Transcript
Charlie Kirk (0:03)
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord. Use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.
Alex McFarland (0:56)
Hey. Well, listen to this. You don't have to read the newspaper or listen to much news to know that our nation has been in the crosshairs of a spiritual battle for a long time and throughout history, certainly throughout our nation's history, at very critical moments, God has raised up leaders, voices of clarity and courage. And you're about to hear one such voice. Turning Point USA has engaged hundreds of thousands of people, but young people and I would say in the 2024 presidential election, the person, the individual most responsible for bringing out first time voters and youth voters. He's a great American. He loves God and country. A truly, truly great asset to our nation. Please help me welcome everybody, Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk (2:10)
Thank you. Everybody, please take a seat. Thank you. It is great to be here in South Carolina. Did I get the state right? I'm already doing better than Joe Biden. It is phenomenal. Couple things I want to talk about, then we're going to do question and answer here with Alex. First of all, if we would have done this event a year ago, I got to say, our country's in a much better place today than it was a year ago. Wouldn't you agree? Praise the Lord. And there are so many different things simultaneously happening right now that are positive. I'm going to talk about some of them, we're going to talk about some of the challenges and then we'll have a great chat. First of which is not only did Donald Trump win the White House back in November, which again, thanks to the glory of God, he did so in the most miraculous fashion. He brought first time voters. Donald Trump won the youth vote in several states around the country, including he won the youth vote in the state of South Carolina just so we're clear. And for years we were told that younger voters were automatically going to go to the left. We were told that younger voters were trending in the progressive liberal direction by default. But something changed. You see Gen Z. I'm sure there's some Gen Z patriots here in the audience somewhere. They were part of, without a doubt. There you go. All six of them. Great. You're glad you're here. This little remnant. They were told for a period of time they were used as lab rats in one of the most inhumane social experiments in American history. Wear masks to school, shut down school, take away prom, take away graduation. We're going to silence your thoughts. We're going to silence your speech. We're going to make sure you give land acknowledgments. We're going to call you racist. We're going to call you toxically masculine. We're going to say that God does not exist. We want you to sit at home, watch a laptop, and just wither away into existence. It was without a doubt, one of the most cruel things that we adults have ever done to our nation's children. And I do not believe that our nation's leaders have been held accountably enough. I believe Anthony Fauci needs to go to federal prison for the rest of his life for what happened during COVID I don't care if Biden's auto pen signed his, his pardon. We should test that. Because that man did more damage to the next generation than almost anybody in particular. And so this generation, they lived through this social experiment. And while many of us saw our homes get more valuable, we saw our stocks go up. This generation saw themselves get poorer. They saw their relationships fall apart. They saw their friends commit suicide. They saw so many people fall to depression and anxiety and mental anguish and torture. And so the calamity that was presented in front of this generation set the table for a right wing correction, a right wing revolution that happened gradually. And then suddenly, this last election, we saw the next generation, young men in particular, they moved 44 points more Republican from 2020 to 2024, delivering the White House for Donald Trump in record numbers. And it is not just that they are becoming more conservative. This is the most exciting thing. We should celebrate that they're loving the nation again. We should celebrate that they want to get married. We should celebrate that they want to have children. But most importantly, everybody, they are on pace to be the most Christian generation in the last 50 years. That is the most important thing. More and more are giving their lives to Christ, more and more young people are putting God as number one. They're spiritually curious. They go on these college campuses and they don't want to just hear about North African lesbian poetry. They don't just want to hear about, you know, you're systemically racist because you are white. These failed post modern secular ideas are falling apart in real time. And if there's only a couple things you remember that I say tonight, remember that America will not be a free nation if we are a nation without our commitment to God. If we, we are one nation under God, not one nation under government. And if we are one nation under the state, then you will cease to be free. And what, where did we get Covid from? We did not get Covid from. Well, we did get Covid from China. That's exactly right. And honestly, China has to pay a lot more for what they did to our nation. I'll tell you what, in more ways than one, you're very right. But the reaction to Covid was largely because of two reasons. The first of which was because of a secular government that hates us and believes in wacky ideas. The second of which is a little bit harder. Truth, though. Too many pastors and too many churches sat idly by while our nation was closed. Too many pastors did not speak up and stand up. Now, I know this might be controversial for some people, but in the summer of 2020, when they took Easter from us, they took Pentecost from us when they were telling us that everything was racist and terrible and awful, we should have had more pastors marching out in the streets saying, arrest me and throw me to prison. You will never call the church non essential again. You see, Covid happened for those two major reasons. And now we are faced with this reality where the next generation, they want something ancient, they want something true, they want something lasting, they want something good. They want something that will be around not just for five minutes, but for the rest of their life. You see, when they go to church, they want to be struck with awe and wonder that only Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit can fill them. You see, they want a different type of Christianity than sometimes we've been tempted to present. You see, what we have been told is we have been told for the last couple of decades, hey, if you want young people to come to Jesus, never talk about biblical truths. Don't talk about biblical marriage, don't talk about the family. Instead just say, hey, all are welcome here. We're not going to talk about sin. We're only going to talk About Jesus. Now, what is wrong about that? Of course we should talk about Jesus all the time. But a young kid shows up to church and he never hears about sin. You just hear about how great he is. You know, you're all so great, you're all so wonderful. God loves you the way you are. None of that is necessarily wrong. Whether you are wonderful part is wrong. But he says, yeah, I'm the best. This pastor thinks I'm the greatest. And then he says, oh, by the way, give your life to Jesus. He's like, give my life to Jesus? You said I was the best. And Jesus can be your savior. And he'll say, why do I need a savior? You just said I was the best. You cannot ever properly get someone to give their life to Christ and need a savior if they don't know what they need to be saved from. And if we don't talk about sin, which means being off target, then why would a generation ever want to give their life to Jesus? The modern gospel is, let's water it down so that everyone will come and we're going to cast a wide net and then we're going to give everyone the gospel of Jesus incrementally and slowly. But it turns out that is a lie, it's fraudulent. First of all, has it worked? Church attendance was going down. Church attendance has sloped down. People are becoming less Christian last 30 years because churches have become weaker. And they stopped teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ verse by verse, chapter by chapter, and truth by truth. Instead, what we've seen is people show up and they say, yeah, you know, they say, why do you go to that church? Well, they have good parking and the coffee's above average and it's like it's a rock concert with a TED Talk. And I think, you know, it's a lot of fun, everybody. You don't go to church to have fun. If you have fun while you go to church, good, that means that's extra bonus points. You go to church to get saved. You don't go to church to be entertained. You don't go to church to have great music. You go to church to find out, make sure you're going to heaven to get your friends to go to heaven and you can live a more godly life. You go to church to find out what did Jesus say, What did Jesus teach, What does the Bible teach? And how do I act more like that. And this is where this generation, they want more of that type of teaching. They don't want the watered down nonsense. They don't want the kind of, oh, well, you know, the kind of, you know, let's just say overly compassionate, nonsensical thing of saying, well, we don't want to talk about the transgender thing or the homosexuality thing or the abortion thing because we might offend somebody. Everybody. If you are not actively being offended on a daily basis or as every weekly basis when you go to church, your pastor is not doing his job. You know why? The Bible's supposed to be offensive to your flesh. The Bible's supposed to be offensive to your lower appetites. And so what we're met with here is really a time for choosing for American Christianity. So many pastors, they failed the test during COVID They failed the test during the lockdowns, and now they're wondering, well, if I want to grow my church, I have to try to water things down. I can tell you as somebody who now draws thousands of people at our college events, by the way, I go to college campuses, so you guys don't have to. You're welcome. And when I go to these college campuses, anyone can go up to the mic. They're not going there to go hear the water down, happy, go, lucky. Everyone is great. They go there because they want to find the truth. And sometimes the truth might seem provocative and cut against your flesh. It might come and go. Well, that's kind of not what I've heard before. You haven't heard it before because we have approximated an entire culture that has gone used to accommodating people's and affirming people's sins. And then people say, well, Charlie, Jesus says that we should love one another. How do you love? Do you love by lying or by telling the truth? And remember, Christ, our Lord is just as much grace as he is truth. The modern church only cares about grace, and they never tell the truth. And now we have this opportunity of a monumental amount of our nation's young people, students that are coming, that are seeking Jesus, and they're seeking something that is beautiful and. And that is divine. You know why? Because they know something that's ugly. No, I'm not just talking about their college professor. They know something that is ugly. They. The whole culture around them is ugly. From how people talk to how they increasingly dress to the words, to the music. And they say, enough. This is. I don't want to live like this. So they're going towards something ancient. We are sitting on the precipice of the greatest Christian revival since Billy Graham, if we seize it. But it's not going to happen with a bunch of weak kneed, wobbling pastors being afraid that they might get an angry email from somebody because they dare talk about, well, abortion is a sin. I hate you, pastor, because you just judged me. Okay, first of all, if you're the one writing those emails, you have a problem with the word of God, not with that pastor. But secondly, if you as a pastor are not trying to trim down your church to a manageable size and every single Sunday blessed subtraction, then you are not doing your job. You see, far too often we want to try to cast the widest net. We say, we want everyone to join us, we want everyone to hear us. But imagine if I went to a college campus and someone asked me about it. I said, well, you know, what do you guys want to hear? I'll just tell you what you want to hear. Well, then you wouldn't be. Nothing I would do would have any resonance. It wouldn't be the idea or the crusade of truth. And so I'm extremely excited. I'm extremely optimistic about where this can head. Simultaneously, I'm worried that the American church is largely unequipped for what is coming because they have this muscle memory that is built up where they have this false impression of what the church should be. And that involves, by the way, something very important. Number one, always should be Jesus Christ. That's the most important thing. The most important thing is winning people over for Jesus Christ. What's the second most important thing? To make sure you could do the first thing. That's where politics comes in. If you don't do the second thing, then you can't do the first thing. Why don't we go all open a church in Saudi Arabia? Does that sound like a good idea? You can't because of politics. Why don't we go open a church in Afghanistan? You can't because of politics. We as Christians have been fed a lie that we should not get involved in politics. You know, people say all the time, well, Charlie, you know, you know, you're too political. No, I'm biblical. There's a big difference. They say, well, where in the Bible does say be political? Well, let's open up how? Daniel, Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Moses, Zerubbabel. You want to pick almost any portion of the Old Testament they're talking about either the moral or the civil law, how God is set up for us to live. You see, everybody, the. The kicker that I think that is in front of us is that we have this opportunity to reorient an entire nation. Back to what ultimately matters. What ultimately matters? That there is a God and you are not him. That we live under his teaching. There is a natural law and that normativity is woven into nature. That there is a moral law that we should point towards. That. No, you don't get to point to your own truth. You don't get to come up with your own values. That there is a way for you to live and you don't get to choose your own way to live. That you should try to pursue something outside of you. And because of how the enemy overreached, God used it for good. We are living through Genesis 50:20 right now. What the enemy meant for evil, God will use for good. And it is a prerequisite for a explosion of Christianity and commitments for Christ. But the second part is equally as important. And that's what I also want to talk about, which is the state of our nation, which is, praise God, God gave us a respite. Donald Trump won. Young people help deliver it. But going even beyond that, what is the type of country that we want to live in? I want to live in a type of country where you don't have to lock your doors at night. A type of country where church attendance is going up. A type of country where people are going to get married and have children. A type of country where we are not going to have a Muslim Marxist mayor of New York City. There's something wrong with that. Everybody. Now, this is where people say, charlie, you can't say that. Let me repeat it for whatever stenographer for the media. There's something wrong when you have a Muslim Marxist mayor of New York City, our greatest city. There's something wrong with that. In fact, we don't talk enough about Islam. There is a red green axis that is trying to suffocate this country. We talk a lot about the red, which is the Marxist, but we don't talk nearly enough about the Islamist. We don't talk nearly enough about the hundreds of thousands of Muslims that we have voluntarily imported into our country that build mosques, implement Sharia law, they court. I don't know if you guys have this problem in South Carolina or not, but it's a thankfully, no. But you go to Minneapolis, you even go to Dallas, you go to New York, and it will metastasize, it will spread. You know why? Because the women of the west, they get cats. The women of Muslims, they have eight kids. Eventually, it doesn't work very well. It's just a bunch of math. The women of the west have abortions. The women of Muslims, they have entire communities they can fill. When you import one, you get 32, you know, 10 years later, chain migration, all this nonsense people say. But Charlie, don't you understand that the immigrants make our country better? Hold on a second. Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. And when you have millions of people coming into the country that do not learn our language, that do not learn our culture. Let me give you a great example. Any truck drivers out there? I'm sure we have a couple truck drivers. I see some hands being raised. God bless you guys. Do you know that just the other day an illegal alien that entered in this country by the name of Harbinger Singh, one of 400,000 illegal alien refugees that Joe Biden gave commercial driver's licenses to? So 18 wheel big rigs. Okay? This guy did an illegal U turn in the middle of the day. Do you see this video? Illegal U turn in the middle of a day on a two way highway. On a two way highway in Florida, goes around and kills three Americans, everybody. There are 400,000 of them. They don't, they don't read English. How can you read the street signs? How can you communicate on two way radio? How can you talk to a police officer? How do you even know what you're carrying if you don't communicate English? You know what's happened here, everybody? We as conservatives and Christians, we've allowed them to take our generosity for granted. They have taken advantage of us. And it is not against the individual person or, you know, all the great sob stories that we hear or whatever. But here is the kicker. The kicker is we need to love the nation so much that we don't care about the insults that they throw at us. We need to care about our neighbors so much that we don't want them to die by a 18 rig semi truck doing a U turn in Florida and being killed by a foreign illegal alien that was given a commercial driver's license. 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