The Charlie Kirk Show - Remembering Rush Five Years On + The Shape of Christian Revival

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

Rush Limbaugh passed away five years ago, so the shows opens with a discussion of his and Charlie's relationship and how the radio legend inspired Charlie's own style. Then, they turn to the latest transgender mass shooting incident, this time in Rhode Island, and then talk to Riley Gaines about the latest evidence of a faith-based revival. What does it mean that men are more pious than women now, and that the more-educated are actually more likely to attend weekly services now than others?   Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers. All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. It's February 17, 26. Blake, how are you? How are we doing? Well, I mean, there's a lot of sad things in the world.

There's a lot of sad things in the world. I'm still not over Robert Duvall yesterday. I actually went back and watched a bunch of clips on YouTube last night. And obviously there is the newest trans shooting that came out of Rhode Island this time. We're going to unpack that. We also have Riley Gaines. joining the show halfway through the hour. Then we're going to turn our attention to Prop 4 in Utah.

Got updates there. We made it across the finish line, at least we hope, in the gerrymandering prop 4 story. Then we got Mike Davis in the second half of hour, too. But first, I want to pay homage to the Great Rush Limbaugh. It is the five-year anniversary of Rush's passing. It is five months since we last Charlie. and Charlie loved Rush. Charlie often on this show would remember Rush and would pay tribute to Rush. And Rush and Charlie were dear friends. Actually, Charlie said on this show after Rush's passing that Rush Limbaugh became a seven-figure donor to the organization. He did it privately and quietly. That was the stipulation. And upon Rush's passing, Catherine, Rush's widow gave Charlie permission.

to reveal that, make that public as Charlie wanted to honor Rush Limbaugh in a very special way. And so I wanted to play just quickly here at the outset a clip from Rush Limbaugh describing the first time that he met Charlie Kirk. 375. I don't want to jinx him. But I'm just going to tell you, they brought Charlie Kirk to the golf course to meet me about a month ago. He was in town to set up this turning point thing. and I spoke with him for about a half hour. This is the kind of guy

that you can see really becoming big in politics as he gets older. He just has the carriage, the personality, the charisma. You may think this sounds weird, but I remember when Bill Clinton became president. People were saying that they just knew

Bill Clinton was going to be president someday. In college, he just had that kind of ambition and he impressed people in a way that he could tell you the people saying the same things about charlie kirk did charlie ever actually golf that's such a god i thought so charlie hated golf that was one of our great similarities he thought it was a waste of time he thought men should be spending more time with their families that is such a charlie thing he'd be like this takes four like what four hours to do i mean you could go you could do it in two maybe if it wasn't that a crowd of of a course but still it is a time consuming you really would you

get why Charlie liked college football and it was because you could watch it while doing other things like running Amfest. Yeah, exactly. As I was saying. Have it on in the, yeah, and if you're so often, he'd stop, look at the screen, a play would happen, then he'd move on. That was Charlie's idea. Remember during the World Cup and he was watching on his phone in the middle of segments on the show and he would get distracted while doing the segment? Yeah, well, Rush was, I'll, I'll never forget when we started this show and Charlie said that, you know, he, he aspired to be more like Rush Limbaugh, and that that was sort of a northern star for Charlie. And then obviously that picture that you see on screen was Rush Limbaugh at one of our events.

We honored Rush with an award down in Palm Beach. And then Rush got to introduce President Trump at one of our student action summits as well. And Charlie went and picked him up, picked Rush up. They drove in the car back together and had a really long talk. And I just remember being very jealous. I didn't get invited to go along with Charlie to go pick up. rush. But Charlie told me all about it and said how amazing it was. As you say, he modeled himself on it. And that was one of Charlie's great strengths is he had, you know, we had so many mentors. He had so many models. And he had no shame. His way of his way of attacking so many issues was, okay, well, what does the best person at this do? And I'll just copy them. And so that's why you would see funny aspects of this. Like he'd always call him Barack Hussein Obama because Limpal called him Barack Hussein Obama when he was listening to her in high school. Yeah, I think Lady Graham is also. Yeah. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was. He have the same nicknames as Rush because Rush was one of the best at it. Why wouldn't he copy him?

Yep. And, well, so here's to you, Rush Limbaugh. You are still the goat, the greatest to ever do it. Five years on, we miss Rush Limbaugh in this movement. And now with Charlie gone, we miss Charlie so much from this movement. And there will never be another like either of them. And so we pay tribute to the passing of Rush and the passion of Charlie at the same time. Two great friends, two great Patriots. it's titans of their generations and we miss them dearly. He didn't get to be president, but he got to be a prophet and a martyr, which are greater things. Yeah, and he helped elect a president. And so there we are.

Story one in the in the can, as it were. We want to turn our attention to what happened in Rhode Island. This is a terrible story at a youth hockey tournament where a trans shooter turns out to be the father, Robert Dorgan. He was born a male. Also went by Roberta Esposito. That's the new euphemism that they've been using in articles. He was a person who used two different names. That's a new euphemism. And I think, you know, we, well, listen, let's just play the clip, 321. As far as the suspect, can you confirm whether the subject's a male, female, is a transgender person? Is that something that he has in terms of information? So what I can say right now that we have identified the person that's asked by a birth name. The birth name was Robert Dorgan. We have also learned that the person does go by the name of Roberta.

Robert Roberta. What's the difference? It was even weirder because it's Dorgan, but then apparently went by Roberta Esposito. So possibly, I mean, obviously a clearly unwell person. And the daughter confirms it. Yes. So 322. My father was a shooter.

What was the reasoning? Was there a family argument? He has mental health issues. So, yes, she goes on to describe those mental health issues a little bit more. She says that he had been struggling with mental health for quite some time. She said, quote, he was very sick. So this is a little different. We wanted to talk about this, of course.

It's horrifying, but we've really been, we've, just last week, we were saying, there have been a wave of transgenderism-related shootings, and we said there is likely to be more. His is a little different from some of the other ones we've seen because it wasn't a young person who was diverted into this when they were unwell in high school. It seems like it was more of a midlife crisis type thing, which is another type, but that's a threat as well.

No, I mean, so we have images of this guy, I mean, obviously unwell. You know, Roberta, this is posting pictures of nails. If you can put that up, guys, the nails, like, you know, cosplaying as a woman, wearing tank tops like a woman, blue hair. I mean, this is, this is, you know, you can feel this. Like, Andy Noe posted this image of this gentleman, I guess, you know, bearing his backside.

Something was off here. Well, I mean, the most dreadful thing was just the day before someone said, Tim McBride, a trans person in Congress, is a man. And he said, keep bashing us, but do not wonder why we go berserk. Yeah, I was responding to a Kevin Sorbo tweet. If you're like me and are tired of random stuff getting thrown into your supplements, like artificial colors and sugars, you probably would love to learn more about phyto-nutrition. Phytonutrients are the naturally occurring plant.

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there's a graphic right up there's big news story and i love this because it kind of drafts off the last story and i'll explain why you saw this guy uh robert dougan another trans shooter did you know that four out of ten liberal young gen z liberal liberal liberal w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w women are also that are religiously unaffiliated. So four out of ten are religiously unaffiliated. Four out of ten also are LGBT. That's, again, this is Gen Z. That's quite the lineup. That's Gen Z young Gen Z women that are liberals, progressive. Four out of ten, LGBTQ, four out of ten religiously unaffiliated. But here's what's great. Young men are flocking back to the churches, but they're not flocking back to mainline denominations. They're not. They're not. They're

not flocking back to weak watered down professions of the Christian faith. They want the high octane. No one has ever like excitedly posted. I am I'm excited to announce that I have been baptized into, you know, the evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Sorry, my dad's XCLCA. I got to dunk on them. So, but this is what's, this is what's fascinating. So they document a new report from Chapman Center and demographics and policy. But the first time in decades, Pew Research notes that in the U.S. at least, Christianity has stopped its nose dive as more people begin to see the efficacy and the rewards of religious faith and practice. So where are they going? They are returning to Orthodox faith, Christian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox. Those churches

are booming, like almost 100% increase in New converts. Catholic churches, conservative Catholic churches are booming. Conservative Protestant churches are booming. Charismatic churches are booming. Charismatic churches are booming. Those are all like high octane, give it to me straight. The most interesting part to me is that highly educated subset because we should be frank. Charlie saw evidence of revival. We've seen evidence of revival. But at like the big picture, it's not necessarily showing up in Poland. It's that the decline has stopped. And yet if you talk to people, if you're in D.C., if you're in, for example, like organized conservative circles, everyone can see that there is some, there's like this revival.

but young people are joining in. They're showing up a lot more. People see it on the ground. And what I think you're seeing is you're seeing a big preference shift among the biggest kind of the cultural influencers, things that go downstream. So if this was 20 years ago, you'd be saying, all the highly educated are bailing on religion. And then that percolates downstream.

It's actually kind of like the trans epidemic. That started with a few elites. And then now we're seeing it spread everywhere else. Well, we can see it in 392. Here's the graph. Weekly religious attendance by education. Graduate degrees are actually the most likely to attend every week. Bachelor's degree, just slightly below. Associates degree. The lowest are high school graduates, which is fascinating. Yeah, it's almost like, and you see this with a lot of scientists too. A lot of scientists have found faith. A lot of, you know, the guy who cracked the human genome, devout Christian. So this, this. This, this. This. This. It doesn't surprise me in the one sense because the Gospels and the scriptures are as deep and as wide and as complex as you can go. You can take it at a 101 level, which is deeply profound, certainly. But the deeper you go into scriptures, the more tie-ins, the more parallels, the more the richness just expands and explodes. The deeper you're willing to go with it.

And I think there's so much, there's such rising awareness of just, I remember 20 years ago, so much, because people had grown up in such a culturally Christian environment that it could all be thrown away. It was like irrelevant. It was old fashioned. You know, we can use reason to do all these things. And the past 20 years have seen that total vindication of how important faith is as the scaffolding for life to make, to keep everything from going to hell, basically. Well, I think there was a, I think people took it for granted that the culture was sort of stable and roughly approximately Christian. And therefore, if you didn't participate in a weekly service, for example, you would still go out into the world and it would still feel approximately Christian because all of society is blessed by the Christian faith.

All of Western society is blessed by the Christian faith. And now people have seen families descent. It's like families disintegration. They're seeing actually it is you kind of need that like I said that faith scaffolding to really flourish to the maximum of your abilities in many cases. And I think for a lot of people that's the kernel of well if it's so much better to have faith. I think that especially among the highly educated helps lead that process to. Well, then might it be true, actually? And then I think that takes a lot of people into actual conversion.

I think that's a story I've seen play out many times. 100%. And we are going to hit the CNN doc hard. There's a new piece that CNN just released this morning attacking the Charlie Kirk Memorial as sort of ground zero of Christian nationalism rising up. By the way, as if that was a bad thing. If that gets to be a ground zero for any revival, then God bless that. memorial and we'll wear that with honor yeah 100% and by the way our society detached from the

christian faith is like a flower in a vase it might look beautiful for a short time but if it's disconnected from the roots it will die it will wither and the same is true for the american culture for western civilization writ large that if we do not reestablish a connection with the root the tree will wither the fruit will be bad so we need our faith. So this is one of the most important positive signs that you could see in the news today, that young people, especially young men, because I believe young women will follow, young men going back to church, wanting to get married, wanting to have families, wanting to build a life of purpose is one of the truly most positive signs that you could see in any news clipping across the landscape of the

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it is, that this is an epidemic of transviolence. I wanted to get your opinion on this of how we even got here. You know, I said, I joked with you, Riley. I said, you're not a doctor, but you know, you've been studying this issue. Your response was beautiful. So maybe let's start there. Yeah. Well, when we were talking on the phone today, you did. You said, you're not a doctor. and I said, well, Andrew, you don't have to be a doctor to understand, number one, the basis of the issue, right? Gender ideology as a whole, the harm that it's causing, the destruction that it's causing. And now what we've seen, the death, literal, I mean, how innocent lives are being prematurely taken from this planet. Charlie Kirk being one of those, we saw in Nashville, my backyard, were three little nine-year-olds, I think three adults as well.

In that scenario, we saw obviously what happened in Canada, what happened in Minneapolis, and just in Rhode Island this week, this is a very destructive mental illness disease. As you said, epidemic, social epidemic and contagion that is infecting, plaguing society. You don't have to be a doctor to speak to this. And you ask why, right, which is the million dollar question. But I think pretty plainly, pretty simply, and at least how I understand, I think there's a couple routes you could go here. But I think what would resonate with most people is the problem, this is the problem with the affirmation model that we have been seen being used, whether it's the medicalization side of things, whether it's the respecting pronouns. This is the problem because think about what we are

affirming. By being accepting and affirming of this, we are really only deepening the eventual damage that is lurking underneath the surface. And I say underneath the surface because when we're talking about this demographic, oftentimes these are people with underlying conditions such as depression, anxiety, other personality or mood disorders. And those aren't the things that are being treated by these doctors or surgeons or healthcare professionals or therapists. No, they're being affirmed to believe that they were correct to feel as if they're born wrong.

And that's a horrible message that anyone, of course children, but even adults for that matter, that's the message that they're receiving is that they're correct to feel as if they're born wrong. So it's a really horrible, horrible thing. prayers to the family of the victims. And I think it just leads with the question of, you know, how many more times do we have to see this? What has to be done? What is the answer? I can tell you what the answer is not. The answer is not gun control, because guess what? In Canada and in Rhode Island, where both of these atrocities in the past week took place, there are already strict gun laws.

Okay? So gun control, that would not have worked because criminals, they don't trouble themselves with the laws. why by enforcing gun laws, really what you're doing is keeping the guns out of hands of good people who could prevent these tragedies. So horrible. Rule Riley, yeah, and you said the family of the victims, that's his family. So he killed his son, his son was a senior in high school and the mother of his son. And I said, wow, at one point when you were talking, because you basically verbatim took a line of Charlie's from 2023 after another one of these incidents had happened. I'm going to go ahead and play that clip, 378. Trans people have been made into kind of the sacred cow of American politics.

You can't question it. You can't criticize it. And they believe they can threaten whoever they want. This is the ultimate top of the impression Olympics. How many dead kids is it going to take for us to say, we've probably gone too far here and we should just ask a couple questions? How many mass shootings have to happen where we probably say, wait a second, you know, can we just calm down? Yeah, you ask the same question. How many of these incidents is it going to take before we say the most mentally unstable, unwell, upset, bitter, whatever the diagnosis is, how many incidents is it going to take before we stop pouring SSRIs down these people? How many hormone replacement therapies, this cocktail of drugs that we are giving the most unstable people in our society?

Yeah. First, let me just say it's so hard to listen to a video. Charlie Kirk. Honestly, I don't know. I know some people have found comfort in watching clips of his, but I really haven't. It's been really, like, difficult to listen, and especially this clip and listening to him speak to what would ultimately and prematurely take his life. What just say a really horrible thing. But yeah, and talking about the SSRIs, I think that's another reason why we haven't seen, especially those who call themselves health care professionals really question administering synthetic and unnatural chemicals and substances to those who identify as trans

because it opens it, it opens the door for broader questions to those SSRIs, SNRIs, you know, antidepressant medication that are overly diagnosed and overly prescribed. Now, that is not me saying that antidepressants aren't useful and beneficial for some people, but they are being prescribed at an alarming rate, especially to people among my generation. And when you look at things and going back to talking about administering these chemicals and hormones to minors or adults for that matter, when you look at the effects of something like testosterone, what that has, increased impulsivity, increased aggression, short temper. It really only magnifies the issues that are there as opposed to creating new ones or diminishing them.

it magnifies those underlying things. So again, when you're talking about, which is a commonality, someone with underlying mood disorders such as OCDs, such as bipolar disorder or ADHD or ADHD, whatever it is, depression, anxiety, that's what's being magnified here. And again, I think a large part of why we're seeing so many horrible tragedies committed. Yeah, and you asked a question earlier. He said, what is the solution? Well, we know the solution isn't to affirm a disease and say, yes, you can have more and more of your own disease, your own situation. Now, adults are going to choose what they're going to choose. We do have freedom in this country. They're going to choose what they're going to choose. But one of the

storylines that we saw this morning that I think is tied into this when we talk about solutions is the rise in faith. And it's not, this is not the kids are not flocking back to watered down Christianity. They're flocking back to the old, the good, the true, those face that have stood the test of time for millennia. And the Protestant churches may be newer, but that are preaching a strong gospel, a masculine gospel, a, you know, just straightforward,

unapologetic gospel of Jesus Christ. That, I believe, is what you're starting to see in culture as this pushback to this destabilization, this societal anarchy that we're seeing. And maybe speak to that, Riley, because you're Christian, you're seeing this with young people that you speak to, what is the mechanism? Why are people flocking back to the faith, especially young people?

Well, I think when when analyzing religion, and I'll just speak pretty personally here, I feel a total sense of serenity and calmness and security and confidence in the stance that I've taken despite the constant attacks or death threats that are hurled my way. And honestly, Charlie was this way too. And I think that was very evident in how he conducted himself, how he he's still willing to go out there knowing that threats existed, it's because he knew that what he was fighting for was the hope and the promise of eternal life. That is the only place you will ever find satisfaction. And I think oftentimes, especially when dissecting gender ideology,

these people are desperately looking for their identity. They're looking for a place to find that identity. Well, I know as a Christian that the only place that you will find pure and total satisfaction is in placing your identity in Christ. And I think a lot of more, a lot of young people are becoming to understand that. They're realizing this. And in that, you're seeing a shift back to developing that relationship with Christ, seeking salvation. And a large part of that is, is the legacy that Charlie Kirk left. And honestly, like, I hate talking about it like this because it seems as if, you know, in speaking of the good things that happened following Charlie's death, selfishly, like I'd rather him still be here. But it was one of the, the, the concept. that we saw, this revival, especially of young people, going to church that Sunday after Charlie Kirk's assassination, I mean, there was no empty seat. People felt a conviction, a calling to go back to open their Bible, to maybe buy a Bible for the first time in their life. That's a really special thing. And it's, again, it's the kind of life that Charlie Kirk lived. So we're seeing

a lot of inspiration in that, I think, especially in my generation. Yeah, well said. And I'm with you. to be honest, it's hard for me to watch Charlie Clips. You know, the team and the audience, I know that it means a lot to people out there to see them. But for me, it doesn't get easier. So I'm with you. Riley Gaines, thank you so much for coming. You are uniquely positioned to talk about this issue.

So God bless you. Keep safe. And we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks for everything you're doing out there too with our students. You're doing a great job. Yeah, of course. Thank you, too. Hi, folks.

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their old tricks. So Blake, CNN is doing a special, like, documentary piece on the rise of Christian nationalism. Oh, boy, they're, they're, they're, they're bitten that lobby horse again. There have, yeah, there have been multiple storylines that feel like I'm, I'm like in 2021 again, like over and over and over. Twenty three, I think was the peak where they were really, they were really emphasizing that Christian nationalism was going to be the, the, the, the, threat de jour of 2024. But, like, for real, what is wrong with Christians, uh, loving their country, being involved in politics. Isn't that how America was founded? Yeah,

I mean, it's that classic thing where Antifa will post, you know, these World War II, like Antifa in World War II, and they would have, they would all consider their great-grandfathers like the worst fascist imaginable. Of course. Every view they hold. Yeah, and so the same thing. You're a Christian nationalist if you believe anything that 90% of Americans

believe from 1776 to 1970. Consider this. So CNN does a piece, Pamela Brown, who I know, talking about the radicalization of people at Charlie's memorial because Charlie was assassinated by a radical by as we talked about with Riley somebody that was animated at least in part by his love affair with somebody that was trans and instead of burning down the country like the real radicals did we held

vigils and memorials and people bought bibles and they got baptized how is that a bad thing What are we even talking about here? So let me play the clip, 384. And if you don't get as ticked off as I do watching this, I don't know. This is just really infuriating stuff, 384. Memorial Service was one of the most potent examples of this shift in our culture that we're experiencing right now. Where a large segment of American Christians are being activated by these ideas radicalized by these ideas. that say that they are the persecuted ones

and that they need to stand up for Christians' rights. Well, you know, Charlie did get assassinated. You do realize that. Whoever this guy is, what's his name? He deserves to be made a little bit famous for being an idiot. I refuse to know the names of CNN personnel. So we have a nation that was founded by Christians, inspired by quite fanatical Christians.

anything. By the way, the only true form of Christianity is radical Christianity. There is Bible verses talking about if you're a lukewarm Christian, you will be spit out. And it's one of those books Charlie liked, Tom Holland's Dominion, that we, because we swim in the ocean of Christianity, even if you're not religious, actually, we don't recognize how fundamentally radical Christianity was from its very beginnings. that it totally remade the moral order of the Roman Empire, of the other Europeans that converted to it, of the Middle Easterers who converted to it, that everyone who ran into Christianity in the first century, the second century, the third century,

for the first time, they're thinking, what in the world is this? It has to be a radical faith. It is not a faith that is just going with your completely innate, passive impulses that prevailed everywhere around the world before it came along. Well, and this is the point. point. I mean, you look at what we talked about with the rise of Gen Z men going to church. They're going

to the ancient churches that have not bent the knee to the zeitgeist of the cultural, culture of the day. They're going with things that are proudly and unapologetically preaching the full gospel, the full weight of it. You know, they don't want a weak watered down preaching style. They don't want that. That's exactly what the world offers. They don't want pseudo-social sciences with a pew. That's what the world offers. They, want radical Christianity that's boldly standing up for the principles of Jesus Christ and his death on the cross risen from the dead on the third day appearing before the apostles and then 500 and then 5,000 that's what they want they want the full thing and they want people inspired by

that faith to march into the public square and to build a world that looks more like the kingdom of God that is the Christian faith let's go to the clip Charlie, 395. John Adams seamlessly said the Constitution was only written for a moral and religious people. It was wholly inadequate for the people of any other. The body politic of America was so Christian and was so Protestant that our form and structure of government was built for the people that believed in Christ our Lord. One of the reasons we're living through a constitutional crisis

is that we no longer have a Christian nation, but we have a Christian form of government, and they're incompatible. So you cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population. Our little thing that we are discussing has made its way to Fox News. 394. Young men report feeling culturally dislocated or villainized by progressive secular discourse regarding masculinity. Traditional forms of Christianity, particularly Catholicism, and orthodoxy offer a narrative of responsibility, sacrifice, and hierarchy that appeals to men seeking a defined role in a fluid world. Now, the report also breaks down weekly religious attendance by education level, and those with postgraduate degrees are at 30 percent.

with bachelor's degrees, 28%. Emily, to add to this a little bit, okay, it's a worldwide phenomenon, 45% increase in the number of people baptized in France. In the UK, they have seen 18 to 24-year-olds jump from 4% believers in attending church in 2018 to 16%. But I love this.

Most of this growth is concentrated among Catholics and Pentecostals. A shout out to my evangelical crowd there. 4% is what it bottomed out in the UK, that. Well, but what's crazy is that they, you know, they're talking about how young men specifically feel alienated by a progressive discourse. If you show that Yahoo again, just give me this picture of this guy with his glasses saying they're being radicalized, stand up for their Christian faith. Well, what do you think is going to happen when you target pro-lifers that are preying outside of abortion clinic?

What do you think's going to happen when you spy on Catholics? This is what young men feel alienated by. That's a Karen with a beard right there, talking about the rise of Christian. nationalism. The rise of Christian nationalism is why we didn't burn down cities when Charlie was killed. What are they complaining about? What would you want in its place? A bunch of Antifa thugs marching in the streets throwing Molotov cocktails? What would you want in its place? More targets looted? More buildings burned? Mangione's going around shooting the head of United Health Care. Is that what you really want? I just don't understand what they're so upset about. This country is a Christian nation

was founded by Christians, as Charlie said. And guess what? Western civilization is defined by one through line. Christianity. You are blessed by Christianity, CNN. You are blessed by the fact that Christians are still driven to lead purposeful lives and get into politics, to get into business, to have families. If they don't like Christian nationalism, they are not going to like whatever comes Islamic nationalism. Is that what you want? I don't think you want that. All right. So we actually have a clip of Charlie being called a Christian nationalist by a student during a prove-me-wrong debate. Let's go ahead and play cut. Do we have the number 404? Christian nationalism, I do not agree with at all. I think it's antithetical to the values of the early church. and I think how do you reconcile

the, especially white Christians in this America, marrying politics and power with their faith in this country? There's a lot there. I've never described myself as a Christian nationalist, so I'm a Christian and a nationalist, so I've never used those two days. And then right there, that and nationalist, where in the scriptures does a Christian...

Thank you, Jeremiah 297, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare. Beautiful answer. It's true. We are called to support the nation state. It was God that defined the boundary lines of the nations and, you know, render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, render under God, what is God. I mean, there's, God loves order. And this is, you know, a lot of these people that don't believe in, you know, being proudly nationalistic or patriotic. I see them as basically bleeding into the same concept. What the left wants to do is create a boogeyman that never existed until they sort of invented the term. And then they use it as a. a cudgel to try and scare you and make you distance yourself from it. Well, listen, we're Christians and we love our nation. It's not much more to it than that. Simple as. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.