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Reclaim The Rainbow: Pride Month
May 22, 2023

It's always Pride Month, it seems. How did we get to this point in our culture? Where trans fake nuns are honored at baseball games and men are sexually dancing in front of little girls? One reason is that we confused affections with emotions and let our feelings run the show. Esau is the clearest example. We see it around us every day.

It seems I am unable to post the audio here at the moment. I am reaching out to the fine people at Locals, they're usually quick to get back. Here is the link (it'll be available tomorrow), but you still get the transcript here

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Hey, welcome to Politics by Faith. I'm Mike Slater. Thanks for being here. Friendly reminder that the transcript of this and every episode is on MikeSlater.Locals.com. So if you're interested in that, you can check out that website, MikeSlater.Locals.com. Today's episode is about the month of June. Get ready for Pride Month. You already see it everywhere. Ford, trucks, Adidas. It's only the middle of May. This is like going to Home Depot in October and seeing Christmas decorations. Like, wait a second. It's not even Thanksgiving. We're not even in June and we're getting inundated with Pride everything. It's not just June. It's all year. There's always something. It's always like Transgender Awareness Day or something. They've taken over every day in the calendar. We don't need to go over and bud light right now, but it's amazing.

0:01:02
Their sales are now down 26%. We're on like week five or six. That's the longest sustained conservative boycott I've ever seen. The Los Angeles Dodgers got in a bit of trouble the other day. So they've had a Pride Night for 10 years. But 10 years ago it was just a couple gay guys. Now the entire alphabet train is jumping in on Pride Night. It's the L's, the G's, the B's, the T's, and the Q's. So the Q's started coming out and the Q's are a very different deal than the Gs. So there's this group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and they are a group that mocks the Catholic Church. If I were to describe them in the best light that they would like to be described as, this is a group of men who dress in very elaborate drag to bring awareness against the guilt that is caused by the Catholic Church for who you are.

0:02:08
And they started in the 80s during AIDS when the church abandoned gay people who had AIDS. So this group was created to help the people who needed help. That's the best description. A worse description, or not as charitable, I think, you decide which is more accurate, is that this is a group of heathens blaspheming the church with not just drag but their open attack on Christianity entirely. So they're gonna honor all these LGBTQ groups and then the Catholic Church said we don't want you honoring this one group and the Dodgers said okay you guys are uninvited so now it's a mess. But this is what happens right and it's the Dodgers fault. When they started Pride Night 10 years ago, it was 2013, a lot's changed in 10 short years. That was before the gay marriage Supreme Court decision. That was in 2015. So gays still couldn't get married. Now the gays have nothing left to fight for. But the train has gotten bigger. The alphabet train's gotten bigger. Now there's the Qs. So the Dodgers still have their Pride Night, which was originally the Gs and the Ls. But now it's the Gs, Ls, Bs, Ts, and Qs and the pluses. And the Qs and the pluses aren't messing around. By definition, their queerness never ends. They will always and must always because their entire identity is based on pushing boundaries and the Dodgers are in a real pickle because if you say no to the Q's and the and the pluses and the T's like you can't you can't be like all right G's L's and B's whatever you are even you guys are allowed in but no T's or Q's you guys are too weird can't do that and the Dodgers don't even know it yet, but in just a couple years, three years maybe, they're going to have the P's, the minor attracted persons, the pedophiles.

0:04:11
Right now, they're in the pluses right now. They're kind of hidden down there, but they'll come out. What are you going to say? They're wrong. You can say it's wrong to be a minor attracted person. How could you? I just think what the Dodgers are going through right now is such a, what they brought upon themselves is such a nice metaphor for our entire country right now. When you have no lines, you can't then start to draw lines.

0:04:34
Well, I take that back actually. There is a line. The line is anything outside of this country, every brand of the month of June is gonna have a rainbow logo. They take their logo and they make it rainbow. Every company except for their divisions in the Middle East. So Mercedes is gonna have a rainbow Mercedes logo, but not Mercedes Dubai. So they know how to draw lines, just not anywhere in America.

0:05:01
And don't even get me started on Target. Target is unreal. And they've been doing this for a couple years. A lot of people are just discovering it now, because it gets worse every year, but the front of a Target, the display right there, is this huge private, and now they're really leaning into the transgender kids. So they're selling the girls' bathing suits now, have extra area in the crotch to help little boys tuck.

0:05:26
It's like insane in Target. But it's insane in our country. In 2012, 3.5% of Americans said they were gay, 3.5. Now it's over 7%. But that's because what percentage of Gen Z do you think says they're gay? Gen Z is 19 to 26 year olds. What percent of Gen Z? 20%! 20%! That's crazy! That's insane! But not surprising. This is what happens when you just have a concerted PR effort of sexual deviance to young people at a younger and younger age. Why do the drag queens not want to read at nursing homes? Have you ever wondered that?

0:06:07
Why are the drag queens not going to read to the old people? Hmm, why do they want to read to the kids? And this won't stop. Years ago, I was pre-kids, so it was at least six years ago. I went to the San Diego Pride Parade, and we did a couple things. First is we had a couple quotes against gay marriage and we said which bigot said it. And we had a couple choices of Republicans and it was either Hillary or Obama who said each of the quotes.

0:06:38
So that was the trick of Rueben. But then we also asked people what percentage of Americans do you think are gay? And they were like 40%, 60%. I'm like, what are you out of your mind? It's four. But they're getting closer. They're getting closer. So what's really going on here? What's at the root of this? Well, it's not hard to figure this one out. They literally call their entire movement Pride. It's called Pride. That alone is quite astounding, if you think about it. So let's explain a couple things. So one thing we need to know about the LGBTQ movement is that in our modern world today, you are defined not only by your desires, that's your identity or your desires, but not only your desires, your sexual desires.

0:07:32
So way back in the day, and Carl Truman does an amazing job of explaining this, he says way back in the day, if someone asked you your identity You would say well, I'm Mike Son of David my dad over there From here, that's where I was born Where I'll live forever my dad's a blacksmith, so I'll be a blacksmith and I'll go to that church that's been there for a thousand years. Your identity was the external things in your life. You defined yourself by external things and then of course you defined yourself by your virtuous, righteous, proper behavior. But then we Then we internalized our identity.

0:08:28
Now it's all about how I feel. Then you throw in the sexual revolution that says the most important desires that you feel are your sexual desires. And then you throw in a bunch of perversions after that. So now here we are in America where a six year old can say I am gay. Even if they never had any homosexual interaction in any way whatsoever, I am gay. It's an identity statement. That's an important thing about this whole thing that a lot of people miss. It's an identity statement.

0:08:57
I am. So if let's say a baker denies to bake a cake for a gay couple's wedding ceremony, it's not just this baker denying this couple food, it's denying denying their very existence. This is why you get trans activists who say, trans people exist. And we're like, I mean, yeah, I know you exist, don't want you to go in my daughter's locker room. Oh, you're denying my existence. I'm like, what? But that's what that is.

0:09:31
Because their identity is that deeply rooted in their sexual desires. It's never been that way. It's very new. There's a term called emotivism. It's this idea that because we threw truth out the window, there's no such thing as truth, who are you to say? We need to come up with another way to determine who's right and wrong. So it's all about who can perform and express the most emotion.

0:10:00
Let me give you an example of this. This is a state senator in Nebraska. Nebraska just lowered their abortion laws to 12 weeks and also passed some, you know, you can't do sex change operations on kids and no puberty blockers, stuff like that. So there's a bunch of trans activists and allies in the Capitol building in Lincoln, Nebraska, right? So this is a Democratic state Mr. President, trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. That's what they're saying out there. They're standing in a circle in the rotunda saying that over and over again. Trans people belong here.

0:10:47
We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. I'm just going to skip ahead here to like, let's go a minute in. trans people trans people belong here we need trans people we love trans people trans people belong here we need trans people we love trans people trans people belong here we need trans people we love trans people trans people belong here we need trans people we love trans people trans people trans people belong here. You matter and I am fighting for you and I will not stop. I will not stop today, I will not stop tomorrow.

0:12:05
You are loved, you matter, you belong here. So it's quite obvious there that there was no argument. It's not an argument there, but she was very emotional. So the activists and the allies, they love it. They think it's great. They're like, oh, it's beautiful. It was moving. It was stunning. It was fierce. It was brave.

0:12:27
It was all right. It's like, well, you didn't make an argument, but they don't care. I'm interested in logic. So that is emotivism right there. Why is she right? Well, she's the most emotional about it. That's not how we should behave. That's not how we should think. That's not what we should value in America. Kevin DeYoung wrote a nice article giving some graduation advice, very opposite of the world.

0:13:05
All people ever hear is, follow your dreams, march to the beat of your own drummer, be true to yourself. He said, I'd like to offer different advice. Do not follow your dreams. Do not march to the beat of your own drummer, and whatever you do, do not be true to yourself. We see this attitude of being true to yourself, we see it all the time.

0:13:24
I saw this clip the other day of the great Lila Rose, she was on, she's the head of Live Action, wonderful pro-life organization, she was on this podcast, sitting next to, let me describe this guy, he's like an Andrew Tate, kind of like modern day macho man, I can do whatever I want and I can sleep with as many women as possible and all that, and that makes me a man, that kind of nonsense. So here's what she said to him, and listen to how defensive he gets, and the only argument he can come back with is I'm gonna be me.

0:13:54
Can I ask you one more question? Fire away, honey. Okay. If you have only one place in your heart for one woman, or you want to have one woman in your heart I think you said why don't you just commit to one and she's to be faithful to her I'm just not wired that way I spent my whole 20s trying to fix myself you work out you do business you can possess your own your own power and she's not directed to the way you want to direct it. It's not how I am. You think that might be a limited mindset? I think it's none of your business but I don't want you to think I'm triggered by you I'm not I saw somebody say that I think that's interesting I think you're annoying You are you're annoying in like this goody-two-shoes type way and that's fine I'm gonna live my life on my terms Unapologetically like truly so you can ask me this 85 different ways at the end of the day I'm gonna walk out of here the same man. I also think of Elsa from frozen that let it go song Frozen, the Let It Go song. This author, DeYoung, he makes the point that it should be no surprise that Elsa in this movie is a favorite in the LGBTQ plus community. The song, Let It Go, no right, no wrong, no rules for me. I'm free. That is a nice anthem for it all. Let's lament this for a second. I just hate that we are so broken in our country, that all of this is even such a thing.

0:15:15
Isn't that a shame? I think of that scripture in Isaiah, woe to those, always be careful, woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Because we're not even like, oh, it's normal, it's nothing, it's neutral or tolerate. It's not even, oh, this is a good, you have to affirm the goodness of this. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

0:15:42
What a shame we're here. What a shame we have such a broken culture where this is even such an appealing thing to so many. I saw this interview the other day. This is with one of the directors of The Matrix. The Matrix was written, directed by two brothers. Both of the brothers are now living as women. Isn't that amazing? They're both living as women. And listen to one of the guys talk about his experience as a child.

0:16:12
To be honest, like for me, the people that I saw, the first images that really struck a chord with me were, you know, trans women and pornography. And there was something that unlocked in my brain that I saw these wonderful, fearless performers becoming desirable. And in my head I could take the leap where I felt like, well, if I could be desirable, then maybe I could be loved. And for me, that's like one of the keys that trans people have to like struggle through, you know, will somebody love me? And that clip is so sad to me when he says, yeah, I want to be desirable.

0:17:02
Then I can be loved. And if only he was loved in a healthy way growing up. Well, one thing that's really interesting about this is a lot of girls young girls transition to boys to Desexualize themselves they see an overly sexualized objectifying of women's bodies world and they don't want anything to do with it Or maybe they feel like they don't They're not Beautiful enough and they just don't want to play the game So they think that if they could just become a boy Then that will all go away and a lot of men are the opposite.

0:17:38
Their goal is to be desired in some way. And they think that transitioning to a woman will bring them some sort of sexual, like people will find them attractive or desirable and then that will make them loved. And I mean, he said it right there. Like that's it. And this is all just chaos. That's the theme of all this is just chaos. Chaos.

0:18:03
Now let's get to some history and Bible here. The word homosexual is a modern invention. Isn't that interesting? It was first used in 1869. I found this article, Livius.org. In ancient Greece, there was not a word to describe homosexual practices. They were simply part of aphrodisiac love. I've read a decent amount about ancient Greek people's view on homosexuality. I get a lot of conflicting reports. I don't know what to do with it. And it's very hard to tell exactly what is the cultural norms of a society from thousands of years ago based on looking at drawings on a pot, for instance, right?

0:18:48
But it seems like there's some sort of coming together this idea that there was no concept of homosexuality. It was just this very animalistic have sex with whatever. Man, woman, animal, this you feel it you do it. And it wasn't a part of your identity. So your sexual acts were whatever you felt like doing which is kind of like today. But it wasn't then your identity like I am. That wasn't a thing back in ancient Greece but it is a thing now. In the Christian era there's been a distinction between affections, this is something we're actually talking about in the morning motivation this week, affections and passions. The great theologian Jonathan Edwards, he wrote a book called Religious Affections. Let me quote this from John Rigney.

0:19:42
He does a good job of breaking down the difference. Understanding what Edwards means by affections requires understanding a bit about his view of humanity. As a human being, you are made up of a body and a soul. Your body has five senses by which you take in impressions from the external world. Your soul has two fundamental faculties or powers. The first is the understanding. It's the faculty by which you perceive, discern, view, and judge. It tells you what something is. The second faculty is the will by which you like or dislike, love or hate, approve or reject, what you perceive with your understanding. Right? So your body, your senses, take it in. Your first, then the next level is understanding.

0:20:26
So we perceive, discern, view, right? And the next level is you judge. Like, don't like, love, hate, approve, reject. So if you go to a football game, it is by your means of your understanding, so it's your physical body that sees the game. Then it's your next level, your understanding that you identify the team in purple and gold as the Vikings and the team in green, yellow, the Packers. But it's by means of your will that you shout and cheer for the Vikings and boo and hiss at the Packers. Crucially, it's the inclination of the will that governs our actions. Now, some inclinations of the will are mild and minor. They barely register at all, like choosing what socks to wear today, but other inclinations of the will are vigorous, persistent, and lively, like choosing whom you're going to marry. Only the latter are teamed are termed affections.

0:21:15
They are the more vigorous and sensible exercises of the will. Why are affections so important? Affections are often the spring of man's actions. They make the world go round. Without lively affections, few of us would do much of anything. What animates our actions is our loves and hates, our fears and desires, our griefs and joys. More importantly, affections reveal the fundamental orientation of the heart. When you see what a person loves or hates, fears, desires, rejoices, and grieves over, you are seeing the bent and tendency of his heart. So if we want to know what kind of heart we have, we need to look to our affections.

0:22:05
Affections are rooted in the soul, in the heart. It's an inclination of will. Emotions are fleeting surface caused by external things. So your affections are internal, they're internal come out and emotions are external and they kind of come in, like something happens and then they cause you to feel a thing, right? And so they come from different places. Now, our western tradition has always said that our lower appetites emotions have to be constrained by reason. And also the grace of God, of course, working within us. Now, here's the key term.

0:22:43
This is it. Total depravity. This is the premise that all of our passions are misleading. All of our emotions are misleading. They're not reliable. It's the idea that this is what I feel like, so this is what I'm going to do. And if you tell me I can't, then I'm going to want to do it even more, and I need to be me. And if you tell me I can't, you're attacking my identity and my personhood.

0:23:10
But that's not what Christianity is. Christianity is about not following those base emotions. It's about rightly ordering your affections. This is what Paul is talking about in Philippians 4.8. Brothers, whatever is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, worthy of praise, think about these things. Get your affections rightly ordered. But our modern culture today says, whatever fleeting emotion you have, that's fine. Just go on that. Let's go to the Bible.

0:23:41
A great story about self-control and not becoming a slave to your passion. Esau. So Esau was the oldest son. He had the birthright when dad passes away. And he went out to go hunting, came back and he was hungry. So let me read it here. Genesis 25, starting with 29. Once, when Jacob, the younger brother, was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. And Esau said to Jacob, let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted.

0:24:14
Jacob said, sell me your birthright now. Esau said, I'm about to die. Of what use is a birthright to me? Jacob said, swear to me now. So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. So a couple things here. I read someone say that it is depicted in the Hebrew like Esau is an animal. He can't control himself. He says, let me eat some of that red stew. Some translation call it red stuff, but in the Hebrew it's written twice.

0:24:43
A-D-O-M, I don't know how to pronounce it, but Adam, Adam. He says it twice. He's a, give it to me, give it to me. I need it, I need it. He's salivating starving he's dying here. But he's not really dying. He's dying like a kid has lunch and then a snack in the car and then so I'm so hungry. I'm starving like that kind of starving. You saw was being dramatic, emotional, impulsive. He was defining himself by his fleeting emotions in the moment. He was like an animal, a complete slave to his desires and therefore made very bad decisions. Let me quote this Bible commentary from Dr. Barnhouse, early 1900s. He said, history shows that men prefer allusions to realities. They choose time rather than eternity and the pleasures of sin for a season rather than the joys of God forever.

0:25:42
Men will read trash rather than the Word of God and adhere to a system of priorities that leaves God out of their lives. Multitudes of men spend more time shaving than on their souls, and multitudes of women give more minutes to their makeup than to the life of their eternal spirit. Men still sell their birthright for a mess of pottage. Same sentiment here, but this is from Thomas Adams. This would be late 1500s. He was called the Shakespeare of the Puritans. He said, And what, O you Esau-lites! That's you, you're an Esau-lite.

0:26:16
Worldlings are momentary delights compared to eternity. What is a mess of gruel to the supper of glory? The belly is pleased, yes, but the soul is lost. Never was any meat except the forbidden fruit so dearly bought as this broth of Jacob. The great hymnist John Newton, he said, Too often, dear Saviour, have I preferred some poor trifle to Thee. How is it that Thou dost not deny the blessing and birthright to me. No better than Esau I am, though pardon and heaven be mine, to me belongs nothing but shame, the praise and the glory be thine." Instead of being slaves to our emotions, instead of letting our emotions drive the ship, which is what our entire culture is doing and telling young kids to do as well, we need to be slaves, no question, but not to our emotions. We need to become slaves to Jesus.

0:27:14
Paul refers to himself as a doulos to Jesus, and it's often translated as servant or bond servant. It's slave. You are a slave to Christ. Then you won't be a slave to your desires because you can't serve two masters. So what do we do, Sider? What's in my control? First I want to tell you about Patriot Gold Group. Grateful to Patriot Gold Group for sponsoring this podcast, being with me for many years and believing in what we stand for here.

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When we talk about eternity and eternal things, that's what matters the most. There's no question. I believe we're also called to be good stewards here and now on this earth. Lots of decisions can be made about money. I have made many okay decisions. I've made many very bad decisions doing the best I can. When I feel bad about financial decisions I've made that turned out not to be good ones, the best piece of advice I got was, well, did you make the best decision you could in the moment? And I think almost every time that was true.

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Call for a free investor guide today, 1-888-617-6122. To me, it's just about being a good steward. This is not your eternity. This won't save souls, but you have a family to provide for. So let's make some good decisions. 1-888-617-6122 or patriotgoldgroup.com. So what's in my control? If you have little kids, you're going to see rainbows all over the place. So my kids are seven months, three, five, and six. So they don't know what gay means, they're not in public school. To them, to us, to our family, the rainbow means God won't destroy the world in a flood again.

0:29:29
We need to reclaim the rainbow. If you see rainbow flags everywhere, depending on the age of course, if they ask any questions, tell them it's about the Bible. Here it is. It's Genesis 9, 12. And God said, this is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for all future generations. I've set my bow in the cloud and it shall be as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

0:29:54
When I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature and all the flesh and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the rainbows in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between god and every living creature and all flesh that is in the earth. God said to Noah, this is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth and isn't that amazing that the bank has rainbows all over it, son. If they're old enough to know that this rainbow has been taken over, remind them of the story about how people disobeyed God and God destroyed them all except for the one righteous man, blameless in his generation.

0:30:39
God saved his life and his family, but even he wasn't perfect, which is why all of us need Jesus today. Just remind them of the true story. You control the narrative in your home. Stop sending your money to these places. Stop going to these places. Stop watching these TV shows. I'm not calling for a boycott. A boycott implies, oh, I really want to go to this store, but no, I just won't. Maybe, no, no, no, it's a boycott.

0:31:07
No, we need to not even want to go. I'm calling for a total rearrangement of priorities in our lives so that we don't even desire to do these things anymore. Romans 12, 1, I appeal to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Here it is. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. And by testing, you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. So what's in your control?

0:31:41
Everything in your home and the stories you tell so that your kids know what is true. Final thought to think about, 1 John 2.15, do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the desires of the eyes and the pride of life is not from the Father but it's from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires. But whoever does the will of God abides forever.

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

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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?

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October 23, 2025

Good day Brother Slater, et al.,

Regarding your mention of Church Bells contra the apostate Muslim Call to Prayer, a deep history article link, below, for your Kit Bag of "what to think".
May God Bless and Keep you and yours

Pax Christi en regno Christi

Exodus 28:33 And beneath at the feet of the same tunic, round about, thou shalt make as it were pomegranates, of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with little bells set between:

Exodus 28:34 So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and again another golden bell and a pomegranate.

Exodus 39:23 And little bells of the purest gold, which they put between the pomegranates at the bottom of the tunic round about:

Exodus 39:24 To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate, wherewith the high priest went adorned, when he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Sirach 45:10 He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an ephod, and he compassed him with many little bells of gold all round about,

The Holy Bible,...

October 10, 2025

Good day Brother Slater,

Given your propiquity for History, here’s a Euro-Catholic Christian Feast of Great Fanfare for you and your peeps.

The Salvation of Western Civilization: The Battle of Tours, October 10, 732 A.D.
by Jack Wheeler, October 10, 2022

Gibbon noted that had the Muslims won this day, all of Europe would have been Islamized and Western Civilization would have been extinguished.

https://x.com/RodDMartin/status/1976624966696149365

That's all I got; have a grand and Glorious Columbus Day, you and yours.

Pax Christi in regno Christi

Top Silva 🔝

October 09, 2025

Good day Brother Slater,

Wondering if you have checked out this dialogoue between Ross Douthat of the NYT and Pastor Doug Wilson and if you have any commentary of consequence.

Thanks and may God Bless you and yours.

He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.
Doug Wilson’s political project to “stop making God angry. By ROSS DOUTHAT and VICTORIA CHAMBERLIN 2025-10

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/opinion/doug-wilson-america-religion-theocracy.html

Pax Christi in regno Christi
Top Silva 🔝

Happy All Saints' Day
Politics By Faith, October 31, 2025

It's time for my annual lament as to what our holy days have become. But the good news is, we can reclaim them right now.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. It is October 31st, so it is time for my annual lament about the holiday season and what the holidays have become in our secular pagan country. All of the holy days that we have on our calendar used to be, I should say, all of our holidays that we still have on our calendar used to be holy days. It's a better way of putting it. Thanksgiving started off as a day of prayer and fasting. 

Fasting. Thanksgiving used to be, used to be a day of not eating. And now it's a day of football and gluttony. Christmas was about the birth of Jesus. Now it's Santa and presents. Easter was about the resurrection of Jesus. 

Now it's an Easter bunny and eggs. St. Patrick's day, even it was a day at St. Patrick or Patrick was this guy. He's born in England. It's not even an Irish. And he was abducted and he was put on a slave ship to Ireland. And he spent six years there, six years there. 

And then he escaped to his home country, became a Christian, went back to the people who enslaved him. to spread the gospel to these lost people. And now it's drink green beer and pinch me. And so I was like, this hit me, I think it was like five years ago. And it was around Halloween. I've never really liked Halloween, but it was like, especially meaningless, whatever shred of meaning there even was. 

And I was like, this is really, like, what is this? Like, what is this silly thing? And I looked it up and turned, Halloween is All Hallows Eve. Hollow, meaning sacred. Webster's original dictionary definition, 1828, to make holy. Hollow means to make holy, to consecrate, to set apart for holy or religious use, to devote to holy or religious exercises, to treat as sacred. 

as in our father hallowed be thy name. And Eve, All Hallows Eve, day before All Saints Day. All Hallows Eve, kind of put it together, Halloween. That's where that came from. But what's All Saints Day? I mean, think about this. 

Even Halloween used to be a religious holiday, and now it's pagan. Even worse than pagan, right? It's like satanic in many ways. So I'm talking about All Saints Day. and give you the encouragement that your house can be whatever you want it to be. Your home does not have to be influenced by culture in any way at all. 

You can do anything. It doesn't matter how you grew up. It doesn't matter the things you did when you were a kid or what your parents did. You can do whatever you want. 

You're an adult. 

Think about it like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone or was it Home Alone 2? No, Home Alone 1 when he got a cheese pizza. He said, I got a large cheese pizza and it's all for me. That's you with the holy days that are in your house. You can do whatever you want. So celebrate All Saints Day if you want. 

So I was reading yesterday a sermon by Jonathan Edwards called The Reality of Conversion. And he was, in this sermon, articulating all the reasons why we know conversion exists. What is conversion? Of course, we'll go from a unbeliever to a believer, being born again, as we would put it today. And one of his proofs for the reality of conversion is martyrs. And I just want to read like three different paragraphs here about the existence of martyrs and how this creates evidence of such a thing as a change of nature by a supernatural power in their enduring such 

suffering for a good conscience and the glory of Christ. A very great alteration in life and manifestations of holiness of heart in doings is a great argument of a change of heart. " He said, many thousands, yay, and millions of professing Christians that have had this trial have acquitted themselves so under it as to give the most remarkable evidences of a supernatural love to God. and a weanedness from the world, like they've weaned themselves off the world. For they have been tried with the most extreme sufferings and cruel tortures that man could invent. I'll give you one of those in a minute. And the sufferings of many of them have been lengthened out to a very great length. Their persecutors have kept them under trying torments that if possible, they might conquer them by wearing out of their spirits. But yet they have rather chosen undergo all and have held out in suffering unto death rather than to deny Christ. Such has been their faith, and their love, and their courage, that their enemies could not by any means overcome it, though they had him in their hands to execute their will upon them. And very often they have suffered all with the greatest composedness of spirit, yea, and with cheerfulness. And many of them have appeared exceedingly joyful under the torments, and have glorified in tribulations." Amazing. Many have braved it out through an extraordinary stoutness and ruggedness of spirit. But so it has been with multitudes of all sort. 

Many that have been under the decays of old age, long after the strength of nature has begun to fail. And they were in that state wherein our want very much to lose their natural courage. And also women, even children, and persons of delicate and weak constitution, such as these have by their faith and love to Christ and courage in his cause conquered the greatest and cruelest monarchs of the earth. In all the most dreadful things that their power could inflict upon them, they have rather chosen to suffer such affliction than in the least to depart from their dear Lord and Savior. " These are just the parts I've underlined. Whoever reads the histories that give an account of these things must needs acknowledge, if they don't put out the light of reason, like if you're not a total fool, that those persons had something in them far above nature. 

that they were influenced by some supernatural and powerful principle that men naturally don't experience. And many of those that have thus patiently and joyfully suffered such things before their change were very loose, vain persons, contenders of all religion. Many that were cruel persecutors themselves have been seized with conviction and have then at last borne witness to Christ and his gospel by a patient suffering his will, a remarkable instance in which they have been blessed, which we have in the blessed apostle Paul. He goes and he talks about the state that people were in before they were saved. And yet here they are now. And one more part here. 

I'll end on this. I'll end on this line. It requires something above nature to make a man love an unseen object. So as cheerfully to lose all things and suffer all things for his sake, nature doesn't work in that manner. It may work so as to cause men to have a strong love to an object that they've seen with their bodily eyes and have conquered and conversed with. But it is beyond the power of nature to beget such a love to an object that they are told of. 

of which they are informed that he lived on earth many hundreds of years ago and now lives in an invisible world. Nature may operate so as to cause transient affections about that which they are so informed of, but not to knit the heart so strongly to an unseen object as to have such great effect as these. Only some mighty work of God alone hearts, changing their natures and infusing principles that strengthen them and carry them far beyond the strength of nature would be possible. Great stuff there from Jonathan Edwards. Now, if that's true for us, if we've been converted, if we've been saved, if we've been born again, do we act like it? 

Do we celebrate it? Are we grateful for it? Do we live like it? Do we tell people about it? Do we tell people about our salvation as if we were going to spend eternity in hell? But instead now we're going to spend eternity in heaven. 

Now it'd be nice if our society were a Christian society again. And we had these holy days set up around the calendar to remind us about what's really important. All the holy days that we had on the calendar have been secularized or eliminated entirely or secularized and become meaningless. So again, I just want to encourage you to make these holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, whatever you want them to be, whatever they should be, whatever they used to be. You don't have to be sucked in by the culture to make them pagan. It's your home. 

It's your family. And I would argue that if we stopped wasting our time with Halloween and made it All Saints Day again, we'd live in a better country. Because people would know the stories. They would know the stories of the people we should be emulating. We'd have heroes. Reminders of what's important. 

I always think of the story Perpetua. I'm gonna share two here, but Perpetua I gotta share. I share it every time. She lived in the year 203 under a brutal Roman emperor. She refused to worship the emperor and she was thrown in jail. She was to be executed at the next gladiator games. 

And her father visited her and begged her, pleaded with her to recant her foolish Christian beliefs, this invisible God and do it for you. You're only 22 and do it for your baby. You have a full life and you need to be here for this baby. So just do it, just recant, even if you don't really believe, or if you do believe, but you just say you don't, just so you can be free and live. Just recant it so you can get out of prison, give up your pride. Just say you're not a Christian, you'll be set free, and then you can continue to do whatever you want, but just say whatever you need to say. 

And she refused. In prison, her father visited her in prison, and she said, Father, do you see that bowl there? What is that? He said, that's a bowl. She said, of course. Could it be called by any other name than what it is? 

She said, well, neither can I. Be called anything other than what I am. 

A Christian. Couldn't lie, even when it led to her death. Which it did. at the Gladiator Games. She couldn't lie. What if we had All Saints Day, a day where we celebrated the martyrs of the Christian faith? 

What if this day was, once again, about heroes, martyrs? What if we changed the stories that we told in our country? There was an emperor in Rome, Julian. One of his main goals was to decrease the influence of Christianity in culture. He wanted to water it down. He wanted to create division in it. 

He wanted, he did, bring in more paganism. In schools, no Christianity. was able to be taught. Also, Christians couldn't be taught the classical texts, like the pagan texts, which means they couldn't rise up into the higher classes of power and influence. He just wanted to keep Christians down as much as he could. His goal was to marginalize Christians. 

So he would do some things, like a lot of unjust things, obviously. One would be if a Christian broke a minor law, then they'd get the book thrown at him. But if pagans committed crimes against Christians, then they'd get a slap on the wrist. We see versions of this today. There's nothing new under the sun. Everyone in our culture should know the name Artemis. 

He was a military leader, was a Christian. Two priests were tormented and executed, or so they were, they were exiled and then they died when they were exiled. And Artemis said that the emperor was possessed by Satan. The emperor didn't like this. So the emperor got him, tortured him. They pressed him between two rocks. 

It was so horrible. His bowels squeezed out and his eyes popped out of his head, but he lived. momentarily, but he lived. He lived enough where he had another chance to denounce Jesus, but he didn't. So the emperor beheaded him. I just think of a society that knows that story and thinks on that story, meditates on that story, lifts up that type of conviction. 

Hebrews 12 21 says, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. How would we act if we knew that these great martyrs were watching? They are our example. They are our model. 

And if we don't lift them up, how will people know what to do? 

We wouldn't. We'd flounder. We'd be tossed to and fro. And we have been. But we can't anymore. We're called for more. 

The truth is out there. The answers are out there. The models are out there. The martyrs are out there. In your home, in your family, let's bring them back. Make sure that your kids know the martyrs of our Lord. MikeSlater . Locals . com. Transcript commercial free. It's on the website MikeSlater .

 

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Why Are There 42 Million Americans On Food Stamps?
Politics By Faith, October 28, 2025

This is not a sign of a healthy nation. How can we reverse the trend of more people relying on the government dole and return to the way God wants us to help each other?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. 42 million Americans are on food stamps. That's not a sign of a strong, healthy country. We talked earlier today about creeds. AOC gave a speech where she talked about how there's countless creeds in America. 

The immigrants and people who speak hundreds of different languages. And I'm like, that's not good. The crowd was cheering. There was a Zohan rally. And they're like, oh, it's amazing, 100 different languages. And I'm like, hmm, that sounds like the Tower of Babel. 

Yay, we can't communicate with each other. Yay, none of us believe the same thing about important principles of life and governance. Yay, I think. That doesn't sound good. So then we read from this thing called the American ethos. It was about 100 years ago. 

This person says, the American ethos, I do not choose, excuse me, the American creed, I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon if I can. I seek opportunity, not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk, to build and to dream, fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. 

I will not trade freedom for beneficence, nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid. to think and act for myself, to enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this, with God's help, I have done. these 42 million Americans. And I don't want to be cruel. 

I don't want to be mean. But this is not good. One in eight Americans are on food stamps. Now I'm taking a pretty moderate approach here. I'm not saying we got to get rid of entirely. Maybe one day it'd be great if we could get, and I used to make this argument, it'd be great if we could get to the utopian ideal, which is where when someone's down on their luck, first you go to family. 

If you don't have any, you go to friends. And if you don't have any, then you go to church. And if that doesn't work or whatever, then there's other charities, faith, you know, Christian based, like rescue mission, stuff like that. And then like way down the list would be food stamps, but it wouldn't even exist at that point. It wouldn't be necessary. I think one reason why people don't want to go to church is because church requires a relationship and people don't want relationships because the person giving the charity may say, Hey, maybe you should stop doing drugs, or maybe you should make these other changes in your life. 

And people don't want to hear it. They just want the anonymity of getting the free money. So you can continue to live in this way that's clearly not going well. Another benefit of having church be the main means of charity is you don't just get regular water. You get a water where you'll never be thirsty again. People want government cheese. 

When if you go to a church, you'll get a lot more than your regular old bread. Charity through a church is a blessing for everyone. And food stamps are a track for everyone. But people don't want to go to a church because again, relationships, accountability, better to just get it for free in the mail. Better for what? 

Of course. 

So I'm taking a pretty middle of the road approach here. And I think for the next few decades, probably, we should limit food stamps to the elderly, the disabled, and people with an IQ under 80 who can't hold a job. IQ under 80, Jordan Peterson talks about this a lot. You can't fold a paper into thirds to put it in an envelope. That's what that IQ is. 

And everyone else, you gotta get to work. It's probably 60 % of people on food stamps is a combination of fraud and able -bodied adults who can work but don't. Probably 60%. So we'll say 20 million Americans are elderly, disabled, and otherwise unable to hold a job. 20 million. That's a pretty... 

Am I a horrible person for saying, I only want to give food stamps to 20 million Americans? I think if we do that for a while, then maybe, and we change a lot of other things in our culture, in our country, then I think maybe we can start to get to that ultimate ideal. But right now we're nowhere even close. Now we did talk on the radio. And we're going to do more on this tomorrow because someone sent me a article written by John Stuart Mill, or an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1861 about universal suffrage. And it's very funny because this is 1861. 

This was 60 years before women had a right to vote. So this John Stuart Mill, very progressive guy, says, no, everyone should have a right to vote. Everyone should be allowed to vote. Women, laborers, low -income people, everyone should be allowed to vote. Unless, of course, you're on welfare. If you're on government dole in any way, then no, like definitely. 

And he also said, unless you can read, if you can't read, then obviously you can't vote. He went through all these exceptions that would pretty much accept, exempt or remove everybody's right to vote in America. He said, if you've ever been, if you've ever had bankruptcy, you can't vote. If you're in debt, you can't vote. So like no one in America would be allowed to vote. today if this progressive John Stuart Mill had his way a long time ago. 

But we presented this question of if you, just in an effort to shake this up and try to turn the ship around, if you're on specifically food stamps, you can't vote in federal elections. Again, I know there's problems, there's pros and cons to this, and I get it. I mean, you're still human, you're still a person, you're still all these things, you're still a citizen, but you can't vote in federal elections. So we brought this up as just something to think about. And then John Stuart Mill said the exact same thing back in 1861. But here's what I want to talk about on today's show on Politics by Faith, different than what we do on the radio. 

One last thing, someone wrote on Twitter, they said, my mom is disabled, 78 years old. She would die without food benefits. Oh, wow. Do you hear yourself? Your mom would die without food stamps? Your 78 year old disabled mother would die without food stamps? 

Feed your mom. Feed your mom. Honor your parents by feeding them goodness. All right, here's what I'm talking about here. Isaiah 58. Last night, I was reading a sermon by Jonathan Edwards on Isaiah 58. 

I'm not done with it. So maybe we'll do a part two of this when I'm done with Jonathan Edwards' words on it. But let's run through Isaiah 58. It's fascinating. It's about hypocritical religious observances versus true God -pleasing worship and action. That's what Isaiah 58 is about. 

And this opening section here is entitled, Why Do Our Prayers Go Away? And one of the reasons why our prayers go unanswered is because of our own sin. Isaiah 115 says, When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. This is God talking. I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen. 

Your hands are full of blood. Isaiah 59 verse one, behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save or his ear dull that it cannot hear. He's like, well, I'm able to do whatever I want people. Don't don't. I'm not answering your prayers because I'm not able to don't be fooled. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. 

Adam Clark in 1823, he said, how can any nation pretend to fast or worship God at all or dare to profess that they believe in the existence of such a being? while they carry on the slave trade, and traffic in the souls, blood, and bodies of men. O you most criminal of knaves, and worst of hypocrites, cast off at once the mask of your religion, and deepen not your endless perdition by professing the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, while ye continue in this traffic. " Of course, this applies to abortion today. The fasting in Isaiah 58 that's hypocritical is a fasting that You know, you're fasting to hurt your enemies, or you're fasting for selfish needs, or you're fasting to, the scriptures say, make your voice heard on high so to glorify yourself. This is no good. 

So what's true worship? Verse six, is this not the fast that I have chosen, colon, to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry? and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out when you see the naked that you cover him and not hide yourself from your own flesh? Loose the bonds of wickedness. Don't oppress others. 

Undo heavy burdens. Break every yoke. So stop oppressing others, but then actively love others, right? So stop doing the bad things and then share your bread with the hungry. So I know, hopefully you sense the pivot here. So my opening of this podcast is about, the receivers of the welfare. 

And now Isaiah 58 is talking about the givers of charity. And what happens when you serve others? First, it should be done for its own sake. But then when you do serve others, then your light shall break forth like the morning. Your healing shall spring forth speedily and your righteousness shall go before you. The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. 

Then you shall call and the Lord will answer. How about that? So why are my prayers not going answered? Well, here's why. Okay, fine. What if I do that? 

Well, then you shall call and the Lord will answer. You shall cry and he will say, here I am. If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness, if you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness and your darkness shall be as the noon day. It's great. The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your soul in drought and strengthen your bones. You shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. 

Those from among you shall build the old waste places. You shall rise up, raise up from the foundations of many generations. You shall be called the repairer of the breach. the restorer of streets to dwell in. Wow. If we fast and pray and live a life of righteousness and love, then our prayers will be answered. 

And of course, if you're living that life. then your prayers will be in line with God's will. But I love this line, last part, those from among you shall build the old waste places. So if you do all these good things and you will build the old waste places. Wow, we need a lot of rebuilding today. It's a broken world. 

There are breaches all over the place, but you shall be called the repairer of the breach. There's brokenness, broken homes, broken hearts, a lot of waste places. We need to rebuild a lot. It needs to be a lot of rebuilding. There used to be protections. around sacred institutions or aspects of our life, the family. 

And those have been, protections have been torn down. Therefore the institutions have been torn down. We need to build up the protections again. We need to reclaim these waste places. And I'll leave you with two more scriptures that are convicting to me to be more generous. 1 Timothy 5, 8, anyone who does not provide for their relatives and especially for their own household has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 

Whoa. In Proverbs 19, 17, whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord and he will reward them for what they have done. MikeSlater . Locals . com for the transcript of this episode and no commercials. MikeSlater .

 

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Thank You, Pete Hegseth: Holy Warrior
Politics By Faith, October 24, 2025

The Atlantic wrote a hit piece on Pete Hegseth, calling him a Holy Warrior. She said his introduction of Christian principles is a departure from how previous military leaders have led the military. She's wrong. And if he can lead an organization of 3 million people this way, we have no excuse.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I want to expand on something we talked about in the show this morning. Actually, something we're going to do next week. We'll talk about gambling, sports gambling. It was an incredible hour of the show. 

We briefly mentioned the sports gambling scandal with the head coach of the Trailblazers and all that stuff. But I quickly wanted to pivot into sports gambling and how prevalent this is among people and how dangerous it is. And I don't think it should be allowed because I don't think laws Laws, well, here's the question. Are laws here to protect our freedom or are they here to promote human flourishing? Think about that. Let's table that till the weekend, till next week, over the weekend. 

Are laws here to promote freedom or to protect freedom or promote human flourishing? It's an important question. It'll lead us to two, down two very different paths. Gambling does not promote human flourishing. Let's leave that there. So we'll chat more about that one next week. 

But it was a great hour because we had all these people call in who were gambling addicts, lost everything. And they all said they weren't. Here they are years later and they're not upset at the money they lost. Although hundreds of thousands, one person was a million bucks in gambling. It's not the money they lost, it's the time. And I asked one guy, you know, what's a thing you miss that you regret? 

He said, the birth of my daughter. It was a powerful moment. This forced gambling is a bad thing. So we'll talk about that next week. I want to share this first. The Atlantic wrote an article about Pete Hexeth called Holy Warrior. 

Pete Hexeth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon. I love this. The fundamentalist interpretation. It's like THE interpretation. I guess it's opposed to the LGBTQIA plus trans -inclusive interpretation of Christianity that exists. But by fundamentalist, she means what the Bible says. 

So she went to a sermon that Doug Wilson gave and Pete Hegseth was in the front row. Although Wilson's Christ or chaos approach to spirituality is interesting enough, I like that Christ or chaos. That's great. The reason I'd come this morning is that I wanted to better understand what Hegseth saw in him. Unlike the 72 year old preacher, Hegseth heads a force of 3 million service members and civilians whose mission, a secular mission, is to keep the nation secure. So she believes that in no way are Christians allowed to introduce their ethos into their profession. 

or leadership or organizations that they run. But the left must. The left must infuse their religion into everything. And it is all a religion over there on the left. Black Lives Matter, trans, whatever it is. It has to be inserted into every single thing. 

They taught transgenderism to kindergartners for the love of Pete. We saw what they did. We're onto them now. And now we're doing it. And there's no holding back. The point I would like to make here is that Christianity has always been a part of our war department's ethos. 

This is the key to her whole article here. She goes into a bunch of examples of how Pete Hegseth is a Christian. All of this is a departure from how previous US presidents and military leaders have understood the intersection of faith and duty for generations. Although America's armed forces have always made space for religion, going back to the Battle of Bunker Hill, that place is a circumscribed one, entrusted primarily to several thousand chaplains responsible for attending to troops of their own faith and facilitating observance by those of other traditions. Prayers may be abundant in the foxholes, but commanders typically do not dictate matters of spirituality. 

" Totally wrong. By the way, she said religion is a circumscribed one. I mean, something's restricted within limits, but like outside of a circle circumference, it's outside of, right? So like we'll allow it, but it's severe, strict limits outside of what we're really here for. Totally not true. Now she brought up the battle of Bunker Hill. 

So I'm going to go as my evidence that this is wrong to the battle of Bunker Hill. There's a book written by J . T. Hedley. He's a historian. He wrote this around the hundredth anniversary of America. 

So 1876, it's called the chaplains and clergy of the revolution. Let's read a couple things here. As before hostilities commenced, there was scarcely a military muster, military gathering, at which the clergy were not present, but they were very circumscribed and kept under strict limits as to what they were on some occasion saying, behold, God himself is with us for our captain and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry the alarm. That's second Chronicles 13 12. It was to be expected when war broke out. They would be found in the ranks of the rebels, that's us, the colonists, urging forward what they had so long proclaimed as a religious duty. 

The first outbreak at Lexington and Concord gave them no opportunity to exhibit their zeal officially. It happened too fast. So some shouldered their muskets and fought like cocks. 

soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill. 

Among these were, and then he lists a couple ministers, who showed that clergy could fight as well as pray. It's great. I didn't bring up Bunker Hill. She brought it up. So here I am telling you about what happened with the tightly, very strictly, tightly circumscribed preachers, clergy at Bunker Hill. Yeah, right. 

They were deeply, intimately, profoundly involved. The militia troops were also religious. and their respect for the opinions of the clergy unbounded. To avoid the expense of chaplains, the clergy in the neighborhood of the camp near Bunker Hill were invited by Congress to perform divine service, 13 of them every Sabbath, a request they punctually complied with. Three or four chaplains, however, were attached to the army and prayed with the troops every morning on the common. " I love that. 

Like, hey, listen, we're not going to spend money on chaplains because we're kind of broke here, but why don't you just go grab some local preachers from all the churches nearby? Just knock on the door of the churches and have them come out. And they all did. Some of them grabbed guns and fought. One of the most important chaplains was David Avery. Washington saw in him the embodiment of all those qualities he wished in a chaplain, intrepid and fearless in battle, unwearied. 

And again, just to go back to the Atlantic article, what Pete Hexeth is doing is very, very different, a sharp departure from what the secretary of the military has always been, the total return. Intrepid and fearless in battle, unwearied in his attentions to the sick and wounded, not only nursing them with care, but faithful to their souls. as though they were members of his own parish. With a love for his country so strong that it became a passion, cheerful under privations and ready for any hardship, never losing in the turmoil of war. camp that warm and glowing piety, which characterizes the devoted minister of God. He rode with George Washington, ate meals with George Washington, close friends with George Washington. 

He's Pete Hex, that's Doug Wilson, David Avery. And he wrote in his journal, again, I didn't bring this example up. She could have mentioned any other time in history. She mentioned Battle of Bunker Hill. David Avery wrote in his journal, early in the morning, the enemy attacked our entrenchments, but was driven back. After repeated trials, they succeeded in dislodging the troops. 

In the retreat, many of Colonel's men were killed. My dear friend, Dr. Warren, was shot dead. I stood on a neighboring hill, the name of that hill was Bunker, with hands uplifted, supplicating the blessing of heaven to crown our unworthy arms with success. This is the reliving of Exodus 17 .8, when the Amalekites and the Israelites were battling and Moses was holding his arms up in the air. And as long as Moses' arms were in the air, the Israelites were winning. So Aaron and Hurrick came over and held up his arms and Joshua went on to defeat the Amalekites. 

This is what David Avery was doing. To us infantile Americans, unused to the thunder and carnage of battle, the flames of Charlestown before our eyes, the incessant play of cannon from their shipping from Boston and their wings in various cross directions together with the terror of the field, exhibiting a scene most awful and tremendous. But amid the perils of the dread encounter, the Lord was our rock and fortress. Oh yeah, but no, a military never had any religious tradition, ever. Only now after Pete Exe. Robert E. Lee. 

an incredible man. He would always attend prayer services, always attend church, no matter what. And he said to his troops, he said, soldiers, let us humble ourselves before the Lord, our God. By the way, just imagine if Pete Hexeth said this. I mean, he probably would, and maybe already has or will, but just imagine when this happens and the left would just freak out. Let us humble ourselves before the Lord, our God, asking through Christ the forgiveness of our sins. 

beseeching the aid of the God of our forefathers in defense of our homes and our liberties, thanking him for his past blessings and imploring their continuance upon our cause and our people. Allahu Akbar. All praise the monkey God. No, no, no, not that last part didn't happen. It was praying to God in the name of Jesus. I love this from Washington Post. 

Talks about what Pete's like behind closed doors. Several people told me that he's talked about having prayed over personal decisions. He's praying about personal decision. What a weirdo. And once called for a group prayer before an airstrike. Love it. 

This reporter then said, Hegseth has invoked George Washington as a kindred spirit. Washington was famously private in his faith, and rather than infusing the American government in its infancy with his beliefs, he stood for religious freedom. That's not true. George Washington's farewell address. Again, she brought up these examples. I'm not cherry picking anything. 

This isn't a random letter that George one time sent to his wife. This is his stinking farewell address. Everyone in school always talks about entangling alliances. In his farewell address, he said, I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you in his holy protection and that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another. and for their fellow citizens of the United States. And finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the divine author of our blessed religion. 

That's God. And without a humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation. He's talking about Jesus there. Yeah, George Washington here never said the word God. He's a divine author of our blessed religion. He's not talking about Hinduism. 

And he never said the word Jesus. Not in the farewell address. But he's talking about the humble invitation. That's Jesus. Farewell address. But he was very private about it. 

George Washington was not private about his faith. That's a lie we've been told to get us to be quiet about our faith. The Muslims want to blast their call to prayer across America five times a day. 

That is not quiet in their faith. 

But we're expected to be. Not anymore. Thank you to Pete Hegseth for being an example. Her point was, can you believe he's doing this in an organization of three million people? All the more encouragement to the rest of us. If he can do it in an organization of three million people, it's ours. 

MikeSlater . Locals . com. Transcript commercial free on the website MikeSlater .

 

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