Glenn Beck (67:18)
So what is the solution? What is the solution that we need to grab onto? Yesterday I was driving to church, and it was beautiful out outside and had the windows down and was just thinking about, you know, the trouble that our country is in and. And how we need God and, you know, was thanking him for saving us so far. But we're going to need to save ourselves here pretty soon because, you know, he's leaving this up to us. We have to play our role. And as I was thinking about this and I got to church, and I don't remember what somebody said, but something unrelated just triggered this brainstorm in me. I know what the solution is because I know all we have to do is reverse engineer. What? Here, let me take you back to 1917. Bolsheviks, Russia. They come to power. What do they do? What's the first thing they do? They burn the churches, the priests, they throw them in prison. The Orthodox Church, a pillar of Russian life, systematically gutted from the inside because Lenin said religion is spiritual booze, a portion of to. I'm sorry, a poison to the revolutionary mind. Okay, what happened in China when Mao came to power? During the Cultural Revolution, children were taught to turn on their own parents if they were caught praying or reading scripture. Bibles were banned. Then they went after the teachers. They were humiliated, beaten in the streets by their own students. Over 400,000 teachers were struggled against, struggled against, many to death because they taught ideas older than the party. North Korea. If you're caught with a Bible today, you get three generations of your family imprisoned. In China, pastors are jailed, crosses torn down, sermons rewritten by the state. It's Orwellian, but it's real. Why? This is what we have to remember. What we have forgotten. We have to remember tyrants. Understand what all of us have forgotten. Faith, true faith, is resistance. Real education, actual education, is rebellion. A child who knows the truth. Not indoctrination, not to identify constructs, but truth. That child. That child can't be programmed. A man who bends his knee to God does not bend his knee to the state. Ever. And yet, what are we doing? What are we doing? We have replaced history with activism. We've replaced reading with reprogramming for faith. It's mocked, it's censored, it's stripped from the public. We mock God in the public square. Prayer, once a cornerstone of our classroom, is now treated like contraband, Let me tell you, we've lost our schools, we've lost many of our churches. And when that is complete, we lose the country. And not in a generation, not in a decade. We lose it immediately. And we are there. You know, I've been talking about the torch, something that I am starting on January 1st, and I'm dedicating the rest of my career to those causes, faith and education, because those are the only two things that will save us. That's it. If we don't recapture education, and I don't mean even in the schools, I don't know how long it's going to take. The Trump administration is doing a great job. We need to move faster on this. I think Liz was right on her proposals to Donald Trump. But we need to take control of education in our own homes and retake the education of faith in our own homes. If we can learn critical thinking again, how many people know how to critically think? Not critical theory, critical thinking. If we fix our hearts by returning to faith, not fear, reality tested, personal faith, not moralistic slogans or Sunday only performances, but things that actually change us as people. We save our country, but without those two things. I mean, that's the reason why Mao and everybody else takes those two things down. Think of this. They had culture back in the 1960s. They had it. They didn't have the power of the state, which they almost had completely. And if, God forbid, we lose in 2028, it's coming back with a vengeance. But they didn't have power of the state. But they also didn't have our, our schools. They didn't have, they didn't have our churches. So they have worked since the 1960s to get those two things under their control. And look at what's happening in New York. Liz Wheeler is right. She just said it wasn't a good campaign that he run. It was indoctrination that got him the nomination to be the mayoral candidate. He's a communist. And what did we find out? The next morning, Google said the most searched item in the New York City area that night was what is communism? So we have to choose right now and we have to dedicate ourselves as individuals. You can raise thinkers or you can raise followers. And look at what all of our social media. Look at that. You have followers. I don't want followers. I want thinkers. All of our social media. How many, how many followers do you have? How pathetic is that? How weird is that? How many followers do I have? What am I, Jesus? How many thinkers do I Have. You can raise thinkers, or you can raise followers. You can raise a generation who worships the truth or one that bows to the state, but you cannot have both. So what is it that you are building? What is it that you're building in your own life? What is it that your children. I mean, look, I got to tell you, I white knuckle raising my family every day. It is. Oh, gosh, thank God my kids. One of them is 19. Next April, she'll be out of her teenage years. Teenage years now are, like, high, right, straight from hell. I don't know how to raise kids. I don't know how to do it. But strangely, somehow or another, I mean, my kids are no different than you and your kids. I mean, do your kids listen to you? Yeah, my kids don't listen to me either. You know, I've been collecting things for, you know, the preservation of American history. And I don't remember what it was. It might have been like the Enigma machine. I have a Enigma machine in the collection, which is the first. That's. That was the beginning of the computer. That was the. That was the code that the Germans had that nobody could break. And so Alan Turing, the guy from the. The, you know, Turing Test, you know, which. Is it a computer or is it human? He was the guy who broke that code. And in. By breaking it, he developed the. The first. Really first computer. And. And we're watching the movie about Turing. What was that called? The Imitation Game. And we're watching the Imitation Game, and my son goes, dad, that would be cool to have one of those. I'm like, son, put it on pause for a second. Would you go into the other room and look onto one of the shelves? It's the bottom shelf. Can you just look what's on the bottom shelf? What? Just. I mean, because you've seen it a million times. You've. You've actually carried it with me when I go to give speeches. You've seen it at the museum. It happens to be in the other. You want to just go look at it? No way. We have one of those yet. My kids don't listen to me, just like your kids don't listen. They don't listen. They don't listen. But know this. Somehow or another, my kids are. I mean, sure, lots of therapy is coming their way, but they're pretty decent kids, and they get it. All we have to do is just try. Just. Just try to hold the line, ask them questions, critical thinking, teach them how to critically think. Just keep asking questions. That's I'm convinced that's how you get into heaven. Come to me like a child. What does that mean? I wet my bed. What does that mean? Come to me as a child in my. That innocence and the non stop questioning that a child. Why? Why? Well, that's grass. Why? I don't know why we call it grass, but it's green. Why is it green? I don't know. Sky is blue. Why is it blue? I don't know. Constant questioning. Our kids don't question. They Google facts, they chat GPT. They're all of their thinking. They steal testimonies from somebody else. I mean, I did that when I was a kid too, but I realized later in life you don't have a testimony. You don't know. If you don't know that God is real yourself, you got nothing. You have to know he's real yourself. And that's the same thing with all of our history and all of our knowledge. You have to earn that history. You can't just read about it. You have to read about it and then go, is that right? And ponder it and even pray on it. And then start doing some homework on it. Whatever it is that intrigues you, pursue that line. Because then that line that you've pursued, that becomes yours. That's yours. And it can never be taken away from you. Teachers say all the time, kids, take out your pens and papers because this is going to be on the test. There is no test in life. And I don't want you to memorize anything. I want you to make it yours. Education and faith. Without those two pillars, we can never save our country. And look at what they're doing to education and faith. We must restore them in our own lives. All right, back in just a second. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation. I have to tell you, they are. I thought about them yesterday because I'm in Idaho and up in the northern part of the state, up in Coeur d' Alene, which is this beautiful place, there was a guy who set a fire. Now, we don't know why, but he set fires and then it was a trap. He, he, he started a brush fire so the firemen would come so he could shoot them. The hell is all that about? How lost are we? Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. 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You're in the right place. This is Glenn Beck. Welcome to the program. We have the driver of the General Lee. I don't know if you saw this. Was that in Kentucky? Right. There's this town got together and they, you know, put a General Lee back together, which was a. An old charger, and. And they jumped it over a water fountain in the town Square. I think 30,000 people showed up. It was amazing. It was amazing. I love small town America. I just love it.
