So first of all Charlie thanks so much for coming on and talking to us today
What is the thing that motivates a young guy in his early 20s to start a movement?
Well I started it actually when I was 18 and I mean look
I'm a patriot at my core and I felt like we were losing our country
and I still do
and we live in the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world
No country or culture is even close and it takes people to rise up and
do something to save that Republic and if enough people do that then our
country has a fighting chance and that has what
really has compelled me since day one
And how did it go from just idea to movement?
The acronym CBWA
Conceive, Believe, Work, and Achieve
So you have an idea you believe in it you work towards it
then you achieve it
and the hardest part is not the idea
a lot of people have ideas
The belief is is the hardest part
The work is the part that you have to really commit yourself to
and then achievement is fine
So if you actually believe in yourself
It's a very very difficult thing to do
most people they'll say it but they actually don't do it
because you take a risk
when you believe in yourself
then you have to extend yourself and you might fail
and so you know we did that time and time again and we've seen amazing success
and you can see thousands and thousands of students from all 50 states
and six countries represented and it's only gonna go up from here
That's amazing and you mentioned faith and you gotta believe in yourself
How does your faith sort of shape what you do?
It's everything
I'm an evangelical Christian
The Bible is the greatest book ever written
and you and I were joking off-camera
about my conversation with a rabbi who doesn't believe in the Torah
that's amazing to me
but I don't know if he doesn't believe
and he doesn't, he thought it was the propaganda or some crazy thing
but it's everything and if we had more people of faith in this country
our country would be a better place
I have so much respect for people in the Jewish tradition
I really do
The reverence the commitment to law the understanding
of you know the strict teachings of the Torah
it's amazing and the world's a better place because of the Jewish people
You work a lot with young people
where do you see the trajectory of faith going among college students
college campuses
It's not good
The quickest growing religion in America is atheism
and atheism is a religion make no mistake
it's a false religion
but a religion has core beliefs
they have that
A religion proselytize its believers
they have that
and a religion tries to grow its ranks
they do too
I mean those are things all that atheists do
and there are more atheists than Christians
now on college campuses
it's very scary and we need more people in the
Judeo-christian tradition to revere faith
and if you have no faith
then what do you have?
and it just starts first of all with the faith that there's a higher being
that there's an omnipotent omniscient omnipresent God
something that Jews and the Christians equally share and look there would be no
Christianity without the Jews and that's what you know obviously the devout
evangelical Christians understand that that's why the fiercest defenders of
Israel are evangelical Christians right
and there's no greater ally than Israel
than you'll find in me or find in the Christian community
So you have people like Ben Shapiro who influenced a lot of young people
through political commentary
and Steven Crowder a lot of young people through comedy
and Jordan Peterson a lot of young people through psychology
what would it take for a religious leader to be able to instill religious values in
young people to the same extent
Ben is terrific Steven is great Jordan is a hero
they're all amazing and look just commitment to core values
The one thing that Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder and Jordan Peterson all have in common is
they don't back away from their core values or their beliefs
and I think that's so important
they don't compromise just because people get upset
and I think a lot of people can learn from that
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