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Morning Motivation, June 29, 2023
The Greatest In Babylon
June 28, 2023

Imagine the disappointment if you're dying of thirst and you see a well and you desperately pull the bucket out of the well and it's empty. That's the constant feeling of worshiping idols. They never provide a drop of comfort.


Good morning, welcome to the Morning Motivation. Mike Slater brought to you by Patriot Gold Group and the Public Square app. Still going on.

No, listen, that's fine.

I don't want to be like a victim here, walking around. Hi, I'm Mike. Nice to meet you. Did I tell you I lost half my stuff in a fire? That's not my identity moving forward, I promise, but it's a good example, or good impetus to talk about materialism, which is a problem I've always had, and I feel like I'm not alone. It's so easy to get caught up with things, make things an idol, make things your god, make your love of things as a form of religion, something you worship, something you think about all day. 2 Timothy 3, but understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people. I think there's the obvious ones here of lovers of money and then was it lovers of pleasure? Rather than lovers of God, but also that last one having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power Materialism can do that stuff can do that if you're idolizing stuff, then the stuff can have an appearance of Godliness, but of course it doesn't have the power Charles Spurgeon did a sermon on this, talked about the spiritual life without God, the illusion of being able to have a spiritual life without God. He said, it's worth nothing. Sure, imitation jewels are pretty and brilliant, but if you take them to the jeweler, he'll give you nothing for them. There is a religion which is all paste gems, a godliness which glitters, but is not gold. Moreover, there is no comfort in it. The form without the power has nothing in it to warm the heart, nothing to raise the spirits or to strengthen the mind against the day of sickness or in the hour of death. That's what I was talking about yesterday, that you think there's gonna be such a joy when you go and get more stuff. And even then, there's no joy at all, no raising of spirits. Peter called hypocrites, wells without water. So imagine you're thirsty, you're out in the desert, and you see a well. Oh, and it looks perfect. It's got the stones around it. You can picture, I've never even seen a well in real life, but you can picture a well perfectly. It's got the stones, and the pillars on the side with the little roof on the top of it and it's got the rope with the bucket and the thing you turn the whole thing right so you run up to your third dying of thirst you quickly as fast as you can you spin the wheel and you get that bucket up as fast as you can and the bucket's empty how disappointed would you be Spurgeon says a well without water is a mockery. A mockery. That's what idolizing stuff is. It's a mockery. It's a mere pit of destruction, a deadly delusion. Spurgeon says, are some of you possessors of a religion which never yields you a drop of comfort? It is a bondage to you. If you worship materialism, it gives you not a drop of comfort. That's how I've been feeling with things. It's a well with no water in it. How disappointing. Materialism, worship it and get not a drop of comfort. In fact, it's bondage to you. And I love this last line of his sermon. He says, get your godliness direct from heaven by the personal dealing of your own soul with your Savior. You can't get your godliness direct from the Amazon or direct from whatever, Macy's. Profess only what you possess and rest only in that which has been given to you from above. Rest only in that which has been given to you from above. Your heavenly life as yet may be very feeble but the grain of mustard seed will grow. You may be the least in Israel, but that is better than being the greatest in Babylon. Think about that if you feel envious of someone else and their stuff. Think about that if you feel envious of someone else and their stuff. Sure, you may be the least in Israel, but that is better than being the greatest in Babylon.

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

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

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

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

This causes these progressive politicians to get even more entrenched.

We haven't hit rock bottom yet.

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Boys to men, girls to women

How do you do it? Advice please!

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

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

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

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Morning Motivation, April 21, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Politics by Faith: Parkland and the Death Penalty
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

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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
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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. 

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Charlie Kirk: Freedom, Without Virtue, Leads To Chaos
Politics By Faith, October 16, 2025

Charlie was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would have been his 32nd birthday. His wife said 5 profound statements in about 40 seconds. We break them down in today's episode. 

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Oh, I was on vacation last week and I had big plans to record episodes and I didn't. A lot of high hopes, always on vacation. Alas, we're back. I want to play this clip of Erica Kirk at her husband's Medal of Freedom ceremony. I think in this 40 second clip, there are five profound truths that are worth knowing. 

Charlie often said that without God, freedom becomes chaos. and he believed liberty could only survive when anchored to truth. And I remember in one of his speeches, he told the audience that the opposite of liberty isn't law, he said it's captivity, and that the freest people in the world are those whose hearts belong to Christ. But what's so powerful is that Charlie had the ability to communicate so brilliantly across all generations. And he reminded us that in a world that tells us freedom is doing whatever you want to do, the real freedom is the power to live freely and to do what is right. And in one of his journal entries, he wrote that he wanted everyone to know that you can't have liberty without moral responsibility. 

Freedom divorced from faith eventually just destroys itself. 

It's incredible stuff there. Incredible truths there. Without God, freedom becomes chaos. The opposite of liberty is not law, it's captivity. The freest people are those whose heart belong to Christ. Freedom is not doing whatever you want. 

True freedom is the power to live freely and do what is right. You can't have liberty without moral responsibility. and freedom divorced from faith ultimately destroys itself. Again, going back to chaos. Our founding fathers knew these things. I'm so grateful that Charlie brought them back to the forefront. 

It's our job to take them and run with them and live, live them and share them with as many people as we can. John Adams knew that the American system of government was designed only for a moral and religious people. And if you live a life of the flesh, With your mind set on things of the flesh, you will do things of the flesh and it will lead to death. It will lead to a bad life. You'll become a slave to those things here on earth, not to mention what will happen to you for all of eternity. But our founding fathers knew that true happiness did not come that way. 

And they knew that a country can never survive if people were living in the flesh. This idea that the opposite of liberty is not law, because that's the idea is like, Oh, you can't tell me what to do. I'm gonna do whatever I want. You can't make a law to tell me. It's like, all right, fine, but you're going to go down this road and it's not the law, but it's going to be captivity. It's going to be chaos and captivity and destruction and slavery. 

You're going to become a slave to the flesh, a slave to your sin. John 8, 34, Jesus says, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. Romans 6, 16, to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey. You are that one slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness. 2 Peter 2, 19, they promise them freedom. but they themselves are slaves of corruption. 

For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. " I want to read a few more quotes here from this book I've been going through, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers. I've got like three quotes here that I think echo what Charlie had said and Erica is going to continue to say, and we need to know. This is Noah Webster of the dictionary. And of course, to prevent crimes, war, and disorders in society, no human laws dictated by different principles from those in the gospel can ever secure those objectives. 

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. These are our founding fathers. For instruction then in social, religious, and civil duties, resort to the scriptures for the best precepts and most excellent examples of imitation. Reverend Sam Cooper gave a sermon. He preached in front of the governor of Massachusetts, one John Hancock, also preached to the Massachusetts assemblymen at the time. And this was on the very beginning of the Massachusetts constitution in 1780. 

And the preacher man said this directly to the leaders. He said, our civil rulers will remember. that as piety and virtue support the honor and happiness of every community, they are particularly requisite in a free government. Virtue is the spirit of a republic. for where all power is derived from the people, all depends on their good disposition. That's such a good point. 

If power comes from the people, power to the people, power from the people. If that's where the power comes from, you better make sure they're good people. If they are impious, factious, and selfish, if they are abandoned to idleness, dissipation, luxury, and extravagance, if they are lost to the fear of God and the love of the country, all is lost. Having got beyond the restraints of a divine authority, they will not brook the control of laws enacted by rulers of their own creating. You think they're going to, if they disobey the laws of God, you think they're going to obey the laws of man? Having got beyond the restraints of a divine authority, they will not brook the control of laws enacted by rulers of their own creating. 

They elect these fools. They're going to listen to their own laws. And now we live in a society where those people don't even enact laws. And we have judges that just let people free after they break the law. I'm going to look up. Two words here. 

Dissipation, I want to make sure I get that one right. Dissipation, scattered attention, a dissolute, irregular course of life, wandering from the object to object to object in pursuit of pleasure. Oh, that's a good idea. They're abandoned to idleness, dissipation. Oh, there's lost. A course of life usually attended with careless and exorbitant expenditure of money, indulgence in vices, which impair or ruin both health and fortune. 

Very good. And then I wonder what the old time definition of brook is. Having got beyond the restraints of a divine authority, they will not brook the control of laws. They will not brook, bear, endure, support. I never heard that used before. 

I'll give you one more. 

We'll go back to Benjamin or Noah Webster. The Christian religion is the real source of all genuine Republican principles. It teaches the equality of men as to the rights and duties. And while it forbids all oppression, it commands due subordination to law and rulers. It requires the young to yield obedience to their parents. and enjoins upon men the duty of selecting their rulers from their fellow citizens of mature age, sound wisdom, and real religion. 

" Check this out. Real religion. Men who fear God and hate covetousness. It's Exodus 18, 21. The religion of Christ and his apostles and its primitive simplicity and purity, unencumbered with the trappings of power and the pomp of ceremonies, is the surest basis of a Republican government. Those men who destroy the influence and authority of the Christian religion. 

Oh, the sentence right here. Those men, and we've had decades of these men and women, those men who destroy the influence and authority of the Christian religion, sap the foundations of public order, of liberty and of Republican government. We see the chaos. Noah Webster was totally right. Completely right. We've had decades now of people of influence and authority sapping the foundations of public order. 

We have on the SiriusXM show tomorrow, a lot of stories about crime. And there's two things that will stop crime, the law and God. The law is there for when you get caught. There's the law, you break it, there's proper punishment. We have breakdowns all throughout that, which we'll talk about more tomorrow, but you know it all, right? Just letting people, people have been arrested 30 times for violent crimes, letting them back on the streets. 

That's a breakdown. But those are all the things that we see. But do you know, we only solve about 44%. The last time we had these numbers was in 2023. It's worse now, surely. We solve 44 % of violent crimes. 

What percent of murders do you think get solved? If you asked me, I'd be like, oh, like 98%, 99%, 57 % of murders. And I've heard some numbers as low as 45. Obviously, it depends where you are too. That means there's some cities probably where maybe 30 % of murders get solved. So what do we do with that? 

The law is there for when you get caught. But what about when no one sees what you do? I should say, what about when no one sees what you do? He does. God does. He sees everything. 

And going to hell is a pretty good deterrent to stop people from doing bad things. But we've replaced God with Santa Claus and his naughty list. It's one of many reasons why there's so much crime today. No more idea of hell. But to bring it back to Charlie Kirk, freedom is not the point. Freedom is not the end of the story. 

Freedom is the beginning. Virtue is the goal. Freedom is only good if it directs people to virtue. If freedom leads people to sin, that leads to death. You know, the suspect of the LA Palisades fire was captured. This fire he started destroyed 6 ,000 homes, killed 12 people. 

A month before he lit the fire, he told a family member that he burned a Bible. He said, I literally burnt the Bible that I had. It felt amazing. I felt so liberated. Liberated. I'm so free. 

I can do whatever I want. And he did. He went on to do whatever he wanted. And what he wanted to do was to start a fire that destroyed a community. Freedom.

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Seeped and Steeped in The Bible
Politics By Faith, October 3, 2025

Our founding fathers and grandfathers knew the Bible deeply in their minds and souls. How can you hear the words of George Washington and Patrick Henry's most famous speech and come to any other conclusion? 

The word of the day is seeped. Seeped. 

Good word, isn't it? To be seeped. The modern dictionary definition, Webster did not have this word in his original 1828 one, is to flow or leak a liquid slowly through porous material or small holes. The idea, though, concept is that something is so deeply permeated into the item. that it is now an integral part of it. Now in this interesting English situation here, where you have the words seep and steep, and they can both do with liquids, so it can get confusing. 

But when you're talking about a deep tradition of something, it's actually the word steep. So something is steeped in tradition, for instance. I like both concepts, right? I feel like the idea of seeping into, And the argument I want to make here is that the Bible, it seeped its way through all the aspects of our culture in America. But I also like the idea of our culture being steeped in the Bible. Let's go with steep for now. 

So I suppose the word of the day is steep, not seep. But this is the idea I want. Either way, this is the idea that I'm looking for. I'm reading this amazing book. I'm going to mention it many more times because I'm only like 25 % done. It's called Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers. 

And I want to read two sections here in particular. The first is about George Washington, and then I want to get to Patrick Henry. George Washington was steeped in the Bible. The Bible seeped into every aspect of his life. But again, we'll go with steep. Listen, so this is, this author went through all these different examples of George Washington using biblical references. 

I didn't even know many of these references originated in the Bible. That's how unsteeped I am and how little it has seeped into the culture that I grew up in and still live in today. So let me read from this. The language of the English Bible so permeated the vernacular that some speakers and writers may not always have been conscious of the fact that a popular phrase or image had biblical origins. In any case, Washington routinely incorporated into his working vocabulary familiar biblical language, such as forbidden fruit, Genesis 3, sweat of the brow, Genesis 3 .19. Fat of the land. 

Genesis 45 .18. George Washington used these words all the time. Stumbling blocks. Leviticus, Ezekiel, Romans, 1st Corinthians. Seven times seven years. Leviticus. 

Thorn in our side. Numbers, Judges, 2nd Corinthians. 

First fruit. 

Deuteronomy, Nehemiah. Sleep with my fathers. Deuteronomy, 2nd Samuel, 1st Kings. Neither sleep nor slumber. Psalm Isaiah. All the days of your life. 

Psalms 23, 27. Like sheep to the slaughter. Psalm 44, Acts 8, Romans 8. Engraved on every man's heart. Jeremiah 17, 31, Romans 2. Separating the wheat from the tares, Matthew 13. 

A millstone hung to your neck, Matthew 18, Mark 9, Luke 17. Wars and rumors of wars, Matthew 24, Mark 9, Luke 17. By the way, every time George Washington wrote about these things, he didn't have to say, good and faithful servant. As it says in Matthew 25, 21, the good and faithful, it just did, everyone knew what he was talking about. Take up my bed and walk, Mark 2, John 5. Widow's might, Mark 12, Luke 21. 

The scales are ready to turn. from the eyes, Act 9, and Throne of Grace, Hebrews 416. Those are maybe half the examples. George Washington was steeped in a biblical culture. I want to quote here Patrick Henry. One of his most famous speeches, one of the most important speeches in the buildup to the American Revolution, was a speech he gave on March 23rd, 1775 at a church in Richmond, Virginia. 

I've read this speech many times. I had no idea all the biblical allusions in it. I'll only cross check one here. But Patrick Henry talks about, the whole point of the speech is peace. There's no peace. That's Jeremiah 6, 14. 

They have healed the wound of my people lightly saying peace, peace when there is no peace. The whole point, I've read this speech a million times. Patrick Henry, that famous line, peace, peace when there is no peace. I didn't know that was Jeremiah 6. Let me quote this speech here. Mr. President, said Patrick Henry, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. 

We are apt to shut our eyes. Proverbs 16, 30, Isaiah 6, 10, 33, 15, 44, 18. Against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. That's actually from the Odyssey. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who having eyes see not and having ears hear not? 

Jeremiah 5, Ezekiel 12, Psalm 115, 135, Isaiah 42. The things which so clearly concern their temporal salvation. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost. Exodus 6 -9 Job 7, 11. Sorry, Sorry, I chuckle because it's everything. 

Every sentence of this speech is a biblical reference. I am willing to know the whole truth. John 8, 32. To know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided. Psalm 119. 

And that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know that there had been in the content of the British ministry for the last 10 years to justify those hopes. with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and in this house. Is it not? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition had been lately received? 

Trust it not, sir. It will prove a snare to your feet. Jeremiah 18, 22. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Matthew 26, Luke 22. In vain after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. 

There's no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve and violate these inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not baselessly to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be attained, we must fight. I repeat it, sir, we must fight. An appeal to arms and to God of hosts is all that has left us. Tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? 

Will it be next week or next year? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty And in such a country as that which we possess, Deuteronomy 3 .12, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God, Isaiah 45 .21, who presides over the destinies of nations and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. 1 Samuel 8, 2 Chronicles 32. 

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. Ecclesiastes 9, 11. It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. 

Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come. I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace, but there is no peace, Jeremiah 6, 14. 

The war has actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears, Acts 7 20, the clash of resounding arms, our brethren already in the field. Why stand here idle? Matthew 26. What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? 

Is life so dear? Acts 20 24. Or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take. But as for me, Genesis 17 4 and Joshua 24 15. 

But as for me, give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me death speech is just seeped with biblical references, because he himself was steeped in a Bible -based culture. This is my dream. This is what I want. More than anything, my prayer for our country is that we once again can put the Bible in the front as the foremost, most important text, document, and truth, and that the people of this country can steep in it. and it can permeate inside of us, inside of our bones and our mind and our souls, so that it becomes a part of our speech, part of our language again, every aspect of what we do and how we think. 

This is what created our country, the men who built this country and women. were steeped in the Bible. If we want to save our country, we should do the same. More importantly, if we want to save souls, we should do the same. The book again is called Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, Daniel Driesbach. I'm only 25 % of the way through. 

I would love for his sales to just skyrocket and have him be like, what in the world? 

What happened? 

What happened? Why did my book sales do? Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, Daniel Driesbach. It's got like a yellow cover with a red Bible on the front. Mike Slater dot locals . com is my website. 

Transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot locals .

 

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