Human Events Senior Contributor Charlie Kirk suggested that freedom is not sustainable without Christianity. Without Christianity, he said, human beings would be reduced to their simply their senses and consciousnesses.
Kirk said that Christianity was the best possible belief system to combat the endless void of materialism.
“Freedom is not sustainable if you remove religion. I’ll be even more specific: Freedom is not sustainable if you remove Christianity.”
“Eventually, it will implode. Eventually, you will be ruled simply by your senses. You will be ruled simply by your consciousness.”
Kirk went on to say that the founding fathers created the structure of religious freedom, quoting John Adams, who said, “The Constitution was written solely for a moral and religious people. It [the Constitution] is totally inadequate for the people of any other.”
“Limited government is only possible when people are able to regulate their own decisions and conduct, particularly in religious communities, or having, at least, the church, or the worship of God as the centerpiece of your life.”
Kirk also addressed the concept of liberty, saying: “So this idea of liberty, the way that the founding fathers understood that liberty is not the traditional libertarian view of liberty that we’ve come to realize in America. It’s the ability to pursue virtue without somebody getting in the way. The necessity of virtue was fundamental to the American founding. Fifty-five out of the fifty-six of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Christians who regularly attended church. At least a dozen, Kirk, were pastors.”
Kirk made the recent remarks during a 20-minute segment with Kirk Cameron, an actor and children's book author who has toured the country giving readings of his book based in Christian morality and values.
They discussed the importance of practicing and protecting religion in the US, and what American Christians can be doing in the midst of a culture war that has placed many of Christianity’s long-held tenets on the back-burner in exchange for abortion activists, moral relativism, and the slow decay of women’s spaces amid the advent of the trans movement.
