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00:02:07.000Dear friends, this was part of our Turning Point.
00:02:09.000USA Exposing Critical Racism tour stop.
00:02:12.000This week we are finishing out our tour on the East coast at Alabama Rural, TIDE and Clemson University, and then we go to University OF Arizona also.
00:02:20.000In between all this, I go to First Baptist Dallas Church I think that is next sunday.
00:02:47.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:02:52.000Turning point, we will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:04:29.000And when we were thinking about what kind of we wanted to do on our tour, you know, when we first started doing this, it was interesting.
00:04:37.000Kind of, we're always trying to be the most relevant and trying to communicate to you, our target audience, in a way that you appreciate and understand.
00:04:45.000And we never wanted our tour ever to be about a specific issue.
00:04:50.000But we felt in particular as kind of as things were developing in our country, especially after last summer, and with the implementation of this radical ideology, critical race theory, in a variety of different ways, we said, we're going to have to explain what this is and push back against this.
00:05:05.000And, you know, so we said, let's have this tour exposing critical racism tour.
00:05:10.000Of course, no controversy at all across the country with that.
00:05:26.000And tonight's speech will be a little bit different because I'm going to come after this from why should Christians reject critical race theory.
00:05:55.000So the second least churched state in the country.
00:05:58.000And then we'll go to Oregon after that, which is the least churched state in the country.
00:06:02.000But I do think that tonight, as Baylor being the fifth largest religious institution in the country, most people here tonight, I would guess, are Christians or at least aware of what Christianity says and what the Bible, what the Bible articulates and what we as Christians believe.
00:06:18.000What does, if any, does kind of this critical race theory idea kind of have in common or at odds with the teachings of the Bible?
00:06:27.000So I'm going to kind of make this a unique flavor tonight.
00:06:30.000And if it doesn't resonate with you, we'll have questions and answers.
00:06:54.000You believe that you're broken by nature, original sin.
00:06:56.000You need Jesus Christ in your life to be born new to get into life eternal.
00:07:01.000These are general Christian principles.
00:07:03.000Again, if you guys want to have a theological discussion, I'm more than happy to do that.
00:07:06.000I really don't have that strong opinions, except the inerrancy of Scripture, Triune God, and Nicene Creed.
00:07:11.000And you guys, maybe there's some theology majors here, and you guys would get a fun kick out of that.
00:07:15.000So, the question is: if you believe in those things, what should you think about this growing trend of CRT and the hyper-racialization of American politics?
00:07:25.000Why is it that we even care about this?
00:07:28.000Well, last year, after the incident with George Floyd and the $2 billion of damages that ensued after that in the summer last summer, all of a sudden we decided to completely and totally redesign American society.
00:07:40.000We decided to prioritize people based on race, not on character.
00:07:45.000We decided to change the way that we actually implement graduation ceremonies, where we'll get into some of these examples.
00:07:51.000But did you know 75 colleges across the country now do graduation ceremonies based on race?
00:08:03.000We are re-segregating American society.
00:08:05.000In Georgia public schools, they have black kids go to one classroom, white kids go to another classroom.
00:08:10.000Though, this idea of that we should care about the skin color and the content of people's skin color, not of their character, is not a new phenomenon, but it's new for my lifetime.
00:08:20.000You know, I'm 27, about to be 28 tomorrow, and I'm holding on as long as I can.
00:08:25.000And I feel like I'm like 55 when I say this.
00:08:31.000The country I grew up in, it's true, never would have put up with this.
00:08:35.000Never would have put up with this idea of organizing people based on things they can't change rather than on things they can change.
00:08:41.000And there's obvious exceptions to this, but the general rule is that we should always try to prioritize public policy and laws based on things you can change.
00:08:55.000Things you can't change, not a good idea to organize society around that.
00:09:00.000And a great example is: if you cannot change your race or your ethnicity, then why would you possibly make that a priority or a preference in trying to say in racial hiring practices or in admission standards or graduation ceremony quotas?
00:09:19.000And this is for our generation, me not being that much older than you, a phenomenon that is growing, and we have to talk about where it comes from and how evil it actually is.
00:09:30.000This is from the hiring practices of United Airlines to Pfizer to the United States military now has these sort of doctrines and these ideas being taught.
00:09:41.000And I'm going to go as far to say that this is a virus.
00:09:46.000And unlike this virus, after you get exposed to it and you get it, you don't get natural immunity from critical race theory.
00:09:53.000Where this is a virus that is now within the church, it's now within the body of Christ, and it's now within many Christian organizations.
00:10:11.000There's an incredible amount of literature I'm happy to go through.
00:10:14.000But I'm going to give you the absolute surface level: is that through the Frankfurt School in Germany, there was a group of legitimate Marxists that left Germany, came to America, they found a safe haven here.
00:10:25.000They believed in the economic Marxism, so they believed in their own personal opinion, the abolition of private property, the rights of the workers, all these sorts of things, an eventual ushering in of utopia, the destruction of the American family.
00:10:36.000And they realized that bringing Marxism and communism to America has proven to be rather difficult.
00:10:42.000And so, a specific thinker, if you could call him that, but he was pretty smart, just wrong about everything, Herbert Marcuse, came and he had a disciple by the name of Angela Davis, who is a black woman communist who lives in California still.
00:11:05.000That everything around you is racist, and that we must do everything we possibly can to try to organize society, try to upheave the white supremacist, colonialist, imperialistic, misogynistic, bigoted culture, and try to usher in some sort of indigenous people, people of color-type revolt.
00:11:21.000This is where you started to get terms like people of color, minority ethnic groups.
00:11:25.000Soon after, you got affirmative action, admission standards in college, all these sorts of things that came through kind of post-that era.
00:11:31.000And then in the 1980s, 1990s, there was kind of a cooling off period where the predominant viewpoint, I was born in 1993, was that, hey, we're not going to care about skin color, we're going to care about the content of people's character.
00:11:43.000Martin Luther King said that famously in his address at the speech of the Washington Mall, and that was something that was repeated many, many times, which is, hey, it's not good.
00:11:53.000In fact, it's racist to care about people's skin color, to organize them based on ethnocentric tribes.
00:11:59.000Instead, we are all made in the image of God.
00:12:02.000We are complex human beings, and your skin color is the most immaterial part of you.
00:12:06.000In fact, that is a sloppy, lazy, and dare I say, divisive way to actually try and say this is the most important way to even think about your fellow human beings.
00:12:17.000And then all of a sudden, we started to see in 2010, 2011, a couple different economic and social movements set in.
00:12:23.000Where first, I don't know if any of you guys remember this, Occupy Wall Street, maybe you do, maybe you don't, which honestly had some really good critiques, and happy to talk about this too later, which is that there was a group of unelected Wall Street bankers working with Washington, D.C., of people that are basically exempt from the same sort of kind of repercussions: that if you guys did this, you would go to jail.
00:12:42.000The Washington and Wall Street bankers, they do this, they get bonuses, and they get treated really well.
00:12:48.000Now, some of it had kind of this anti-capitalist, anti-market language laced into it, but they weren't wrong by saying that there was this cronyist economic kind of cartel running our country.
00:13:02.000It wasn't popular, it didn't get people animated.
00:13:04.000There were a couple protests here and there, and this was after the 2008 financial crisis.
00:13:08.000The next big attempt that they tried to implement was through the whole Me Too thing, 2014, 2015, 16, culminating with the Senate confirmation of the most boring human being in the history of the planet, Brett Kavanaugh, where they tried to call him a serial gang rapist because someone from high school comes out and says, Yeah, actually, he came and raped me and forgot all these different details, all this.
00:13:29.000All of them people say, Hold on a second, like maybe this believe-all women thing.
00:13:32.000We have a little bit of nuance here, cross-examination of witnesses, due process, look at the facts associated, and kind of a stunning turn of events.
00:13:40.000Even suburban women have sons too, and they're like, I don't want that to happen to my son as well.
00:13:44.000And all of a sudden, that movement kind of fizzled out.
00:13:46.000And so, the racial element has been here for quite a while.
00:13:48.000In 2015, Black Lives Matter, otherwise known as BLM Incorporated, started in University of Missouri, Ferguson, Missouri, with the big lot, one of the big lies, hands up, don't shoot, was never said by Michael Brown, complete and total lie.
00:14:18.000Then you had some incidents in Baltimore that were highly politicized, which resulted in arson, widespread destruction as well.
00:14:25.000And so there were kind of these rumblings about this.
00:14:28.000And then, you know, for better or for worse, you could call the perfect store imperfect storm, or you could call it an arsonist storm in May of last year.
00:14:35.000What ended up being a much more complex situation that was ever presented in a video that made people very, very emotional, the death of George Floyd literally set the country on fire.
00:14:44.000And immediately, it was kind of confirmation bias of the narrative that we were always told, which is that law enforcement police officers are going and they're walking the streets trying to find black people.
00:14:54.000They're literally killing them without any sort of due process whatsoever.
00:14:57.000The numbers don't bear this out at all.
00:15:24.000And all of a sudden, every major corporation stemming from what's happening in college campuses, we decided to all of a sudden embrace this, that we're systemically racist.
00:16:04.000You know, I can understand that if you want to have a conversation about some of these things, but all of a sudden saying that we need to have white privilege walks, we need to have segregated graduation ceremonies, we need to have segregation today to make up for segregation yesterday by Ibram X. Kendi, that's too much for me.
00:16:18.000You could disagree with some of my opinions.
00:16:21.000Nothing there was an opinion, by the way.
00:16:22.000It's just a historical kind of catalog of where we are today.
00:16:25.000You might think all of that was a wonderful thing or an awful thing, like I generally believe, but that was all just history.
00:16:31.000And so then all of a sudden the church started to embrace it.
00:16:34.000And that's where things start, and that's really where I want to focus in, which is the church started to embrace this and say, hey, a certain theological belief heavily in deconstructionism and social relativism says that it's now the role of the church to try to right the wrongs of racism's past.
00:16:50.000And you saw many pastors, including one from Dallas, who I will not name, saying that, you know, you're white privileged, that it's the biggest threat to American society, that we're white supremacists to the core.
00:17:01.000Of course, there's no data to show any of this.
00:17:02.000There's no empirical logic of this instead.
00:17:06.000And so it goes to these fundamental questions, which first and foremost, what is the reason for our existence?
00:17:11.000The reason for our existence as Christians is to first and foremost give our lives to Christ, be obedient to the scriptures, obedient to God, and win other souls for Christ.
00:17:21.000It's not to lead social revolutionary movements.
00:17:23.000It's not to try and right the wrongs of intergenerational justice, which I'll get to in a second.
00:17:29.000And we have a very clear answer as Christians what the reason to our existence is.
00:17:32.000And maybe you guys could say it much more beautifully than I could.
00:17:35.000CRT has a reason for their existence too.
00:17:38.000The CRT belief or the critical race theory belief, and by the way, that's a filler term.
00:17:42.000You could use wokeism, diversity industrial complex, woke-stand, whatever you want, right?
00:17:46.000Whatever sort of filler that you want, it all works, okay?
00:17:50.000If it's insane, doesn't make sense, and they're really angry, that's wokeism, okay?
00:17:54.000So, and it's basically there is a reason for that existence.
00:17:57.000And they say, our reason is that we believe that ultimate truth is not that Jesus Christ sets you free of your sins.
00:18:04.000The ultimate truth is a power dynamic.
00:18:06.000That everything can be boiled to is who's in charge, oppressor versus oppressed.
00:18:10.000That someone's in charge, someone is not.
00:18:12.000Therefore, we must upheave whatever system that actually is.
00:18:15.000And then I asked the question, which is the most important question right now in America, and that's saying something because there's a lot of different questions, which is what is justice, right?
00:18:23.000And so we believe in a biblical view, or we should believe in a biblical view of justice, where it says very clearly in Deuteronomy that fathers shall not be put to death for their children.
00:18:33.000Children shall not be put to death for their fathers, but instead each one shall be put to death for their own sin.
00:18:39.000Now, that might be a little graphic for you.
00:18:54.000You're your own being with your own sovereignty, your own ability to think, to be able to create, and you should be treated as such.
00:19:00.000And we know this in the Christian context too, not just in the Old Testament context, or I should say in the Levitical law context, which is that someone cannot save you for you.
00:19:10.000That you have to have your own personal relationship with Christ.
00:19:13.000That your father cannot say, hey, I'm going to be an extra good Christian and save my son for them.
00:20:37.000You want them to be able to land the plane.
00:20:44.000And that is a very important point, which is that when we start to organize society, or when we start to make decisions based on things that people cannot change versus on things they can change, such as diversity or skin color, not competency and excellence, then all of a sudden you're going to start to see society suffer because of it.
00:21:02.000And a great example of this is what happened in Afghanistan, which I think we forgot about way too quickly.
00:21:08.000What happened in Afghanistan was a public and international humiliation, where we gave $85 billion to the Taliban.
00:21:44.000And the reason, in the opinion of, I think, anyone that looks at it objectively, is that the head of the United States military, Mark Milley, along with Lloyd Austin and Joe Biden, if you consider him to be the head of anything, which is, they were testifying in front of Congress back in June, saying that the existential threat to America was white rage and that we're not going to apologize for implementing critical race theory, diversity, equity, inclusion, or this sort of new history into the military, into the military of all places.
00:22:13.000The military, that by definition, every person here should want the military to be a place where competency reigns.
00:22:20.000That if you don't land the plane, your national security is at risk.
00:22:22.000You're not able to eliminate the enemy, your national security is at risk.
00:22:26.000Should all of a sudden we be worrying about these arbitrary academic exercises of diversity, equity, inclusion, or saying, hey, we have the greatest fighting force in the history of the world, probably not worth messing that up for some sort of esoteric, abstract academic exercise.
00:23:04.000People stop thinking and they start retreating to their tribal group based on ethnicity and based on racial identity.
00:23:11.000And the ramifications of this are not just violence and all these things that, unfortunately, I think you're going to see, but it's going to make the American project, the American civilization, for our generation, I'm not much, I'm the same generation of many of you, all of a sudden a more dangerous and less pleasant place to live.
00:23:27.000Murders are up 30% year over year since we started to defund the police, say that we're systemically racist, and retreat from the inner cities.
00:23:34.000Austin is finally getting, I see some UT Austin people here, they're finally getting their act together, which is not saying much for Austin.
00:24:10.000And so there's a couple other points of this that I do want to kind of pose, which is why is it this becomes so popular?
00:24:18.000And this is the big elephant in the room, because all of you might agree, and you're here tonight, and thank you, by the way, for showing up.
00:24:24.000And maybe you disagree, and we'll have plenty of time to discuss that, which is everyone's afraid of being called a racist, and for good reason.
00:24:32.000Because no one wants to be called the worst thing you could be called in decent American society.
00:24:36.000And because of that, people stop in their tracks and they're willing to do things they otherwise would not do because they are willing, not willing.
00:24:44.000They do not want to get the scarlet letter of social isolation that will basically destroy their entire career.
00:24:50.000It is worse in American society to be accused of being a racist than being known as being an adulterer.
00:24:56.000Now, I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing.
00:24:58.000I think that's actually rather troubling for a variety of different reasons.
00:25:01.000We'll get into sexual anarchy in a second because we had a lot of fun saying that on social media the other day.
00:25:24.000We'll get to that in a second, though.
00:25:25.000Which is, so we have to ask ourselves the question: why do we allow an insult that you know is not true to determine or dictate your own behavior?
00:25:41.000You take time out of your busy schedules to be here tonight to do anything but tell you the truth.
00:25:46.000If you decide to speak out against this, you will not, you will have the opposite of the truth happen to you, which is you'll be called a bigot and a racist for opposing bigotry and racism.
00:25:56.000And people in this room will pay a price.
00:27:32.000That I believe many of the issues facing American society kind of stem back to this issue of people being deeply conflicted that they have to be somebody else the moment they leave their home, their dormitory, or their apartment.
00:27:46.000That as soon as they leave their home, their dormitory, their apartment, they have to put on a camouflage and pretend to be somebody they're not and hold beliefs they do not have.
00:29:40.000That he was using them as synonyms, tolerance and apathy.
00:29:43.000And I think this happens far too often.
00:29:45.000And so since I've been, I haven't been controversial enough tonight, so I have to dive right into it.
00:29:50.000So last week, I was doing my podcast and my radio show, and I said, you know, the left in this country wants people to live in a version of sexual anarchy.
00:30:07.000No, it's very simple, Which is that it's this 1960s lie that's anti-biblical, anti-Christian, anti-natural law to do whatever feels good, to indulge in the flesh, to do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it, however you want to do it.
00:30:20.000You will live in a state of anarchy spiritually and personally if you do that.
00:30:24.000And it's become wildly unpopular to say this out loud, which is why are we having so many issues with students and young people when it comes to this sort of issue?
00:30:33.000Is that I don't think we've ever been, I don't think we've been honest enough by saying people that liberty is not doing what you want to do whenever you want to do it.
00:30:39.000Liberty is doing what you ought to do.
00:30:41.000And from a Christian biblical perspective, it means standing up and having hopefully the clarity of saying, you know what, you should reject hookup culture, that you should save yourself for one person, loyally marry them, and stay in a monotonous, you know, a single relationship with them, and say that this is how the Bible wants us to live, and you will be more free because of that.
00:30:58.000Now, mind you, when I say that, I get the exact reaction that I always get, and even from Christian audiences, silence.
00:31:04.000Because either people are afraid or they disagree with that, where they're like, well, maybe no, actually, I kind of like a licentiousness world.
00:31:16.000I'm going to say, though, it's not good for society.
00:31:18.000It's not good for society and it's not good for you.
00:31:21.000And God loves every single one of you enough to want to say, hey, get back into alignment with my commands.
00:31:25.000Get back into obedience for how He wants to live.
00:31:27.000I could tell you as someone who got married back in May that we need more young people to get married, that we need more young people to get married and have lots of children.
00:31:34.000And I could say that this lie, especially to young women out there, because now we're going to get a lot of very controversial, this idea of putting your career more important than finding someone to be a partner for the rest of your life, it's making people deeply unhappy in America.
00:32:14.000Where women want to be with someone who can exhibit the fruit of the spirit of self-control, that can go a couple months without having to take a drink.
00:32:24.000Not that I'm morally opposed to that, but that's a big deal.
00:32:27.000It's like, is that person going to be able to control themselves against the impulses and the urges of the flesh when it matters the most?
00:32:34.000Is that someone who's going to be courageous and clear about what it means to be a biblical and godly life?
00:32:39.000We have a big problem in our country, which is more and more young people are not getting married.
00:32:43.000It is the least married generation in American history.
00:32:45.000We are on the verge of a population collapse where young people are not having children like they used to.
00:32:50.000And I think it's making America deeply unhappy.
00:32:53.000I believe that the bioengineering that is trying to happen right now, go find your happiness in a career and freeze your eggs, garbage.
00:33:00.000Go find someone that loves the Lord, get married, and stay married to that person and have a lot of children.
00:33:53.000I'll do my best not to get into the details of it.
00:33:56.000Man wearing a skirt goes into the restroom and unfortunately takes advantage of a young ninth grader.
00:34:01.000School covers it up, doesn't talk about it.
00:34:03.000Father tries to go to the school board meeting and talk about it.
00:34:06.000Gets arrested, gets called a domestic terrorist by the National School Board Association.
00:34:09.000Biden's Department of Justice then goes after him, says that he's unruly and all these sorts of things for just showing up and complaining at a meeting.
00:34:32.000I'm not saying that, you know, anything but what I just said.
00:34:35.000However, what they did is they were accommodating to an extent, tolerant, brought this person to another school, and it looks like he raped another girl and in two schools, totally covered up.
00:34:47.000And this is all of a sudden the question of: are we going to have the courage to do what we know is right despite what people are going to call us?
00:35:03.000We are not going to be part of the continuous and deliberate deconstruction of things that we know that work.
00:35:09.000We believe in the laws of nature and nature's God, as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence.
00:35:14.000Now, many people are afraid to say this out loud because there's this false impression that we have to win friends over every single person.
00:35:22.000If you're offended, that's your problem, not mine, because my heart is not to try to offend you.
00:35:27.000But I will say this: that people are becoming less free the more that we degrade the moral guardrails of our society.
00:35:38.000That people are free when they actually abide to the law.
00:35:42.000There's this great quote, they're going to take it down soon as soon as they discover it because I mentioned it way too much at the Harvard Law School.
00:35:51.000Where it's this great quote where it says, The law are the wise restraints that keep men free.
00:35:57.000That freedom, and the sooner students realize this, the better.
00:36:01.000And I pray that this is being taught to you, hopefully, maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
00:36:04.000That freedom comes in the earthly sense, of course, from Jesus Christ and obeying to the scriptures, but that's the big one: obeying what God wants for your life, right?
00:36:13.000Which is that you will be free not from going to do whatever you want to do, things that make you feel good immediately, but instead obeying the commands as how God wants you to live.
00:36:23.000That will be a state of freedom, and I'll prove it to you.
00:36:25.000All of us know alcoholics in our life.
00:36:31.000They do whatever they want to do a lot of times whenever they want to do it.
00:36:34.000But unfortunately, that is not a state of freedom.
00:36:36.000That is a save, that is a state of bondage to a certain substance that unfortunately then takes control of their mind and their body, and hopefully not their spirit.
00:36:45.000And so, yeah, that's kind of what sexual anarchy is.
00:36:48.000And I wanted to make sure I mentioned it.
00:36:49.000I'm sure people are loving that on YouTube.
00:36:51.000Okay, in closing, let me say this before we do some questions: which is, I want to say, for those of you out there that are conservative, but you're not always paying attention to this stuff, but center-right, I want to encourage you as Christians and as people that are on this campus to keep on learning, dive deep into these ideas, make yourself a lifelong adventurer of these ideas.
00:37:12.000There's a beautiful and wondrous world, an incredible body of philosophy and literature around these ideas that is exciting, that is compelling, and it goes deep into the things that you have been told your whole life that you thought just might dismiss.
00:37:25.000That all of a sudden I think will complete a worldview that will not just make your life happier and more satisfactory, but also make the world a better place.
00:38:35.000I want to prove the ruling class to be mistaken by thinking that the cake is baked, that there will be an equal and opposite reaction of decent, patriotic American people and young people that say, you know what?
00:39:23.000We as Christians are commanded not to be cynical.
00:39:27.000We're commanded to be, we are commanded to not just be optimistic because we know how the story ends, but we have to be salt and light here on this earth to a very dark world.
00:39:35.000And I can't stand when Christians say, you know, Charlie, it's just all kind of falling apart and the world is ending.
00:39:39.000And I say this, you know, Jesus is coming next Thursday, which might be true, by the way.
00:39:43.000You know, for people that have heavy emphasis on eschatology.
00:39:46.000If you think the world is falling apart, then your worldview is no different than Greta Thunberg.
00:40:01.000We're going to be the ones that are solution-oriented, understand where we come from, and we're going to be the ones that chart the path forward.
00:40:07.000And I'll say this: the conservative movement, those of you that are conservative out there that have lost, I just ask, how many of you have been graded differently because of your political affiliation ideology?
00:40:24.000You will become a stronger person the more you're persecuted because of your beliefs.
00:40:28.000And I'll end with this: Who's going to win the future?
00:40:30.000The side that is willing to get fired because they don't want to take a vaccine, or the side that gets so offended because they get called the gender, the wrong gender pronoun?
00:42:00.000And again, if you disagree over the front of the line, I promise you we will give you respect and uninterrupted time if you disagree to be able to make a point.
00:42:11.000So I have a question just about the conservative movement as a whole.
00:42:14.000And having studied the conservative movement, I just see it as an anti-left movement.
00:42:19.000I'm just being against whatever the left is against it and just moving further and further to the left.
00:42:24.000Like, how do we change that to where the conservative movement is actually preserving something rather than just being against whatever the left is and then eventually adopting whatever they think?
00:42:37.000Part of this tour is obviously playing defense because CRT is everywhere.
00:42:42.000But I'm going to tell you stuff that I think the conservative movement needs to be for.
00:42:45.000And I had this great disagreement with a friend of mine on our podcast where Dana Lash, she's a terrific person, but I said that the conservative movement should stand for paying people to have children if they stay in monogamous relationships.
00:43:35.000And so I will also say some of the things that we as conservatives should be for: we should be unafraid to try to encourage people to get in a relationship with their creator.
00:43:44.000Now, I obviously believe that Christianity is the only way, but I want to try to have people think more openly about, hey, like we want to have church rates go up, not down.
00:43:56.000And some people say that, Charlie, the conservative movement needs to be libertarian on these issues.
00:43:59.000Who are we to say, hold on a second, we are the ones to say that some things are better than others.
00:44:04.000We are the ones to say that drag queen story hour is an awful thing and should not be allowed.
00:44:09.000That children should not be preyed on by men in dresses to think as if that's some sort of biological norm.
00:44:13.000Now that's creepy and weird and shouldn't be allowed.
00:44:17.000Now, this is a debate happening on the right.
00:44:19.000And if you would have asked me four or five years ago, I would have been more in the libertarian direction.
00:44:23.000And part of it's getting older, part of it's getting married.
00:44:25.000Part of it is seeing the destruction of the world around you.
00:44:28.000And part of it is also understanding, diving deeper into the literature of objective truth and the metaphysics of all this of saying, hey, this society is falling apart.
00:45:00.000At every turn, you see them trying to destroy the relationship between a mother and a father.
00:45:06.000You have the leading candidate for the governorship in Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, say, who are parents to say that they think they know better than teachers?
00:45:15.000They say teachers know better than parents.
00:45:18.000This is now public policy that's being implemented.
00:45:20.000The country falls apart if that's the case.
00:45:22.000We say, you know, no, no, we want to empower parents more.
00:46:18.000I just want to say I'm also a conservative, but about two to four weeks ago on your podcast, you had said that there is a ploy to kind of undermine the white majority in America, which is something that I do completely agree with you with.
00:46:30.000However, something I think needs to be said is if there really is no kind of differences in races, then why is that even a concern to begin with?
00:46:42.000Oh, and it's been working because studies have shown that there are minority groups and they are more prone to vote Democrat than they are Republican.
00:46:51.000So I just wanted to kind of get a clarification on that and kind of further ask, is it necessary to preserve the white majority in America?
00:47:02.000I'm going to use their own words against them, though.
00:47:04.000So the Castro brothers, not from Cuba, but from San Antonio, the twins, the whole segment I did, by the way, just so we're clear, was about what they said, which is that skin color, to my view, means nothing.
00:47:57.000Joe Biden in 2017 came out and he said, it's just a matter of time before white people decrease and people of color increase.
00:48:04.000And so what I said is very, and I stand by it, that is part of their agenda and their goal.
00:48:08.000Part of their agenda and their goal is to try for whatever their main motivations is, which they say out loud, which is to try to demographically have confusion in the country.
00:48:17.000It's not working out the way they thought it would, because especially in the Rio Grande Valley here in Texas, you saw in the last election cycle, all of a sudden that went for Trump.
00:48:26.000Now, there's a lot of complexities to all this, but I will answer the final question directly.
00:48:32.000It should not matter that certain skin color votes a certain way.
00:48:36.000Unfortunately, the left knows this, that when you have millions of people coming from certain countries that are lower income, that go to certain areas that are then preyed on by community organizing groups, they can turn those into automatic left-wing voting blocks.
00:48:52.000But yeah, I mean, I stand by my comments completely, but I just want to make sure that everyone is clear, especially for media matters watching this, which is kind of our publicist.
00:48:59.000They publicize everything I say that gets a little spicy, which is that they on the other side are openly admitting that, right?
00:49:06.000They're the ones that are calling for demographic replacement.
00:49:08.000We're the ones doing tours saying that skin color should not and does not matter.
00:49:22.000Okay, so I have these friends in my classes and we're good friends and all, but I have noticed that she wears like a Black Lives Matter t-shirt and she's very for critical race theory and she's African American.
00:49:39.000And I just want to know like how you think, how can I like tell her and like make her kind of realize that these organizations and this kind of thinking is actually hurting her and not helping.
00:50:08.000I'll go head to head with anyone on this, and I'll actually tell you the stats right here, which is, you destroy the family, you destroy the nation.
00:50:15.000I believe you destroy the soul of an individual.
00:50:20.000And BLM Incorporated had on their website that they exist to destroy and disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family.
00:50:27.000Now, they actually removed it after about six months.
00:50:31.000So it's either they don't believe that anymore or they don't want you to see that.
00:50:35.000I think it's the latter, not the former.
00:50:37.000But if you look in 1950, 20% of all marriages ended in divorce.
00:50:42.000Today it's approximately 40% as high as 50% in certain parts of the country.
00:50:46.000Four in 10 American children are born to unmarried mothers, up from about 5% in 1960.
00:50:52.000Here's my biggest problem with BLM Incorporated, number one, which is if they all of a sudden said, hey, black fathers matter, I'd be marching alongside them in the streets.
00:51:00.000Instead, it is an anti-American history, the way we teach American history, and an anti-police movement in nature that does not get to the root causes of what I believe makes every society and every community improve regardless of skin color, which is fathers in the home and taking responsibility for their actions and their choices.
00:51:18.000Now, none of this might not be helpful in your conversation with your friend, but I would just ask a series of questions to your friend, which is, do you believe that putting fathers back in the home is a good goal?
00:51:47.000And so let me just kind of give you one fact that shows that debunks the systemic racism argument, which is if you take a white child that is raised by a single mother or a black child that is raised by a mother and a father, then the white child raised by just the single mother is less likely to succeed in every metric you can choose.
00:52:08.000High school graduation, not going to prison, getting a job, income levels, where the black child is more likely to succeed.
00:52:18.000But unfortunately, this is something that we do not have a hyper focus on.
00:52:22.000Instead, we'd much rather talk about police brutality or how we teach American history in our schools or how about our schools in general.
00:52:29.000The second thing, number one, families, number two, is schools, where if there was ever an argument to say that there is systemic racism by intent, which I do not believe, but if there ever was a data point that I could work with, it's the quality of the government-run schools in our inner cities across the country run by public sector teacher unions.
00:52:48.000It is a moral disgrace that we allow the public sector teacher unions to do what they have done to our inner city schools.
00:52:55.000In Baltimore, they could not find a fifth grader out of six schools that could read at grade level or could do math equations at grade level.
00:53:32.000We got to break the back of the public sector unions in this country.
00:53:35.000We've got to change the way that we educate our children.
00:53:37.000We have to hold our teachers accountable, pay good teachers more, fire bad teachers, and fire them quickly and have them go find another job, which does not exist in most states across the country.
00:53:46.000We should have at-will termination of teachers.
00:53:48.000And I'll finally say this, kind of like, how do you kind of relate with this?
00:56:21.000Obviously, I mean, I could ask you a variety of different questions on this, but if you have to go to school, I would try to find a degree or a major that you believe challenges you and you believe will help develop your character and that will study things that are ancient, that are eternal, and rooted in wisdom.
00:56:39.000You might not find that at a school in Austin, but I'm sure there's a school somewhere in, again, I'm not very pro-Austin if you haven't.
00:57:11.000And those of you that are in like history course and you're looking for places where you could learn history if your teacher's not teaching history, CharlieForhillsdale.com.
00:57:31.000And we just recently got finished studying critical theory to understand social theories.
00:57:36.000One of the arguments that my professor was making, and I totally disagree with him, is he said that if we don't care, you know, if we have this idea that, oh, your race doesn't matter, we're not fully loving God's creation.
00:57:50.000I know that to be a perversion of scripture, but I'm not sure how to combat him when I'm trying to make the argument against that.
00:58:58.000It started in the 1920s to try to say, I feel your pain movement or walk in somebody else's shoes.
00:59:03.000Now, you should have sympathy, mercy, and compassion.
00:59:05.000But this idea that you should feel somebody else's feelings, what does it say in the Bible?
00:59:09.000It says that your feelings deceive you, is what it says in the Bible.
00:59:13.000Now, I think the overemphasis on empathy and the underemphasis on reason and objectivity has turned us into a soft-feeling nation and not a wise thinking nation.
00:59:25.000And so we as Christians say, wait a second, hold on.
01:01:54.000We obviously believe we have the truth and we have the right answers about things.
01:01:58.000But we would never say that we don't want to try to speak to the other side and try to either see where they see it from or have them see it from our perspective.
01:02:46.000So back in July 4th, Christian Collins came and spoke in my church, and he said that the worst thing the church did was they left government.
01:02:55.000How do we get the church back into government and how do we retake our government in the swiftest path possible?
01:03:25.000Well, it says in Jeremiah 29, 7, the Lord is speaking, where it says, demand, which the Hebrew word for demand is badrash, the welfare, shalom, of the nation or the city I have sent you in, because your welfare is tied to your city or nation's welfare.
01:03:41.000It says in Deuteronomy that you should choose your kings and your leaders wisely.
01:03:45.000So we are called throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament to be counselors to the king.
01:03:49.000In addition to that, I will say that in some people that say, oh, we shouldn't be involved at all, well, then they would have to take a scissor to their Bible and remove Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Joseph, and others in the New Testament that were counselors to the king of secular government for God's purpose.
01:04:05.000All throughout the Old Testament, people we view as heroes, people we view favorably, we're trying to influence secular government for God's purpose.
01:04:12.000Now, this can get confusing for a lot of Christians, which is I encourage, and we're trying to do this through Turning Point Faith, biblical citizenship classes in churches to teach Christians verse by verse, chapter by chapter, what does the Bible say about getting involved in these sorts of things?
01:04:25.000What does the Bible say about abortion?
01:04:37.000And saying, like, hey, we don't get involved in that, well, you're going to have to make sense of all of a sudden as I knew you before you were in the womb.
01:04:42.000You're going to have to make sense of God created man and God created woman.
01:04:44.000Again, not exactly a difficult verse to understand.
01:04:48.000But there's more that are more difficult.
01:04:50.000There's ones where you're like, man, I see some contradicting ones when it comes to idea of welfare, government assistance.
01:04:56.000There's verses that say, a man shall not work, he shall not eat.
01:04:58.000Paul reiterated that in the New Testament, says in the Proverbs.
01:05:01.000It also says, hey, we're supposed to give our own belongings to someone if they need a tunic off my back.
01:05:14.000I believe the Bible says in Jeremiah and other places to care about what's happening around you, that we should not be the type of Christians that only care about budgets, baptisms, and buildings, and do not ever comment on things that are happening outside our walls.
01:05:41.000That churches that are standing, that are speaking out, they're seeing their tithes, their offerings, and their Sunday attendance go through the roof because people are doing the following.
01:05:48.000They are leaving the churches where the pastors say, We don't do this.
01:05:51.000Their 15-year-old daughter is being propagandized on TikTok, saying that there is no gender, there is no truth, and they're going to their pastor saying, Hey, what do I do about this?
01:06:31.000In the suburbs of Chicago, where all of a sudden they had the first ever transgender bathroom put into high school five minutes from that church, and the church was like, Yeah, we're not going to comment on that.
01:06:58.000I don't know if anyone knows where that is, but it's in a tiny little town of Nacogdoches.
01:07:02.000I am currently an interior design major with an art theory professor or art color, color theory professor who likes to talk about vaccines, and he never really actually stays on topic.
01:07:13.000And when I actually tried to speak up, I'm actually having a panic attack right now, just talking in front of people, but in my class, doing great, by the way.
01:09:19.000Anyways, I also had quite a few English professors.
01:09:22.000I would say we had like gun control, all that, those kind of things back in, I want to say 2014, 2015 when I was taking that English class.
01:09:31.000And of course, I mean, how do you combat English professors that are like, this isn't the, you know, I'm not grading you on your, I'm not grading you on your opinions, but you know, you know, this, this, and this.
01:09:45.000I want to get to as many questions as possible with this one question.
01:09:47.000Let me say this: here's a question I get all the time, and I'm going to give you a truthful, provocative answer you guys can figure out to do with it.
01:09:52.000I have a disagreement with my friend Ben Shapiro on this.
01:09:55.000So, Ben says, Hey, write what your professor wants to write, you know, say what your professor wants to say, get the grade, and move on.
01:10:49.000And it doesn't always serve me well, but it actually does because I don't end up caring what people say.
01:10:55.000But I just disagree with Ben on this, where he says, I went to Harvard, I told them what they wanted to hear, I got the grade, and now I'm able to use their credentials against them.
01:11:38.000Yeah, I'm also taking college courses so that when I graduate from high school, I'll have my associates as well.
01:11:44.000But I don't want to pursue any more higher education after that.
01:11:47.000I'm not very interested in going in the field of trades.
01:11:53.000I'd much rather be doing something like what you're doing with Turning Point and being in either the ministry field or the political field.
01:11:59.000What's your advice for someone like me that wants to do something like that but doesn't want to pursue a higher education?
01:13:06.000So I'm going to preempt you on that because you always put me on the spot.
01:13:09.000So, but find people who do what you want to do, and then just, and then here's what you'll find out: either you want to do it or you don't want to do it, right?
01:13:17.000And so, I just, I want to have our generation be scrappier in this way.
01:13:21.000Don't go, you're like, oh, I got to get this internship and all this.
01:15:27.000Therefore, if you disagree with that, answer me why John Gruden's emails get more examination than Hunter Biden's emails.
01:15:37.000Explain to me why an NFL coach is investigated and called the worst things you could be called in American society.
01:15:45.000And Hunter Biden, who shares a bank account with the sitting president, is doing business with the Chinese.
01:15:49.000I was like, oh, can't talk about those emails.
01:15:52.000That's kind of the double standard you're talking about, isn't it?
01:15:54.000Just one of many examples I could possibly give.
01:15:57.000Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel all wore blackface five or six years ago, and they get elevated as leftist heroes.
01:16:03.000Yet John Gruden says private emails, not publicly, that people find to be out of color and that very well could have been jokes and out of context, never given the opportunity for forgiveness, explanation, or reconciliation.
01:16:14.000Instead, it is absolute cutthroat destruction of his entire career.
01:16:18.000And here's the thing about, by the way, I'm actually not a John Gruden fan.
01:17:39.000So, I'm a Christian medical humanities student, and the reason I chose that was because I was taught that if I have the opportunity to help my fellow man, I should, you know, as a Christian should.
01:17:51.000So, as a Christian, how can some conservative people justify not backing health care for people, especially like for veterans, because they do a lot for our country, and sadly they end up homeless and don't get the help they can get from the VA.
01:18:10.000So, how can we justify not providing affordable health care for everybody?
01:18:38.000There's waiting lines, the quality of care is dreadful.
01:18:41.000And I will say we have universal health care for veterans, and it is a disaster.
01:18:46.000So, the question is: how do we best help people, right?
01:18:49.000And so, you or somebody, I don't even know if you believe what you said or just asking the question, so I don't want to put that on you, but that sort of opinion would say, hey, the best way to help people, government assistance, government health care.
01:19:00.000Now, I believe in a safety net, of course.
01:19:02.000I don't want the safety net to become a hammock.
01:19:04.000I don't want it to become a place of comfortability.
01:19:07.000But I believe the best way to help people when it comes to health care is number one, where's my friend who's the nutritionist?
01:19:19.000Number two, we are run by the tyranny of the hospitals, a private-public partnership of inside-out access, of hospitals that have perverse profit incentives and taking money from the taxpayers.
01:19:29.000But I will say this: you will not find conservatives not care.
01:19:40.000And so, I would just challenge on one thing, which is this: which is that you might think conservatives are wrong, or maybe people that say that what it is, but don't think they're bad, right?
01:19:55.000Don't think, like, how could you not want to give health care?
01:19:58.000When in reality, it's like, hey, we want to have all people taken care of.
01:20:00.000Best way to take care of people might be through market competition, might be through choice, through improving the health care system, not through a massive bureaucratic, you know, kind of social engineering project.
01:20:12.000Do you have a quick follow-up question?
01:20:15.000So, I do agree with you when you say that we shouldn't enable people because I think that it is good to have a safety net, but we also need to grow and improve ourselves with our own will.
01:20:28.000But I have met people, and it might just be like people claiming to be conservative, but not really believing in the conservative, like help your neighbor values that truly don't want to give to health care.
01:20:43.000Because, like, if I have the money, or this is like their words, if I have the money, why am I going to give it to somebody else?
01:20:49.000Well, yeah, I mean, you won't hear me say that, but I will say this: let's differentiate one thing, which is government helping people and people helping people.
01:20:56.000The other thing, the other reason I'm against a massive government welfare project is I think it de-incentivizes you from helping another person that needs help.
01:21:43.000I think that the larger we've made the government, the more we've given people an excuse not to step up and help people that truly need help.
01:21:50.000I think we need to empower more neighbors, helping neighbors.
01:21:53.000Thank you so much for your question and for being here.
01:22:02.000So I was curious if you think that issues like CRT and open borders are enough to carry the Republicans in the 2022 midterms, or do you think that Republicans are going to finally have to get off their butts and actually start campaigning and trying to win on their own issues?
01:22:17.000So I'll put my political hat on because at turning point, again, we're strictly non-political, which is we have turning point action and turning point USA.
01:23:43.000I'm from the most locked down city in the world, actually.
01:23:46.000And so what I've found traveling across this country is that there's a lot of Americans who are seduced by the ideas that are perpetuated in Australia.
01:24:02.000For any of you who haven't seen what's happening in my country, it's pretty insane.
01:24:08.000And I think that there's a massive equation between Western nations that we're all the same, especially with young people.
01:24:16.000And they look or they're sold this concept that look to Europe for the future, look to Australia for the future.
01:24:23.000So I just wanted to know, what would you say to young Americans about American exceptionalism and where you don't want to head in terms of the future for America?
01:26:15.000They do not have freedom of speech protected.
01:26:17.000Therefore, in Australia, the guys with the guns get to determine who gets the talk.
01:26:21.000In America, as we have an assault on freedom of speech, public expression, freedom of assembly, all of a sudden, we're going to start heading in that direction.
01:26:29.000So what is the big difference between Australia and America?
01:26:32.000It comes down to our mission statement.
01:26:34.000It comes down, the mission statement of America is who's the sovereign?
01:27:05.000You guys should look at it every time you look at a piece of currency before they all go away, which is going to happen very soon, unfortunately.
01:27:10.000Liberty, in God we trust, and e pluribus unum.
01:27:18.000This is not part of their mission statement.
01:27:19.000Liberty, which means doing what you ought to do, absent government or corporate interference.
01:27:23.000In God we trust, a transcendent order of a natural rights giver.
01:27:27.000E pluribus unum, Latin phrase that means out of many one.
01:27:29.000We are one people and the ruling class is not better than the sovereign.
01:27:33.000And what is the ramifications of that?
01:27:35.000Australia, because they were not founded on the same ideas, you know, that kind of history class that you might not take that seriously, the history that's under attack by the critical race theorists, because Australia does not have the same documents, the same mission statement, the same preservation of rights, yeah, when they get 200 COVID cases, they can march to the streets and start to arrest eight-year-olds because they're outside of curfew.
01:28:40.000Now, as a lot of people have realized by now, in times shortly after a political defeat, there's an opportunity for reflection.
01:28:51.000And I think we saw that with the whole breaking out of the libertarian versus TradCon wing in 2019 after the House loss, and now with the whole issues of questions of family and stuff like you were talking about.
01:29:06.000And I think a perfect representation of that is the Arizona primary right now.
01:29:11.000Right now, you have a libertarian guy who's like the Tea Party, who's very popular, the current attorney general.
01:29:20.000And I don't want an endorsement or anything, but let's just say hypothetically that Masters were to win that seat.
01:29:28.000What makes him special is his big thing is we need to make sure that a family can survive on one income, that we need to use government power to create policies that will make that possible for every American.
01:29:41.000And my question is, since we're on the state right now in the right where the establishment doesn't like using power, what can influencers, people like you, and people like us do to ensure that when there's one person who comes up with policies like that, that they're able to affect all the other establishment, whatever you want to call them, people to actually affect those changes.
01:30:12.000We have to demand more out of our elected officials.
01:30:15.000We have to say, here's what we want, start doing it.
01:30:17.000And you made a really profound point, which is why is it that conservatives are terrified of using political power and the other side is enthusiastic about using political power.
01:30:26.000Now, we don't like using political power.
01:30:30.000But when you start to have companies that are forcing vaccines against people's will, I'm pleased that Greg Abbott signed an executive order saying that no one will be forced to have, take a vaccine against their will.
01:31:02.000I'm studying to enter into the medical field right now.
01:31:05.000And my topic of question means a lot to me and my future because in finding work and internships, I was wondering if you thought that Biden's vaccine mandate would pass the constitutional review and also why corporations are prematurely enforcing it before it's a law.
01:32:17.000But you're in Texas and the governor just signed an executive order saying no one can force you to get a vaccine.
01:32:23.000I don't know if there was a carve-out for healthcare workers or not.
01:32:25.000There might have been, but it seemed pretty absolute in what I read.
01:32:28.000And you're going to have to make a decision, and there's no easy choice, because in the healthcare field, there is very little room for discussion about this particular topic.
01:32:40.000It is vaccine or get out of the industry, right?
01:32:51.000They are going to go down with the entire system.
01:32:53.000They will not allow themselves to be bullied or kind of put into this.
01:32:58.000I can't give you a definitive answer, but I could tell you this, that if you stand and decide not to take the vaccine, your life will not be over.
01:33:06.000That you will be blessed in some way because of that, because you are not alone.
01:33:10.000They want to make you feel as if you're alone.
01:33:12.000There are young ladies and young men, but more women become nurses than men, here tonight that are going through the same thing.
01:33:19.000Please go meet each other and have you, like, go, you know, Morgan, what's your name?
01:33:23.000Go meet Morgan and say, I'm going through the exact same thing.
01:33:25.000Baylor has a phenomenal kind of nursing trajectory program, as I'm sure you all guys know.
01:33:30.000And so there's probably a lot of anyone here in nursing here as well here tonight.
01:33:52.000We have your back in more ways than one.
01:33:54.000And to go to the previous question, we need to start getting our elected officials to say, no, we're not going to have our young people be forced to get vaccines against their will.