in biblical values and ideas, and that we are called through our own obligation to do our part to try to save Western civilization against people that want to destroy it.
00:04:28.000And this is something that not every Christian agrees with me on.
00:04:31.000Some people say, Charlie, Western society doesn't matter.
00:04:34.000It doesn't matter the government that you have.
00:04:37.000Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in.
00:04:40.000I'm not saying it's the most important thing.
00:04:42.000The most important thing is spreading the gospel.
00:04:44.000But the second most important thing is to make sure you can do the first thing.
00:04:47.000And when we lived during COVID and they deemed the church non-essential and stripped clubs, liquor stores, marijuana dispensaries were essential and the church was not.
00:04:55.000And Easter and Pentecost was, you weren't even allowed to go to church and you had to wear masks and be socially distanced.
00:05:01.000I said, no, something here is really, really terribly wrong.
00:05:04.000And we also must be very honest that, you know, in countries that are less free, totalitarianism is directly at odds with liberty, which is God's idea, not man's idea.
00:05:13.000And so there is a place, I think, for believers to contest in this and to love the nation that you are in and also have gratitude because we do not live in a country or a civilization like any other.
00:05:23.000I think this is a, I'll be very blunt, which is kind of my thing, right?
00:05:28.000I think it's hyper-entitled upper-middle-class Christian talk if you act as if there's nothing special about America.
00:05:35.000If you kind of just scoff and you're like, oh, this country's like everything else, you know, God doesn't really care about this.
00:05:41.000I think that is a complete disrespect to the Bible-believing, courageous Christians that founded this nation, that died for this nation, that poured into the form of government, consent to the governed, checks and balances, individual liberty, independent judiciary.
00:05:57.000The most cited book in the formation of the United States government was Deuteronomy, right?
00:06:02.000Most kids can't even spell Deuteronomy, right?
00:06:05.000And in fact, that's going to be something I'm going to talk about in a second.
00:06:07.000On the Liberty Bell, they put Leviticus on the Liberty Bell, okay?
00:06:11.000Not Psalms, not Proverbs, not John, Leviticus.
00:06:14.000Proclaim liberty in the land of which you are in.
00:06:17.000And so for some people that say, oh, Charlie, there's no place for patriotic elements in Christian education, I disagree completely.
00:06:24.000I think that we need to contest for liberty because it's something that has an eternal ring to it.
00:06:30.000And so a couple thoughts that I want to share with you today.
00:06:33.000Let me talk about Wheeling High School.
00:06:34.000Then I'm going to talk about something that happened yesterday on Jeopardy, which actually ties into why we are here, which I think is one of the most illuminating pieces.
00:06:42.000It's a 10-second clip that is one of the most powerful things I have seen and why Turning Point Academy matters.
00:06:48.000My 10-second clip, Jeopardy, so I'll leave you in suspense there.
00:06:50.000But first, let me tell you about Wheeling High School.
00:09:14.000We're seeing this happen in schools across the country.
00:09:16.000And so this has personally been a motivation for me to empower HUTS and the Turning Point Academy team because seeing something that once worked and then see it become somewhat largely unrecognizable really pains me.
00:09:30.000And I'm sure all of you have your own personal experiences of an institution that wants to be great, once was great, and a school that wants to be great.
00:09:36.000And so I'm personally motivated to try to push back against it.
00:09:40.000Critical race theory, I believe, is from the pit of hell.
00:09:42.000It is one of the great evils in our society.
00:13:41.000And usually the only way, but you're basically telling me, is that I want my kid to experience a bunch of pain to get wisdom because that's the only way that you could get wisdom the old-fashioned way is pain.
00:13:52.000We should not want to shield our kids from pain.
00:13:54.000But there's a much easier way to get kids wisdom at a younger age, which is make them do the work.
00:14:01.000Read the good books, spend times in the scriptures, and have meaningful dialogues in the pursuit of truth.
00:14:08.000That does not happen in 99% of schools.
00:14:10.000And it doesn't happen in most Christian schools, by the way.
00:14:13.000In fact, most Christian schools are having an industrial-style, hyper-feminized model of education.
00:14:20.000Now, you might say, what do you mean hyper-feminized?
00:14:22.000Having kids sit around all day long and just read books like Little House on the Prairie is a hyper-feminist, failed model of educating young boys.
00:14:30.000Boys need to move every 20 minutes and need to be involved in learning all the time.
00:14:35.000Most Christian schools, they're like, never heard of this before.
00:14:37.000They're like, well, we just have kids sit single file, and that's a really good way to make sure kids suffering from ADD, they get hypermedicated at a young age, young boys especially.
00:14:49.000We're wondering, like, well, why is this generation the most suicidal, depressed, alcohol-addicted, drug-addicted, screen-addicted, and social media generation history?
00:14:58.000Why is it that they are increasingly believing that there is no God and all this?
00:15:02.000Well, first of all, the whole premise of how we're doing education is completely flawed.
00:15:07.000If you look at Woodrow Wilson, who was, I think, America's worst president, and John Dewey, who was a terrible person, and he was the father of modern America, public education, really government education.
00:15:18.000They decided to turn the page, turn their back, I believe, all-out steamroll, what founded this country, which was classical Christian education.
00:15:28.000Every major founding father was classically Christian educated.
00:16:21.000When you don't emphasize wisdom, when you don't emphasize diving deep into these ideas, then, yeah, there's a lack of morality, and that's pretty obvious.
00:19:24.000And so does some Christian schools, by the way.
00:19:26.000If you dive in, it's like, well, we don't want to offend people, and there's a lot of good ideas out there.
00:19:31.000Properly rooted Western Christian education believes that there is a truth and you should love the child enough to lead them on the path and the journey to get to that truth.
00:19:43.000That's completely different than believing that everybody has, you know, similar type, equal footing ideas, egalitarianism of ideas.
00:19:55.000And that's where you get this new modern educational model where a first-grade teacher will sit around and ask, okay, I want to hear what all of you think about what's going on in the news.
00:20:49.000Maybe the thing that is thousands of years old is still the most quoted, most sourced, most foundational text.
00:20:57.000There's probably some staying power to this document.
00:20:59.000You should have humility before you dismiss it because we have Twitter and Advil and Paul the Apostle didn't, right?
00:21:08.000Like, oh, wow, he wasn't very advanced, which gets down to an even more fundamental thing.
00:21:12.000And I'm happy to say that at most turning point training events, I think 90% of our kids get this question right, but we're not at 100%.
00:21:20.000We just had a Texas training, and most kids got the question right, some didn't.
00:21:24.000And the kids that didn't were Christian educated, right?
00:21:27.000And it was a very simple question, which is, are human beings naturally good or are they naturally bad, right?
00:21:31.000And the Christian kids thought they were naturally good, which goes to show that whatever school they go to should be shut down and burned to the ground, right?
00:24:39.000And when challenged, the postmodernists who control the education system, you could tell that most of them don't have kids.
00:24:48.000Because when you have kids, you realize that they're very sweet, but they do things you did not teach them that they got from somewhere, such as it's about me.
00:25:02.000And I asked this to parents: we haven't had this phenomenon yet, but I can't wait.
00:25:40.000Again, they reject the scriptures, the modernists.
00:25:42.000But I love the book of Exodus, one of my favorite books of the Bible.
00:25:47.000Incredibly wise for a variety of reasons.
00:25:50.000And I think there's so much to learn from Sinai and from human nature and tyranny, which I think a lot of what we're living through right now, actually, Exodus speaks to.
00:25:58.000So God delivers his chosen people after incredible intervention, right?
00:27:42.000Whole book of Exodus, the tyranny, God's, started with a Pharaoh, a king, being like, meh, who cares if we, or I don't know, who's the Joseph guy?
00:27:52.000Why do we have all these people here again?
00:28:02.000If you do not have a memory of what came before, tyranny is going to come.
00:28:08.000And then you get into Exodus 20, right?
00:28:11.000God's covenant with his people continues, Ten Commandments, which if everybody has to follow the Ten Commandments, it's actually more than Ten Commandments.
00:28:56.000But the one that I do want to make sure I emphasize of the Ten Commandments is the only one that involves our nation and involves a promise.
00:29:04.000Honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in.
00:29:09.000And everything that modern secular education aims to do, intentionally or unintentionally, is to break the bond between a parent and a child.
00:29:20.000It is directly against that commandment.
00:29:23.000Totalitarians need to make families strangers.
00:29:29.000They need to make moms and kids foreign to one another.
00:29:33.000Strong families are the greatest threat to totalitarianism.
00:29:39.000When Stalin took power in Russia, he taught everyone that your true mother is Mother Russia, the Russian government.
00:29:45.000In Mao's China, the first thing he did was enlist Little Red Guard and pay kids and reward kids with candy to turn in parents to the gulag.
00:29:56.000And that same generation is now running the Chinese Communist Party in China.
00:31:01.000And I could tell you that we need to go on a rescue mission right now for the kids of this country that are currently being held hostage by this godless, secular situation that we find ourselves in.
00:31:13.000We need to rescue those kids because there are so many great kids out there and parents that might mean well that have them in these just terrible institutions.
00:32:46.000And we're seeing a hunger, an appetite, a desire to educate kids in the proper way, in the way that is proven and biblical, not in this secular, industrialized model that does not enrich the soul of the student.
00:35:48.000We're living through outright paganism right now.
00:35:51.000There is no, I use the word secular, and I have to stop using that word because it's actually not true.
00:35:56.000There is no such thing as a secular society.
00:35:59.000You're going to have some form of belief.
00:36:02.000So you might not have Christian belief, but you know, when you study Leviticus 1, 2, and 3, and they have all these very complex rituals, you're like, oh, that doesn't apply to us, right?
00:36:14.000Like how you kill an animal and how and then all of a sudden you read all the rules of the woke and you're like, they just take biblical practices and reappropriate it through whatever new lens.
00:36:27.000Human beings, as we are made by God, need attachment to something.
00:36:34.000We need something that we can say that we're part of.
00:36:38.000And the LGBTQ mafia, they take that flag and it has a religious attachment to it for some people.
00:36:47.000And I mean, I say this, and I love saying it, pride is a sin, and why we have a whole month dedicated to a sin is very strange to me and doesn't make any sense.
00:37:01.000But that there, whether it be the earth worship or the religion of tolerance, these are all just repurposed old river civilization pagan beliefs that is nothing new.
00:37:14.000It's the same spiritual battles that remanifest themselves.
00:37:20.000And in some ways, it is polytheism versus monotheism.
00:37:25.000And one of the great dangers of polytheism is if there's multiple gods and there's multiple moralities.
00:37:30.000If there's one God, there's only one morality.
00:37:33.000Every founding father was an ethical monotheist, every single one.
00:37:37.000An argument that needs to be made and kids need to learn is the Declaration of Independence was the clearest document ever written for ethical monotheism in the history of the world.
00:37:47.000And by the way, God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.
00:37:50.000And in fact, the last paragraph of the Declaration of Independence is literally a prayer.
00:37:56.000We appeal to the supreme judge of the world.
00:38:52.000They are the most brutally honest people on the planet.
00:38:55.000I recommend in 1984, like a year and a half ago, I posted a podcast and I got this screeching letter in the mail because I didn't do the proper disclaimers that there was a sex scene in there.
00:39:04.000So, if you're going to teach 1984, yes, there is a adult scene there.
00:39:34.000When your kids are mature enough, or if you can think you could teach it in a way, people talk about Orwellian, they don't talk about Huxleyan.
00:39:41.000Aldous Huxley was actually a contemporary of George Orwell, and he talked about totalitarianism in a different way.
00:39:48.000He said, What would happen if all sexual privacy and norms go away, if everybody belonged to everybody?
00:39:55.000Basically, he talked about widespread orgies.
00:39:56.000He also talks about in the book something called Soma, a perfectly designed pharmaceutical that anybody could take at any time and have a pleasurable disconnection from reality.
00:40:06.000Now, we would know nothing about that in today's time, right?
00:40:08.000Far-off concept about taking a pill or a substance that can make us not attached with reality.
00:40:14.000It is so spot-on because what he talks about is what if you were to distill it, 1984 with Orwell is: here's the danger of mass government surveillance and how privacy and freedom are linked together.
00:40:27.000Orwell also talked about why truth matters and this dynamic between power and truth and kind of how they have a tension.
00:40:35.000If you were to go to Huxley, though, in Brave New World, he says, What happens if there is no family?
00:40:42.000And do tyrants benefit if people are able to get pleasure whenever they want?
00:40:50.000And he actually argues that bad people are able to stay in power longer if you have no ability to control your carnal impulses.
00:41:01.000That's not an argument made very often.
00:41:03.000So, that's a whole book called Brave New World.
00:41:05.000And the whole first chapter, by the way, is what would happen if you could actually artificially create human beings.
00:41:11.000Yesterday, scientists exclaim they've created the first ever human embryo without an egg or a sperm.
00:41:18.000Aldous Huxley, 1947 or 48, I think he published, I'm not mistaken, 51, predicted that that would happen in his lifetime.
00:41:25.000He was a little bit behind the earth, literally.
00:41:36.000It's an excellent book written by an Indian American who's amazing, and it talks about the Bible's significance in our culture, in our society.
00:41:48.000Yeah, boy, what other books would be really important to share?
00:42:05.000I think C.S. Lewis is one of the most underrated apologists of the last hundred years.
00:42:10.000And quite honestly, I think he's undercelebrated in Christian circles.
00:42:13.000I know that might sound like quite a statement, but considering I think the weight and the accomplishment of his work and quite honestly, the spirit-filled prophecy, I think C.S. Lewis should be held at a very, very high celebratory standard in Protestant evangelical circles.
00:42:29.000If you read Abolition of Man, he saw the entire problem of Western education and before anybody else.
00:42:36.000And it's this whole idea of subjectivity and objectivity.
00:43:20.000Thoughts on the scientific revolution as a good as the start of modern, fair evidence and logic thinking, but also what people are afraid of since it's science.
00:43:34.000Oh, it's science, but it's in a Christian context.
00:43:39.000So I'd be interested in your thoughts.
00:44:03.000There were a couple of discoveries here or there.
00:44:05.000Because if you believe that there is a creator who designed the world with intentionality and you go into the world to discover it because there's purpose behind it, then that gives you a reason to know and to understand.
00:44:21.000He wrote more about Isaiah biblical prophecy than even Sir Francis Bacon had some problems, including the cover of his book, I always mispronounce it, the great instronation, instronation, where it actually shows two Roman pillars and a boat going right through it, as if he's saying we're trying to pierce antiquity into modernity.
00:44:43.000So science, we as Christians should own, but it's totally different than what we're living through.
00:44:48.000Because the Germans, who have a tendency to really mess things up, okay?
00:44:53.000When you get a bunch of German intellectuals in a room, run, okay?
00:44:57.000The Germans in the 1800s, they had a totally different approach to science, where Christian scientists in the 1600s and 1700s had humility and understanding of the hierarchy of nature.
00:45:26.000Scientists who came up with the scientific method were in awe and wonder of the complexity, the harmony, the design of our universe, from physics to biology.
00:45:40.000Then the Germans come along, those pesky little Germans, right?
00:45:44.000And they had a totally different approach.
00:45:46.000Part of it was Hegel and they drew from Rousseau.
00:45:48.000They said, well, instead of understanding, why don't we seek to change nature to fit our image?
00:45:54.000Why don't we try to exert power over the natural order?
00:46:00.000And you then saw this totally change with, you saw Woodrow Wilson talked about in politics, where he said we should have an Founding Fathers had a Newtonian view of politics, but we should have a Darwinian view of politics.
00:46:13.000I am not an expert on this, but I could play toe-to-toe with most people on it.
00:46:41.000It is a belief in changing the natural order to fit and accommodate our wishes.
00:46:46.000I'm going to change the man to be a woman.
00:46:49.000I'm going to crush the fetus, the baby, because I want to, not seek to understand or seek to know.
00:46:56.000And that is the great tension because many of you say, wow, there's so much in science that I am in wonder or in awe or respect of.
00:47:03.000But the German historicist view is, why wouldn't we try to exert our own power over humanity?
00:47:11.000And you saw this during COVID, didn't you?
00:47:13.000And this is why there's no, when you have no wisdom, what are you supposed to do with all these scientific breakthroughs?
00:47:19.000With no wisdom, they can't answer the question, should we lock down schools?
00:47:24.000With no wisdom, they can't answer the question, should we put masks on kids?
00:47:28.000Because they have no basis to be able to determine good versus evil and no compass, no lens to answer those deeper questions.
00:47:35.000So instead, they're not even talking about trust the science, right?
00:47:40.000Force equal mass times acceleration, object restaurant, stay at rest.
00:47:43.000They care more about trusting the scientists.
00:47:46.000And I think a big Christian movement needs to be to reclaim science away from the secularists who do not, they look at nature not in awe and wonder.
00:47:57.000They look at nature with contempt and for revenge.
00:48:02.000They do not see the order of the logos and the cosmos and say there must be a creator.
00:48:07.000They see it and say, I could have done it better.
00:48:12.000And that is the divide in science in America today.
00:50:20.000I really believe that there can be a counter to these massive teachers' conferences that are out there that are done by the secular unions.
00:50:29.000I'm sure you've seen them where they're pushing CRT and pushing DEI.
00:50:34.000And so our vision one day would be to have 3,000, 4,000 teachers.
00:50:38.000But this is where you guys are going to come in handy.
00:50:41.000If we bless you these next couple days and you find this to be valuable, please get more teachers with you to come next time and bring them along.
00:50:50.000Because this is going to be a word of mouth type revolution.
00:50:52.000We're going to keep getting the word out.