Charlie Kirk on How Christianity Informs Politics and Why Biblical Principles Must Shape Western Civilization

[00:00] the Assumption was that Christianity was

[00:03] leveraged to legitimize American

[00:06] expansionism and now it's a sort of an

[00:08] extraordinary kind of

[00:11] anti-christianity that is used to I

[00:14] don't know as a kind of spearhead for

[00:17] nihilism for materialism for abandonment

[00:21] of all real values so I just wonder

[00:23] where you think Christianity becomes

[00:25] significant when forming a political

[00:27] opinion and how that relates to IDE

[00:28] fundamental principles like peace

[00:30] non-interventionism compassion love the

[00:33] simple rules of Christ love thy neighbor

[00:36] as you love thyself love God with all

[00:37] thy heart pretty basic and profound

[00:39] principles how do you think that those

[00:41] ideas uh ought inform

[00:45] politics I mean I think it it is the the

[00:48] biggest ingredient that informs our

[00:50] politics and and Russell I I watch a

[00:51] fair amount of your stuff I love your

[00:53] curiosity towards Christianity I I think

[00:55] it's I think it's awesome and I don't

[00:56] want to speak for you out of turn but um

[00:59] I'm I'm a ser Christian and um I I

[01:02] believe it it is the it is the way the

[01:04] truth and the life happy to talk more

[01:05] about that but from the the political

[01:07] side look uh the two things you

[01:09] mentioned uh you know Jesus Christ Our

[01:11] Lord said that all the laws of the

[01:13] prophets are upon these two things which

[01:15] is Leviticus 19 and Deuteronomy 6 3-5

[01:18] which is love your neighbor as yourself

[01:21] and then love the Lord your God their

[01:22] heart soul strength and mind and so

[01:25] let's just take Leviticus 19 which by

[01:27] the way is it's an amazing uh not very

[01:29] quoted or studied uh piece of the

[01:31] scriptures uh in that very same chapter

[01:34] by the way is also that you shall not

[01:35] favor a rich man or a poor man in a

[01:38] court of law that is right there where

[01:40] we get the idea of Western Blind Justice

[01:44] that you don't give the Wall Street

[01:46] Banker a break just because he

[01:48] bankrupted our economy in 2008 because

[01:50] he works for Goldman Sachs and that so

[01:53] that that that's that biblical principle

[01:55] we have forgotten in the last decade and

[01:58] a half we have one set of rules for the

[02:01] oligarchy and another set of rules for

[02:03] the commoner but look uh we we're

[02:06] entering this kind of era of new

[02:08] paganism in the west this idea of

[02:11] atheism or not believing in anything um

[02:14] is rubbish everybody believes in

[02:17] something everybody has Gods everybody

[02:19] has something they worship or something

[02:21] they prioritize uh in the new religion

[02:24] basically is some manifestation of

[02:27] pleasure first the trans agenda

[02:30] anti-racism you could call it a hyper

[02:33] environmental Earth worshipping agenda

[02:35] and I'm nothing against environmentalism

[02:37] but when it gets to the point of where

[02:39] the the worship of the earth is above

[02:42] Humanity I have some big moral problems

[02:44] with that and Christianity stands

[02:46] against these false gods uh in Genesis

[02:50] 1-11 the order and separation that we

[02:53] have enjoyed in the west were detailed

[02:55] the separation between man and woman

[02:57] good and evil holy and profane man and

[03:00] nature and that established order is

[03:03] necessary for human beings to flourish

[03:05] in my personal opinion The Establishment

[03:08] is doing a very good job of destroying

[03:12] both that order and separation that

[03:14] we're living through I believe there's a

[03:15] spiritual element to this I believe it

[03:17] comes from the Demonic um where they do

[03:20] not want you to have this the

[03:22] distinctions of male and female

[03:24] recognizable anymore the distinctions of

[03:27] Good and Evil recognizable anymore the

[03:29] distinctions Nations anymore and dare I

[03:32] say if you do not have distinctions then

[03:34] you have this very confusing Oneness and

[03:39] distinctions I think are what makes life

[03:40] exciting in fact isn't that what they're

[03:42] always telling us diversity is our

[03:44] strength they don't believe in that uh

[03:46] they they do not believe in things that

[03:49] must be separate must be separate and so

[03:51] in Christianity we believe that all of

[03:54] life points you towards a recognition

[03:56] that you are born a sinner that you are

[03:59] not perfect that you're far from perfect

[04:01] from the glory of God and that God God

[04:03] in the Incarnation took human flesh and

[04:07] that we must accept Christ Our Lord uh

[04:09] and in that moment you are born new and

[04:11] transformed permanently and um

[04:14] eventually enter into eternal life that

[04:16] ethic that kind of normative Christian

[04:18] theology um is what largely built the

[04:21] West which I am a daily uh daily

[04:24] involved in trying to keep the west from

[04:27] uh committing suicide and I hope we can

[04:29] have a restoration of those values those

[04:31] ethics and those principles um because I

[04:33] believe it is the truth that's very

[04:35] there's some things in there with which

[04:37] I strongly agree and I I wonder

[04:39] sometimes about how ideas like you know

[04:41] Render unto God what is gods and unto

[04:44] Caesar what is Caesar are utilized to

[04:47] facilitate the kind of aspects of

[04:50] imperialism Charlie which are not great

[04:53] you know like Western Civilization many

[04:55] of its philosophies its art the

[04:57] Renaissance there are so many things

[04:58] that are incredibly abuseful

[05:00] uh certainly in theory but there is no

[05:03] question that it has led us

[05:07] here not because of its inclusion of

[05:09] Christian values but because it has

[05:12] disavowed them legitimized them

[05:14] metastasized and metabolize them uh in

[05:17] order to create false Idols which like

[05:20] you know were evident in the 1980s the

[05:22] 1970s the 196s and they're yet more

[05:24] evident now in fact I would see us as

[05:26] being on a kind of Continuum rather than

[05:29] you know the last 10 years representing

[05:31] a particular aberration uh so that's one

[05:35] thing that uh I feel you know we could

[05:38] uh address if we had time but I'd love

[05:40] to I know that you've got show in a

[05:41] minute mate your your team has told us

[05:44] and I'd love to just uh so for a moment

[05:46] cover exactly what you feel uh your what

[05:49] your personal connection to Christ

[05:53] is oh I mean I'm nothing without Jesus

[05:57] I'm a sinner I fall incredibly short of

[05:59] the glory of God we all do I gave my

[06:01] life to the Lord in fifth grade and it's

[06:04] the most important decision I've ever

[06:05] made and everything I do incorporates

[06:09] Jesus Christ he is the Living God and I

[06:12] know for some people it might sound

[06:13] goofy or wacky but what makes

[06:16] Christianity different and I respect all

[06:18] different views but Christianity is not

[06:20] like all the religions as I mentioned

[06:22] it's the idea of the Divine and the

[06:24] logos becoming flesh and in John 3 Jesus

[06:28] says You must go through another birth

[06:31] he's talking to Nicodemus at this time

[06:33] that you must be born again so when you

[06:35] accept Christ the Greek word is

[06:38] metamorphosis basically you completely

[06:40] change and I could tell you Russell even

[06:43] if I'm having a bad day I still have the

[06:45] joy of Christ even if I'm having you

[06:48] know a difficult time I'm born new and

[06:52] you know the scriptures tell us that

[06:55] this is the greatest love story ever

[06:58] because the only explanation for why the

[07:00] Eternal would come down to the temporal

[07:03] to the broken to the flawed and to the

[07:05] dirty is out of love and the I don't the

[07:09] the word love in English is incomplete

[07:11] the Greeks had many words for love uh

[07:13] for example fileo Brotherly Love Aeros

[07:16] romantic love stor love between um a a

[07:20] mother and a child or a father and a

[07:22] child but the word love for Christ in

[07:25] John 3:16 is that Agape it is

[07:28] sacrificial love it is the love of one

[07:31] that would die for you and so Christ Our

[07:34] Lord came down lived a perfect life died

[07:37] a brutal death defeated death on the

[07:40] cross and in the grave to live against

[07:42] that we might have life eternal and I

[07:46] have a joy that doesn't doesn't get

[07:48] muted that keeps me going it is my why

[07:52] and I hope I can bring that light to as

[07:54] many people as possible and it is it is

[07:58] the the most important component of my

[08:01] existence and I'm blown away just to be

[08:03] able to say that God loved me enough to

[08:05] send himself his son to die for us so

[08:08] that I might live let's go out on John

[08:12] uh three starting from five Jesus

[08:15] answered verily verily I say unto thee

[08:16] except a man be born of water and of the

[08:18] spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of

[08:20] God that which is born of the flesh is

[08:21] flesh and that which is born of the

[08:23] spirit his Spirit Marvel not that I said

[08:25] unto thee ye must be born again the wind

[08:27] bloweth where it listeth and thou

[08:30] hearest the sound thereof but cannot

[08:31] tell where it whence it came and whether

[08:34] it goeth so is everyone that is born of

[08:36] the spirit then over the page 16 as

[08:39] verse 16 that you cited for God so loved

[08:41] the world that he gave his only begotten

[08:43] son that whosoever believeth in him

[08:45] should not perish but have everlasting

[08:47] life Charlie that's a great way for us

[08:49] to wrap up our conversation it was good

[08:52] for us to focus on the many areas that

[08:54] we agree and find new ways that we might

[08:56] form new confederacies to oppose this

[08:59] Neo liberal establishment power that

[09:01] tyrannizes us all would love to have

[09:03] covered that some of that demonic stuff

[09:05] you touched upon but surely we will

[09:07] speak again and meet again Charlie thank

[09:08] you for your support and uh thank you

[09:11] for this conversation God bless you too

[09:12] man thank you