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Dennis Prager is Wrong On Porn

May 08, 2023

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Dennis Prager gave terrible advice about men watching pornography. We can see the effect of porn on our society with what happened at a Texas ELEMENTARY school. We need to know the difference between liberty and licentiousness. Today we'll look at Ovid and Leviticus. And please, get the truth to your kids before the world does.

Hey, welcome to Politics by Faith. I'm Mike Slater. Thanks for being here. I'm very excited about today's episode. We're going to talk about something Dennis Prager said the other day, but I want to tie it into something that happened at a Texas school. I don't know how prevalent this is in elementary school. I'm afraid it's it's quite prevalent even if this even if not to this severity the sexualization of kids at a younger and younger age is extremely prevalent and Something we've never seen before and I do not think it is talked about enough So I'm going to take this opportunity to do it and I'm grateful You are here and you care enough about this topic that no one wants to talk about but obviously it's incredibly important. Real quick I like Dennis Prager a lot. I saw a speech of his live and it was one of the greatest speeches I've ever seen. But he is not perfect and on this topic he's very, I believe, very wrong. Worth noting and I don't think this is gossipy. I think this is relevant. I would never bring this up under any other context, I don't think, but when it's under the context of he's giving marriage advice, I think it's worth noting that he's been divorced twice and is now married a third time.

0:01:21
So this is maybe not someone you want to be taking marriage advice from. He was on this Daily Wire show, and I've watched most of these episodes, and they're going through the book of Exodus. And it's Jordan Peterson, Dennis Prager, and then a couple other Christian scholars as well, including Oz Guinness, among others. It's a very fascinating conversations that go through the book of Exodus, pretty much word by word, definitely line by line. And this came up in conversation. I am less interested in the interior person, morally speaking, than you are, than probably any of you are.

0:01:58
And it's largely, I do believe, because I come from a behaviorist, law-based religion. We care how you act. That's why we don't have a claim that if you look at another woman with lust, it's as if you've committed adultery with her. I am, as I said yesterday, I thank God for America's Christians, and Maimonides said if it weren't for Christians, the world wouldn't know about the Torah. So I'm a big Christian fan, but obviously Christianity and Judaism are not identical religions and and we have no equivalent that if you look upon another woman with lust it's as if you have committed adultery with your heart. There's only one way to commit adultery in Judaism and it's with a different organ and I'm not being cute I'm being very realistic looking with lust is not a sin in Judaism. What's the stance on pornography?

0:02:52
So pornography, when I'm asked this question... Just to put you on the spot, by the way. You did indeed. Okay, so my answer, when it's raised on my radio show, I have a male-female hour, and I'm very open about sexual subjects. I always ask, if a wife calls me and says, my husband looks at pornography, like I found on his computer, I have one question. How is your life of intimacy with your husband? Is it good? In other words, is the pornography in lieu of you or in addition to you? And I know this is not a religious answer, and I'm not even giving a religious answer, I'm giving what I think is a moral and realistic answer. Men want variety. And if adultery is a substitute for, if pornography is a substitute for one's wife, it's awful. If it's a substitute for adultery, it's not awful. Now if I may, that is terrible advice. We could take this and talk about pornography in adults, I'd rather take it towards kids in today's episode. Kids are seeing pornography at a younger and younger age. Pornography today is not playboy. This is not your grandfather's adult entertainment. This is not what you saw when you were a kid.

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Every man remembers the first pornography he saw when he was a kid sees at the age of eight is rape very different and the fact that you as a man remember the first time you saw a picture of a naked woman proves how that image had a dramatic effect on your soul you still remember it today and you were probably 14 or so. Now imagine what seeing rape and violence and visual, like not just a picture but video and audio. Imagine what that would do to the soul of not a 14 year old but a seven year old. So I beg of you parents, you have to talk about this with your kids way younger than you think you do, especially if your kids go to public school, especially if they have any access to the internet.

0:05:17
You have to have this talk way sooner. You think you can have it when they're 16. Or maybe you're like, no, Slater, I think I can have it when they're 13. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Way younger. And don't be awkward about it. There's nothing awkward about it. There's this weird cultural thing, I think this comes from the devil, that oh, it's the talk, the birds and the bees and the dad always comes in all sheepish and well son, I'm here to have a conversation with you.

0:05:44
It's like this weird awkward thing. No, just be open and honest about what age appropriate of course, but open and honest and just be normal. It's a wonderful, beautiful thing that God created when done properly in the confines of marriage. So we need to make sure that our kids know what sex is and get to them before the world does, before pornography does. I got one example here of how this is trickling down to a younger and younger age in a more graphic way than ever before. And again I want to stress the point that this is just one example and if this is an extreme example then that's fine, but think of all the things slightly less worse than this that do not make the news. This is a Texas school district. A six-year-old was forced to perform a sex act, assuming oral sex, while students filmed it with the teacher in the classroom. There have been some protests at the school.

0:06:54
One parent says a six-year-old was exposed to things that even adults would have a hard time overcoming. This is trauma at its worst, and it's a trickle-down effect because it affects everyone around them. It's a first-grader, first-grade girl. The family says they noticed a sudden change in her behavior. She complained of a stomach ache. Eventually, it all came out that a boy repeatedly exposed himself to her and others in the school lunch line and then pulled her under a desk to perform a sex act while other kids recorded it with a district-issued iPad. And then, I don't know how to say the worst part, it's not the worst, but just to add to it, the school is all, oh, no comment, no comment, can't talk about it, oh, oh, oh, you know, we're doing an investigation, can't talk, can't talk, no comment, no comment.

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Even the parents aren't getting proper answers. The school has confirmed that the iPad did have quote, inappropriate content. That's all they'll say. Other parents are coming out and now saying that there's been multiple moms who have been saying stuff all year about not just this one kid but the school in general about how sexually perverted people are and things are the kids are one mom said my daughter comes home with bruises and rashes if she doesn't participate in these little boys sick games they'll punch her give her Indian burns they'll call her names and cuss at her again I wonder how prevalent this is at public schools, maybe private schools too, schools across the country, and at a younger and younger age.

0:08:31
These are not 16, 17, 18-year-olds in high school. These are 6-year-olds. So what's really going on here? This is the depravity of a fallen world, and one of the most obvious forms of depravity will be sexual in nature. There's two clips I want to play here about sex that I like a lot because they're shocking in today's world and obvious when you think about it. This first one is Peter Hitchens and he's on our radio show and he's making a point about sex ed in schools, like why are we even teaching this at all? This is part of the sexualizing and even demoralizing of our children.

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in places sex education with a tech which attempts to reduce the negative aspects of of sex such as unwanted pregnancies and s tds what would you have in its place no it's place i don't think it's the business schools to teach people have become bones on hockey sticks and bananas i think it's a good they'd the schools are not there for this purpose i think six education i think what george lukacs thought when he introduced it during the Hungarian Bolshevik uprising was always an attempt to debauch and demoralize Christian societies. That's what its purpose is.

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But children are going to have sex, teenagers are going to have sex. Are they? Yes. Are they? Yes. Are you sure? Are they going to have sex under all circumstances? Are you proposing that 16 year olds shouldn't have sex? I'm saying that people shouldn't have sex outside marriage, that's my belief. And so how do you engender that? I don't believe there are any. By having a strong moral system which makes it plain that this is how people should behave. And you think that that will prevent teenagers from having sex with each other? To a large extent, yes it will. No human system is infallible. Humans are, as we know, or as I know, fallen creatures. So yes, there will be people who defy that morality. And I love that clip so much because it just obliterates the modern assumption, well, what would you replace it with?

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He said, well, nothing. I wouldn't replace it with anything at all. I love that. And he just crushes this notion that, well, of course, all the kids will have sex. Will they? Thomas Sowell makes the point in his book, Vision of the Anointed, I think it's vision that the premise of sex ed was that teenage pregnancies and STDs were going up and they're out of control and we got to teach kids about sex, but in the reality they were going down. They were already going down and it wasn't until after sex ed became widespread that they actually did start to go up.

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I think this idea that, oh, of course kids are going to have sex, so we might as well let them. I don't think that's true. Maybe some will sure but not as many as as There are now because we're just overly Sexualizing kids at a younger and younger age and even to the point you can call me prude and you think it's innocent But like even like like someone like Taylor Swift like barely wearing any clothes up there And she's like not even the worst at all compared to what kids are seeing these days just in regular pop culture forget about pornography. Why must we let our kids see all this stuff? I've made this point many times before, but your grandpa went his entire childhood, certainly, maybe even young adulthood, without ever seeing a naked woman until he got married.

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And now six-year-olds are seeing horrific things, absolutely horrific. Your ten-year-old goes to the mall, forget, no, your 10-year-old goes to school and sees more skin on a girl than your grandfather ever saw his whole life. This other clip, and you don't think that's gonna affect him? You don't think that's gonna affect him and her and the girls? Here's another clip I love from Phil Robertson back at CPAC years ago.

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I got my facts from the CDC day before yesterday. 110 million, 110 million Americans now have a sexually transmitted illness. 110 million? I'm looking at it and I said, I don't want you, America, to get sick. I don't want you to come down with a debilitating disease.

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I don't want you to die early. You're disease-free, and she's disease-free. You're married. You keep your sex right there. You won't get sick from a sexually transmitted disease. Come on! Let's go back to Dennis Prager. Dennis Prager says you can commit adultery only with one organ, and it's not the heart. So here's the deal. Judaism, and Prager says this, is very behavior-based. Christianity is about the heart. They are in that way very different religions. In many ways, very different religions. Jesus Christ being the main difference, but heart versus behavior. Judaism is very behaviorist. He admits it. It's all about how you act, but that's not even, I don't even think that's the proper moral view as Aristotle would describe it. This is a, it's a wonderful debate. It's 50 minutes long between Dennis Prager and the host of a podcast called Pints with Aquinas and it's all about this. It's all about pornography. It's really fascinating to listen to because Dennis Pranger I think loses every single argument Here's the hosts Perspective on Aristotle so Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics Right has these four levels of the vicious to the virtuous man The vicious man is the one who wants to do the good and does it.

0:15:19
And so to me, I like, I have children, if one of them held anti-semitic views, but treated you kindly, I would say well that's better than holding anti-semitic views and being bad toward you, but I wouldn't, I would think that's not where I would settle. That's fine, that's fine, I respect that. And even Dennis Prager has to admit that that's true. Let's lament for a little bit. Jonathan Edwards, father of the Great Awakening in America, 1730s or so, he said, it's a sad thing to consider the poor, weak, and impotent, I was going to say important, no, no, impotent creatures we are, that we are so easily overcome by our base and sinful lusts, and that we're so prone to commit those sins that are most contrary to the law of God. Not only how prone we are to commit them, but how we can justify them away. Oh, we're so good at justifying them. But look what we've wrought. The pornification of society.

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And even Prager knows this. Here he is on that podcast. So she was on a date and they were both attracted. It was not the first date and they kissed. That's all they did, they kissed. And in the midst of the kiss he grabbed her neck like this. And even me, Mr. Open, was taken aback. And so was she. To her credit, she took his hand away, she said either then or later that evening, or later another time, why did you do that?

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And he, to his credit, was open enough to say, I thought you would like it, that's what I see on the internet. That's a bad thing. That's... The number of young men who learn about women through porn and not real life is a very scary thing that has developed. And we see it now trickling down to little kids. Terrific. I want people to want more. I want people to want better. That's my lament. I want everyone to want better in this category and to be more sensitive to the sexualization of everything and everyone and especially our kids.

0:17:50
My daughter, she's five. Last year, she was in a dance, dance class, like ballet, right? And we went to the performance and she did this cute little performance and then the other girls went up. She's no longer in dance, but that's the end of that. That's what we're doing here. That's what's next. That's the no, no, no, no, no.

0:18:14
Horrific. Just terrible to watch. And it was so sad to also hear all the parents, at least moms, screaming and cheering and hollering about how cute and adorable it is in the background. And it was just, it was terrible. Uh, I'll tell you, my daughter was up there and I didn't know that that was happening and I would have walked right up there. Like, that's okay. It's the end of that right now. Terrible.

0:18:37
I just want people to want more. Even Prager in this interview, he talks about how growing up, his dad loved his mom, but subscribed to playboy and mom was fine with it. No big deal. Just, and, and here's what the host said, it was such a brilliant response. What would be better, for your father to love your mother and get Playboy, or for your father to say, even though I'm tempted to look at pornography, my wife's body is enough for me and I'm not going to look at that even though I'm tempted to? That's a very fair question. I don't have an answer which will, I should give you the answer you want. I think you should too. Yes, that's a good point you do I don't know what that means enough. Oh, come on Dennis You know what we do better what a wonderful example of how you can Rationalize anything away and people are like, oh, you know, you can't be against pornography because Liberty Yeah Let me quote from our friend Josh Hammer. He said the American founders were careful to distinguish between true liberty, which entailed the dutiful worship of the creator and in accordance with the moral guardrails of one's Judeo Christian conscience, right so so morals so so liberty imply that doesn't imply it requires a strong moral foundation and guardrail and our founders. It's like today when you think liberty, people are just like, do whatever you want, like libertarianism or something, right?

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But no, no, no, liberty was morality. And our founders distinguished between that and licentiousness, licentiousness. What an interesting word. So if you look it up in the dictionary, licentiousness means lacking legal or moral restraints, especially disregarding sexual restraints. Okay, but if you go to the original dictionary in 1828, licentiousness is excessive indulgence of liberty, contempt of the just restraints of law, morality, and decorum.

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Law is the god of wise men. Licentious times. Unrelated pornography promotes licentiousness, not liberty. And it is hurting everyone. It's hurting all of us. Even if you don't engage, it's hurting our society, our future. You want to know why men are not getting married? Why would you? You have all your heart's desires or the cheapest imitation of it on your computer. Who needs to actually go out and talk to girls and go on dates and be selfless and serve and love when you can just receive, receive, receive all at your heart's whim and desire and pleasure.

0:21:32
Pornography has given now generations of men this idea that women are objects to be used and abused for your own selfish pleasure. It has changed how young men view young women, how they view marriage, how they view life. We have to consider how pornography not only affects romantic relationships or ones that could be romantic but aren't because why go through that when you can just use Tinder and whatever but also how it reflects every relationship as now everyone is seen as just a means to my satisfaction. Let me quote Denny Burke he says, it teaches young men to use women for sex and then to discard them when they become unwilling or uninteresting this means that it has given us a generation of young men completely unprepared for marriage and for fatherhood It is not merely that so many young men are unprepared for marriage. They aren't even prepared for dinner in a movie We have sown to the wind we are reaping the whirlwind Especially our daughters who are less likely than ever to find a man who hasn't been corrupted by this Let's get to the history and then the Bible.

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0:24:09
So just this weekend, I was reading some Ovid, a little bit of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Ovid or Ovid, he was born in BC. So he wrote this like the year 10, 15, something like that. So there's a lot of stories in this, but the one that I read is called the story of Mira. So the very short of it is Venus curses this group of women, turns them all into prostitutes. And there's a man, Pygmalion, who's so mortified by the behavior of these women that he sculpts a woman out of stone. And then he prays to Venus that he could turn her into a real woman. He actually prays because he's so full of shame that he could have someone like his ivory girl.

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But Venus, in fact, turns her into a real woman. They then have a kid and then a son, or no, girl, and then that girl has another kid, and I think there's a couple generations go by and Then there's a man Sinreus who gives birth to Mira and This is a turn in the story that I did not anticipate but Mira is in love with her father She wants to commit incest with her father Here's what avid says Other creatures couple as they choose regardless if a heifers mounted by her father, there's no shame.

0:25:41
A horse becomes his daughter's husband. Goats will mate with kids. They've sired themselves. Why even birds conceive from seed that fathered them. How blessed are they that they have such license. And then he goes back and forth with Mira's like, I don't want to feel this way, but I do and I can't help my love. And then dad comes in, he talks about how much he loves her and she talks about how much she loves him but it's all not in the same way. Anyway, she's about to kill herself and her nurse, her maid comes in and sees that she's about to hang herself and the girl tells the nurse how she's feeling.

0:26:20
And then check this out, I don't know where the mom is but at night the nurse takes the girl, the young girl, Denzel, she is maybe like 12, 13, takes the young girl into her father's bed in the darkness. And they have sex. And the dad doesn't know. It's her, right. And they do it a lot. They do it for a long time. And then one day, he finds out and he's about to kill her. And she runs away, and then says, I don't want to die, but I can't live like this. So then she gets turned into a tree and then gives birth to the product of her and her father and that boy is Adonis. So that's the story. And you're like, oh, that's awful.

0:27:10
That's really uncomfortable. Havid, thank you very much. But among other things, it gets you thinking about how prevalent this was thousands of years ago. Even thousands of years ago, they were talking about it. And remember this, every time the Bible says, don't do something, it's because there were people who were doing it. It's because if you leave people up to their own devices, this is something that they would do. So when the Bible says don't have sex with animals, it's because people have sex with animals.

0:27:45
Alfred Kinsey, he's the super perverted sex researcher who lied about everything he's ever done. He says, and again, take it with a grain of salt because he's a big fat liar, but he said 8% of men and 3.6% of women, he estimated, have engaged in some sort of sexual act with an animal. He predicts 8% of men, 3.6% of women. So I don't know, can we ever even know like a real answer, right?

0:28:09
But whatever it is, it's way more, bestiality, way more prevalent than people think. And wouldn't you know it, it's in the Bible, don't do that. Because that's what people do. And it's the same, it's what people would do. And it's the same with incest. Leviticus 18. You can't have sex with your mother, you can't have sex with your father, your stepmother, your maternal sister, your daughter, your granddaughter.

0:28:33
It goes through all the people you're not allowed to have sex with. Why? Because that's a thing that people were doing. And we don't have to guess. That's what people were doing. It's explicit. Genesis 9, Ham saw his dad Noah naked and had sex with his dad. His dad was drunk at the time. Lot, his two daughters, got him drunk and had sex with their dad. That's in Genesis 19. Like what? What's going on here? So those are two pretty prominent examples and there's there's maybe a dozen or so other odd sexual interactions throughout the Old Testament. It's unbelievable, the amount of incest that's in the Bible.

0:29:27
So my point of all this is that sexual perversion is a part of a fallen human nature, and it must be addressed with children early. Now, maybe back in the day, maybe back when you were a kid, although I don't think so, because you remember what was talked about and even done in the back of the school bus when even you were in school. But now you can't. Maybe back in the day, it was you could get by quite a long time and it would be okay. But today, this stuff is actively being pumped into your kids' classroom at a younger and younger age to the point where Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, says, hey you can't talk about gay stuff until the fourth grade and the whole LGBTQ lobby goes nuts. They're like, oh we must talk to your second grader about homosexuality, you know, we must talk about homosexuality in kindergarten, it's our human right. And it's now gotten where conservatives like Dennis Prager say, well, porn for the right reasons is okay.

0:30:34
We must hold ourselves to a much higher standard and we must get to our children as soon as possible before the world does and brings and grabs them, pulls them down to their depravity. So what is in my control? John Bunyan said, Let thy love to purity be very great, else thy shame will be very grievous. Purity, that's a word we don't hear a lot about in our culture today. We're looking for purity. Oh, by the way, I forgot to say, Prager says the whole lust is not in the Bible.

0:31:11
It's in the Old Testament. It's in the Ten Commandments. Exodus 20 says, You shall not covet your neighbor's house. And I heard him describe this and he stopped at house. I said, come on, Prager, you know the rest. The rest is you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. It's the next line. And then he does this thing, oh, well, there's a nuance between covet and lust.

0:31:30
Okay, I don't think so. So what's in our control? Some books I recommend. There's a very popular book called God Made All of Me. It's okay. It's probably the most popular Christian book to read to kids about their bodies. It's okay. It makes a couple good points. One word I like is, well, the title, God Made All Things, right?

0:31:56
And that's great. And God made every part of your body. Your body is good. That's an important foundation point. And the book makes that, and I like that. It also describes the difference between a secret and a surprise. Get rid of the word secret in your home. Groomers keep secrets. Groomers do things to your kids or tell things to your kids and then say, hey, let's just keep it our little secret.

0:32:26
There are no secrets in the Slater family. There are no secrets in your family. Do not allow that to be a thing. Your kids need to have an immediate repulsion of a secret. Instead, we embrace surprise. A surprise is something that you ultimately reveal when the time is right. A secret is something you never tell anyone. So, kids, we're gonna surprise mommy in a couple days for Mother's Day.

0:32:50
Okay, so don't tell her, but it's a surprise, okay? But we will tell her soon, that's the problem. But a secret, you never tell anyone, no good. So that's that book. I don't totally recommend it, but it's okay. There are some really good books for anatomy. There's one called, it's I'm a Boy, Special Me, I'm a Girl, Special Me, and there's ones for different ages. I got it right here, there's for ages five to seven, eight to 10, 11 to 13, 13 to 15, and 15 plus.

0:33:14
And these are very good, they're anatomically correct. They're by Dr. Shelley Metton. And I've talked to her before. Everything's anatomically correct and honest. It demystifies it all. One piece of advice I got is use the real words for things. Don't be ashamed or embarrassed or giggly when you say them. It's what they're called. Dr. Metton is a Christian, but these books are not explicitly Christian, for whatever you want to do with that.

0:33:44
My point is, this is all in the name of getting in front of the world, to your kids. Get to your kids before it's too late. And these kids in that one Texas school district, six was too late. Six years old was too late. Final thought to leave with. I was reading Ovid's Metamorphoses because I just started reading this book called Being Human and it's a collection of all these stories and poems and literature from forever and it's edited by Leon Kass and Leon Kass was the chairperson, I believe chairperson, yes, of George W. Bush's President's Council on Bioethics. This was 2003. So George Bush was president. And do you remember cloning? Cloning and stem cell research was a big debate. So he put together this Council of Bioethics and they put together this whole anthology on what it means to be human. And it is fascinating so far. That is the question of our time. This is very philosophical and theological but but it gets to the root and core of it which is obviously what we are interested in. I wanna quote here from uh Carl Truman, the great Carl Truman. He wrote an article on how the biggest question of our day is what it means to be human and he said, everyday language hints at this. There's been an interesting shift in English idiom over recent years from the language of making love to that of having sex.

0:35:15
The former, making love, which today may even sound a little quaint, speaks of an act that can only take place between two people who know and love each other, and which has at its core the act of giving. It is deeply relational, and the parties involved are selves, not merely bodies. That this phrase has been supplanted by the latter, have sex, which requires no necessary relationship between the parties and connotates not giving but taking. I'm gonna have sex, I'm gonna get sex, reflects a foundational change in social attitudes to sex that rest upon radical therapeutic individualism, just selfishness. Others have become instruments, means to one's own selfish end. One can only make love to a lover, but one can have sex with anybody, or indeed any body.

0:36:10
Pornography is a desecration of the human form, whereby selves are reduced to bodies and bodies are reduced to raw material, to be used and abused in any way that satisfies. And if you are morally neutral to pornography, you are complicit in the desecration of the human form and in the erasure of what it means to be human. Please get out there. Let's protect our kids. The Public Square app, it's a free download for your phone. I always talk about the five values that a business owner needs to have in order to be featured in the app. Well, here's a couple of them that are relevant to what we're doing here. First, we will always protect the family unit and celebrate the sanctity of every life. That is abortion, but it also to me, that's the same issue, human life with pornography. We will always protect the family unit and celebrate the sanctity of every life.

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Fox & Friends

We were on Fox & Friends talking about all of the train robberies in CA. It's so bad the train company says they may have to ride right THROUGH Los Angeles entirely and never slow down lol. What a joke this state it.

https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20220122_110000_FOX_and_Friends_Saturday/start/5640/end/5700

That link is a bit odd, I've attached a short video to get the gist.

In short, The rich get richer, the poor get the handouts and the middle class gets out of town.

This causes these progressive politicians to get even more entrenched.

We haven't hit rock bottom yet.

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Mike Slater@slaterradio

October 18, 2021

Boys to men, girls to women

How do you do it? Advice please!

Dean Abbott,
"Why contemporary relations between the sexes are so messed up. The problem starts with men because men lead, the masculine pursues and initiates, and problems always start at the level of leadership.

Most men aren't taught that a relationship with a woman means accepting responsibility. No one tells us that a woman represents not only pleasure, but obligation.
The fact that having a relationship with a woman means responsibility and obligation never enters many men's minds.

When these men enter into a relationship with a woman, they are overwhelmed by her needs, her feminine communication style, and her emotions.
Moreover, he unconsciously resents her for having needs at all since he has been conditioned to see her solely as a source of pleasure.
When her anger and disappointment over his irresponsibility gets intense enough, he splits in search of another woman.
He mistakenly believes the problem wasn't his attitude nor that it is a ...

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Mike Slater@slaterradio

August 09, 2021

Surly this will be kicked off twitter eventually

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Mike Slater@slaterradio

April 20, 2023

Morning Motivation, April 21, 2023

I found a way to easily transcribe the podcasts, so I will post them here first before they go out to iTunes and the rest.

Good morning. Welcome to The Morning Motivation, brought to you by Public Square and Patriot Gold Group. I'm grateful you're here. I was reading a sermon by the great Puritan preacher John Owen in the mid-1600s. I'm so fascinated by this time period, 1600s, early 1700s. We focus a lot on our founding fathers. I think that the Tea Party movement and just conservatism in general has focused a lot on the founding fathers, and that's amazing, but I'm very fascinated by our founding grandfathers or great-grandfathers, the people who created the culture that our founding fathers were raised in.

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Isn't that a fascinating era? We got like 1776, like that's great, I love it, I want to know more, I don't know nearly enough. But what about the 1720s? What was going on there? Or the late 1600s? What was going on in America at that time? And you know, we've all heard of the Puritans, but you ...

Mike Slater@slaterradio

October 19, 2022

Inflation and ANGER

I am angry and frustrated. With our Rulers. For getting us in this terrible economy. It doesn't have to be this way.

How could they never learn from past mistakes! This is ANCIENT history, stop printing money...yet, after COVID, we never printed more. Amazing.

Please leave a 5-star review on Itunes. We have a ton of momentum, this is about to break through! Thank you!

Also, I haven't done any lives anywhere becauase we're hosting a daily TV show "Road to Misterms" on thefirsttv.com, and it's taken all of my extra time. And my wife is giving birth any day now, so...it's been a lot around here. But after the midterms, time will free up.

Mike Slater@slaterradio

October 17, 2022

Politics by Faith: Parkland and the Death Penalty

I've gone back and forth on the death penalty many times over the years. I've recently come down on the other side.

Should the Parkland murderer have gotten the death penalty or life in prison?

Please leave a review on iTunes! We need to get to 1k :-)
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Btw, we're getting the momentum we need, more downloads every day, THANK YOU!

WarriorSandy1@WarriorSandy1

September 30, 2024

This is spot on Mike! We have become dehumanized! You can not read a persons real needs on a screen nor text! A job or passion offers human interaction and I pray these stay at home on our tax dollars find that truth. We have lost our way… People need hugs and love and someone to listen. If we do not have that face to face interaction we will become nothing more than those who can not deal with lives issues.
Our politicians need to stop thinking about themselves and their agenda and think of the country as a whole. My suggestion today is go out and make someone’s life a little better than it is and not with money! And if it is only leave a space better than you found it -imagine if everyone left every place better than they found it. If you did one thing to make another human beings life better and told them you loved them. If we did this every day- what a great world we would have again! Time to get back to this countries MOTTO… if you do not know the counties motto it is ...

Kellypreston78@Kellypreston78

December 05, 2023

Good morning @MikeSlater and all my fellow Slater Crusaders! I've been following Mike for years and after having MANY one way conversations with the radio or podcast, have finally joined the community here on locals.com. I can't wait for the chance to share thoughts and ideas with you all. Thank you Mike for creating this place. I hope we can help inform each other about our world and support growing our relationship and faith in Jesus.

Lavender315@Lavender315

March 08, 2023

Hi @Mike Slater! Are you coming back to locals? Haven’t seen any posts in some time.

Mike Slater@slaterradio

September 12, 2025

Charlie Kirk, How Will You Be Different?

Politics By Faith, September 12, 2025

Charlie Kirk said he wants to be remembered as a man who had "courage for my faith". I have two suggestions on how we can be remembered in the same way.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. What a difficult week it's been. I want to say a few words inspired by Charlie Kirk. I believe there are five main lies from the father of lies, Satan, that they probably started on college campuses. We know they fester on college campuses and have exploded out of college campuses.

Five main lies. First, who are you to say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, my truth. We'll start with these three. God made the good, the beautiful, and the true. That's what we stand for. The good, the beautiful, and the true.

Satan came in and speaks to the opposite of this. What is good? There's no good. Who are you to say what's good? Who are you to say what's bad? Who are you to say?

No such thing as beauty. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And there's no such thing as truth. Only my truth. Fourth great lie is evolution. There's two reasons it's so wicked.

The beginning and the end. Evolution demands the denial of a creator. It's the first thing. But then if you carry on with evolution, you keep going down that road. It leads to nihilism because if we're just here randomly, then nothing matters. How could it?

Nothing could matter. The evolutionists deny creator at the beginning, but then if you keep going down it, there's no point to anything because just was a big bang out of nowhere for some, something came out of nothing. And then an amoeba formed and an amoeba turned into a frog and a frog somehow turned into a monkey and a monkey turned into a frog. And there's just like things in our brain, like chemicals in our brain that make us feel certain emotions at different times, but that's it. It's all random. So nothing can matter.

Nothing is good. Nothing's beautiful. Nothing's true. It's all random. That's nihilism. Nothing matters.

Five lies from Satan. Very dark. Now, Charlie Kirk would go into the belly of the beast and speak the truth on all of these things. He'd say, there is a creator and Jesus is Lord. There is such thing as truth. Like a man can't turn into a woman, a woman can't turn into a man.

There is goodness. You should live a proper life. There is beauty. I think he spoke mostly of beauty as being married and having kids. Like, oh, it's so joyful and wonderful and beautiful. And you should find purpose in your life, all the way from a meaningful job to serving others, providing for your family, and of course, living a Christian life.

So he went into this dark place and was a light for the truth and for the gospel. And when you're a light and you go into a dark place, People don't like that. John 3 19 says people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. That's the root of the darkness that's in our country. It's, it's believing those five lies that are prevalent. Most people believe them.

Here's what I want to share that I haven't yet shared on Sirius XM. Charlie Kirk spoke with confidence. I've been reading this sermon from Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Edwards, the father of the Great Awakening in America. It's from 1739. It's called, The Importance and Advantage of a Thorough Knowledge of Divine Truth.

Why does it matter to know God's Word? Why does the truth matter? Like he wasn't even, today we have to say there is a truth. At least he was, like the people he was talking to knew there was a truth and he's just arguing why it matters. Why is it important? Why is it important to know the truth and to keep learning?

I pray that out of Charlie's death, because he was asked how he wants to be most remembered. And he said as a as a Christian, Christian man, I pray that out of this people go to church. My challenge has been on the radio. If you don't yet go to church every Sunday for one year, one year, sit in the pew, listen to God's word. Don't complain about the people around you. Don't complain about them being weird.

Don't complain about people looking funny. Don't nitpick every single thing that you would do differently that you don't like. Sit there for one year and talk to someone every single day. Every Sunday you're there. Talk to a different person. That's it.

and see how your life is different. Now, for all of us who go already, the challenge is to grow in your faith deeper, much, much deeper, to no longer be satisfied with the basics, to no longer be satisfied with milk, but strong meat. Hebrews 5 .4 says, but solid food is for the mature. Now, why does this matter? Why do we want to be mature? Why do we want solid food?

For those who have their powers of discernment, trained by constant practice to do what? To distinguish good from evil. We need to be able to distinguish good from evil. from evil. So Jonathan Edwards. that every Christian should make a business of endeavoring to grow in the knowledge and divinity.

His first point he makes is if you don't pick up your Bible, then it's the same as having a Bible that's written in Chinese. Doesn't do you any good either. Anyway, got to pick it up. He said, if you don't read your Bible, he says, without knowledge and divinity, none would differ from the most ignorant and barbarous heathens. The heathen remains in gross heathenish darkness because they're not instructed and have not obtained the knowledge of the truths of divinity. So it says, don't be like a heathen.

You are no better than them if you don't read God's word. He said, Christians ought to, uh, excuse me, ought not to content themselves with such degrees of knowledge and divinity that they've already obtained. It should not satisfy them that they know as much as is absolutely necessary to salvation, but should seek to make progress. Knowing the bare minimum is good. Let's want more. Read the Bible.

Jonathan Edwards says, read the Bible. Revelation 1 .3 says, blessed is he who reads the Bible. and those who hear the words of this prophecy. Blessed are you who reads. Are we grateful for our life? If after watching the assassination of Charlie Kirk, does it make you grateful for life?

I was away. The wife and I were away on a little trip for about three days or so. I got home yesterday. We're so excited to see the kids. Plane landed, there was some traffic, and I missed the first half of Jack's soccer practice. I'm Jack, the coach of his team.

The assistant coach held down for it for the first half hour and I got there in the middle and I was walking to the field and I didn't know how Jack would respond. He's eight years old, almost nine, and he's got his teammates there, his friends, right? And he saw me and he just booked it and ran to me and jumped in my arms. And I was like, oh, this is amazing. I don't know how many of these I have left. I don't know how many I have left.

You don't get a warning. Your eight year old's not like, hey, I'm only gonna do this four more times. You don't know. And I'm hugging him and it's wonderful. And I had a thought, of course, of Charlie. And maybe you've seen the video of his four -year -old daughter when he was on Fox and Friends running across the set.

Daddy!

And jumping in his arms. Are you grateful for life? Jonathan Edwards said, When God hath opened a very large treasure before us for the supply of our wants, and we thank him that he hath given us so much, if at the same time we be willing to remain destitute of the greatest part of it because we're too lazy to gather it, this will not show the sincerity of our thankfulness. Heavenly Father, we are so grateful for everything you've done for us. So grateful for the life that you've given me. I'm just too busy to read that. Oh, the Bible?

Your Word?

I got it. I got it. I got the gist. Jonathan Edwards says, It becomes one who is called to be a soldier and to go to warfare, to endeavor to excel in the art of war. It becomes one who is called to be a mariner and to spend his life in sailing the ocean, to endeavor to excel in the art of navigation. It becomes one who professes to be a physician and devotes himself to that work, to endeavor to excel in the knowledge of those things which pertain to the art of physics.

So it becomes all such as profess to be Christians and to devote themselves to the practice of Christianity and to endeavor to excel in the knowledge of divinity. That is one thing that I'm getting, that I'm learning, that I've dedicated myself to because of what happened this week. I'll end on this. There's the book I have here. I've been quoting it a lot from 1835, I believe, called Scripture, Emblems and Allegories. And there's a section on fearful and fearless.

And it ends with this. It says the righteous man is afraid of nothing but sin. So I say this. The first part I was talking about was about having the knowledge, the wisdom and knowing what is true. And my last point here is having the courage to go forth with it. The righteous man is afraid of nothing but sin.

He goes forward in the path of duty, though dangers grow thick around him. He enters the burning, fiery furnace and grapples with its curling flames. He descends into the den of lions. The king of beasts crouches at his feet. In the storm at midnight, tossed upon the raging billows, he is calm in the presence of the God he serves and to whom he belongs. In earthquakes shock, when temples are falling, earth opening, and ruin reigns around, he stands fearless amid the desolation, exclaiming, therefore, we will not fear, though the earth be removed out of its place.

Descending the dark veil of death itself, he says exultingly, though I through the valley and shadow of death, I will fear no evil. And when the last enemy stands full in his presence, he sings triumphantly. Lend, lend your wings. I mount, I fly. O grave, where is thy victory?

O death, where is thy sting? There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the life of Charlie Kirk. And what we do next, I don't know. Pray this can spark a revival. That's my prayer. I know the president is giving him the Medal of Honor.

our Presidential Medal of Freedom, excuse me, Presidential Medal of Freedom. And I pray that that is such an incredible moment that it sparks something amazing in this country. I don't know. I know the paths will open and we need to be ready and on the lookout. In the meantime, let's grow in our knowledge of God and our love of God. And let's have more confidence in spreading the word.

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September 09, 2025

Demonic Murder In Charlotte, Part I

Politics By Faith, September 9, 2025

How does someone get to the point where they would stab an innocent woman in the neck? Years of degeneracy leave an empty soul ripe for the picking.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. We have talked a lot on my SiriusXM show about horrific murder in Charlotte. It's one of the worst things I've ever seen. I saw, maybe by now you've seen the video where it stops right when he's above her about to come down and stab her in the neck. I've now seen the rest of the video and it's even worse than I imagined.

It's different than I imagined what happens after he comes down on her neck, but it's worse. Let me address that tomorrow, if I may. I want to make this point first here on this show. This is a, his name's Frank McCormick. He used to teach 11 years public school in the ghetto in Chicago. He wrote this post. He said, I know this type of kid, speaking of the murder, the type that would smack the kid sitting in front of him, telling the teacher, I don't give a blank when corrected and ruin an entire year's worth of learning for the entire class.

His special education teacher would describe him as actually very smart with a lot of potential, despite him failing every class and scoring a nine on the ACT. There would be countless meetings with him and his mom and social workers, psychologists, and the principal would speak in soft voices and nod and smile when the kid told him he wants to be a doctor. They'd design all sorts of ridiculous accommodations that give him ample room to behave however he wanted and terrorize his teachers and peers with minimal consequences. Teachers would spend the entire class trying to rein in his behavior, and when they called security to remove him, they'd have to evacuate the entire class first. He'd rarely receive any consequences. The principal would reprimand the teachers for not building a relationship with him.

and accused them of singling him out because he was black. As a result, they'd give up and his behavior would escalate. If he was really bad, he'd get a timeout in a split second. room where he'd sit on his phone and tell the supervisor to shut the blank up if they said anything. Maybe he'd have to partake in a peace circle if he became violent. He'd eventually get socially promoted to his senior year, and there would be a massive effort to get his credits recovered, mostly by pressuring teachers to give him alternative assignments and a 50 % for the work he didn't do.

He'd walk down the graduation stage and everyone would cheer, and he'd probably do something embarrassing, like give the finger to the audience. As a young adult, he'd walk the city. behaving exactly as he did in school, because he'd been socialized to learn that there are zero consequences for his behavior. Depending on the city, he'd probably get similar treatment from the cops and the public afraid of creating a public scene that would lead to riots in the city. And then one day he'd snap and do something like this. And only then would everyone act surprised, as if this wasn't largely in part due to how our public schools negatively socialize and enable the behavior of animals that should be locked up or institutionalized as teenagers.

Last week, we did a segment on the church shooter, the transgender church shooter. And the argument we made is that this young man, his entire childhood has been about affirm, affirm, affirm, affirm. Oh, I'm trans. He can do no wrong. He's trans. You have to affirm, constantly affirm.

And because the left was so dedicated to this whole transgender narrative, any sign, other sign, I mean, that's one, that's a sign, but any other sign of any major, major mental problems, could never be addressed because then they were worried, like, oh, well, then that means that transgender people have a mental illness. And we can't ever say that because that's not true. That's not the right thing. So we have to affirm everything all the time. And black people in America have a very similar thing. It's called the big tree of low expectations.

You've heard that. But it's different than affirm, affirm, affirm. It's more like accommodate, accommodate, accommodate. And the wages of sin is down. Our goal is life, but we see the death and there's, it's all around us. There was a story, or not a story.

There was a 21 year old congressional intern who was shot and killed a mile from the white house. And they captured two of the three people who did it. Two 17 year olds and an 18 year old.

Allegedly.

And these mug shots of these three teenagers are, they're so, these young ones are so dead in the eyes. Their souls have been completely seared and severed from their bodies. themselves and from God. Wonderful, lovely woman called in at the end of the show on Monday and she talked about demons and how when you take a child with no dad, no discipline ever, no accountability to anything at all at any time in his life, no masculine presence at any time, toxic inputs from the world constantly, rap music and everything. They are prime picking for the devil, just easy pickings for a demon to get right in there. And what's going to stop them?

That phone call reminded me of Matthew 12, 42, where it's a story of an evil spirit left a person, and then the spirit said, I will return to my house from which I came. And the Bible says, when it, the spirit came or comes, it finds the house swept and tidy. Then it goes, that sounds good, right? Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself. They go in and settle there. And the last state of that person is worse than the first.

A couple of things about that. scripture that I wanted to go a little deeper in. First, the evil spirit says, I will return to my house. I will return to my house. Amazing. This is about a person who got rid of some bad things in their life, right?

Clean, cleaned up their life, got their act together a bit and is now living with better habits and better routines, but without Jesus, without something that can truly save. So the evil spirit comes back seven times, seven fold. If I may, this is what we need to do ourselves and with our kids in the world. Reject everything that the world is feeding us. You must get rid of everything that this fallen, broken, demon -controlled world is feeding your children and you, and then replace it with what is good, beautiful, and true, and replace it with the Bible and with God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I want to go a little deeper with a little more context in this.

So Jesus told this story. Because a Pharisee said, Teacher, we want to see a sign from you. And Jesus answered and said to them, an evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. Jesus has shown enough signs. There were enough proofs. Nothing Jesus could do at this point would get these people so hard -hearted to believe that he was the son of God.

And the point of the demon story is that if you reject Jesus, you'll be worse off than before. But it does tell us something about demon possession. Matthew Poole, Bible commentary in the 1600s, he said, the devil cannot be at rest. where he hath no mischief to do to men. Meaning the Bible is not going to, the demon is not going to come to you. If there's no mischief, he can, he can act upon you.

Don't give the devil a foothold. The demon can only inhabit someone if he finds it empty. Even if it's all nice and put together and in good looking order, if it's empty, meaning devoid of the Holy Spirit, the devil will make your soul his home. Spurgeon said the devil has no objection to his house being swept and garnished. For a moralist, like a good person, may be as truly his slave as the man of debauched habits. So long as the heart is not occupied by his great foe, God, and he can use the man for his own purposes, the adversary of souls will let him reform as much as he pleases.

" So good. When Satan has a demon has control over your soul, he'll even let you keep your life neat and tidy. Anything to keep you away from God. Remember the greatest lie from the devil, as people say, is getting people to believe that he doesn't exist. And the Bible says he masquerades as an angel of light. Sometimes the demon will cause someone to stab a woman in the neck.

And sometimes a demon will act like the guy who wrote me an email today, telling me to tone down the Bible thumping on the radio. Keep it to the podcast. Demons work in all sorts of different ways. But the point, however it acts, is to keep you away from God. We quoted the screw tape letters the other day by C .

Lewis. This part stood out to me as well. So you have Screwtape a demon telling his nephew, a young demon, that it... gets easier over time to keep him away from the enemy, in this case, God, from their perspective. And he says, all you need to do is distract him with little things here and there. And this is how that chapter ends, this letter.

You will say that these are very small sins, right? So, so Screwtape is saying, hey, just, just like little, little things, just do little things to distract him away from God. He said, you'll say that these are very small things and doubtless, like all young tempters, You're anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness, stabbing someone in the neck. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the enemy, God. 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. Murder is no 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 milestones, without signposts. I share this because I'm studying Romans 2. I'm going to be teaching a class at church this Sunday on Romans 2. And this is part of what I want to talk about is Romans 2. It's easy to read and be like, oh man, yeah, those sinners, they're the worst.

It's easy to look at this guy and the train and be like, oh my gosh, evil. And it is, don't get me wrong. But Romans 2 is about us. It's easy to look at someone with, you know, sins so deep that they'll murder someone, stab a woman in the neck. But demons can work in everyone in more subtle ways, where maybe murder isn't the preferred method of keeping them away from God, but it works just the same. This is just the beginning of us talking about this story.

This is a massively important, I hope, turning point in America.

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September 05, 2025

Dearborn Arabic Police Badge

Politics By Faith, September 5, 2025

I don't blame enemies domestic for taking over. I blame us for letting them.

By faith, thanks for being here. Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, their police department released a new redesigned badge in Arabic. It's in Arabic. The other day we talked about a football player, it's either Eastern or Western Michigan, who, his name on the back of his jersey is in Arabic. Now, on the surface, this is a problem. This is the most surface reason why this is a problem, is I don't know what his name is. I don't know who just made the tackle.

I don't read scribbles. So on the most practical level, that's the problem with that. but obviously there's much deeper issues. Alas, here, Dearborn Heights, the police badge is in Arabic. I've learned that the woman who did this, her name is Emily Murdoch. She's an officer on the police force.

A 35 -year -old white liberal woman, of course, decided to write Arabic on the police badge. Now, Dearborn is named after, have you ever wondered this? I have not. I've never wondered this, ever. And there's something interesting about that I'll share in a moment. But Dearborn is named after a Revolutionary War hero, Colonel Henry Dearborn.

He was a doctor, became a minuteman, worked his way up the ranks, served alongside General Washington during the Revolutionary War. He also served in the War of 1812. He was also Thomas Jefferson's secretary of war. By the way, Trump wants to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War, bring it back to what it was, the Department of War. So Pete Hexeth wouldn't be the secretary of defense, it'd be the secretary of war, like it used to be. So Henry Dearborn was the Secretary of War.

Thomas Jefferson. He was the Secretary of War during the First Barbary War against the Muslims in North Africa. This is where we get the Marine Corps hymn, From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli. So he fought a war against the Muslims in Africa. There's a city named after him, which is now entirely controlled by Muslims. Are you with me on that?

You don't think that is that something or not? I think that's something. Now, a guy called in from Michigan. He said, Slater, you're overreacting. By the third generation of these Muslim immigrants, the Muslim girls are just like American girls. I asked him, I said, also, he goes, Oh, I mean, they're wearing skimpy clothes.

They're wearing makeup. They're listening to rap music. They're just like American girls. He was being dead serious. Like, it's like, I don't worry about it. So it's, it's, you know, no big deal.

Like they're, they wear their burqa around and then they, but you know, they bring a change of clothes to school and they change into the skimpy clothes and then they put the burqa back on. Yeah. They're just like America. And I'm thinking, huh, that's not a great Testament.

To American girls?

Is it? Ah, Slater, don't worry. The third generation Muslim girls, they dress like streetwalkers just like our girls. Do you see the metaphor here? Are you tracking with me? This is why I don't blame the invaders, really.

It's our fault. We don't know who we are. We lost sight of it entirely. We don't know where we come from. I never even thought to wonder where Dearborn, Michigan got its name. Didn't even question it.

But the people of Dearborn, the founders of Dearborn, I should say, out of all the things they could have named their town, they got together, had a committee meeting. I'm assuming it's, hey guys, what do we call this place? I'm sure they had a couple of names. They threw out there and they're like, you know what? Let's go with, go with Henry Dearborn.

And they're like, oh yeah, like definitely. That's great. Henry Dearborn, of course. Colonel Dearborn, that'd be great. Of course we'll name this town after an incredible American hero who I never heard of. Do you see the injustice?

I'm so angry. I'm angry at two things. I'm angry at the adults in my life when I was growing up who did not have the courage to say, this music that you're listening to is terrible and bad, and then present me with music that is good. And I don't mean like, oh, here's the classic rock. I mean, stop listening to that crap rap music. Here, listen to real music.

Here's real actual music that you should listen to. And here's why it's good. I listen to the song, I'll hear the songs that I listened to growing up. I was like, this is such absolute wicked from Satan trash, absolute garbage. And I know all the words to the songs. I'm angry at the culture makers who said, this rap music is cool.

Nelly is, Nelly is cool. Here everyone at this middle -class white high school, everyone here needs to listen to 50 Cent and dance like this. It's like, where was any adult? And I'm also disappointed in all the adults growing up. my life who never said, here is our history. Here's what it is to be an American.

We just floated through. You can't do that. So I don't blame the invaders. We don't know who we are. We lost sight of it. We don't know where we came from.

We lost so much. We forgot so much about who we are. And the invaders, they just picked it up. They didn't take it. We dropped it.

They didn't rip it from our hands.

They just picked it up. And now they have it. It would be something if that caller today called in and said, Slater, You got it all wrong. By the third generation, these Muslim girls, they are Christians and they name their kids George Washington. They know our history and can tell you everything about the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. And they are all Proverbs 31 women through and through fully embracing of the goodness that is American culture and American life.

That was like, wow, okay. As opposed to, oh, Slater, they're just like American girls. They all wear yoga pants and sleep around. god jeez that's so different but that's on us we didn't give them anything to assimilate to that was good yeah if we did live our heritage probably never would have come here in the first place i was reading with the kids last night the story of amaziah king of judah 25 years old when he became king at this point we've had jehu jehoahaz and joah jehoash in israel and Jehoash in Judah. Jehu, Jehoahaz, Jehoash, and Jehoash in Judah.

And we were all reading about it with Jack, John, and James, a lot of Js. So you got the King of Judah, Amaziah, and he got all of his military men together. He counted all of his military. How many guys we got?

300 ,000 men ready for war.

Pretty good. 300 ,000. He's like, you know what? We should get more of them. So he hired 100 ,000 men from Israel. for a hundred talents of silver, pretty penny.

But a prophet came to the King and said, Oh King, do not let the army of Israel go with you for the Lord is not with Israel. God shall make you fall before the enemy. God has the power to help and to overthrow. Remember that line right there. God has the power to help and to overthrow. The word help here is the word meaning assist or to rescue, but has this connotation of coming in in a timely, like just at the right moment.

God has the power to help and to overthrow. If only we believe this to be true today. Now, what's interesting here is hiring a hundred thousand troops for his military made practical sense. The King said, I want to win a battle. I'm going to hire some mercenaries to help out. It made earthly sense.

It made political sense. It made practical sense, but it made no spiritual sense because it is all about God. He has the power to help and to overthrow. Nothing else matters. Nothing else matters. Nothing else matters.

I'm doing this on purpose. It's not like a glitch in your head. Nothing else matters. I can't express enough how many times, nothing else matters. Sometimes you need to hear that thing a lot of times before it finally clicks. Nothing else matters.

God will win a battle with one person. Samson killed over a thousand Philistines with a donkey's jawbone. One, one guy. And God will make you lose a battle with 400 ,000 soldiers. Nothing else matters. So the prophet says you shouldn't do this.

And the king says, well, what about the 100 talents of silver that have already paid? And the man of God answered, the Lord is able to give you much more than this. Do we believe that to be true? So I asked the kids as we were reading this yesterday, I said, so what do you think the king did? And they all guessed that he disobeyed God, because that's what these kings always do. But he actually did obey God, sort of.

He told all the Israelites to go home and he paid them, still paid them, go home. But they were angry. They were angry because they wanted to kill. They wanted to plunder. They wanted more money than even 100 talents of silver. So they went on, they killed a bunch of people anyway.

But then the king, so he obeyed God there, sort of, but he then disobeyed God. He went, he killed the Edomites and he took their idols. He took their idols. He took them, he defeated them and then took them and he bowed down before their idols. And the Bible says, therefore, the anger of the Lord was aroused against Amaziah.

And he sent him a prophet who said to him, why have you sought the gods of the people, which could not rescue their own people from your hand?

Like, what are you doing? That's not right. practical sense. You just defeated them and you're going to take their idols? Clearly their idols are no good. I know that God is determined to destroy you because you've done this and have not heeded my advice.

What an idiot, but we're no better. Obviously it didn't go well for the king. He tried to flee his kingdom, but people brought him back, killed him. This is all 2 Chronicles 25 if you'd like to read it for yourself. It's the same thing over and over again. Just obey God and don't worship idols.

Let's do positive. Obey God. Worship him. Obey God. Worship him. All right, I got to pay off something I said I'd do yesterday.

So this book I have, oh gosh, it's so beautiful. This book, Fragile. 1859. It's called Scripture, Emblems, and Allegories. Let me go to the main page here. It has a different title, a longer title.

Religious Emblems, being a series of emblematic engravings with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections. designed to illustrate divine truth in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity by William Holmes, minister of the gospel and John W. Barber, author of The Elements of General History, et cetera.

Improved edition 1859.

It's so good.

I'm just going to read.

I'm going to read it. So you can stop the podcast now if you don't want story time. I got to read this because I want to do something with this. I want to take I got to be so fragile with this book. I want to take pictures of this and put it on the Internet and do like a series of this. So here we have a picture of a Christian soldier.

Here's what it says, the Christian hero here has made his stand. obedient to his captain's great command, in panoply divine, equipped to complete. No danger dreads, no foe he fears to meet. Gosh, I just wish Christians lived like this. Truth wove the girdle that his loins adorn. This bears him scatheless through the battle storms.

A sense of pardon guards each vital part and forms the breastplate that defends his heart. For brazen grieves, obedience he takes. Through thorny paths, his onward progress makes. Hope of salvation is his helmet fair. Though oft perplexed, it saves him from despair. Hope of salvation, though oft perplexed, saves him from despair.

He wields, and not in vain, a trusty sword. A right good blade it is, Jehovah's word. The spirit's weapon, it will each knot untie, each foe disarm, and make Apollyon fly. Apollyon's in Revelation. O 'er all the rest, he grasps faith's mighty shield. and onward rushes to the battlefield.

Let me read now the analysis. As soon as one enlists himself as a soldier of Jesus Christ, that moment, the world becomes his enemy. It happens to him as it fell out to the Gibeonites. When they made peace with Joshua, the neighboring nations were highly offended and said to one another, come, let us unite our forces that we may smite Gibeon. For it hath made peace with Joshua, and with the children of Israel. " The Gibeonites, that's a crazy story.

They're the people who knew Joshua was coming and they pretended to be these travelers from a distant land and they tricked Joshua into coming. alliance. It didn't go well for them after that, but not that bad because then all the neighboring kingdoms went to go attack the Gibeonites and Joshua protected them. This is the scene in Joshua 10 where there's hail and God also stopped the sun. But there are other foes more mighty and fearful against whom he has to contend. This is you.

Satan, after 6000 years of practice in the art of destroying souls, is a powerful opponent. He goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood merely, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of the world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore, on this account, take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. There's two kinds of armor, offensive and defensive, one to attack the foe, the other to protect ourselves. It is remarkable that but one weapon is mentioned by the apostle as belonging to the offensive kind, and that is the sword.

All the rest are defensive. Among the Grecian warriors, there were at least nine different weapons with which they assailed their enemies. Yet the apostle thinks that for the Christian, one is enough. The captain of our salvation has provided us with all that is necessary for the Christian warfare. Is our head exposed to the assaults of the devil? He has furnished us with a helmet to guard it.

This is called in another place the hope of salvation. This good hope prepares the soldier for the warfare, upholds him in it, and brings him off a conqueror. Is the heart liable to be pierced? There's a breastplate provided to protect it. It is the breastplate of righteousness. This is a conscientiousness, not only of his own sincerity, but also of his favorable acceptance with God.

He feels that he is honest in his profession of attachment to the Savior and that Christ his captain, acknowledges him for a true soldier. The feet being exposed to injuries, a pair of brass boots are given to protect him. It would not have answered any good purpose to protect the head, oftentimes, unless the feet likewise were provided for. If the feet were wounded, the soldier could not stand to fight the foe. Neither could he pursue him if conquered.

The greaves simply prompt obedience to the captain's commands. With this, rough places become as plain and the crooked as straight.

Greaves are like shin guards.

Let's see here. The girdle is given to keep the rest of the armor in its place and to strengthen the loins. Truth accomplishes this for the Christian soldier. By this, he discovers who are his enemies, their mode of attack, and the best way to resist them. A shield also is provided. It's called the shield of faith, by which is able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

Finally, a sword is put into his hands. With this, he is to inflict deadly wounds on all his foes. It's called the sword of the spirit because the word of God was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way, but by taking heed, thereto according to thy word. By the clear instruction, by the powerful motives, and by the glorious encouragement of the word of God, the Christian soldier puts all his foes to flight.

That was just the first picture I opened up to in this book.

We didn't fight.

Evil one will take over.

But if we do fight, who could ever beat us?

No one.

Ever. Mike Slater dot Locals dot com.

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