Charlie Kirk Explains His Biblical Defense of the Death Penalty and the Difference Between Murder and Killing

[00:00] When you take another person's life, you

[00:01] already took your own life.

[00:02] >> That's right.

[00:03] >> I want you to think about that. If if if

[00:05] someone were to murder Alex or murder

[00:07] me, they already murdered themselves in

[00:09] that action.

[00:10] >> Okay. So, this clip is just in case you

[00:12] didn't know what Charlie Kirk stance was

[00:14] regarding the death penalty.

[00:16] >> Hello. Hi, Charlie. Um, I'm very excited

[00:19] to see you. I watch all your stuff. I

[00:21] have concerns over things like the death

[00:23] penalty. Um,

[00:27] is it I mean it it's one of the ten

[00:29] commandments. You should not murder. So

[00:32] is it somehow justified because they're

[00:34] such a horrible criminal or are they um

[00:38] eliminating

[00:40] or changing the trajectory of God's plan

[00:44] for what it was supposed to be because

[00:45] they murdered somebody and it, you know,

[00:49] they didn't go when God was ready for

[00:50] them.

[00:52] >> Great question. So, uh, I get this

[00:54] question a lot. So, it does say do not

[00:56] murder. It does not say do not kill. So,

[00:58] those are two different Hebrew words,

[01:00] right? So, to murder is a completely

[01:03] different thing than to kill. For

[01:04] example, you're allowed to kill in

[01:05] self-defense. Somebody comes into your

[01:07] house, you are allowed to take that life

[01:09] if your life is being put into jeopardy.

[01:11] In fact, to go a step further, the

[01:13] reason why it made sense to ancient

[01:15] Israel, did you know that a life for a

[01:18] life, otherwise known as the death

[01:19] penalty, is the only law that is in all

[01:22] five books of the Torah? It's the only

[01:25] law, not even the Sabbath is in all five

[01:28] books of the Torah. Now, the Sabbath

[01:30] exists in Genesis, but it's not in all

[01:31] five books. So, this idea of taking a

[01:34] life, if you take a life, what is it

[01:36] rooted in? Why does it matter? Well,

[01:38] first of all, God is communicating to us

[01:40] the first thing. Taking human life is a

[01:42] major deal. That's God's first moral

[01:45] teaching in the Torah that it's not to

[01:47] be trivialized. Let me give you another

[01:49] example. Basic there's a there's a a law

[01:52] of the 613 laws of uh Judaism of which

[01:55] we are not bound to the civil the

[01:57] ceremonial law which is one of them that

[01:59] if an animal takes a human life, you

[02:02] must kill that animal.

[02:05] So it's like okay that's like why do

[02:06] that? Well, what what are you going to

[02:08] like have, you know, oh yeah, that's

[02:10] Lenny. He killed my uncle and you know

[02:11] his say hi. Like you're going to keep

[02:13] that animal around. The only punishment

[02:16] imaginable for taking the thing that

[02:18] only we are made in the image of God. So

[02:20] if you take another image bearer's life,

[02:22] what could possibly be a just punishment

[02:25] for that? Well, according to the economy

[02:27] of God is that you your life must also

[02:29] be taken. And according to um scriptural

[02:32] the theology, we are not taking that

[02:35] person's life. When you take another

[02:37] person's life, you already took your own

[02:38] life.

[02:38] >> That's right.

[02:39] >> I want you to think about that. If if if

[02:41] someone were to murder Alex or murder

[02:43] me, they already murdered themselves in

[02:46] that action. They already bestowed the

[02:48] punishment upon themselves, we are

[02:50] simply completing the task. And think

[02:52] about it, some people will say, "But

[02:54] Charlie, you know, it it's not fair

[02:58] because of whatever sob story liberal

[03:00] reason. How is it?" You know,

[03:03] >> and honestly, no. And I'll just close

[03:05] with it. I'll kind of finish with this,

[03:07] but you know who it's not fair to?

[03:10] >> It's not fair to the victims. You are

[03:12] cheapening the lives of the victims. You

[03:16] are basically saying the victims die and

[03:18] you get to live.

[03:20] >> So you get to continue to live even

[03:22] though you took the lives of others. So

[03:24] for example, I think it's fundamentally

[03:26] wrong that that creep who killed those

[03:28] four college kids in Moscow, Iowa,

[03:31] >> Burger,

[03:32] >> that he gets to keep living. So he kills

[03:35] four college kids and he keeps keeps on

[03:37] getting to have life

[03:39] >> and those people don't. In order to say

[03:42] that those people's lives mattered, the

[03:44] only just thing that we could reason

[03:46] ourselves to is to take that person's

[03:48] life. And that is not murder. That is

[03:51] killing. And it's societal self-defense.

[03:53] >> Hey, I agree with him. And I made sure

[03:56] to put the video link in the description

[03:58] so you can go and watch the whole event.

[04:01] Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk. And God

[04:03] bless and protect Charlie Kirk's family.

[04:06] God bless and protect you and your

[04:07] family. Catch you on the next one.

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