Sept. 15, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Charlie influenced a lot of people, a lot of young people, and especially a lot of young men. | |
| That's just a fact. | |
| Everybody should be, whether you're left or right or whatever your beliefs are, you gotta acknowledge that's a fact. | |
| He influenced them. | |
| You might not like it, you might like it, but he influenced them. | |
| And among the things he influenced them to believe was that we can win in advocating for our um beliefs and our policy, the policies we favor by making the best arguments, by making rational arguments, by engaging the people who disagree with us and winning them over, convincing them, not wrestling them to the ground, not destroying them, not shooting them, but by arguing with them, by trying to win them over. | |
| That was his message. | |
| There will be some young people, and I fear that it will be especially some young men, this is the biggest worry, who will say, Charlie tried it. | |
| I looked up to him. | |
| But you know what we learned on September 10th, 2025? | |
| Charlie was wrong about one thing. | |
| We can't win with arguments, with reasons, with civil discourse, with trying to persuade people, trying to win them over. | |
| The only way you win at the end of the day is with force. | |
| And I and I've seen this the intimations of this nature as well. | |
| And I'm also um find it deeply concerning. | |
| And I don't know if it's just in Greek as you know, people need a little bit of time to process these things, right? | |
| Oh, well, that's certainly true. | |
| But I I hope that especially young men, but young people generally, or anybody who who looked up to Charlie or came under his influence will recognize that if Charlie were here, if this happened to some other major influencer, and Charlie were here, he would not be drawing the conclusion that let's turn to force, let's fight fire with fire, let's avenge this murder. | |
| The reason he wouldn't is that Charlie was a serious believing Christian. | |
| Wasn't always a serious believing Christian. | |
| When he was younger, uh he was a more secular libertarian sort of guy, much more interested in confrontation. | |
| But he experienced a great kind of spiritual awakening and spiritual growth to the point where the Charlie now we remember is one who did believe in the power of ideas and the power of arguments and the power of reason and of reasoning with each other. | |
| And he would say violence is not the answer here. | |
| We're not gonna answer evil with evil. | |
| We're gonna answer evil with good. | |
| That's the Christian way. | |
| That's the Judeo-Christian way. | |
| That's the religious way. |
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