The Charlie Kirk Show - The Culture of Life and the Culture or Death — LIVE in North Dakota Aired: 2023-07-09 Duration: 35:41 === Fighting the Culture of Death (05:05) === [00:00:00] Hey everybody, happy Sunday, a conversation that I had in Bismarck, North Dakota, about life, the culture of life and the culture of death. [00:00:08] We contrast those two things. [00:00:10] As always, you can email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, and get involved with TurningPointUSA at tpusa.com. [00:00:17] That is tpusa.com. [00:00:20] Get involved with turning point action. [00:00:22] That's right. [00:00:23] We have our upcoming event. [00:00:24] We have President Donald Trump going to speak there, Tucker Carlson. [00:00:27] We have Steve Bannon. [00:00:29] Dan Bongino, tpaction.com. [00:00:31] That is tpaction.com, West Palm Beach, Florida, tpaction.com. [00:00:37] Buckle up, everybody. [00:00:38] Here we go. [00:00:39] Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. [00:00:40] Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. [00:00:43] I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. [00:00:46] Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. [00:00:49] I want to thank Charlie. [00:00:50] He's an incredible guy. [00:00:51] His spirit, his love of this country. [00:00:53] He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. [00:01:00] 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. [00:01:08] That's why we are here. [00:01:12] Thank you. [00:01:14] Thank you, Father, and honor to be here. [00:01:16] I love North Dakota. [00:01:18] I make a habit out of coming here between May and September every year. [00:01:25] It does seem like every year, though, I don't get a lot of invites in December, or I don't think I acknowledge the invites in December, January, and February. [00:01:35] Honor to be here. [00:01:36] Several things I want to talk about today. [00:01:38] Congressman, thank you for fighting. [00:01:40] The FBI is totally out of control. [00:01:43] They become a Soviet institution, and we need to expose them. [00:01:47] And if I had my way, we'd do a lot more than expose them. [00:01:50] But exposing them is the first step. [00:01:52] And so thank you for that. [00:01:53] I'm glad that the majority is using their political power to expose Christopher Wray. [00:01:57] And if you want to see how broken DC is, so they're going to hold Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress, right? [00:02:03] So where do criminal referrals go to? [00:02:06] Yeah, Christopher Wray. [00:02:07] I mean, so it's like, okay, he's going to proceed with his own contempt. [00:02:11] There's got to be a whole different way. [00:02:13] This fourth branch of government is totally out of control. [00:02:15] And the founding fathers never intended to have an untouchable, unelected, unaccountable fourth branch of government that does whatever they want. [00:02:24] But nevertheless, we have to fight it. [00:02:27] So I want to talk about life tonight. [00:02:29] I visit college campuses, so you don't have to. [00:02:32] And as many of you, as many of you know, this is really where the battle is going to be decided. [00:02:39] We were talking at dinner tonight. [00:02:41] Charlie, are we going to win? [00:02:42] Are we going to lose? [00:02:44] I have no idea, and I'm going to say that later. [00:02:47] Things are not looking good on a lot of different fronts. [00:02:50] At the same time, there's a lot of place for promise and for hope. [00:02:53] When I visit college campuses, we can't find rooms big enough to fit all the students that want to attend and hear our speeches. [00:03:00] When I go to Ohio State University or when we bring Candace Owens to North Dakota, for example, like we did last year, we had to turn away hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of students. [00:03:09] So there is an appetite and there is a desire. [00:03:11] Sorry, is my mic cutting in and out? [00:03:13] I think, okay. [00:03:14] There's an appetite and there's a desire to hear these ideas in a very profound and serious and special way. [00:03:22] I will, I'll tell you, I fight 100% on the abortion issue. [00:03:26] When I mean I'm 100% pro-life, I am 100% pro-life. [00:03:29] You know, they come up, they say, well, Charlie, what about this and this exception and this and this? [00:03:34] I say, life is life, created in the image of God and is worthy of our protection 100% of the time. [00:03:42] And this issue is not going away. [00:03:49] You know, one of the things we're going to talk about tonight is the repeal of Roe versus Wade. [00:03:54] Praise God that that was repealed. [00:03:56] I think we have to remind ourselves, though, what it took to get Roe versus Wade repealed, because I think sometimes we leave out part of that story. [00:04:04] And it also involves many of you who prayed and fasted and went through the spiritual disciplines for your nation for multiple decades when you were told that this was never going to happen. [00:04:16] You deserve a lot of credit for that. [00:04:20] But let's take a step back before we go into some of the details and kind of define some of our terms here. [00:04:25] We are currently living in a culture of death, not a culture of life. [00:04:31] It's a culture that celebrates the worst and the ugliness of all society. [00:04:36] And I mean, this is happy Pride Month, by the way, everybody. [00:04:39] Yeah, it's great. [00:04:40] Hooray. [00:04:42] And by the way, all these issues are tied together, right? [00:04:44] Pride Month, abortion, life. [00:04:48] It's really an affront to the natural law and to how God wants us to live and how we ought to live. [00:04:55] And especially when they're going after children, and that's the commonality, right? [00:04:59] So you see Target, which is down 20%, and I hope they keep on going down. === Spiritual Dimensions in Scripture (02:49) === [00:05:05] Because you see, they put this Target has, you know, this propaganda for children in their stores. [00:05:17] And there's three types of people in the world: there are children, there are predators, and then there's the protectors of children. [00:05:33] Once you no longer become a child, hopefully in your mid-20s, you have to make a decision. [00:05:42] Am I going to be a predator or am I going to be someone who fights the predators? [00:05:48] This is something that plays out all throughout the scriptures. [00:05:51] Every society, every civilization. [00:05:54] This is how I know that there is evidence to the scriptures and why the Bible is always true. [00:05:58] Isn't it interesting? [00:05:59] Civilizations that never came in contact with one another, Mayans, Incans, Egyptians in this river valley, they all had this very bizarre fascination with sacrificing children. [00:06:10] Isn't that strange? [00:06:12] It's almost inexplicable, right? [00:06:15] You know that the Bible was the first document ever to say that the sacrificing of children is completely evil and off-limits? [00:06:22] That God actually intervenes and tells Abraham directly not to sacrifice your son. [00:06:29] It was not just common practice. [00:06:30] It grew you closer to the gods. [00:06:32] The Egyptians considered it no big deal. [00:06:34] In fact, the Egyptians thought that ox were a bigger deal than man. [00:06:41] So you're one of three things. [00:06:43] You're an infant, you're a protector of an infant, or you're a predator. [00:06:46] Look at the scriptures as how Exodus begins, which, by the way, the first couple books of Exodus, it's very similar to what we're living through right now. [00:06:53] One of the most powerful, one of the most powerful verses in the entire Bible, let alone the Torah, is, then rose a Pharaoh or a king who did not know Joseph. [00:07:04] Basically, Joseph, of course, who saved Egypt from famine, who interpreted dreams and saved Egypt from near extinction. [00:07:13] What is that? [00:07:14] What is that? [00:07:15] How does that verse, what does that teach us? [00:07:16] Torah means teacher, right? [00:07:18] In the first five books of the Bible to be called the Torah or the kind of core center of the Hebrew Bible. [00:07:25] What is that teaching us? [00:07:26] Boy, you could replace it right now. [00:07:28] Then came Generation Z that did not know George Washington. [00:07:33] Then came Generation Z that did not know the value of life. [00:07:38] It is the habit, it is the custom of a nation to forget the sacrifices that come before you. [00:07:44] If you do not teach it, they will not know it. [00:07:49] So it says, and then it goes on further: what is the first thing that the new Pharaoh wants to do? === God in Declaration and Torah (08:36) === [00:07:54] Go after the kids. [00:07:57] What is the thing that makes Jesus have to, well, Mary and Joseph flee going after the kids? [00:08:03] It just repeats itself, everybody. [00:08:06] There's a spiritual dimension to go after the children. [00:08:08] What was one of the harshest teachings of Christ, our Lord? [00:08:12] You go after the kids. [00:08:15] It is better for you to have a millstone around your neck. [00:08:20] So much of our spiritual testing plays out around children. [00:08:27] So let's just use our natural reason given to us by God. [00:08:30] What is the obvious reason that we should allow our children to be groomed by these alphabet mafia predators? [00:08:38] Because once innocence is lost, you can never get it back. [00:08:44] Once an eight or nine-year-old is no longer, there's no going back there. [00:08:48] And we say, let kids be kids. [00:08:50] Well, we need to use our strength as adults to protect children from the poison of the culture of death that comes after them. [00:09:06] And it all ties together. [00:09:08] So it's the easy and the comfortable way is to convince ourselves that we don't need to intervene. [00:09:18] They're going. [00:09:19] Look, when I see they, you could fill it in, okay? [00:09:21] I don't want to overly politicize because allegedly this is bipartisan. [00:09:24] I don't know there were Democrats in North Dakota, but allegedly this is bipartisan, right? [00:09:27] If there are, I'm glad you're here. [00:09:28] I'd love to meet you. [00:09:29] That's really interesting. [00:09:32] So. [00:09:35] But it's great. [00:09:36] Good for you guys. [00:09:37] So when I mean they, I mean people that are embracing a secular postmodern view of what I call the culture of death. [00:09:50] I believe one of the defining reasons we're in the mess that we are in in our country is that we decided to embrace secularism as the state-run religion of the United States. [00:10:04] Now, when I say this, the media calls me a Christian nationalist and all this whatever stuff. [00:10:09] I am a Christian and a nationalist, and if you put them together, I don't know really what you're trying to call me. [00:10:14] But here's the one thing. [00:10:15] America was a freer, better country when kids were praying in school. [00:10:22] America was a freer and better country when we taught abstinence and saving yourself for marriage. [00:10:32] It was. [00:10:34] That's objectively true. [00:10:36] Look, secularism, we teach this lie of the separation of church and state, which is not in the Constitution, okay? [00:10:44] It's a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention saying that the state will not go after the church. [00:10:50] That will keep those two things separate. [00:10:53] The founding fathers, as John Adams beautifully said, he said, the Constitution was written solely for a moral and religious people. [00:11:01] It is wholly inadequate for the people of any other. [00:11:04] You can't have a republic with people that do not believe in some sort of eternal logos. [00:11:11] Now, of course, there is some diversity in that. [00:11:15] Catholic, Christian, you can, of course, there's all sorts of different. [00:11:18] The founding fathers never wanted a state-run church, but they had great objection to secularism. [00:11:25] They believed in ethical monotheism. [00:11:27] God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence. [00:11:30] In fact, the end of the Declaration is basically a prayer. [00:11:34] It could be read as almost a prayer and an appeal. [00:11:36] We appeal to the divine creator of the world, the supreme judge of the world, it says. [00:11:41] And so, post-1960s, the state-run dogma of America is secularism. [00:11:48] How's that working out? [00:11:51] Pretty poorly. [00:11:52] We have the most suicidal generation. [00:11:55] We have the most alcohol-addicted generation, the most drug-addicted generation, the most miserable generation. [00:12:01] And that ties into, as we're here, right to life, if we're serious about advancing life, let's talk about how the culture of death infects every portion of society. [00:12:12] And before we can say, hey, we want to revitalize a culture of life, let's get back to basics. [00:12:19] Why are we here? [00:12:23] Every founding father, every founding father believed in Genesis 1-1. [00:12:30] In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. [00:12:34] I truly believe you could divide America into two buckets. [00:12:38] People that believe Genesis 1-1 and people who do not believe Genesis 1-1. [00:12:44] Now, the rest of the scriptures are very important. [00:12:47] We'll get to that. [00:12:48] But let's start there. [00:12:50] If you believe in Genesis 1-1, by definition, you being here is not an accident. [00:12:57] That means that your existence had intentionality. [00:13:02] That's a big deal. [00:13:04] Do you know that most campuses, most colleges do not make that argument to young people? [00:13:08] University of Mary does a great job and they should be recognized. [00:13:11] I had a great time visiting there last night. [00:13:13] So when I'm, I'm going to bash campuses. [00:13:16] I don't mean to bash University of Mary. [00:13:18] They do agree. [00:13:19] They warmly welcome me, and I really appreciated that because most campuses do not warmly welcome me at all. [00:13:26] Genesis 1-1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. [00:13:30] That means that there is a beginning. [00:13:35] You know, they say religion is outdated and science is ahead of it. [00:13:38] You know that it took science thousands of years to catch up to Genesis 1-1? [00:13:45] Now it is accepted in every scientific circle. [00:13:49] The universe had a beginning. [00:13:53] Thanks, pal. [00:13:54] We knew that since Moses transcribed it from the Lord. [00:13:58] Keep reading. [00:13:58] You'll learn more. [00:14:01] Science is finally catching up. [00:14:04] Trust the science, right? [00:14:06] We'll get to that. [00:14:06] No, no, no. [00:14:07] They mean trust the scientists they like. [00:14:09] It's not about trusting the science. [00:14:11] So then we continue. [00:14:12] All right, so we're here for a reason. [00:14:14] So God gets to creating. [00:14:17] And probably one of the most infinitely deep and beautiful passages of anything ever written is God saying, we will make man in our image. [00:14:31] A little bit of a wink in the first book to the Trinity. [00:14:37] Again, you read how some of the rabbis try to reconcile it. [00:14:41] It's really something. [00:14:42] Oh, no, he's talking to the angels and he's talking to the animals. [00:14:45] And then it's the Trinity. [00:14:46] It's right there. [00:14:47] The Trinity is right there in Genesis 1.26, 127. [00:14:50] Okay. [00:14:51] That's a deeper theological point for a different time. [00:14:53] Anyway, we are made in the image of the divine. [00:14:58] That's the biggest of all the deals, actually. [00:15:00] You think about it. [00:15:02] So here you have, everybody here tonight believes that there is a God and we are not him. [00:15:13] You can't get out of the first book of Genesis if you believe that with a dividing line where half the country believes that there is no God and if there was a God, I would be in charge. [00:15:25] So what does that mean if a God breathed life into you, that breathed existence into you, that you're here with a mission and that every single life is made wonderfully and fearfully and uniquely in the image of that divine? [00:15:41] Modern secular academia will tell you that they're an accident, that you are an accident of millions of years of Darwinian progress and evolution, that you are here through an accident of rolling of the dice. [00:15:57] And we can't quite tell you how mathematically improbable it is, but you are a result of all of this. [00:16:04] And it just so happens that the earth is perfectly positioned to the sun and that we are able to have an environment where you have oxygen and carbon dioxide and carbon being the essence of all life. [00:16:16] It just so happens to be that way. [00:16:18] And the next thing that you have to say is that takes a lot more faith to believe that this is a happy accident than a God created it with intentionality. === Challenging Secular Academic Lies (12:23) === [00:16:31] That is a step of faith. [00:16:35] The state-run religion is blind faith. [00:16:37] We do not have blind faith. [00:16:39] You know, somebody asked me the other day, they said, Charlie, do you believe in miracles? [00:16:42] I said, we live in a miracle. [00:16:45] Creation itself is a reflection of the Creator. [00:16:48] It is a miracle that we're able to be here. [00:16:52] Therefore, it answers the next question: what is a human being? [00:16:56] A human being is something with a soul. [00:16:58] It is not just cells. [00:17:01] Do you notice they say that? [00:17:02] Oh, it's just a clump of cells. [00:17:04] Just a clump of cells. [00:17:06] No, it has a soul. [00:17:09] Therefore, what does a people, what do you do when souls are massacred? [00:17:16] And the answer to this beautiful organization is you guys do what most people don't do. [00:17:21] You say, I'm going to stand up for those that can't defend themselves. [00:17:26] You could tell a lot about a society based on what do you do, what do the powerful do to people that have less power than them. [00:17:36] The answer to almost every country, whether it be the Nazis, the Soviet Union, the Mayans, or the Incans, is the powerful use their power to stay in power and to crush the less powerful. [00:17:46] That's what they do. [00:17:49] The outlier is when the powerful get in the way of the less powerful or the weak being crushed. [00:17:58] This is why secularism is such a poison and an arsenic on society. [00:18:04] Because if we allow America to continue to be a religious and secular, what is the argument against mass annihilation of people weaker? [00:18:14] There is no secular argument. [00:18:16] They could say, oh, well, it's, you know, human beings are humanists, we're special. [00:18:21] No, no, no, no. [00:18:22] If you do not make an argument that those people have a soul, therefore are infinitely valuable, then you're going to get to a place where they are eliminated and they are abolished. [00:18:32] And it might not manifest in the way that you will always recognize or realize. [00:18:37] You see, this kind of anti-life culture of death thing is manifesting in ways that's really interesting. [00:18:42] And I hope you guys fight this here in North Dakota because your neighbors to the north, Canada, which is, my goodness, you want to talk about a country that has become totalitarian. [00:18:52] Canada is what happens when you allow secularism to take over an entire country. [00:18:59] Medical-assisted suicide. [00:19:02] And the Catholic Church deserves a lot of credit. [00:19:04] They've been against this for a very long time. [00:19:06] They deserve a lot of credit for this, more so than my Protestant friends. [00:19:10] And so there's this TikTok video. [00:19:13] I got to share this with you. [00:19:14] I did a whole podcast on it. [00:19:16] There's this TikTok video of this Victoria Secret model with her grandmother. [00:19:23] She does this TikTok video and she says, This is the last dinner I'm going to have with my grandmother because she's deciding to do medical-assisted suicide because of a terminal diagnosis. [00:19:33] And the grandmother's dancing and she has agency and consciousness. [00:19:37] And it goes totally viral, right? [00:19:39] 20 or 30 million views, celebrating the, I'm going to kill myself in a medically comfortable environment. [00:19:49] Now, the most alarming part of it is the comments in the video and the reaction is overwhelmingly positive. [00:19:57] This is amazing. [00:19:58] This is terrific. [00:20:00] She's dying on her own terms. [00:20:03] She is, you know, what a champion. [00:20:05] And I just, this is what happens when you don't know what life is. [00:20:10] This is what happens when you believe that life is a burden, not a blessing. [00:20:15] Not to mention, let's just take the obvious thing, this video that was seen 15, 20 million times. [00:20:20] What you just did is you made it more acceptable for a teenager who's contemplating suicide to think that that is an acceptable outcome, what you just did on your way out. [00:20:31] And she says, well, I'm totally at peace. [00:20:33] And I will say this, I mean, she's now dead, but you believe that you did everything God's been called. [00:20:42] You are so arrogant to believe that as you have breath given to you from the divine, that I get to push a plug. [00:20:47] You're trying to tell me you've counseled every person you can, that you have every person that you can, you know, that you can speak to, that every family member has access to you. [00:20:56] No, you want to talk that right. [00:20:58] By the way, it's legal in seven states in the United States. [00:21:01] One in three suicides in Canada is medically assisted suicide. [00:21:04] They're running advertisements like you would have believed. [00:21:06] It's subsidized by the state. [00:21:07] It is flat out widespread depopulation euthanasia and it's coming to the states very soon. [00:21:12] But why wouldn't it come? [00:21:15] Because if you have a culture that doesn't celebrate life, wouldn't you then just have a cottage industry of Dr. Kvorkian that makes it easier and more comfortable to die? [00:21:24] Instead, the opposite should be said. [00:21:27] It said, no, no, no, you have a duty to the divine to live courageously. [00:21:31] And it might, and it might not always be comfortable. [00:21:37] It might be tough. [00:21:39] You know, I'm so moved by some of you in the audience. [00:21:43] I see you, and it's like this running competition I think you guys have of who can have the most kids. [00:21:47] And it's, I have 10 and I have 12. [00:21:50] Once it gets over six, I know you're Catholic. [00:21:52] It's a guarantee, right? [00:21:53] So, and either that or Mormon, it's uncertain. [00:21:58] But we're not in Utah, so it's definitely Catholic. [00:22:04] And my question is, and I always, because I love learning, as I say, well, was it easy? [00:22:08] They said, no, it was really hard. [00:22:10] And I say, why'd you do it? [00:22:12] And the answers vary, but they're usually of, because God said to be fruitful and multiply. [00:22:16] And it now has been an amazing blessing, and we're called to do that. [00:22:20] That is the right answer. [00:22:22] It is not because I wanted something simple. [00:22:26] It's not because I wanted the easiest possible thing. [00:22:30] And we have an entire generation, I talk to them every day, who want the easiest way out possible. [00:22:38] And ironically, it actually creates a very, very miserable existence where they want all the dopamine highs and all the pleasure, but none of the anchored responsibility. [00:22:50] So I was talking to someone Who said, you know, they had 10 kids, 12 kids, I can't keep track. [00:22:53] And they say, I could tell you, though, my life is the most fulfilling that I could have possibly am. [00:23:00] It was adventurous. [00:23:02] It was complex. [00:23:03] It was difficult. [00:23:05] It was uncertain. [00:23:08] But honestly, I look back at my life and I know that I've done everything I possibly can to fulfill the biblical mandate. [00:23:14] I see that my kids share my values and like 49 grandkids or something, which is amazing. [00:23:21] And that's a life well lived. [00:23:25] You contrast that with the average secular life that is advertised to the kids I talk to on campus who tell me that they want to be able to have free sex, abortion on demand, do whatever I want to do whenever I want to do it, every pleasure, every substance. [00:23:39] And then I'll get a degree and I'm a young lady and I'm going to go work for corporate America, get a bunch of cats, you know, still have a bunch of free sex, not get married, right? [00:23:49] Wait till I'm 32 or 33 to maybe pick out a metrosexual bet beta husband that barely passes as a man, you know, maybe have, maybe have a kid before my clock runs out and wonder why I'm on antidepressants going into my early 40s. [00:24:07] And it's like, hello, you embarked on a secular lie that was not what you are called to do. [00:24:16] And so we have an entire generation fighting their nature, and we have the rise of this belief that I must be my own God. [00:24:26] I must be in the center of the entire universe. [00:24:30] And that's part of the medical assisted suicide thing, but it's also part of Pride Month, which, by the way, we just need to remind all of our friends, pride is a sin, everybody, right? [00:24:37] You got to remember that. [00:24:38] Pride comes from, I tweeted that out, and people are like, that's so controversial. [00:24:43] How is the father? [00:24:44] Is that controversial saying pride is a sin? [00:24:47] It's the deadliest of all the sins. [00:24:49] Thank you. [00:24:52] He's a good father right here. [00:24:53] He knows what he's talking about. [00:24:57] Pride comes before the fall. [00:24:59] I say, since when do we have a whole month based on the deadliest of all sins? [00:25:03] I mean, it's just so perplexing. [00:25:06] And by the way, a whole month? [00:25:08] It's like we've been conquered by a foreign country, right? [00:25:11] You've got rainbow flags everywhere because I'm the most important thing. [00:25:15] See me? [00:25:16] You must celebrate alongside. [00:25:17] And by the way, let me just talk on the pride thing for a second. [00:25:19] If I offend you, you're in the wrong place. [00:25:21] I got to be honest with you. [00:25:22] So, you know, it started with you must tolerate it and then you must accept it and then you must celebrate it and then you must participate it with your kids. [00:25:31] Like, whoa, I thought this is about tolerance. [00:25:34] And now it's about mandatory participation. [00:25:38] So, and then I will connect these, all of this together. [00:25:43] You guys done a great thing here in North Dakota. [00:25:45] You've passed some great legislation. [00:25:46] I'm thrilled the governor has signed it into law. [00:25:49] I'm awfully critical of the governor, and I do not know why he's running for president. [00:25:52] Maybe someone can fill that in because that is a strange thing. [00:25:55] So, but I'm being honest. [00:26:00] I'm glad he signed the piece of legislation. [00:26:02] If someone has an answer, please contact me because that is a puzzle I have not figured out yet. [00:26:09] So, he signed into law. [00:26:14] You guys did a great job with that. [00:26:16] But the animating force of somebody that wants to crush an unborn child is the same unclean spirit that makes somebody want to chemically castrate or take the breasts away from a 12-year-old. [00:26:31] This is what God has designed, and I'm going to use my will, my scientific technology, to go above what is natural, beautiful, and good. [00:26:45] You see, science was actually a Christian endeavor originally. [00:26:49] It was about exploring the natural world, understanding God's creation. [00:26:53] Sir Francis Bacon, the kind of modern founder of science, and Sir Isaac Newton, who actually wrote more about biblical prophecy than he did even about physics, they use their reason to say, okay, if creation has a creator, therefore there's a reason we're here. [00:27:12] So let's understand the natural world better because there must be discoveries that can help us then flourish. [00:27:20] That was what really drove the scientific revolution. [00:27:24] It was a Christian endeavor under the premise that this is not an accident. [00:27:28] Then something changed with those pesky Germans. [00:27:31] I know like half you guys are German descent. [00:27:33] So it's don't mean to offend you, but it's like every other name is Schmacht and Schwann, this. [00:27:40] It's like, okay. [00:27:43] Great folks. [00:27:45] But when you get German scientists in a room, it has been a catastrophe for humanity of the last 150 years. [00:27:54] All right. [00:27:56] And so you got German scientists in a room and they're like, wait, hold on, no, no, they got this whole thing wrong. [00:28:00] We are going to, science should be about controlling and changing nature, not seeking to understand nature. [00:28:08] And that's a totally different moral approach. [00:28:11] That I'm seeking to change it. [00:28:12] What is the trans thing seeking to do? [00:28:15] What is the abortion thing seeking to do? [00:28:17] I'm going to change that which God has designed. [00:28:20] I am going to become like God. [00:28:24] I'm going to use power against those that can't defend themselves to actually change the naturally created order. [00:28:31] And so I suppose the question is, well, then what can be done about this? [00:28:36] Well, you guys are in a great spot here in North Dakota. [00:28:38] I love this place. [00:28:39] Please hold on to your values. [00:28:41] You know, there's going to be this big movement of people that say, oh, you know, we have to try to be more like other states. [00:28:47] Just do not become like other states, okay? [00:28:50] You guys are doing a great job because you have your core values. === Speaking Truth to Make Hope Happen (06:46) === [00:28:54] You have an amazing commitment to family and to life. [00:28:58] And so please stay that way. [00:28:59] And I really mean that. [00:29:01] And I anticipate that you will because there's going to be so much pressure to try to make North Dakota turn into something that it's not. [00:29:07] But more macro, which I think is really important. [00:29:10] A lot of you are here. [00:29:11] And this is what really animates me: is that, look, there's a huge opportunity in front of us as we now get to articulate what really is life. [00:29:23] And there's no easy way to answer that. [00:29:26] But here, let me give you the wrong answer, as I've said. [00:29:29] Life is not about instantaneous enjoyment. [00:29:39] And it's certainly not about always doing what you want to do when you want to do it. [00:29:43] Life well lived in the biblical promise, Western society was founded on this, is about fulfilling the duties and obligations to the divine, to your family, to your community. [00:29:56] Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare. [00:30:03] And this room is filled with people that have done that. [00:30:06] And I mean, you'll know people by the fruit. [00:30:08] The fruit is pretty remarkable, right? [00:30:10] In a country that's falling apart, you know, you have your lives together and you have the wealthiest of all currencies, which is lots of kids and lots of grandkids. [00:30:19] That's a lot better than a secular millionaire in Brooklyn that's wondering why they're so miserable. [00:30:26] And so the final thing I'll say, because I know that I'm tight on time, I want to be very precise on time, is we have to stop the happy talk. [00:30:37] And this is something that I'm pretty good at. [00:30:39] And they're saying some things I'm not good at, I'll be very honest. [00:30:46] I currently believe, yes, the country's on a precipice. [00:30:49] Who knows where it's going to be headed? [00:30:51] But we need truth tellers to rise in a very serious way right now. [00:31:01] The amount of outright lies that we allow to spread is unlike anything I've ever seen. [00:31:07] When you see something untrue, say something. [00:31:11] When you see a lie, say something. [00:31:13] In the beginning was the word, which is the logos. [00:31:16] That is the harmony of existence. [00:31:18] That means that there is a way, a truth, the truth, the light. [00:31:22] And that truth is not, as the beautiful speaker said earlier, it's not subjective. [00:31:29] There is no your truth. [00:31:31] There's truth. [00:31:32] And the issue with your truth very quickly becomes man will do whatever is right in his own eyes very, very quickly. [00:31:40] So going back earlier, am I pessimistic or optimistic? [00:31:44] So if I told you I was optimistic, you would go home and you would say, boy, Charlie thinks we're going to win. [00:31:50] I don't have to do anything. [00:31:52] If I said I was pessimistic, you would go home and say, yep, Charlie said it's all over. [00:31:56] I don't have to do anything. [00:32:00] The honest truth is, it shouldn't matter. [00:32:05] You do it because you love what is beautiful, you love the eternal, and you commit to action and you fight because it's the right thing to do. [00:32:15] You do it out of an act of obedience, not out of the wager at the Caesar's Palace of whether or not, yo, what are the gambling odds today of whether or not we're going to win? [00:32:23] I don't know. [00:32:23] It's up, it's down. [00:32:25] I know some of you, I could see by the way you're looking at me, you can say, look, Charlie, I've done everything that's been asked of me. [00:32:30] All right? [00:32:31] I watch Fox News and I don't know if you watch it anymore, but... [00:32:38] Or how about this? [00:32:38] I bought the pillow, you know, I did. [00:32:46] Promo code Kirk at mypillow.com, by the way, just so we're clear. [00:32:51] I got a closet full of relief factor. [00:32:53] I reverse mortgaged my home and I got more gold than I know what to do with. [00:32:59] No, no, no, no. [00:33:00] It's the man in the arena that counts. [00:33:03] It might feel comfortable and safe here in North Dakota, right? [00:33:06] Your liberal to conservative ratio is very impressive. [00:33:11] We need every single one of you to fight. [00:33:15] And you'll know what that is. [00:33:16] Pray for wisdom and God will give you abundantly, James 1.5. [00:33:19] But pray for your nation, you fast for your nation, your local schools, how you educate your kids, raising a generation that is anti-fragile and tough and challenging and sending them out into the world. [00:33:30] And let me just say for the moms out here in the audience, what you're doing to raise strong kids, we're going to need every last young person to fight alongside me in the trenches because I'm 29. [00:33:41] I'm getting too old for this stuff. [00:33:42] So we got to send in reinforcements. [00:33:45] I got like a decade or two decades left. [00:33:47] And we got to... [00:33:48] That matters more than I could ever tell you. [00:33:51] Look, the country is macro, not in a good spot. [00:33:57] But as long as we have agency and we have the ability to speak truth, I have hope. [00:34:04] I truly believe that. [00:34:06] And more importantly, I encourage you to make hope happen. [00:34:11] The fight for life is the most important fight. [00:34:14] I truly believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that God is going to hold us to account to what we did or we did not do when children were preyed upon in the womb, where children were played upon in the classroom, where children were preyed upon in Target, where children were preyed upon on TikTok. [00:34:31] Did you sit idly by and say, eh, not my kid, not my problem? [00:34:35] Or did you say, I'm going to fight for legislation, I'm going to fight for virtue, I'm going to fight for goodness, because every single kid is made in the image of God. [00:34:44] That's the call to action. [00:34:46] And so we must fight and speak the truth. [00:34:53] And I could tell you, we are on the precipice, possibly on something very, very special. [00:34:59] And this is the greatest of all fights. [00:35:01] In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. [00:35:04] Man is made in the image of the Creator. [00:35:07] There are three types of people. [00:35:08] You can make a decision tonight. [00:35:10] Are you going to be someone that sits idly by, or are you going to stand up to those pesky predators that are coming after our kids? [00:35:16] If you love God, you must hate evil. [00:35:18] Psalm 97:10. [00:35:19] It's time for us to start fighting evil. [00:35:21] God bless you guys. [00:35:22] Thank you so much. [00:35:27] Thanks so much for listening, everybody. [00:35:29] Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. [00:35:33] Thank you so much for listening, and God bless. [00:35:37] For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.