MikeSlater
Politics • Spirituality/Belief • Culture
Politics By Faith Podcast, May 20, 2023
Why We Believe The Mindless Narrative
May 19, 2023

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We have a media today that is fueled not by truth, but by clicks. And a media that will make up the most absurd stories (Trump with prostitutes in Moscow) and people run with it assuming it's true. Today we'll share two viral tiktoks to prove this point and bring it back to the false prophet Hananiah to prove there's nothing new under the sun.


Welcome to Politics by Faith. I'm Mike Slater. Friendly reminder that the transcript of every podcast we do is on MikeSlater.Locals.com. If you're new to the podcast, what we do is we take something in the news that is causing anxiety and we don't like anxiety. I don't want anxiety. So to get rid of it, we talk about the story, then we get down to the root of what's really going on in the story. Like, what is the root sin, basically. Then we give some historical perspective and a biblical story, some biblical piece to help that anxiety go away, and then something that is in our control.

0:00:36
So I saw two very disturbing TikTok videos. I don't have TikTok, but they went viral outside of TikTok. And I think it says a lot about where we are. First, this one's in London. Three younger, I don't know the ages, I don't know if they're in high school, maybe just out, 20, something like that. Three younger black guys. By the way, the race doesn't matter. This is all behavior of the underclass. I cannot recommend enough a book by Theodore Dalrymple, it's called Life at the Bottom, and it's about the underclass of England, race is irrelevant.

0:01:14
So there's this TikTok guy who makes viral videos and the game is walking into random houses. Now it's worth noting that in London, no one has guns. So you could play that game over there. So he's walking down the street with, it looks like two other guys. He got three guys in total. And there's a woman outside of her house, in the front, in the garden. So these three guys just walk into her house.

0:01:45
And she's outside like, what are you doing? And she's like, James, or whatever his name is, or James, James! And he's downstairs, and there's a couple of little kids downstairs with him, and here's what happens. Get inside the house, let's go. Hey, Adam. ♪ I'm trying to go, but I can't go ♪ James? James?

0:02:10
James? James? James? James? Hi. You man come. Hello James. We need to speak to James. James. Hi. Hi. Oh. Is this where the study group is? No. No. What the hell is this? No. Now, what happens? Come on, come on, come on.

0:02:31
We're just in the study group. We've got kids, man. Oh, you've got kids on the phone. Oh, I thought this was a study group. I actually thought. And it's a study group. Now, fortunately for everyone, they just walk away. And that's the end of it. Now, again, there's a very high likelihood that if this happened in Texas, he'd be shot. Now, think about that, too, by the way. What if he did, or what if the guy happened to have a knife in his hand and he stabs the TikTok influencer star?

0:03:03
We do like a Daniel Penney situation. He'd be charged with murder. Could you imagine the headlines if a 40-year-old white guy shot three black teenagers? No other facts would be relevant. It wouldn't matter that they walked into his house. None of that would matter. Or even if this was in London and he just had a knife. If a white guy stabbed a black teenager, oh, he was just looking for something to eat. The facts would not matter. Just like the second story. Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.

0:03:35
A woman, employee of the hospital, she's a physician's assistant, six months pregnant, by the way, the original New York Post story was that she leaves work and steals a bike from a young black man. Now in New York City they have these bikes, they're called city bikes that you can rent CITI, like the bank, and the bikes, they're locked up in these stalls and you pay with your credit card or your phone and then the bike unlocks and then it charges you until you put it in some other stall, wherever you're going, right?

0:04:06
So the claim is that a young black man took the bike out and she stole it from him and luckily he got it on video and here she is screaming and crying about it, acting like a Karen. New York Post headline, NYC hospital Karen denies trying to steal city bike from young black man. So here's the video that that young black man took. Oh, I took it. Oh, You're not buying you're not crying.

0:05:14
I got you up in here. Where? You pulled it out? There's a very popular guy on Twitter. He said a suspected white supremacist woman that's the lead tried to steal a city bike from a black kid after he paid for it. None of this is true. And when him and his friends wouldn't allow her to steal it she went through all the Karen tactics to try to get the black youths hemmed up. Screaming for help, fake crying, mayo babbling. Did it sound like at the end of that video did it sound like one of the guys said the baby's gonna come out retarded? I think that's what I heard. So this whole thing is framed as she stole his bike and it took about a day or so before her lawyers released her receipt that showed of course she was the one who paid for it. But for whatever reason they decided to come up to her and video it all and try to ruin her life.

0:06:53
She was placed on leave by the hospital because people thought she was a white supremacist. She was in the New York Post as a white supremacist. Jeez. All right. So, we have two things going on here. We have in the second story people believing things immediately without any evidence whatsoever, but believing it so easily because it fits a narrative. And in the first story we have some sensationalism. We have a show. We have watch this, click this. And I want to make the argument here that this is nothing new. There's nothing new under the sun. And there's something pretty darn close to this in the Old Testament, which always blows my mind how everything's in the Bible. So that's the goal. We'll see if it works.

0:07:39
In my head it's great. I'll see if I can make sense of it with words. But what's really going on here? So we got pride involved, we have people doing deceitful things thinking they're invincible. In this case they may be right actually. I'm sure none of these videos is the complete disregard for truth, of course, and proper boundaries, but this added element of doing it for views. So we're going to toss to the wind. We're going to completely throw away and disregard proper civilized behavior for views because Because what these guys did, they themselves put online for people to watch and laugh at and get more followers and this creates this mob mentality.

0:08:36
We talked about mobs earlier in the week and the importance of avoiding the mob. But with social media, everyone creates their own mob even if it's just like a made up one in their head. But they're putting it online so it's like we're cultivating a mob of followers wherever we go, and that causes people to do things that they normally wouldn't do, because now they're egged on by their so-called fans. And we, for a decade or so now, we've just been acting in extra irrational ways.

0:09:07
I don't think those three guys in London would have done that if they weren't filming themselves for views. And I don't think these, maybe five guys or so, and I think it was five guys in New York City, would have done that if they weren't filming it for laughs either. Social media has made people act out of their minds even more than usual. You know what I think of it like, so I don't like birds.

0:09:30
Let's see if this makes sense. I don't like birds. Birds have these beady little eyes and they have no souls. So, they're scary to me because they don't care. From far away, they're fine. Oh, they're beautiful birds, whatever. But a bird up close, I don't like them because they have no moral compass. A friend of mine, here's what I mean.

0:09:53
A friend of mine, his two-year-old son was crawling into a chicken coop and he got stuck headfirst inside of a chicken coop. And the chickens started pecking at his head and they almost pecked his eyes out if dad wasn't there to scare the birds away and pull his son out. If dad wasn't there those birds would have pecked out the kids eyeballs and not even cared. They wouldn't have felt bad. The chickens weren't thinking, well this innocent little boy might need these eyes. This is not proper behavior. This is not becoming of a bird. They just would have eaten his eyeballs and then they would have gone back to eating the bugs off the ground. You wouldn't know that.

0:10:35
I felt like birds and you could see him in the eyes. You look in their eyes you're like oh you don't have a soul and I feel like social media has turned people into equally mindless and immoral zombies. You're like oh I'll just eat this person's eyeballs out. We'll get me views. Great, done. And we've all been made zombified by phones or we've seen it. Hey kids, can you come here for a second? Yeah, yeah, yeah, dad. It's great.

0:11:03
No, I love it. Yeah, yeah. You want, oh yeah, be right there. Right? Or you've done it yourself, right? You're stuck in your phone. It's bad enough when a phone distracts you so much that you go from being a moral, present person into being an absent-minded, amoral person, but it's worse when it goes even a step further into social media making you an immoral person.

0:11:29
You do evil things, and your conscience is so seared you don't even care. You don't even know. You're just like, will this get me views? Okay, great, I'll do it. Let's lament this for a little bit, and then we'll give some history and some biblical examples, because this actually is nothing new, which is supposed to make the anxiety go away, but I do think it's worse now.

0:11:58
But let's lament. It all makes me very uneasy. We're just not able to live together as human beings anymore. On my local radio show the other day, there's a town in San Diego that voted to no longer open up their city government sessions with a prayer. And my first thought was, I'm shocked they even still do that. But it's just a shame that we're not a Christian country anymore. It's a shame that we don't have shared values. By the way, that's why I'm so grateful for the Public Square app, if I may. This is actually a perfect time to talk about it.

0:12:39
We do not live amongst each other with shared values. We just don't. And our founders are very worried about that. I lament it, but I'm also not going to continue to give my money to people who have not just different values, but antithetical values, hate my values and have the opposite one. I can't do it. I'm not going to give my money to Adidas and they're just going to have men in women's bathing suits. I can't. I'm not doing it.

0:13:08
So Public Square is my way out. They have curated businesses across the country and near you, restaurants, coffee shops, banks, clothing, makeup, whatever, everything, you name a thing, cars, whatever. And the owners of the businesses have to agree to five values in order to be featured on the app. And you can rest assured, you can have confidence and a joy in knowing that you are spending with people who share your values. Public Square app, totally free to download.

0:13:41
And you go to publicsq.com, you can read those five values on the website. Just scroll way down to the bottom. Public Square app, totally free download. And I'm grateful it's here. I lament that we need it. Because we just don't have a similar worldview anymore. And we don't all need to agree like lockstep, but if 70% of people had a biblical worldview, we'd be a thriving unified nation. John Adams said our Constitution was only made for a moral and religious people.

0:14:11
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. I came across this Dwight D Eisenhower quote the other day. George Weigel, he wrote a great piece called Ike's Insight in First Things Magazine. So this was 1952. It was right before the inauguration and he was speaking at some event. It just won World War II and he said, our form of government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith and I don't care what it is. Like, now, I do care what it is chaos. It's this pluralist diversity is our strength nonsense that's gonna kill us. Let me quote George Weigel here. Authentic religious faith reminds us that this world is not all there is and our obligations extend beyond me. Now, one of the things that social media is it's all about me, me, me, me, me. The idea that a camera can be turned around and constantly focused on me all the time, that's new. So Christianity and authentic religious faith, again, there's more than just the here and now and my obligations are beyond just me. He says, what does any of this have to do though with our form of government? A great deal, I would suggest.

0:15:38
As even a cursory historical survey confirms, self-governance is not the norm in human affairs. One or another form of authoritarianism is. You say, oh, but Slater, we don't have an authoritarian government, we have a democracy. Okay, well, here's the deal. Germany, prior to World War II, created the Weimar Republic. It's because the new government was not formed in Berlin, but it was formed in Weimar. This new government was formed by some of the finest minds of the time.

0:16:06
The designers got the mechanisms of democracy right. Separations of powers, regular elections, independent judiciary, etc. But when the Great Depression brought unbearable pressure to bear on that new democracy, the Weimar Republic crumbled. Then Hitler's third right came into power in an election that wrote the obituary for interwar Germany's brief experiment in democratic self-government. The crucial lesson to be drawn from that debacle is that democracy is not a matter of institutions and procedures alone. So they had the ingredients, they had the separation of powers, they had this, they like on the surface it looked like they had all the parts, but that's not all it takes. It also takes a critical mass of citizens, critical mass. That's why I was talking about like a 70% earlier.

0:16:49
I don't know what the percentage is, but it's more than we have now. It takes a critical mass of citizens living by certain virtues and the convictions that undergird them to make a democracy work so that the result is individual human flourishing and social solidarity. I love that so much. All of the things we take for granted, rule of law, which we talked about last week, free and fair elections, to just treating each other decently, decently like you don't just walk into someone's house randomly, you don't steal things from people and video it to try and ruin their life.

0:17:25
These are all things that we've taken for granted. They're not normal. Like the old way of living in America, the one that you grew up in, that was not normal. That was an anomaly. You have to work to get that. And I lament that it's like we've given up or forgotten and now we're in a very different place. All right, let's get to the history. I just thought of a Ben Franklin quote.

0:18:00
Let me share it at the end of the episode here. So, let's start with history and then we'll get to the Bible. Again, we have two things going on here. We have the sensational video. Look at me, I'm going to go into someone's house for views. And then the second story is the lying about something and us just believing it so quickly because it appeals to a preconceived notion like, oh, clearly the nurse or the physician's assistant, the pregnant physician's assistant stole the bike from the five black kids, five black young men.

0:18:35
Clearly that's what happened. Like, what? Why would we believe that? So we're putting those two things together here. And I think of yellow journalism. Okay, why have I been thinking about that? You know the Durham report, right? This idea that Donald Trump was a Russian asset, Russia collusion. Remember 2016 to 2020, all we heard about was Russia collusion, Russia stole the election.

0:18:56
And excuse me if there's any kids listening right now, but the claim was that the Kremlin had video of Donald Trump urinating on prostitutes in Moscow. And because of that, they were able to control Trump and steal the election for him in 2016. That was the, that is insane. That is absolutely insane. But the media ran with it and would not quiet about, would not hush about it for four years. And the Durham report came out and said, oh yeah, that's a lie. Like that, none of this ever happened.

0:19:35
And the Washington Post and the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for it. A Pulitzer Prize back in 2018. Here's what they said, For deeply sourced, relentless, that's for sure, reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation's understanding of Russian interference didn't happen in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the president-elect's transition team, and his eventual administration.

0:20:01
All of it completely made up and they still want a Pulitzer for it. New York Times had no comment when asked if they're gonna return it and the Washington Post said, the Post stands by its reporting. Let me quote John Nolte. He said, you gotta understand what has happened to the left in this country, which includes the corporate media.

0:20:17
To them, the goal of an American living under centralized government fascism is so moral that anything done to further that goal is moral. What they want is so good to them, so righteous, so moral, they will do anything to get their even lie. And they won a Pulitzer Prize for it all. But then it got me thinking about Pulitzer. It's named after Joseph Pulitzer. This is the main guy behind yellow journalism. Do you remember that term from eighth grade social studies class?

0:20:54
This was an era in American media, late 1800s, led by Joseph Pulitzer, also Hearst, kind of an East coast, West coast battle, but the accusations were that these guys were making up wild sensationalist, completely unproven claims to get more readers. Sound familiar? We haven't changed a lick. Social media today is no different. Breaking news! Oh look at this Karen! She's crying! She's sobbing! She stole a bike from black people! Wild sensationalist unproven claims for clicks. Back then there weren't clicks but sales, today clicks. And now people with social media have taken that upon themselves.

0:21:43
Look at this wild and crazy thing I'm gonna do for views. And it's made everyone lose their minds. But the problem is because of broken human nature, it works. So when Pulitzer took over the New York World newspaper, it was a failing newspaper, they were losing money, they had 15,000 readers, and in a very short amount of time they were the biggest newspaper in the country with 600,000. They went from 15,000 to 600,000.

0:22:06
I've told the story a lot here of Woodrow Wilson, the very short of it. In 1919, Woodrow Wilson had a stroke and they kept it a secret for a year. And they kept him hidden for a year. But Louis Seibel did an interview with Woodrow Wilson, wrote this big long article about how wonderful he is and healthy and vibrant. And he's never been sharper and clearer and healthier. And he now has like a new lease on life and a new understanding of what's really important.

0:22:28
He's actually a better president now than before the stroke and he won a Pulitzer Prize for it and it was totally made up. He made up the whole thing. Woodrow Wilson was in awful shape. You could barely get out of bed. He couldn't put sentences together and he made up the whole thing. Lewis Seibold won a Pulitzer for it. He won a Pulitzer Prize and it was in the New York World newspaper. It was in Joseph P. Olson's newspaper. But you just think today how many stories are we told that just are not true at all. The Durham report, Russia collusion never happened. The Republicans in Kentucky just nominated for their governor, I think he was the Attorney General of Kentucky, who did not go after the police officers for killing Breonna Taylor.

0:23:15
Well, we were told that these police officers shot Breonna Taylor because they went to the wrong house. And it wasn't the wrong house, it was the right house. And they were looking for her in the right house and there was a guy inside who shot at them first. But you didn't hear the true story. I'm thinking of, because we're talking about Trump Charlottesville, the very fine people on both sides, lie, like this stuff never happened. But isn't it all just the same yellow journalism that Joseph Pulitzer was famous for?

0:23:43
Buys, reads, clicks. And today, everyone's in it for the clicks. Everyone's in it for the views. Everyone's in it for the follows. And we just go with it, especially if it fits what we really want to hear. Let me give you the biblical example. So I'm reading through Jeremiah and it's just amazing to me how relevant this is for us. These are a people who turned away from God and who are being punished for it. And this is what Jeremiah is warning them about. So Jeremiah was an Israelite priest who lived in Jerusalem and he was the prophet that God used to warn people, the people of Israel, to obey God or else God will punish you by the Babylonians coming from the north and taking over Jerusalem.

0:24:35
And he was right, of course. Israel broke the covenant with God. They were worshipping other gods, Canaanite gods, everywhere. Their leaders became corrupt. They abandoned the Torah. They were engaged in child sacrifice to Baal. It was like awful stuff. So in chapter seven, God says that the enemy from the north is gonna come. Well, God tells Jeremiah, and Jeremiah says that the enemy from the north, Babylon is gonna come and take us over.

0:25:00
Let's jump forward to Jeremiah 28. So at this point, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon put a puppet king in charge in Judah. So a few years go by, and the people of Judah thought that it was now time to rebel against Babylon. Jeremiah in chapter 27 says no don't do that don't rebel you need to just serve the king of Babylon wait and whatever you do do not listen to the false prophets for they are prophesying lies to you. It says 28 verse 15 I have not sent them declares the board they are prophesying lies in my name therefore I will banish you and you will perish both you and the prophets who prophesy to you." That was Jeremiah's message. Enter Hananiah. So Hananiah was a false prophet and he thought that Jeremiah's message was a real downer. So he claimed to be a spokesperson from God. That's what prophet means, he's a spokesperson. He was not. He comes in and says, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel saying I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon within two full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord's house the Babylonians took everything out of the temple I will I will return I will bring back all the vessels of the Lord's house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried about one and I will bring back to this place the son of the king with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon." Now, Jeremiah, the true prophet, in chapter 27, said that they will be under the yoke of the king of Babylon. And Hananiah says, no, no, the Lord says, I will break the yoke. Which of those two messages do you think was more popular to the people of Judah? Which one do you think would have gotten more clicks? If each of these guys were running a church today, which one do you think people would go to? If each of these two guys had a TV show, which one do you think people would watch? Well, Hananiah has had a very popular message. It just wasn't true. Bible commentator F.B. Mayer, he says, men who follow simply their own thoughts or are deeply dyed with the spirit of society around them, are apt to prophesy smooth things, to such as live selfish and worldly lives." In other words, people want to hear what they want to hear.

0:27:28
Just like with the media. If someone says something that fits the narrative, no matter how insane it is, we are quick to believe it, if it fits the narrative, if it fits what we so desperately want to be true. So, of course, who did the king of Judah believe? Jeremiah saying, nope, keep going under the yoke of Babylon. Or did the king choose Hananiah? So, Jeremiah's response was, and this is all done in public, right? So, Jeremiah's response was, listen, I hope you're right. I wish you were right. And then Jeremiah says, but look at the prophets who came before me, Joel, Amos, Micah, Nahu, Habakkuk. They all spoke messages just like I'm speaking now from God and they were right.

0:28:12
But still they didn't believe him. Then there was a cool scene. So Jeremiah, to prove his point, he had a prop. He was actually wearing a yoke around his neck. So Hananiah goes over and he breaks it. And then he gives this big speech. He says, thus says the Lord, even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. So, he goes over, breaks the yoke and Lord's like, see, this is what I'm gonna. So, not only do they have the nice, smooth words, he put on a nice show. Just like our media often does. It all looks very fancy.

0:28:48
Then, God, this is later, then God spoke to Jeremiah to go tell Hananiah and said, you have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made in their place yokes of iron. I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and they shall serve him. In other words, nice try. Nice try, Hananiah. You can't beat God. But don't worry for Hananiah. It ended up okay for the false prophet.

0:29:23
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah, The prophet, hear now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie. Therefore, says the Lord, behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the Lord." So Hananiah the prophet died in the same year. It did go badly for him. So to relate this to today, Hananiah told the people what they wanted to hear. He did not want to consider the reality of the situation. He did what was right in his own eyes and he did it in a flashy way, in a way that deceived people from what was true.

0:30:12
Those two social media videos just made me think of this story as everything is so sensational, everything is so convenient, all just fits perfectly. People aren't asking questions, and people are acting out of their minds, not using a dose of common sense, or even wanting to. It's just what makes me feel better. All right, Slater, what's in my control? There's this term going around. I heard it first from Albert Moeller. He was referencing an article in the Wall Street Journal called a diet of darkness, a diet of darkness that the article in the Wall Street Journal is TikTok feeds teens a diet of darkness. A recent study found that when researchers created accounts belonging to fictitious 13 year olds, they were quickly inundated with videos about eating disorders, body image, self harm, and suicide. Of course they were it's a Chinese spyware weapon of war. This is what China was intentionally sending to 13 year olds.

0:31:17
Another article this week in the New York Times, how do you actually help a suicidal teen? It's a dark time for therapists treating adolescents in despair. Gallup poll from this week, US depression rates reach new highs. I think there's a lot of things going on here. But one of the major problems is social media. We've got to protect our kids from this stuff. It is changing our kids, it's changing all of us.

0:31:39
It's changing our nation. It's changing the soul and character and behavior of our nation. It is bad news. And it's such a bummer. And I'm sorry, I hate it. If you happen to have raised your kids in this era when we didn't really know better, I was raised just before it. So I, for the most part, escaped it. Although I have my own temptations as a young adult now. My kids, fortunately, are being raised when we have enough knowledge and wisdom to know it's dangerous, so I'll be able to protect them from it.

0:32:11
I just mourn for the kids who got caught up in it. So that's the first. We need to think of social media as just a deadly poison. It is a deadly poison. Boys and girls, I beg of you, keep your kids off of it. Going back to that author of from First Things magazine, we need to make sure we're feeding ourselves spiritual nourishment, because that will help us better detect the lies and even more crave the truth. George Weigel wrote, as C.S. Lewis observed, our spiritual natures demand nourishment.

0:32:55
Denied healthy food, they will ingest poison to the detriment of both authentic religion and democratic public life. We need to feed our spiritual life with true eternal things. Next week's morning motivations are about growing in grace. And the conclusion, I'll give you a little sneak peek, once we set the groundwork for the fact that we need to grow in grace, then do we want to grow in grace? And then how do we grow in grace?

0:33:20
It's pray, read the Bible, self-examine. That's it. Got to pray, got to read the Bible, self-examine. And you know, you'll be growing in grace. One of the signs is you will take more interest in spiritual things every year. So your desire, you just need spiritual nourishment every day and then the silliness of life will decrease. Like your desire for the silly things will go down. And JC Rao makes the point, he's like, listen, not all the amusements in life are inherently sinful, right?

0:33:57
And you don't need to condemn people who engage them to hell, right? but they just take less and less of a hold over your life and you seek more eternal affections That's a sign that you're growing in grace. That's a beautiful thing So we need to do that and the more you feed yourself spiritual truth spiritual nourishment The more you need of it, and that's great. And then, just to reiterate that point, the more spiritual nourishment you have, you'll be better to see the lies, and it's less likely that you'll be tricked by the false prophets of today.

0:34:40
All right, so how do we end here? What are you gonna leave me with? Well, Exodus 23 says, do not spread false reports, and do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. Right, that's it. I should have come out with that. Do not spread false reports. Don't lie. That's what the guys in the second video did and do not follow the crowd in doing wrong.

0:35:00
That's the first video was they were a part of the crowd. Maybe they were leaving the crowd, but same idea. They were doing wrong and they're doing it with a crowd amidst the crowd, with their own mob. Exodus 23, do not spread false reports. Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. But I want to leave you with this Ben Franklin quote that I just came across. Let me pause here for one second. Let me go get it. All right, here it is. I'm back. This is James Madison writing about what Ben Franklin said in 1787. So Ben Franklin, this is the Constitutional Convention and things weren't going that well. He stood up and said, Mr. President, the small progress we have made after four or five weeks, our different sentiments on almost every question, is, me thinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which have been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we have viewed modern states all around Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation, it's like feeling hopeless.

0:36:25
In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor. We prayed and it worked and you know it.

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To that kind of providence, we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national happiness. And we have now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? Gosh, can't you relate to that in your life too? I was thinking about, oh, the NICU, we were praying every day and now, oh, we're good now. I have lived, sir, a long time. And the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice? Is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this.

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And I also believe that without his concerning aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little political local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and byword down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business." Benjamin Franklin.

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How beautiful is that? We have to pray the same for our country. We have to pray for the same in our lives. To go back to Exodus 23, God, I don't want to spread false reports. I don't want to follow the crowd in doing wrong. I only want to know the truth. I only want to know more about you. This podcast is brought to you by Patriot Gold Group, PatriotGoldGroup.com. Last week on the TV, we did a special on the war on the US dollar and it was fascinating. We talked about the central bank digital currency, CBDC, and just that is the ultimate tool of tyranny. And we talked about the dollar no longer being the reserve currency of the world and what that means for you and me and what that means for gold.

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Bryan Johnson Will Die
Politics By Faith, July 8, 2026

Bryan Johnson is a super-rich tech bro who thinks he can biohack his way to immortality. He was just diagnosed with an incurable disease. We can criticize his foolishness, but the truth is, we aren't much different from him.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so you can walk away with peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day. That can be, make me anxious. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. 

And if you could subscribe to our YouTube page, that'd be great. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. The story of the day today, Brian Johnson is going to die. Here's what really happened. Have you ever come across this guy before? 

Is that name ring a bell? Brian Johnson. He's a super rich Silicon Valley man. venture capitalist guy. He's not a Christian, so he worships the self. That's what happens when you're not a Christian, you worship yourself. And his form of self -worship is to see if he can live forever. 

That's his goal. His goal, his life goal is to live forever. Now, different tech bros have different ways of doing this. One way is through AI. So the idea here is you upload your entire life and your writings and your emails and all your thoughts up into this AI server so that when you die, you live forever in a computer, right? So people can communicate with you. 

And, and, and you're like, imagine like emailing or texting a deceased parent or child or loved one. That's just, it's just terrifying to me. And so the idea of it is how much, this is the question, like how much of our lives are we going to be living in AI so that when you die, you don't even know you're dead. Like you're still living on in AI. That's what the technology people today, a lot of these tech guys want to try to figure out and make it so that you don't even know you're dead. Like you really think you are living forever. 

It's very matrix sounding, but that's one terrifying thing that some tech guys are doing right now. basically like they want AI to replace the soul so that your soul can live on. Your soul, your AI soul can live on forever here on earth. The other way that this, I want to live forever idea is being implemented is with this guy. Brian Johnson decided that the way he's going to live forever is to literally live forever. like his body he wants his body so i guess a good way of putting this is the the first version i brought up is that's this like fake soul to live on forever brian johnson wants his body to live forever so he's done everything he can to like hack his body. 

He goes to bed at 8 .30 every night, wakes up at 4 .30 precisely every single morning. Goes immediately underneath these lights to set his circadian rhythms. He does, I don't know, his electrode heart rate variability therapy. He does this precise workout regime, eats a precise number of calories every day. He only eats from 6 a . m. 

to 11 a . m. every day, takes like 100 pills a day. Every you know, zinc, all the vitamins and stuff you could possibly imagine, spends millions of dollars a year. He built this home laboratory with this dedicated medical staff to track every aspect of his health, constantly taking blood panels, red light therapy, gene therapies, tried this plasma stuff. One of the creepy ones that got a lot of attention a couple years ago is he would take plasma from his son and inject it into himself, right? 

He claims He has the body of an 18 year old, but he puts every aspect of life into like a checklist, like a box. So one of his aspects of health is he wants to meet with one in -person, he has to have one in -person friendship contact a week to support his social health. And you're like, yeah, that's a good thing to do, but checking a box, that's not really in the spirit of friendship or life. His philosophy, and this is so sad, his philosophy, this is the name of his documentary that he made, like this is his, If you go to his Twitter page or his Facebook page, like this is what it says up at the top is don't die. It's like he's gamified his body for maximum longevity, but he was just diagnosed with an incurable stomach disease. 

He says his stomach is eating itself. So he is going to die. Now we're all going to die. Not sure when exactly. Some people have a better idea of when, as you get closer to the end, kind of a better idea of when the end will be. But even then, you don't know for sure. 

But I can assure you, you will die. We don't like to think about this. I don't know why. I like to think about it. We should think about it. We used to live in a society where you couldn't not think about it. 

People were dying all the time. You probably had six kids who died in child when they were born. Probably had a wife or two who died giving birth. Like you were surrounded by death all the time. Today we're not. We've sanitized it from pretty much every aspect of our life. 

But death was a pretty normal thing. Like most people saw many people die in their life. Have you seen anyone die? Really? And even maybe you think you have in the hospital. or something, like my dad in the hospital, it was also sanitized and hospital -like. 

And you know, then even then the body's whisked away and that's, that's the end, right? So we don't really have any associations with death like we used to. So we kind of forget that we're going to die. So I'm just here to tell you, you will. Now, not everyone has died. True. 

Enoch and Elijah, those are the only two. They were taken by God. Actually, I think the Bible is pretty funny on this. I don't, I don't think the intention here was to be funny, but in Genesis five, uh, it says the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years and he had other sons and daughters. Thus, all the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died. When Seth lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh. 

Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters. Thus, all the days of Seth were 912 years and he died. That's the genealogy of Genesis 5. It keeps going on and on and on and it always ends with, and he died. But Enoch was taken by God and Elijah and Elisha were walking together and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. Those are the two. 

And, uh, Brian Johnson's never going to join that list because you cannot hack your way to immortality. And God, so the first thing is you will die. Second thing, God already knows how long you're going to live. He knows when you're going to die and how. Job 14, 5, our days are fixed. The number of our months with you, you set a statute, a statute, and we can't exceed it. 

Our days are fixed. Psalm 139, 16, your eyes saw my unformed substance and your book were written. Every one of them, the days that were formed for me. when as yet there was none of them. So God knows even before you were born, how long you would live. God's outside of time and he knows everything. 

So you can't biohack your way past God's control and power and like take the right number of vitamins. Now, I don't want to totally dismiss all of this. Like some people take that to mean like, well, I can just do whatever. And like, there are things that are still in your control within the days that you have. So God may know that you're going to die when you're 82 years and six days. Oh, but it's not that close to your birthday. 

Although it'd be pretty cool to make it to 82. It's something to celebrate. Whatever the day is, he may have those numbered, but there are things in your control that you can do to make those 82 years and six days better than they otherwise would. Right. Does that make sense? So the amount you move, exercise, all that stuff. 

Right. So there are some things that are within your control, but the days are not. And it's sad that someone could be so deluded into thinking that they can live forever in their earthly body. Maybe it's even worse that someone would want to live forever in their earthly body. So let's go to the Bible. Um, because here's the truth. 

We can talk about how sad it is Brian Johnson for him to live his life in this way, but we all kind of live like it. Not with the doctors and the constant blood panels and all that stuff. We don't, no one lives like that, but we live with the same mentality. We all live like we're going to live forever. or we live like this is all there is. We live like we're going to live forever because we don't. 

do what we need to do now. We don't take care of the things we need to take care of now. We don't do the things we need to do now as if we have forever to do them. And we live like this. We live like this is all there is when we don't consider all the actions, all of our actions based on eternity. This one short blip that we call life. 

We live like this short blip of existence. Is this the end of it? But in reality, eternity is forever. It's sad because Brian Johnson dedicating his life to keeping this forever. But this isn't forever, and it's not meant to be forever, and it's not forever, and it shouldn't be forever, and I don't even want it to be forever, but eternity is. We just can't comprehend it. 

We can't comprehend eternity. Our heads can't wrap our head around it. There's no end to it. We just can't think that way. So we live our life in a way that says, you know, YOLO, you only live once. Who cares what I do here? 

And we live in this fallen atheist society that doesn't even think heaven exists or hell. So we don't think that there's an eternity after it. So as delusional and sad as you think Brian Johnson is, we, for the most part, are much better. We spend so much time on the things of this world and planning for things that we think are coming. And there's prudence, of course. Proverbs talks all about it, but we don't think about eternity. 

I mean, Jesus is so clear. Treasure and set your treasure in heaven. What about my 401k now? It's like, yeah, okay. 401k now, but also treasure in heaven. Like that's where it needs to be. 

And life is a vapor. The Bible says life is a vapor. So how should we live our life? Well, with eternity in mind, with the afterlife in mind. Our life today should be lived with the afterlife in mind. Brian Johnson, his main problem was he didn't think there was an afterlife or he wants to avoid the afterlife. 

He can't. But I want to live in such a way now that I only am considering the afterlife. Jonathan Edwards, he said, our lives, though short, are deep, beautiful, and meaningful if we view them as means to glorify the eternal God. When Jonathan Edwards was young, he was like 19, he vowed, while I do live, I should live with all my might to glorify God. Why is Brian? What does Brian Johnson live for? 

His motto was don't die. Big whoop. Jonathan Edwards motto was something more like live for eternity. And of course, with that comes a yearning to die. I can't wait to die. How great will it be to be in heaven? 

Why do I get to heaven? Great question. Believe that Jesus is the son of God who died for your sins and go get baptized. Peter said, and it's the only way you can't. Avoid it. You can't avoid dying. 

And when you do die, go in one of two places. Peter said in Acts 4 .12, salvation is found in no one else for there's no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Now in our post -Christian world, we think everyone goes to heaven. If heaven is ever considered a thing that exists, everyone goes there or, you know, you just gotta be nice. All right. But the truth is only Christians go to heaven. 

John 3 .36 says, whoever believes in the sun has eternal life. Eternal life. But whoever rejects the sun. will not see life. For God's wrath remains on them. That's one of my favorite verses right there. 

God's wrath remains. God's wrath is on the unbelievers. already. If you are unsaved from that wrath, then you will go to hell for eternity. If you're saved, then you're saved from hell and you'll go to heaven. Life is short. 

Eternity is forever. Live life accordingly right now. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. Please subscribe on our YouTube page. Helps us with the algorithm. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. Spread the word.

 

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JD Vance and The Progressive Pagan Tone Police
Politics By Faith, June 19, 2026

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I love when pagans criticize Christians for not being "Christian enough" or the right type of Christian that they would prefer. Obviously, don't listen to them, but what does the Bible say about the words we speak and the tone we should have?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible. The point of this is we need to walk away with some peace and perspective because there's new headlines every day and it's all very anxiety inducing, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. Story of the day, J . D. 

Vance making the rounds and doesn't like his tone. Got a mean tone. Got to watch that tone. The tone police are out. J . D. 

Vance is making the rounds because he's got a new book out. and he is also a great spokesperson for this administration. So where Trump can sometimes be maybe rough around the edges, Vance is smoother, more polished, if you will. I don't know if that's entirely true. I think Trump is pretty smooth and polished, too, in his own way. But maybe the biggest advantage that Trump, excuse me, that Vance has over Trump is he's not Trump. 

So as much as much TDS people have seething through their veins, pulsing constantly through their entire body and soul, they don't yet have the same hatred for J . D. Vance. They will, don't worry. But right now, there's no such thing as J . D . 

D . S. That's right. One day there will be. Aw, he's even worse than Trump because he actually believes what he's saying. That's what's gonna happen. 

But there's certain places where I would much rather have the president be. Like negotiating with Iran, for instance. Trump's great at these big press conferences. Obviously, he's the best at the rallies. But when it comes to one -on -one with adversaries, I choose Vance all day on that one. All day long, you put Vance in that battle. 

big press conferences, Trump with another world leader, you put Trump. Someone versus, you know, meet the press lady or whatever, you send JD on. No question. JD Vance did great with the Ladies in the View, for instance. We played the entire 25 minutes or so he was on on my radio show. My one critique, if I had to have, critique's not even quite right, a nitpick, is the women on The View, they would hit him with like 48 questions at one time, and he'd have to think in his brain, okay, I have 12 seconds to respond. 

How can I possibly combine all of these questions? How am I gonna be able to find a cohesive thread, coherent thread to your incoherent questions, and somehow come up with an answer that can best encompass everything that's been said here? with a 12 second response and a smile. So there's times when he would say, okay, um, let me say this. You can see his brain. I try to put the pieces together. 

That's my one critique. My goodness. He did as good as any human can do in that unenviable situation. But I want to pick out this moment from the New York times podcast. Russ Dothat as this guy's name or an unpronounced or sign. He's very upset that the administration is not nice enough with their tone. 

Here's what he said. We could have a longer argument about the economics, but I just want to let's let's stipulate that the Trump administration has in some way a kind of vision of rebuilding the working class that's connected to Christianity. Was that hard to say? Was that hard to say, Ross? I'm stipulate for the sake of argument. and the fact that you have not given us three hours to have this discussion, we're stipulating it. 

It also seems to me like the administration has distanced itself in different ways from some other sort of obvious expressions of Christian influence on politics, some of them more sort of liberal coded, some of them more conservative coded, right? Like, the administration has been more hostile than any prior Republican administration, to say nothing of Democrats, in the last 20 years to the way we do humanitarian aid. It has kept religious conservatives, pro -life organizations especially, at arm's length in a way that has led to a lot of criticism. And then, you know, let's be honest, the tone of the administration is not consistently a Christian tone. there is a tone of aggressive uncharity to people who aren't on board with the administration's policies. So I would describe those as three areas where the administration has felt functionally post -Christian to me. 

And I'm curious what you think. Well, so on the first point, well, sorry, the third point. You can work backward. So on the tone thing, This is it's it's very hard to rebut this because it's like fundamentally unfalsifiable because for every clip that you could show me of me or the president or some cabinet secretary saying something that in your view is unchristian i could show you another few clips of us doing something or saying something that is like very christian the nature of political communication in the era of mass media is that sometimes people are going to say jokes that are taken out of context sometimes people are going to say I'm not saying I make mistakes. I talk about this in the book a little. 

In my book, Communion, available where books are sold, I talk about the own mistakes that I've made as a Christian reader in America. There is an apology to childless cat ladies. We don't need to get sidetracked by that. Go on. But my point is, I'm not saying we're perfect because we're not. My point is that the tone argument is in some ways, I think, people see what they want to see. 

And I also think that tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working class ways of communication and covering them in elite preferences. So let's talk about what's broken in this scenario here. So yes, the Bible, God, talks about the way we should speak. Proverbs 51, a soft answer. turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. " President, we've talked about this before, his game theory approach to talking with people and negotiating, but just everything, he will always start positive. 

He'll start kind every time, always. He will always start with a soft answer and a soft response and a soft initiation, always. 1 Peter 3 .15 says, make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and respect. The fruits of the spirit. One of them is kindness. Another is gentleness. 

Also, we are told to speak boldly. Acts 4 .31 says, and when they had prayed, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. " So what do we think boldness, what would boldness mean today? I bet based off of the New York Times editorial board, if they heard a preacher today speak with boldness, they might say, Oh, that tone makes me uncomfortable. That's not very inclusive sound. And we talked about this just the other day. 

The Bible says there is one way to get to heaven. Oh, that's. I don't like your tone. Paul speaks about boldly proclaiming the gospel. First Thessalonians 2 .2. But though we had already suffered, we had been shamefully treated at Philippi. 

As you know, we had boldness in our God to declare you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. How were they treated shamefully in Philippi? Or I should say, why? Is it because the people loved so much what they were saying and how they said it? No, that doesn't make any sense. They were treated shamefully, but what does that mean? 

Does that mean, uh, they, they, they preached the gospel boldly. And then people went on Twitter and said, I don't like your tone. No, they were stripped and beaten with rods, all without a trial, of course, then thrown into prison and placed in stocks while bleeding from the beating they just took. And they weren't treated this way because the people of Philippi liked what they were saying. And then all of a sudden, these are two different things. There's what's being said. 

And then there's how it's set. And. Progressive could make the argument, and it's not accurate, but they could make the argument that, oh, they don't mind what the administration's saying, they just don't like how it's set. No, that's you trying to get around. That's just a trick. They don't like what the administration is doing, and they're trying to tone police it as a way to seem like they're morally superior. 

So let's go over the four options though, right? I mean, there's four options. We can make like a chart of these four options. You have bad tone, mean words, good tone, nice words, bad tone, nice words, or good tone, mean words. So maybe this example work, we'll see how it goes. Bad tone, bad words. 

I hate you. Good tone, good word, nice word. Good tone, good, good, good. I love you. Well, let's mix it up. Bad tone, good words. 

I love you. I love you. That's almost like too passionate. How do you do it like hatred? I love you. Good tone, bad words. 

I hate you. The New York Times guy. thinks it's best that we say or do bad things, but in a nice way. That's like the Democrat way. Do bad things, but with a smile. Let's give a political example. 

Maybe this'll make more sense. So the Democrats, they were so nice when they opened up our borders to millions of illegal aliens, many of whom went on to murder and steal and destroy neighborhoods and take jobs and do terrible things. I just saw a story of, it was like 1 ,700 maybe illegal aliens who were arrested in I think like the Houston area. And they went through all their crimes, five murders, 170 burglaries, 78 sex offenses, like 50 against children, 40 domestic abuses, 500 DUIs. Just go down the list. But it was all done with a smile. 

It's so nice. And the poem on the statue says, it's great. The poor, tired, huddled masses. We were so kind when we did this. That's the binary. Bad things, but nicely. 

The Trump administration comes in and says, I actually think they'd said it quite nicely, but they say, you have to go. Oh, that's so mean. Your tone. But that's not even true what I'm saying here, because the real argument is it's the right people. And this is what J . D. 

brought up, right? J . D. after that, where the clip stopped, he said, let me just take a classic example. So the Biden administration had a very humane way of talking about immigration, about illegal immigration. It was very charitable. 

And some of the words that it offered to people who were coming into our country, I would say that it was not particularly charitable to the people who were living with the consequences of mass migration into our country. So at a certain level, what I think matters much more than perceived tone is actual conduct. " Well said, J .D. Vance. There was a similar moment on The View as well. So the questions from a bunch of them at the same time was, the first question from Whoopi was, what did black people do to this administration? that you treat them so terribly." And J . D. was like, what? 

And Whoopi said, she's like, what are you talking about? And they went around the table and they were all like, well, like erasing black history. And he's still like, what are you talking about? But it was all like a tone argument. They were all toned, like the ladies didn't like the tone of this administration or whatever. And J . 

D. says, all right, we've taken over the police department in D . C. , the law enforcement in D . as many murders. Last year, there were Last year, there were 42. 

This year, at the same time period, 20. And that's just murder. I mean, that's like all quality of life crimes are way down. People can go outside. Kids can walk to school. It's a safe city again. 

And it's a predominantly majority Black city. So these are Black people's lives that have improved. So you may not like that we removed a Black history overreach from the Black Lives Matter era. at the Smithsonian. We removed like a sign that was in the Smithsonian about Thomas Jefferson's slaves or something. Is that the most important thing or do you care about actual black lives in DC? 

So that's like, that's a, I think that's like a perfect example of content and tone. So the tone would be, Oh, you're erasing black history. Like, no, they're not. But like, even, but the content is, yeah, but we're saving black people's lives. Don't you care more about what's actually happening? All right, let me go to the Bible. 

So Jesus didn't always have a nice tone. We can't tell the tone really what Jesus was reading, right? But I can't imagine him having a great tone when in Matthew 23, Jesus says to the Pharisees, woe to you, hypocrites, for you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces, for you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. I don't think he said that like politely or something. There's seven of those, by the way. Woes to you. 

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people. bones and all uncleanliness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you, you're full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. I don't think the people around were like, Oh, he's got such a nice tone. Listen to his tone. 

Wow. Or John 8 44, you are of your father, the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning. and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. That's not very nice, Jesus. 

Revelation 2 .20, speaking about Jezebel. Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her. I will throw into great tribulation unless they repent of her works. And I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searched mind and heart. And I will give to each of you according to your works. 

Yikes. What is, what is Ross Dothat from the New York times? Think about that. Paul said in Galatians 1a, but even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preach to you, let him be accursed. As we've said before. So now I say again, if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you receive, let him be accursed. 

The accursed in Greek is anathema. And the definition is devoted to the direst of woes. It's not very lovely sounding. Paul in Galatians 1a. Eric called the Galatians foolish. He calls people liar. 

He calls false preachers ungodly, wretched wanderers. Micah said that people hate good and love evil. That sounds judgmental. I think we need more of a strong tone from Christians. And I don't really care if Ross Dothat or whoever at the New York Times, they don't like it. We need strong tones when confronting hypocrisy, when guarding the truth, when protecting the church, when warning of judgment, and every time love requires it. 

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"One Of The Most Horrendous Failures In The History Of The Country"
Politics By Faith, June 17, 2026

The Rape Gang Inquiry report was released in England. It's more horrendous than anyone could imagine. They believe over 250,000 white British girls were trafficked in England. These crimes were committed by Muslim men, again, IN England. Every story they told of how this happened followed the same 3-step outline.

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Give me a second to change the podcast away from this one. Story of the day today. Rape or gang rape inquiry report. Here's what happened. It's a British Congressman, essentially they're called member of parliament, Rupert Lowe. He's the lead of this effort. 

And they released a 219 page report outlining the horrors and scale of mostly Pakistani Muslims trafficking white British girls. The rape gang inquiry looked at the systemic targeting of overwhelmingly white British girls across the United Kingdom. The report says that the evidence put to the inquiry The evidence put to the inquiry confirms that this scandal constitutes one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country. The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. Check this out. It has been previously established that at the very least, how many young girls do you think were trafficked inside of England? 

Like British girls trafficked within England? How many girls? What if I said 10 ,000? That'd be crazy. 250 ,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and obviously lifelong trauma. The report says the number, the actual number is probably higher. 

87 % of people convicted in these child sex exploitation cases had distinctively Muslim names. And those are just the ones convicted. Of the accused, it's 99 % Muslim. The report is tough to read. What's encouraging about it, if anything, is that this is the first time I've ever heard people not afraid to name the enemy. In this case, it's Muslim men, mostly Pakistani, but other cultural identities as well. 

All Muslim. The report says that the pattern was reinforced by eight theological and legal aspects of Islam. Talk about naming the enemy. These include the doctrine of Muslim superiority, drawn from Qur 'anic verses and the report goes through all the different verses of the Qur 'an. The gang members justification for their crimes can be found in the Islamic principles of loyalty and disavowal, the superiority of men over women, forced marriage combined with the absence of any fixed minimum age of consent, also the perception that a family sexuality is inherently dangerous. 

A system of sex slavery that authorizes sexual relations with non -Muslim captives. Also a religious sanctioned social hierarchy that subjugates conquered non -Muslims. Or in this case, British girls while in England. You take these Islamic aspects and you filter it through a clannish immigrant subculture The report says it provides religious justification that enabled the systemic rape and slaughter of white British girls. My goodness. So what's broken in this report? 

A lot, but I'll tell you what some, some initial thoughts I had after reading it. All of the stories they shared had the same outline as a three -step outline. First, the girls were the victims of abuse, neglect, and trauma at home. White British girls, abuse, neglect, and trauma at home. Second. Muslim gangs were ready to pounce. 

And three, the absolute failure of police, hospitals, all British institutions to do anything because they were scared that they would be called racist. It's the same outline, every story that they talk about. I'll give one example. Again, I encourage you to read the whole report. It's really tough, but it's really important to know what's happening. And it's important to know the full scale of this. 

I'm going to choose to go over just Chloe as the study here. It's not the worst story that they share. It's not the most brutal. It's the first one they share. So I'll just share Chloe just to get the outline out there. Chloe's parents divorced when she was young. 

She and her brother were in the custody of dad, which means her mom had major problems. Turns out she was homeless, but he was an alcoholic. Now she said life was generally secure with her dad, though, all things considered. But then dad died when she was 10. So then she went to go live with her mom and mom's new husband, who was also a pedophile, who, of course, abused her. Mom even caught the husband abusing her multiple times and did nothing, which might be the worst betrayal imaginable. 

One time this step dad or whatever was in the shower with her and mom walked in and then walked right out and she was 10 years old. This stepdad gave her alcohol and drugs to keep her quiet. She, of course, started running away, hanging out late at night with terrible people, unsupervised. So there's step one. And step two, that's where the Muslim men preyed on her and took her in, wooing her, treating her like an adult, whatever, all the grooming stuff. They filled that void that her own degenerate parents and people around her left. 

Her aunt and uncle were the only adults that she could confide in. And one time she went to them for help and her uncle raped her. So she's done. She's done. And she goes and she lives with all these Muslim men. She's 11 and she has passed around Pakistani men all through town and, and traffic through the taxi drivers in the city who were all Pakistani. 

So you see the two opening failures here. You have her parents and the adults around her, just total failure in every imaginable way. Then number two, there were the Pakistani Muslim men waiting to hunt her down. And then she had no help from the police or from the hospitals. And that's the third failure. The report says that around the age of 13, Chloe disclosed 

to social services that she was being sexually abused by gangs of Muslim men. In response, social services did not intervene, but rather talk to Chloe about contraception and sexual health. One social worker started regularly taking Chloe to a sexual health clinic where she was diagnosed with chlamydia in her throat, gonorrhea, genital warts, pelvic inflammatory disease, all the rest. At one point, a Pakistani man put a whiskey bottle up inside of her and then broke the bottle. And she went to the ER and the hospital did nothing to ask her, how did this happen? The hospital did nothing to ask her, how can we help you? 

How can we remove you from this obviously horrible situation you're in? They did nothing. When she was interviewed for this report, she was asked how many men abused her in this period of her life from the ages of 10 to 18. She said hundreds, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. It's just one story. There's many, but again, the same outline every time. 

Broken home, then Pakistani Muslims. wading in the wings, and then the failure of the politically correct system to save any of these girls. I would argue that failure number one comes from a lack of Christianity and a lack of Christian culture. Of course, everyone sins and everyone makes mistakes, but the level of abandonment that these girls faced, then the taking advantage of that brokenness is where the Muslims came in and that's Islam. And again, they talked about eight parts of Islam in this report, naming the enemy. It's great. 

Muslim supremacy. Number two, an us versus them mindset. 3. Superiority and dominance of men over women. 4. The seclusion of women. 5. Forced marriage and no age of consent. 

Number six, female sexuality. Number seven, jihad and sex slavery. And number eight is an Islamic clan culture. And the report goes through each of those and quotes the Quran. We don't need to do it here, but again, I recommend that you read the full report just to know that we need to be reminded that this evil exists in the world. And it's not just in England or Pakistan. 

It's in our backyard in America as well. You just search for rape gang inquiry and it'll pop up. So let's bring the Bible in here. First, we're supposed to take care of widows and orphans. Instead, we become such a degenerate people that we make orphans, not just because parents die in a tragic accident, but because they're totally alcoholic, drugged up, whatever. We're making orphans. 

And then the state abandons them and the Muslims take them in as sex slaves in our own countries. Listen, when Job is talking about all the wicked things that God is allowing in this fallen world, he's venting. One of them, it's in verse, uh, sorry, chapter 24. Uh, and he just goes through this list of all these things like, God, like, how can you allow this? And in verse nine, he said, there are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast and they take a pledge against the poor. What is that? 

This is back then when people who would take babies. So babies without fathers, but maybe the woman was in debt and they would take the baby as debt collateral as a young infant. And then do what with the baby? Who even knows? But the point is that Joe put this right in there, the list of extreme depravity. And Joe's upset that this goes on and goes unpunished. 

And it's going on today in the Western world too, if not worse. I'm recording this day on Pride Month. We're halfway through Pride Month. 1 Thessalonians 4 .3 says, it is God's will that you should be sanctified, that you should abstain from sexual immorality. There is so much sexual immorality. In phase one of this, where the parents fail, and then phase two, where the Muslim gangs take over, my goodness, it is the worst of sexual immorality, sexual depravity. 

Think, it's hard to say, right? But I think the worst would be pedophilia. Which leads me to Matthew 18 .6, if anyone causes one of these little ones, those who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. So if you think that sounds bad, if you think having a millstone tied around your neck and dropped overboard, if you think that sounds bad, you would prefer that than what you're gonna get. These people who are putting these young kids in a situation that is horrific, causing them to be in these places where sin is everywhere. Everyone involved in this failure, has put these children in these horrific situations, and a millstone should be placed around their necks, or they would prefer it than what's coming next in life or afterlife. 

They may get away with it here, but they won't in the end. A millstone, to be clear, was a giant stone with a rope through it, and the rope would be tied to a donkey, and the donkey would walk in a circle, and it would grind the grain. And these millstones would weigh hundreds of pounds. And apparently in Rome, they did this as a form of execution. They would tie this heavy rock like this and throw you overboard. And the Jews thought this was barbaric and awful. 

And here was Jesus. coming in saying, what's coming for you is even worse than that. In In a just society, we would do everything we could to stop this immediately. We'll see how the British people react. We'll see if political correctness, truly political correctness, we'll see if political correctness wins the day. And then we'll see if we decide to root this out in America as well. 

You want to talk about an 80 -20 issue in America that every political party, every political, everyone could get behind? You would think would be getting rid of this. But with so many oppressed peoples involved, Muslims, migrants, foreigners, I don't know if we will. Stay tuned on this one. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. 

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