Someone called in today on the radio show and was spouting nonsense. Another listener said this person is who we used to call a "bleeding heart liberal." Where did that term come from? Once I learned its origin, I think it's something we should reclaim as our own.

Open politics by faith, rights and by the patriot gold. Guy called in today on the SiriusXM show. An independent who's from California and is moving back to California. Not independent at all, but likes to think of himself as an independent because it makes me feel very special. I'm my own man. I think with my own brain. I'm not a part of any team. I'm not a part of any cult. I'm an independent. Come woo me."

Yet he votes Democrat on every single issue. I think a lot of people say they're independent because it makes them feel special and sought after and prized. And I'm very important. I decide the election. So come regale me, impress me, dance monkey, woo me with your wares.

So I asked him about some issues and I asked him about open borders and he said, well, I'm for open borders. I said, why? He said, because I'm brown. That's interesting. Very independent when it comes to politics.

But policy, well, I'm brown. So I have to agree with all the other brown people? Or at least what all the other brown people are supposed to think on this issue because I'm brown too? Political parties? No, I'm my own man. I think with my brain. Okay, what do you think about open borders? Well, my skin says... Very interesting contrast. It's a very interesting call. Someone later called in and said, oh, what that gentleman was is what we used to call a bleeding heart liberal.

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Very interesting word, bleeding heart liberal. It's been a while since I've heard that term, right? Have you heard that recently? It's actually been around a very long time. It became a political word in the 1930s, but then it really popped up again in the 50s and it was since the 1930s an insult.

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I think an accurate representation of this word is that it's someone who thinks or at least says that they care so much about people, but it makes them blind to reality. Makes them not even care if they're actually helping people or not anyway, but they just feel good about it. I think that's right. This person was a bleeding heart liberal.

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A lot of people still fall for that. This idea, been around for a while now, that it's the Democrats who are the ones who who care about people and it's the mean old Republicans who just don't care about people. It's so ridiculous. Hillary spoke a bit about this in her speech. She said, the Constitution says that the president's job is to take care. Kamala cares, cares about kids and families,

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cares about America. Donald only cares about himself.

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Her switcheroo with the word cares there is really good.

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When our founders wrote take care, they meant like you're in charge, like the president's in charge of these things. It didn't mean the president is supposed to care. Oh, he's supposed to love and be generous and take care of children and families.

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That's not what they meant by take care when they said that. Take care meant to be in charge of, but you see the idea here is like, oh, we're the Democrats, we're the ones who actually care about children. By the way, there's an abortion, a mobile abortion van

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just outside the convention center. You can pop a couple of pills and kill the baby that's inside of you right now. That's how much they care about the children. Let's put politics aside here and also let's put away everything we know about the term bleeding heart in a political sense.

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That's the only time I ever think about it. Bleeding heart, bleeding heart liberal. It's like an insult. It's supposed to be a demeaning thing. But what's the real root of that word. It didn't used to be like a cynical, negative thing. In 1862, the governor of North Carolina, he

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gave a speech, he said, I come to you with a bleeding heart, honest and sincere motives, desiring to give you some plain thoughts. So it's a good thing is I'm pouring my heart out the bleeding heart, I'm being genuine. But let's go even before that. That was 1862. Let's go to 1793. There's a guy, William Carey, who led a group of missionaries to India to spread the gospel.

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And in 1805, there was a group of nine men who signed a document which outlined their eleven principles of the mission work that they were engaged in. Serampore is the town of India there, the Serampore form of agreement. Article one. In order to be prepared for our great and solemn work of spreading the gospel. It is absolutely necessary that we set an infinite value upon immortal souls.

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So I was thinking about all the abortion talk that they've had at the convention already on day one. That we set an infinite value upon immortal souls, that we often endeavor to affect our minds with the dreadful loss sustained by an unconverted soul launched into eternity.

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If we have not this awful sense of the value of souls, it is impossible that we can feel a right in any other part of our work. Wow, that's amazing. If only we all had that view. That's just beautiful.

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That's Article One. To be focused on the immortal soul and to be pained by the idea of an unconverted soul launched into eternity. Article Four.

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Life is short. All around us are perishing. And we incur a dreadful woe if we proclaim not the glad tidings of salvation. Oh, may our hearts bleed over these poor idolaters, and may their case lie with continued weight upon our minds. That's the true meaning of the bleeding heart.

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It's mourning over the brokenness of the world and of lost souls. It's not getting angry at people. We don't fight against flesh and blood. It's mourning, having a broken heart, a bleeding heart, our pain for people unsaved and living a lost life. Let's try to get back to that attitude. Let's try to get back to the true bleeding heart, not in a cynical way, but in a truly spiritual, blessed are those who mourn way. The end of this

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document says, may we resolve ourselves with the help of the Holy Spirit to give ourselves up unreservedly to this glorious cause. Let us never think that our time, our gifts, our strengths, our families, or even the clothes we wear are our own. Let us sanctify them all to God and His cause. Oh that He may sanctify us for His work. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript and no commercials. Transcript and no commercials. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

I have a test and a challenge this week. If, when you see a clip of the Convention and feel anxious or angry, if we can all do this one thing, we will be so much better off.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. I have a test and a challenge this week. We have the Democrat National Convention happening Monday, today through Thursday. Don't get too stressed about it. Actually, let me go over the schedule here real quick so you know what to look forward to.

Tonight, Jill, Dr. Jill, to you and Joe Biden will speak, along with Hillary Clinton. Mmm, the history that could have been on tuesday big mike and brock obama are gonna be speaking along with the second gentleman doug and more that's common uh... when they

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a fight for our freedoms about abortion uh... tim walz will be speaking along with the bill clinton nancy pelosi and pete budaj edge Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Pete Buttigieg. And then on Thursday is For Our Future. That's where Kamala Harris gives her big speech. So that's what you have

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to look forward to. Don't get too stressed about this week. That's my suggestion. There will be a bump in the polls from this because it's just hours and hours every night of propaganda. The media is going to gush and fawn. MSNBC at least, and I'm sure CNN and others, didn't even fully cover the Republican Convention. They didn't even take the good stuff. They didn't even take the gold moms, the gold star moms. I saw them, they were in the background. The gold star moms were in the background.

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Because I remember I was watching the Republican Convention, the gold star moms were talking. These are the gold star moms of family members who killed in the Afghanistan withdrawal. And they're up there, they're telling their story, everyone's crying, I'm crying, it's an unbelievable story. And I'm wondering, I'm like, I wonder what MSNBC is doing with this? How can you cover this story?

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Like, what do you come back with after you hear this? And I later found out, I don't have cable so I couldn't watch it live, but I saw a clip of MSNBC at the moment, and they were in the background, they just didn't take it. So that's what you do, you don't cover it at all, of course. So they felt no obligation to cover the full Republican convention, but they will surely cover all of the Democratic convention. They're going to frame it all tight and perfectly as the Democrats would want them to, of course.

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So there will probably be a bump for Kamala, but maybe not. A lot of the battleground polls are already turning from a bump that occurred when she came out as the nominee a couple of weeks ago. And a lot of that bump was just like an equal and opposite reaction of the depression that the Democrats have held to for a couple of weeks. It's like total despair. And then, oh, we have an answer. So there was a big bump out of that. But that was weeks ago, and that's already perhaps turning. I believe that Kamala could vibe her way all the way to the White House

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because of the media. By that I mean run a basement campaign, just running on vibes. Oh, we love Kamala. Why do you love her? Oh, you know, she's great. What's the policy like? I don't know. She's a really good vice president. I think she's just great for America. Like that stuff. She could vibe her way all the way to the White House I say vibe because one guy at a rally he was asked what's a policy you support and he said I don't know any of her policies I'm here for the vibe but

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she could ride that all the way to the White House but the more Trump attacks her and her polls go down the more Kamala's team will be forced to actually go out and speak and when she does that her polls will go down even more. That's the play from Trump's team is get her to talk. Now if she's ahead in the polls she'll never talk. If Trump can hit her in the polls then she'll have to get out and talk and then it's over. So Trump's team of course is hoping that the polls are already turning down and that's just

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more opportunities for her to have to talk. So that's a lay of the suggestion for you is for me is to try to not get too anxious this week when you watch the propaganda that's thrown out there by the Democrats and the media or the same thing. Try not to get too anxious. Notice when you get anxious and work against it. First, it will all fade away pretty quickly, all this convention stuff. Do you remember anything about the Republican Convention? Really? I do. I remember a couple things, but I

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covered a lot of it. I remember the Gold Star Moms. I remember the World War II veteran. I remember Hulk Hogan. But for the most part it all fades away and it's gone. And that will happen too with this Democratic Convention as well. And then, if that's not enough for you, even if you think it won't fade away quickly, there's a debate on September 10th where Kamala will have no teleprompter and the whole game will change when that happens.

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So watch and enjoy, not with the attitude of, I can't believe these people exist, but with the attitude of, oh, all these people are going to lose soon. No, that's not it. That's not the right attitude. The right attitude is something like, these are people in our country who believe certain things because they have a worldview that is wrong.

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Now, you're not allowed to say that because I just made a value statement. I just made a judgment statement about right and wrong and who am I to say, yeah, that's part of the problem. We talked on this morning's radio show a bit about, actually quite a bit about beauty.

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I'm not gonna repeat it all here, but just search Portland Airport and you'll see Portland's brand new beautiful airport. Nine acres of Douglas fir. It's just stunning. And it's good to see beauty in a world awash with ugliness. But there are three great lies that our culture has told everyone in this country, and I would argue majority of people have fallen for it. And that is, who are you to say? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and my truth.

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These three statements, questions, reject what we should be looking for, and that is the good, the beautiful, and the true. Who are you to say is an attack on the good. Like when I say, oh, here's a worldview that's bad. Oh, who are you to say?

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is an attack on the beautiful, and my truth, of course, an attack on truth. What you're going to see this week is a big convention hall full of people who believe these three things. That there is no such thing as good, beauty or truth.

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And of course you'll come to very wrong conclusions when you do. And these are the people who we need to convince that there is such a thing as goodness, beauty, and truth. I'm not saying Republicans are right about every policy, about every political policy. Goodness no. But let's just agree that truth exists. Can we start with that?

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Then we'll figure out what the truth is. Well, we've got a lot of work to do. Jesus said, The harvest is plentiful, the laborers are few. There are plenty of people who have this twisted worldview. The harvest is plentiful and we're the laborers. So here is the challenge this week if you choose to accept it.

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As you watch a clip of the convention or if, heaven forbid, you subject yourself to actually watching it. But either way, if you get anxious this week because of what's happening at the convention, as you feel it as you immediately feel it the anxiety or the anger whatever it is go to the Bible now that's work I don't have to do what I don't want to go do it just make me feel better yeah go to the Bible Daniel 1132 I know we

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talked about it a couple weeks ago but in different context Daniel 1132 says the people who knew their God shall be strong the rest of that verse shall be strong and take action but let's just stick with the strong for now. The people who knew their God shall be strong. Spurgeon said knowledge strengthens love as well as faith. Knowledge, reading the Bible, opens the door and then through the door we see our Savior. Or to use another metaphor, knowledge paints the portrait

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of Jesus and when we see that portrait then we love him. We cannot love a Christ whom we do not know. If we know but little of the excellence of Jesus, what He's done for us, and what He's doing now, we cannot love Him much. But the more we know Him, the more we shall love Him. The more knowledge you have, the more love you have, the more faith you have, the more hope you have for the future.

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One of my favorite hymns is called Someday. And one of the parts sings, Peace and joy and happiness, no more sorrow, someday. You should have hope for that future, a real hope, not just an empty hope in some political savior. Real hope, knowledge of Jesus, knowledge of God

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gives us hope, faith, love, patience. So the challenge is, anytime you get anxious this week or annoyed or angry, even if it's a righteous anger, with the lies and the propaganda and the state of our country, immediately, see if you can do this. Me too. See if you can immediately turn to God. Not later, not I'll pray about it later, but immediately read the Bible. Read anything out of the Bible. Just open it up and read it.

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Use the motivation, that anger that you're going to feel today or whatever emotion you feel when watching the convention. Use that as motivation to know more about God and more about Jesus. And here's the test. You know how you felt when you were watching the convention. You felt your blood boil or whatever. Then you go to the Bible, read a little bit, and then pay attention to how you feel.

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Feel the anxiety go away and feel your patience, real hope and love increase. A fun test. Do you accept the challenge? Let's give it a try together this week. Mike Slater dot locals dot com is a website. We have a transcript there. You get the email view every day and it's commercial free. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

Tim Walz keeps talking about a Golden Rule. First, there is only ONE Golden Rule. It's THE Golden Rule, not one of many. But then, he doesn't even quote it right. Be watchful of insidious lies.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Club. Thanks for being here. Earlier in the week on the radio show on Sirius XM Patriot, Channel 125, 6 to 9 Eastern Time, we played a clip of Tim Walls talking about a golden rule. Now I'm going to give him some credit here. it as a golden rule not the golden rule but also there is only one golden rule there there's just like there's one gold medalist there are no ties you can even win the 100 meter dash by five one thousandth of a second there's no ties when it comes to the golden rule there are not multiple golden rules and he was just listing one of them there's just the one alas he said a golden rule:

Now look, we're pretty neighborly with Wisconsin. We get our friendly battles, but in Minnesota, just like in Wisconsin, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. Even if we wouldn't make the same choices for ourselves, because we know there's a golden rule. Mind your own damn business Mind your own damn business. I don't need you telling me about our health care. I don't need you telling us who we love. And I sure the hell don't need you telling us what books we're going to read.

It's always the books. They always come down to the books. It's so messed up. He's referring pornography in kindergarten classrooms. Just graphic sexual pornography in kindergarten. Like a book is called, one of the books that's banned is called This Book is Gay. And we look at that and we're like, maybe that's not super appropriate in elementary schools.

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Oh, you want to ban books? Jeez. All the Democrats run on this. Gavin Newsom was the first to make a big fuss about it, but all the Democrats run on this. It's crazy. We're not banning any books.

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We're banning pornography in elementary schools. Just a wild, wild lie from the left. The mind your own business, I'll ignore the fact that Tim Walz set up a COVID snitch line and had vaccine mandates and fired teachers and nurses and doctors for not following COVID guidelines, COVID orders. Not much of a mind your business guy at the time, but that's not important. I want to focus here on the golden rule. There's something really interesting here and I hope I can get close to

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what I want to say here because it's fascinating because this is what the devil does. Satan takes a piece of scripture and gets in there and slightly changes it just a little bit. And that's what's happening is, hey guys, I have a golden rule. Okay, what is it?

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Mind your own business. That's not, first of all, it's the golden rule and that's not it. But it's like, to someone who doesn't know, and we have a biblically illiterate country, that's an applause line.

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And this is what the devil does. As Screwtape said in one of his letters, C.S. Lewis, It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the light and out into the nothing. Murders know better than cards, if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to hell is the gradual one, the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without

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milestones, without signposts. The little, tiny sins are just fine. And Satan's good at it. As Paul said, Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Satan would say, Hey everyone, there's a golden rule! And then give a different one.

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In the garden he said, Did God really say? Did he really say that? Now the serpent was more crafty than all the beasts of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman,

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Did God actually say, You shall not eat of any tree in the garden? Just sneak in there, just to get in there just enough and manipulate things around just enough to serve your evil purposes. This is also the process of the Marxist. Marxist all the way back to Karl, the guy, Karl himself did this personally and it is still today about infiltrating and destroying things from within. We're

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gonna take over Hollywood and we're gonna make movies and we're just gonna move it a little bit over here, the theme of these movies. We're going to take over Disney and we're going to move it a little bit in this direction, just a little bit every year. We're going to move it a little more over here. Now they're an openly pro-gay and trans propaganda operation. We can go on and on. You know all these by now because you pay attention. And it's the same thing here, same process. Hey everyone, here's a golden rule.

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You're like, oh golden rule, that sounds good. First of all, not the, just a, just a, one of many, mind your own business. Well, that's not actually the golden rule. Matthew 7 12, so whatever you wish that others are due to you, do also to them. For this is the law and the prophets. That's the golden rule. Treat others as you wish to be treated. Now I got two points on this golden rule. I made a passing comment about this last week. I said, that's not the golden rule. That's all I said. And someone called in and said, Slater, you know, there's

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something that they went to some like HR thing or something. And there's something called the platinum rule. And it's like, oh, this is great. So I looked this up. Sure enough. So this is big in the self help business circle world. The Platinum Rule, which is great, something else Satan would come up with. Ooh, I got something better than the Golden Rule, something better than gold, something

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better than what Jesus said. Sure, Jesus was a good teacher, but we've come up with something even better. Karl Popper, he said, the Golden Rule is a good standard, which is further improved by the platinum rule. The Marxist, the actual Marxist, George Bernard Shaw, he wrote a book called Maxim's for Revolutionaries. He says, do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.

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I'll translate that out of King James. Their tastes may not be the same. Do not love your neighbor as yourself, if you're on good terms with yourself, it is an impertinence. If on bad, it's an injury. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. You see how that works? So we went from there's the golden rule to well here's a golden rule to now well there are no golden rules. That's the

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golden rule. There are no golden rules. So good. So the Platinum Rule in modern speak, in ESV translation, a little Bible joke for you, is it's not treat others as you want to be treated. The Platinum Rule is treat others as they want to be treated.

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So again, I just want to drive home this idea that we need to improve scripture. We have something better than the golden rule, not a great place to start. And then it's insidious, the platinum rule. Oh it's better than treating people how you want to be treated. You got to treat people how they want to be treated. And the idea here is empathy. You need to consider what other

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people want and what other what benefits other people. And of course there's always a kernel of truth to these things. But the truth is, the real truth is that the golden rule already says that you should consider what's best for the other person. The golden rule already says that you should have empathy and love and forgiveness and service. The line literally right before it in Matthew 7,

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Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives and the one who seeks finds and the one who knocks it will be opened or which one of you if his son asks for bread will give him a stone or if he asks for fish will give him a serpent if you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children how much more will your father

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who's in heaven give good things to those who ask for him to who ask him the point here is God is good to you so be good to other people. Just like God forgave you, you must forgive others. Treat other people well. The entire Bible is about empathy and love. But the Marxist Satan needs to convince you that the Golden Rule is so selfish. Treat other people how you want to be treated, but what if they want to be treated differently than you? Don't be so selfish. You need the Platinum Rule. That's the one that's about

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loving other people. No, no, no. The Golden Rule is about loving other people. And the Platinum Rule actually is not even about empathy. It's about telling people what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. It can be twisted into lying to people, not telling the truth. But the truth is that not telling people what they need to hear is not loving them. One last point on the golden rule. Just to put a bow on that.

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There's one golden rule. There's not a golden rule. There are not many golden rules. There's not no golden rule. There's the golden rule. You cannot improve on it and be careful of anyone.

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It always happens. It's not just this morning, millions of examples of Satan coming in here, sneaking his way in, finding a little way to get in there and change things just enough that completely distort their entire meaning and undermine God and His truth. And this is another way that they do it with the Golden Rule.

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You'll hear people say that the Golden Rule is as old as time. It predates the Bible. And you'll hear people say, oh the golden rule is in every Eastern religion as well so there's nothing special about what Jesus or the Bible says. It's just good common sense. Nope. It's wrong. No other religion in the world has come even close to the golden rule. There's a famous chart, the golden rule chart, if you just search for that. It has planet

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Earth in the middle and it says the golden rule. And there's all these branches out from the world with all these different world religions and their version of the golden rule and again the idea is that the Christian golden rule, there's nothing special about it, it's universal, it's everywhere and the point of the left bringing this up, the atheists bringing this up, is that there's nothing special about Christianity and just trying to

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water down the significance of what Jesus actually said. But the truth is, no other religion has this golden rule. They're not even close to the same. Hinduism, and this is on the chart, I'm reading this from the chart, they have the list of all the different expressions from all the different religions of their golden rule,

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but they're not, it's not at all. Hinduism says this is the sum of duty. Do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you. Buddhism, treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. Confucianism, one word which sums up all the bases, sums up the bases of all good conduct, loving kindness.

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Do not do to the other what you do not want done to yourself. Those are not the same at all what Jesus said. I know I said they're not even close you may be like oh well they're kind of close no no no totally opposite Zoroastrianism says do not do unto others whatever is injurious to yourself no other religion at all said what Jesus said and it's super weird that people can look at these and think that they're the same

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they're not those are all negative don't do something that hurts people don't do the thing that would hurt someone if it would hurt you to don't don't act But Jesus was positive. He said go actively treat people good You have to go and do good things things that you would like done to you go and do them to other people You can follow all those other religions

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silver rules By not lifting a finger. You just don't hurt someone and you follow the rule. Jesus' golden rule, you have to actually go do things. It's active and it's positive. And then even this line that the golden rule predates the Bible. No it doesn't. Those other religions are around 500 BC.

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I should say other religions, those false religions are around 500 BC. Leviticus was 1,450 BC. It was a thousand years earlier. Leviticus 19.18, do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

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Jesus even tells you to love your enemies. There's nothing like that in any other religion or any false religion. Not even close. So again, to obey the other commandments in these other and in these false religions you can do nothing. In Christianity you have to actively love, you have to actively forgive, you have to actively serve. It's so unhuman, it's so unnatural, it can only be done if you're born again. And I find these attempts to undermine the Golden Rule.

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So insidious. I looked up the Webster's original dictionary, 1830 dictionary of insidious. It means lying in wait, watching for an opportunity to ensnare or entrap. Deceitful, sly, treacherous. That's what it is.

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It's insidious.

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Oh, the Christian Golden Rule? Nah, it's been around for way before the Bible. And every other religion has the same golden rule. And it's not just the golden rule. There's lots of golden rules. Or there's no golden rules.

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Well, let me give you a golden rule. Mind your own business. Keep abortion legal. See how that works? First Peter 5. Be sober-minded, be watchful.

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Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. We have the transcript and no commercials on the website if you listen to it there. And you get an email every day when I post this. That's actually before it posts. as much as you for as much as you for like so dot locals dot com