MikeSlater
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Politics By Faith is back!
July 20, 2023

The long form is back! Thank you for your patience while the family settles into our new home.

Welcome to Politics by Faith brought to you by the Patriot Goal Group and Public Square app. Slater, where you been?

Sorry, it's been a long time. This move has been more stressful on the family and on me than I thought and it's wild. My wife and I, we like routines and moving cross country with four kids will change your routines quite a bit. It's amazing how many micro decisions on autopilot when you're in a routine you don't even think about. Like, where are the forks? Like, you just like, you know where the forks are. But then when you move, you don't know where anything is. So you make a billion decisions every day and it ends up being exhausting and it's hard to do much of anything. So I apologize that this full length podcast has been and if you missed the whole story, we had two medium sized moving trucks and on the way, one of them burned to the ground. So we lost probably three quarters of everything. So now it's like hey where are the forks? Oh I think we put them in that drawer and you open the drawer and there's no forks. Oh yeah we don't have any forks. I forgot. So now we got to go get forks. So it's just and everything else. So it's just been a lot. But that's no it's an excuse. I was gonna say that's not a good excuse. I think it's a pretty good excuse, actually. But we're back and we'll do the best we can here. Moving forward, doing these as much as we can. But I've committed to doing the daily one, the morning motivation. I think those are worth it. Well, it's all worth it, but I can do those in a good amount of time and hopefully we'll get back to these long-form ones once or twice a week as well. So thank you for your patience. Thank you for caring. All of these podcasts, by the way, we put on MikeSlater.Locals.com, so if you want to see them commercial-free, you go to MikeSlater.Locals.com, and I think more importantly, the transcript is available there as well. This episode, I want to talk about the soul for a couple reasons. Oh, so the reason we moved to Nashville is I got a new job. So I'm still hosting the show in San Diego. I've been doing it for 12 years. Keeping that job, which is amazing. The new job is I'm the host of the morning show on SiriusXM Patriot, Breitbart News Daily with Mike Slater. And it's been awesome. We've done it for two, three weeks now. And that's been pretty stressful too. It's been great, but you know, just getting routines and figuring everything out. You're nervous because you want to do a good job your first couple weeks. So it's been a lot, but we're starting to get a groove now and we've had some amazing guests. And just the other day we had a guy who's, Jocko Bullions is his name, who's dedicated his life to fighting against child sex trafficking and rescuing kids who are caught up in child sex trafficking. And this was inspired, we've talked to him a lot actually over the years, but specifically this week inspired by the movie Sound of Freedom. Have you seen it? This is the independent Christian movie. It cost fifteen million dollars to make and they've now made over a hundred million dollars and Disney passed on it and more people per screen are seeing this movie than Indiana Jones and all the other summer blockbusters and people are choosing to see a movie about child sex trafficking. That's unbelievable. That says a lot about where our country is too, I think in a good way. I think people are thirsting for the truth. I think people are thirsting for important things. I think people are thirsting for things that matter.

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There's this whole idea like, oh, would people want to be entertained and numb out and veg out? You're like, yeah, maybe, but I think, I think people really want some gravitas. They want, they want some weightiness. They want things that matter. They want to be a part of something that matters, something bigger than themselves. So even the idea of watching a movie about the most horrific thing imaginable, people want to go see it. And it's good that people are aware of it. And we talked all about how the left is saying this is a phantom issue and it's a made-up QAnon conspiracy and it's not even a thing that happens. You're like, what are you kidding me? It is so bad the world we're living in, the culture we're living in. I read a headline and it said, former child sex trafficking advocate speaks out against Sound of Freedom. So I was like, oh, that's interesting. Why would a child sex trade advocate speak out against a movie about, you know, bringing awareness to the child sex... And I read the article and I was like, well, maybe, as we... The one critique we did talk about the movie is it kind of makes it seem as if child sex trafficking is a thing that happens in South America or Thailand and not in America, although it's a huge problem in America. So maybe that's that guy's concern, is it doesn't focus enough on American child sex trafficking. And I read the article, and the article doesn't make any sense. And I'm like, wait, what's going on? So I go back up to the headline, and the headline didn't say, former child sex trafficking advocate. The headline said, former pedophile advocate speaks out against Sound of Freedom. And I was like, pedophile? That's so bizarre, the idea of a pedophile advocate. My brain didn't compute it. And it was, like I read pedophile, and my brain said, oh, well, that's not it. That's not the word. It must mean child sex trafficking advocate. And then I put it in that box, and then moved forward as if that's what it said. And that's not what it said. It said, pedophile advocate. There's a pedophile advocate. That's a thing. And that's gonna be the ultimate thing, by the way. That's where they're ultimately going. That's the ultimate taboo. It's the ultimate thing left to be brought out of the shadows, into the light. Wait for that. So, in the light of all this, Sound of Freedom, and just a lot of the trans stuff and everything going on in our country, I wanna talk about the soul. I share this story all the time, but it was such a pivotal moment in my political journey. I feel like I just need to share it whenever I can and maybe it'll be meaningful to you too. It was a couple years back, maybe three years ago, when I was talking to one of the most acclaimed psychologists of today, he's got a million different books, Ivy League scholar, whole thing, and I asked him how this topic that we were talking about, how does this affect the soul?

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How does it affect your soul? And he said, oh, we don't deal with the soul. We don't talk about the soul, but I can tell you how it affects the brain. Because the people in the modern world, you're just random chemicals and like random hormones that trigger at times that cause you to act certain ways that there is no soul, the word psychology, this guy's a psychologist, the word psychologist is Greek for study of the soul. Psyche, psych, soul, study of the soul. So the entire field of the study of the soul doesn't account for the soul. That's amazing. So I realized that the soul is what matters the most. If the modern world ignores the soul, then clearly that's the thing that matters the most. So what's really going on in this ignoring of the soul? It's a quote I came across recently. It's been attributed to C.S. Lewis and a bunch of other people, but it looks like the first reference is George MacDonald from 1892 over in England. He observed that there was, in his view, excessive mourning going on at funerals, a lot of wailing and such. And he said, this is no good. This is no good. This wailing and over too much sadness, it takes people away from the reality that your hope is in heaven. And this ties in perfectly, and I didn't mean to do this, but this ties in perfectly to the theme of the morning motivations this week. Luke 10, Jesus said to his disciples, "'Rejoice more than anything "'that your name is written in heaven.'" That is the greatest thing of all that you could ever possibly rejoice in, no matter what you ever do ever in life. That's the most important thing. And people are wailing at a funeral, and he's like, why? He said, never tell a child you have a soul. Teach him you are a soul. You have a body. He said, as we learn to think of things always in this order, that the body is but the temporary clothing of our soul, our views of death and the unbefittingness of customary mourning will approximate to those friends of earlier generations." We've got to act more like the people who came before us. But think about that. That's a paradigm shift. You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You aren't a body that has a soul, you are a soul that has a body. That's a totally different game. Now, there's some debate about this already, the importance of the body in the Christian world, right? It's the body's important. I'm not minimizing it to nothing, but the soul should come first. I think we can all agree that the soul has been neglected in our modern world. And we wonder why people are so depressed and empty and why kids are looking to fill this void with anything that they can grasp to as they're drowning in chaos, transgenderism just being one of those things. Let's lament here for a second, but before I do, let's celebrate. Let's take a moment to celebrate the Public Square app. As I am recording this today, this morning, the Public Square app, Michael Seifert, the founder, rang the bell on the New York Stock Exchange as they are now a publicly traded company. It's unbelievable. Well, it's totally believable. I'm so proud of him and what he was creating. I was at the launch, actually that was a couple years ago, it wasn't that long ago, two years ago maybe? And I was like, oh man, I hope this goes well. I really hope the Public Square app is successful. And it is just thriving. Donald Trump Jr. is one of the big investors now, and it's going amazing, and I'm so happy for him. So it's only gonna get better. Jump in now, totally free, the Public Square app, and you can connect with like-minded business owners. So if you wanna go get coffee, don't go get it from the Starbucks, go get it from the local coffee shop that shares your values. What are those values? Go to the Public Square website, publicsq.com, scroll down to the bottom, there's the five values that every business owner needs to attest to before they can be featured on the app and we can grow a parallel economy. You wanna know what it's like? It's like the movie. It's like the movie, Sound of Freedom. That was bailed on by all the major production houses, Disney and all the rest, and it was done independently by Angel Studios, people who do The Chosen, and look what a great, incredible success it is. Huge money maker. The last eight Disney movies have lost almost a billion dollars for Disney. That's unsustainable. This movie made 100 million. It's doing pretty good. So hopefully we can continue to grow these, our A, parallel economy, with people who have these values. It's really important. And the Public Square app are the people to do it. And they're building out this whole new platform to be like an Amazon of all this too, right? So it's not just a place where individual stores are, but you can buy through the app at all the stores. It's gonna be great. They have a huge future, but the present is fantastic. I've been using it for a long time now, and they're growing in exponential ways. So anyway, the Public Square app, be a part of it. It's truly a revolution. I don't say that lightly. That is a big deal how fast they're growing and I'm so happy to be just a tiny part of it. The Public Square app, publicsq.com and it's free in the app store. All right, let's lament about the unhappiness in this country, this lack of joy, this malaise. It's not an economic problem. We have more than ever. It's not a political problem. This clearly can't be solved with government. This is a problem is the problem with the soul. For the first time since they've been asking this question, let me pull it up here, make sure I got this right. They've been asking the question, are you, take it all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say that you're very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy? And since the 70, 72, 1972, very happy's been mid-30s. And it went down to 18%. Not too happy, but about 10% and it jumped up to 25%. This is the first time ever since 1972. Through all types of economic problems and war and all types of things. This is the first time that there are more people who say they're not too happy than very happy. I don't like that. And it is because we continue to get more and more disconnected from our creator. We get more disconnected. I should say we ignore more our soul. We are starving our soul. If you think of a visual of our soul, if you could personify our soul, I don't know how you want to personify it, but I think of it as a frail, decrepit, ghastly man, just black and wretched and full of tar and just like crunched over and can barely move. That's the soul. We've just been not feeding it. And then we wonder why we're not happy. This morning on Breitbart News Daily, I was talking to the great Chris Rufo. He's got a new book out that you have to buy and This is a section from the book. Excuse me for reading it. He says the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin Raised his glass to a group of artists assembled at the home of famed writer Maxim Gorky in 1932 the production of souls is More important than the production of tanks," he said, explaining that the communists desired not only to remake the world of politics and economics, but to reshape human nature according to the dictates of left-wing ideology. And so he continued, I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul. This concept, Chris says, the ruthless application of politics to the most intimate recesses of the human spirit would drive the communist regimes for the middle part of the 20th century. The Soviets had their artists, the Chinese had their propagandists, all were committed to the creation of the new man. Here's a little bit from Chris Rufo and I chatting this morning. Yeah, well I

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mean they want to capture it, I mean because this is a, you know, Marxism was designed in many ways as a substitute for religion, something that would take over for religion, and so they needed to have a theory of the soul, they needed to have a theory of human nature, and their theory of human nature was that human nature could be changed through the conscious application of politics. And so they believed that they could mold human beings into something totally different with their ideology. I of course take the opposite position. I don't think that you can do that, and I think that as the Marxists have tried to do that in the 20th century, it was another disaster. But in some ways, if you look at it as conservatives, you have to in some ways respect the ambition of their project. Conservatives don't even talk about these things anymore. I think they're too embarrassed to speak about it, about the soul, about faith, about first principles, you know, first things, as the magazine is called, that you read. And I think we have to get back to that, because ultimately that's what people want, and I think especially young people, you know, they want to have those deepest questions answered. And if we don't even attempt to answer them, they're going to fall for all of the kind of, you know, ankle-deep answers, but at least they're getting something from the left. And so I think that the reason

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I included that little anecdote was to show that, and also to show that, I mean, what is more horrible than engineering

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and chipping away at somebody's soul. It's actually kind of a horrific image, even though they meant it as kind of a compliment.

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The left knows what they're after. There's no question about that. They're after their soul, your soul. They're after the soul of your kids. They want to remake human nature. We know that can't be done. It's been tried before, many times before. There's nothing new under the sun, but you, no one can remake fallen human nature. We know the battle. This is the battle for, what Reagan called it, the soul of the nation. I'm more concerned about the soul of each person. The Marxist left is after your soul and after your children's soul. And part of the remaking of your soul is a remake of human nature is telling people that nothing is your fault. You're perfect. It's all their fault. We've talked a lot about stories on my shows this week. Marxism has a great story. The story is your problems in life are caused by that guy and that guy needs to be changed, forced to change, imprisoned, killed, whatever. Christianity has a harder story to tell. The story is your problems are caused by you and you need to change. But we can't forget the truth that the human condition is lost. We've all wandered astray, Isaiah 53 6. We are spiritually blind, 2nd Corinthians 4 4. We are sinful, broke the law of God, 1 John 1.8. We stand guilty before God, the righteous judge, Romans 5.12. We're enslaved by sin, John 8.34. We're morally ruined, Romans 7.18. We're dying physically and dead spiritually, 1 Peter 1.24. In our natural human nature, we do not willingly seek God or his will, Romans 3.10. And we're hostile to God, Romans 8 7. If that sounds really negative Nancy, it is, but the good news is while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. While everything I just said was true, Jesus died for us. Paul writes of human nature in Romans 11 21, he says, for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. Natural. Interesting. 1 Corinthians 15, 44, it is sown a natural body. It is raised a spiritual body. Natural. James 3, 15, the wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly. Natural. Demonic. There it is. Natural. 1 Corinthians 2, Paul uses again the word natural. It's someone who's in their original sinful state. Natural. That's human nature. Now the word natural in Greek, here's the definition. The principle of animal life. That which men have in common with the brutes. The sensuous nature with its subjection to appetite and passion. Not That's the natural state. Not good things. We need to rise above. I wanna play this clip here.

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This is Tucker Carlson.

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He hosted this forum on Friday with all the Republican candidates except for Trump. And this was just before the forum began talking with the guy who was running it. But leaving aside even elections, I think it's clearly a pivot point in history.

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And I don't think the issues that we debate and really are in some ways distractions are the core issues at all. I mean it really there are forces unseen forces acting on people. It's funny in February I was like trying to think about what to do for Len. I'm not a particularly faithful or virtuous person but like you try to do something. I already quit smoking so like what's next? And I thought well I'm just gonna read the Bible and no I'm not gonna do a Bible study. I'm a Protestant, so I feel like I have a right to kind of read it myself. And I'm sorry, I feel that way. And so I've been reading it since February and I'm like about halfway done. And I haven't talked to anyone about it. And I haven't been just been myself reading it. And I have all kinds like the most interesting thing I think I've ever done. It's unbelievable. The amount of drama in those books that has been hidden for me as a regular churchgoer in the Episcopal Church. It's like, wait, why didn't you ever mention this? This is like unbelievable. What? But the two things I have come away with after reading the entire New Testament, and I'm up to Deuteronomy and the Old Testament, is that every person, with the exception of Jesus, every figure is like really flawed. Big time. Like flawed in a way where you'd be like I don't know if I could be friends with that person. You know what I mean? Abraham enters Egypt and he's like, oh it's my sister actually, take her. What? I'm saying to my wife who was a religion teacher, I was like why did anyone, what is that? And she's like maybe the point is that God takes people who are not perfect people, not only not perfect people, like they're so imperfect again, I don't think I could have dinner with them, and uses them for these grander purposes. That's the first thing I noticed. The second thing I notice is that people, while they have free will, of course, and they can make decisions and they live with the consequences of those decisions, they're not really in charge of the arc of history at all. They are being acted upon a lot. And I never really appreciated that because I'm American. And so I grew up with this feeling that we're the sum total of our choices. Well, that's not what I'm reading at all. People's choices matter. You need to do certain things and not do other things. On the other hand, you are not in charge. You are being acted upon by a world you can't see. And that, by the way, is consistent with my life experience. Like I've seen that. I've lived that. I'm 54. And so I feel like it's really important to approach politics with that in mind. Like a lot of these issues are symbols of this much larger battle.

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We use a lot of good stuff there. I love that. It's amazing what happens when you open your Bible. Tucker says it's the most interesting thing I've ever done. Tucker's a reader. He reads all the time. But it's fascinating that the church he's been going to or goes to or his church tradition, they just don't. They don't read the Bible. That's true for I think most Christians today. They don't actually read the thing. Because if you read it, you won't be lukewarm about it. You can't. You'll either love it or you'll hate it. You can't be lukewarm. The only way you're lukewarm about the Bible is if you've never read it. But this point that God uses not perfect people, I've said that, I've heard that forever. I don't think that's right. It's not that the people are not perfect. Not perfect implies they're really, really, they're almost perfect. They're almost perfect, but they got this one thing, you know. So they're not quite perfect. I like the way Tucker did it. They're deeply flawed. They're profoundly deeply flawed. And that's way better because, well, why does God use flawed people? Because he gets the glory. Flawed people have to depend on him. They have no other choice. And God uses flawed people because he has no one else to choose from. We're all deeply flawed, so that's just the way that is. 2nd Chronicles 20 and Tucker will get to this if he keeps reading. King Jehoshaphat he cries out do or we do not know what to do but our eyes are upon you. Love that prayer. I don't know what to do but our eyes are upon you. Alistair Begg he made the point that what he was really saying is Lord we're just a bunch of pathetic losers. We are pathetic losers and if you don't help us, we're sunk. He said, that's not a bad mission statement for a church. We're just a bunch of pathetic losers and if God doesn't help us, we're sunk. It's not the worst name for a church either, the church of pathetic losers. But that's a healthy posture for our country. God, we're doing the best we can but we are sunk without you. That's the posture our founders had. That's the posture, posture of not only our founding fathers but our founding grandfathers. They would have proclamations calling for days of humiliation and prayer, a timeout of all earthly pursuits. Our founders did that routinely, not even for any obvious reason, but stop all earthly pursuits and pray, because we can do nothing on our own. That posture is deeply ingrained in our founding, and instead it's been turned into pride. We have pride months now. And then the second thing Taka talked about is this idea that you have to hold these two things together at the same time, that you have free will and you're not in charge.

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That seems difficult, doesn't it?

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You have free will and you're not in charge, how can that be? Let's talk about what's in your control.

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Wait, hold on.

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Control, I'm not in charge. Yeah, but you have free will. But I'm not in charge. But you're still called to do things. What's in your control? Jesus, I just heard this the other day, I think this is fascinating. Jesus at Mark 12 30. The first is the most important commandment. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength. And you can't fake it. Jesus said in Matthew 15, eight, that these people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me. So their lips are singing the hymns and the worship, and they're saying the right things, but you can still be far from Jesus because your heart is far from Jesus. But check this out. I heard this and I confirmed it with my very basic Greek knowledge. It says, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with soul, with mind, with strength. But if you go back to the Greek, the first Greek preposition is not with. The first Greek preposition is a different word. It's ek. All the other withs are en, ek means out of, it means out of or from. The other three prepositions mean with. So if you read it more specifically, more to the text, the commandment of Jesus in Luke 10 27 is you shall love the Lord your God out of or from or as as the spring that comes from out of all of your heart. Love the God with or out of your heart and with all your soul and with your strength and with your mind. Does that difference make sense? Like this all these other things come out of your heart. So what's in our control? Well there's some commandments in the Bible. First, some of the negatives. You're commanded to not be covetous, to not fear those who kill the body, to not feel anxious, to not give way to anger, to not lust, to not love money. These are things we're commanded to not do. And then on the other side, you're commanded to hope, to be to have brotherly affection, tenderheartedness, sympathy, desire for the word of God, joy, gladness, delight, these are all commands. Go back 30 seconds, listen to them again, pick one or two that you're gonna really focus on this week. We have to look at these things as commands because that's what they are. And when we do these things and pray, our soul will be nourished. We want a nourished soul. To go back to that visual of the decrepit, hunched over old man of a soul that's not fed. I want a soul that is vibrant and alive and thriving and when it's connected to the creator of it. So I'm grateful you're here. Thanks for, I hope the return of Politics by Faith. I know it wasn't as maybe specific on an issue as I like to be. I just felt called to talk about this general topic that is the soul. And you can apply it to many, many things. Look at our world around us. The next time you see people calling child sex trafficking a QAnon conspiracy theory, or trans children being mutilated, or whatever decrepit thing you see out there. Just think about the soul. And then ourselves, whenever we're feeling out. Really what I think you're feeling is disconnected. At least I am. So final thought, thing to meditate on first. Patriot, gold, group. first patriot gold group, the economy is still in bad shape. It was just about six weeks ago we raised the debt ceiling and in I think four weeks we spent a trillion, we didn't spend a trillion, the debt went up by a trillion. It's been more than that, the debt went up by a trillion in just a couple weeks.

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Isn't that amazing?

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Our debt is completely out of control. In 2010, our debt was 13 trillion, gold was $1,000 an ounce. In 2020, the debt was 23 trillion, gold was 1,500 an ounce. Today, the debt is 32 trillion, and gold is 2,000 an ounce. So now that we have a trillion dollars in interest payments annually, and another trillion on defense, and there's no sign of any of this slowing down, what do we think will happen to gold? Bloomberg said gold appears as a caged bull awaiting a catalyst. And I love this fact, people searching how to buy gold. So the idea of buying gold, like I'm in, how? I was shocked how simple it is. Go to Patriot Gold Group and buy from them and they mail it to you. One, eight at eight, 617-6122, FedEx, technically, but the FedEx man shows up and hands you gold. Like, what? That's unbelievable. Eight at eight, 617-6122. You can also talk about a no-fee-for-life IRA. Your IRA or 401k can be a physical gold and silver as well, so you can talk about that and also own physical gold and silver. Patriot Gold Group, consumer affairs, top rated gold IRA dealer, six years in a row and counting. Pretty awesome, 888-617-6122. How to buy gold, they're the best, patriotgoldgroup.com. So what do we think about tonight? What's our final thought to meditate on? Anything that distracts you from delighting in God, from building up your soul, get it out of your life.

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Your soul needs so much more than we're feeding. 1 Peter 2 11, Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh which wage war against your soul. Mike Slater, dot locals, dot com. 

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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
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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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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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