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MikeSlater

Politics • Spirituality/Belief • Culture

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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WarriorSandy1@WarriorSandy1

September 30, 2024

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

Kellypreston78@Kellypreston78

December 05, 2023

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

Lavender315@Lavender315

March 08, 2023

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

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July 21, 2025

We Don't Want To Live Forever

Politics By Faith, July 21, 2025

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about heaven. With the recent tragedies—devastating floods in Texas, the passing of John MacArthur, and loved ones of friends reaching the end of their lives—it’s only natural to reflect on what comes next. In the midst of it all, I found a poem from the early 1800s that brought me peace and perspective about death. In this episode, I share that poem and explore why we’re not meant to live forever.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I've been talking a lot about heaven lately and how awesome it's going to be. So I'll start it with the disaster in Texas, the tragedy in Texas. There's been a few people in my life who have another friend or family member who have passed away, all old age, and just the last couple of weeks here, old age where it's a relief for them

and everyone involved, and a celebration. John MacArthur passing away the other day, we're doing a TV special on him this week, so just heaven dying in heaven has been on my mind a lot lately.

I read a poem the other day

and I have nowhere else to put it. I have to tell people this poem. And I, I don't know, I don't want to spend, I kind of pushed the limits on what we do on SiriusXM as it is kind of outside of politics. So I don't know if I can just sit here and read a poem, maybe a little much, but I just want to put it here and I could put some politics into it.

I could also save it until we have another tragedy, but I haven't stopped thinking about it since I first read it and I just want to share it here because it is written by William Augustus Mullenberg. Should I give a little background to this first? So I bought this book, it was published in 1896 or something. It's called An American Anthology, and it's just poems.

It's thick, it's huge, it's like 1,000 pages, it's just a poem. So every day I've just been opening it up to a different one and this one is early in the book by a guy I've never heard of, William Augustus Mullenberg. He was born in 1796 in Philadelphia,

founder of St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, all according to Wikipedia. He's known as the father of church schools in America. The poem is called, I Would Not Live All Way. Let me read these first two lines and then I'll tell you what I did to make it make sense.

I would not live all way, live all way below. Oh no, I'll not linger when bidden to go. The days of our pilgrimage granted us here are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer. I had no idea what that meant. I would not live all way?

What does that mean? It means I don't want to live forever. So it's an old timey way of saying, I don't want to live forever. I don't want to live for always. I don't want to live all way.

No, no. I will not stay here when I'm called to go. The days of our pilgrimage granted us here are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer? Would I shrink from the path which the prophets of God, apostles and martyrs so joyfully trod? Like a spirit unblessed over the earth, would I roam while brethren and friends are all hastening home?

What am I?

I'm not going to go to heaven when I'm called to go to heaven. Are you kidding me? I'm just going to roam around here on earth forever? When everyone else is going home? Going home to heaven? No way, I'm out of here.

I would not live all way. I ask not to stay. Where storm after storm rises dark over the way. We're seeking for rest, we but hover around Like the patriarch's bird, and no resting is found. Where hope, when she paints her gay bow in the air,

Leaves its brilliance to fade in the night of despair, And joy's fleeting angel never sheds a glad ray, Save the beam of the plumage that bears him away. I would not live all way, thus fettered by sin, temptation without, and corruption within. Man, it's so good.

I don't wanna be here forever, held down by sin, temptation everywhere around me, corruption everywhere within me. In a moment of strength, if I ever sever the chain, scarce the victory is mine before I'm captive again. Oh, it's so good.

If I'm ever strong enough in a moment where I'm not held by sin, scarce the victory is mine before I'm captive again. Oh, I could fight against this sin for just a moment, but the victory is mine for just an instant before I'm captive again. Oh, I could fight against this sin for just a moment. But the victory is mine for just an instant before I'm captive to sin again.

Even the rapture of pardon is mingled with fears and the cup of thanksgiving with penitent tears. The festival trump calls for jubilant songs, but my spirit her own misery prolongs. I would not live all way. No, welcome the tomb.

Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom. Why would you be afraid of dying? Where he deigned to sleep, I'll too bow my head, all peaceful to slumber on that hallowed bed. Then the glorious daybreak to follow that night, the orient gleam of the angels of light, with their clarion call for the sleepers to rise and chant forth their

matins away to the skies, singing, Who, who would live all way, away from his God? That's the best thing about heaven, see? Who would live all the way away from his God, away from yon heaven, that blissful abode, where the rivers of pleasure flow over the bright plains and the noontide of glory eternally reigns? Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet, their Savior and brethren transported to greet, while the songs of salvation exultingly roll,

and the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul. Man, that makes me wanna go there so bad. That heavenly music, this is the last stanza, that heavenly music, what is it I hear? The notes of the harpers ring sweet in mine ear. And see, soft unfolding, those portals of gold, the king all arrayed in his beauty behold.

O give me, O give me the wings of a dove, to adore him, be near him, enwrapped with his love. I but wait for the summons. I list for the word. Hallelujah. Amen. Evermore with the Lord." Come on. How good is that? It's like, I don't want to live here forever. You know, there's that tech guy, that billionaire guy who's doing everything he can to try to live forever, eating just the precise amount of every particular food.

And he's monitoring every single aspect of his body that he possibly, he's worshiping the body. I mean, this is all ancient pagan stuff. Worshiping the self, worshiping the body. And here's someone with a proper perspective. It's like, no, I don't wanna be here.

This life, it's got enough woes. I'm ready to go to heaven. There's one way to get there. Acts 4.11, there is salvation in no one else besides Jesus. And there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

There's only one way. You have to believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, came down in the flesh to die for your sins, was killed on the cross and then resurrected on the third day. If you believe that, congratulations, that's it.

The five solas. Sola is alone. Grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone, scripture alone, glory to God alone. And you will know that you are doing those things when this poem speaks to you in a powerful way, because this poem is the opposite of what this

world of what the world is trying to tell you. The world wants you to live for this world, for the moment, and this is all there is and all that matters. When the Bible tells you this is but a fleeting moment, eternity is what we need to set our eyes on. Mike Slater.locals.com,

transcript commercial free on the website. Again, the poem, if you want to read it yourself or share it or have it William Augustus Mullenberg, M-U-H-L-E-N-B-E-R-G William Augustus Mullenberg, I would not live all way. Mullenberg, I would not live all way. Mike Slater dot locals.com.

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July 18, 2025

Affair At Coldplay Concert

Politics By Faith, July 18, 2025

Have you seen the video of the CEO and HR Chief having an affair at the Coldplay concert? It's something to see sin, which they thought was in the darkness, exposed to the light so quickly. May this be a lesson for everyone: God is greater than a kiss cam.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, thank you for being here. Have you seen the video going around of what happened at the Coldplay concert? So someone was taking a video from somewhere in the stadium in Boston while the Kiss Cam was going around. Because it was a Kiss Cam. So the camera at the concert was going around and putting it on the big screen, people in

the audience. And the band was commenting on it and the camera focuses on a happy couple and the man is in the back they're both standing and the man is in the back and he's holding this woman in his arms they're both facing the stage and they're looking around they're having a grand time laughing big smiles euphoria euphoria and then when they both at the exact same time realize that they're on the big screen,

she covers her face and turns around and the man falls down to the ground.

Oh, look at these two.

All right, come on, you're okay.

Uh-oh, what?

Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy.

He was right on the first one. It was an affair. Now, very embarrassing, pretty funny seeing him get caught. But, if I may, I haven't heard anyone talk about their families. Now I don't know their situations exactly, but they were apparently both married. Oh, by the way, that's the CEO of a company,

some like tech startup company. That's the CEO and apparently that's the HR director. Apparently they were both married. I haven't heard anyone talk about the pain, as we laugh, but the pain that's being felt by their spouses.

And we have kids as well, and I don't know, again, the exact details, but that's all really sad. Now here is the apology that was written by the CEO. Listen to this. He said, I want to by the CEO. Listen to this. He said, I want to acknowledge the moment. This is so passive and not repentant.

I want to acknowledge the moment that's been circulating online and the disappointment it's caused. What was supposed to be a night of music and joy. No, it was supposed to be a night of you cheating on your wife. Was turned into a deeply personal mistake. Nope. The mistake happened way, way, way before the concert playing

out on a very public stage. It's the kiss cams fault. I want to sincerely apologize to my wife, my family, and the team at the company works for you deserve better for me as a partner, a father, and a leader, this is not who I want to be or how I want to represent the company. Again, he's really conflating the company and his family as one.

I'm taking time to reflect, to take accountability, and to figure out the next steps personally and professionally. I ask for privacy as I navigate that process. I also want to express how troubling it is that what should have been a private moment became public without my consent. Oh, no more kiss cams for anyone now?

Private moment. It wasn't a private moment. You were literally in public with someone who's not your wife. It was definitely not a private moment. And without your consent, when you you buy those tickets there's fine print on the back of those tickets that says you can be on you can be photographed i respect artists and

entertainers but i hope we can all think more deeply about the impact of turning someone else's life into a spectacle doesn't no one the camera guy didn't know you were cheating on your wife he's like oh there's a happy couple. Let's all like, right. As a friend once sang, lights will guide you home and ignite your bones and I will try to fix you. He quoted Coldplay in the,

like the lamest lyrics ever too. All right, so that's pathetic. I wanna give a moment to their spouses and kids. I Don't care about these two people's embarrassment they deserve the shame But I also want to steal a point from Daryl Harrison He wrote notice how happy they are in their sin because it's like three seconds before they realize they're on the camera

Notice how happy they are in their sin all it's like three seconds before they realize they're on the camera. Notice how happy they are in their sin, all smiles and hugs until they realize their sin has been exposed. They knew inherently that they were wrong. No one needed to tell them their own conscience having already convicted them. Hence why they instinctively and immediately attempted to hide themselves in shame. He's quoting Romans 2 15 in the front end there. Romans 2 15 says, they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day. When according to

my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, our conscience, it's written on our hearts. It's fascinating how we have a conscience and those two knew that what they were doing was wrong and sinful. Well, who are you to say they were saying, look how they reacted. They knew it was wrong.

We all do when it's exposed. I'll give an example from the other day, my shame. My patience is low with the kids. It was near the end of the day. And I spoke rudely, quickly, rudely to I think Jack and as soon as I did, you know, I was like, I don't know, Jack, it's inside somewhere, man.

You know, something like that. And as soon as I said it, I turned around and my neighbor was right next door, like three feet away from me, gardening at their house. Super embarrassing. And I should have acted like other people were watching, but that's not even it. I should have acted like God is always watching because he is, but we think we can hide.

Adam and Eve in the garden, of course, it's how ridiculous when they sinned and they first experienced shame, they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees in the garden. You can't hide from God. Achan, a famous one, right? He took some plunder from a victory and then hid it in his tent thinking he could get away

with it. God sees everything. And God would have seen their adultery their affair even if there was no kiss scam. You see how belief in God can kind of keep people in line too? We've lost that in our culture. That's why this guy blames the kiss scam not himself. John 3 19 Jesus says and this is the judgment the light has come

into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. These people loved the darkness. They loved the darkness of inside that stadium, away from their family, away from their spouses and kids. They thought it was a dark place,

but then the light shone on them. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. This is all in the Bible. Luke 12, 2 says, nothing is covered up that will not be revealed or hidden that will not

be known. Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light and what you've whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops. What are you hiding? Stop trying to hide. It's exhausting.

And it doesn't work anyway. This one's maybe the most on the nose. This is Job 24. The murderer rises before his light. The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, no eye will see me.

Let's wait for the Coldilight saying no I will see me

let's wait for the Coldplay concert no one will see us there earlier in the chapter it says those there are those who rebel against the light who are not acquainted with its ways and do not stay in its paths. It's our job to not rebel against the light you can't win. Stay in its path. Don't write anything you wouldn't publish on Facebook for everyone to see. Don't do anything you wouldn't want your neighbors and friends to see that you wouldn't shout from the rooftops.

But more importantly, again, than other people and their shame, God is omniscient. No sin is hidden from him. I could end on that note, which is true, but I just want to add a note of good news too, although I think that's all good as well, but no sin is too great. That Jesus's death did not pay the price for it. Colossians 2 13 says, and you who were dead in your trespasses, God made alive together

with him. You were dead. Now you're made alive together with him. Having forgiven us all our trespasses by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. The Greek word here for all means each, every, any, the whole, everything, all things.

Jesus has you covered. But you have to repent first and bring it all to the light. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. I could end with a Coldplay line right here, but that would be lame. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on the website.

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July 17, 2025

Our Founders Knew The Truth

Politics By Faith, July 167, 2025

I came across a speech from a friend to our founding fathers. If we had a kernel of this truth and wisdom, we never would have gotten so lost. But, to be found, we just need to get back to this truth.

I'm from Politics by Faith, thanks for being here. I'll tell the story of why I'm sharing this today here. I love learning about our founding fathers. I love learning about our founding grandfathers. Because we have to be connected to who they were and why they built this country. We need to get that connection to our past back.

It'll help us with our lives today and making better decisions for our future. We need to have a connection to our heritage. So I bought this book called an American Anthology. It's a real thick book of poems. Books like a hundred years old. And I opened it up and I came across a section of poems written by Timothy Dwight.

I only know the name Timothy Dwight because a dorm building at Yale is named Timothy Dwight. There's some, there's like 10 dorm buildings or something. And I went four years at this place, and no one ever asked who any of these people were. The dorm building I was in, they call them residential colleges,

was Jonathan Edwards College. I wasn't a Christian then. I had no idea that Jonathan Edwards, who he was, I had no idea who he was. I had no idea he was the greatest theologian ever in American history.

No clue.

How pathetic. in American history? No clue. How pathetic. So Timothy Dwight, never even thought to question who this guy was. And I came across in this poetry book. So I looked him up. He was a poet. He was also the eighth president of Yale. He gave the valedictorian address on July 25th, 1776. The 25th of July, so a couple of weeks after we declared independence, quite a momentous time in our history. So I just want to go over the speech and if nothing else, if nothing else, and there are

other things, but if nothing else, it's encouraging and undeniable that we were a Christian country and we were founded as a Christian country. Stunningly obvious, perfectly obvious, and anyone who says otherwise just has not read any of our founding documents. So it starts off with this valedictorian address talking about how beautiful this country is, how blessed we are with natural

resources, the best climate in the world, the best soil. It's everything's so good. Things just grow on its own, plentiful and excellent in every way. He says, our plants and flowers for health and pleasure appear to have been scattered by the same benevolent hand, which called forth the luxuriance of Eden. And this is great. All these beautiful things he says are showered in profusion

on this, the favorite land of heaven. All these biblical references always put into our founding fathers and grandfathers writings. He goes on, he talks about how we have the best lakes, the best rivers for navigation and trade. This is actually a really big deal.

We overlooked this, how important our rivers are, navigable rivers. Thomas Sowell makes the argument that the reason why Africa is so backwards and always has been so backwards is they don't have any navigable rivers. So you can't travel far. You can't connect with people. You can't trade. And that's why there's so many languages in Africa because everyone remains so isolated because there's so many languages in Africa, because everyone remains so isolated because there's so much, so many waterfalls. So you can't go far until there's a big giant waterfall. So you can't travel very far, but we have navigable rivers in America. And then he goes

on after talking about the beauty, he talks about how our founding culture sets us up for success. He talks about Mexico and how they're under control of Spain. He said, if we may believe their own historians, they are, this country are peopled with as vicious, luxurious, mean-spirited and contemptible a race of beings as any that ever blackened the pages of infamy.

Generally descended from the refuse of mankind, situated in a hot, wealthy and plentiful country and educated from their infancy under the most shocking of all governments, the tyranny of servants invested with unlimited power and sent to make their own fortunes by squeezing their subjects." We've always been better than Mexico is what I get out of that. We also have great unity here. He said, I proceed then to observe that this

continent is inhabited by a people who have the same religion, the same manners, the same interests, the same language, and the same essential forms and principles of civil government. This is an event which since the building of Babel till the present time the Sun never saw. That a vast continent containing near 3,000 millions of acres of valuable land should be inhabited by a people in all respects one, isn't that amazing? In all respects one,

is indeed a novelty on earth. Differences in religion always produce persecutions of bloodshed. Differences of manners, as we are naturally and fondly attached to our own, cannot but occasion coldness, contempt, and ill will. Contending interests ever exist with disputes and end in war. Without sameness in language,

it could be impossible to preserve that easiness of communication, that facility and dispatch in the management of business, which the extensive concerns of a great empire indispensably require." Here he is in 1776 talking about how we are all

united, we share one culture, and because of that he says we will thrive like no other nation has in world history. But, but, but we're told and we've been told my entire life that multiculturalism was our strength. Here we have Timothy Dwight at the very beginning of our country just a couple weeks old. Since independence we declared independence. Saying our unity, our sameness is what makes us strong. And now we're told no it's Somalia that makes us strong. But here's the part of the speech that I wanted to share that

makes it relevant to politics by faith. He says allow me to proceed one step further from every deduction of reason as well as from innumerable declarations of inspired truth. We have the best foundation to believe that this continent will be the principal seat of that new, that peculiar kingdom, which shall be given to the saints of the most high. We're going to be a Christian nation. He said that kingdom was also to be the last, the greatest, the happiest of all dominions. To these characters, no other country where it's the least appearance of agreement.

No other country in the world has ever been closer to biblical truth than ours. He said, this is emphatically that uttermost part of the earth. Like we, we're that people whose songs and happiness so often inspired Isaiah with raptures. This with peculiar propriety is that wilderness which shall rejoice and blossom as a rose and to which shall be given the glory of Lebanon, the

excellency of Carmel and Sharon. Here shall a king reign in righteousness, whose kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and whose dominion shall not be destroyed." The king is Jesus, the King of kings. That's who he's talking about here. So the biblical reference here is Isaiah 35. Let me read the whole thing. Let me start at verse 1. The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice, even with

joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the excellency of our God. What's happening in Isaiah 34 and 35 is it's a contrast between divine judgment and chapters 34 are quite striking and then 35, what I just read there, is the restoration. So Isaiah 34 is God's judgment against the nations. Isaiah 35 is the restoration. And what Timothy Dwight is talking about is how America is, is with our

righteousness is closer to Isaiah 35 than any nation has ever been before. With a transformation of the land. That's what he starts off with. How beautiful and amazing our land is with the rejoicing of our people, with the holiness of our people and with the strength. And again, ultimately here, restoration for our actions ought all to be inspired and directed

by a comprehensive regard to the scene of glory which is hastening to a completion with a rapidity suited to its importance." He's saying the coming of Christ is near. Jesus is coming back and everything we do, he says, has to be inspired by that truth. All right, let me back it up here. I had a lot of different... God was working a lot of different ways to save me. A lot of different people and places and things happened.

One of them was moving to Tennessee and I met a lot of people there. And I was on the radio and I was learning a lot about America for really the first time. My first radio show. We did a lot with our founding fathers. And I kept reading what these really smart guys were writing about. And I was like, man they're writing a lot about the Bible. I need to know more about this thing. I didn't know more about the Bible. Our

founding fathers so deeply profoundly believed. I mean here's the president of Yale University in 1776 just a a couple weeks after we declared our independence, talking about the king of kings, referencing Isaiah 34 and 35 casually, and everyone in the audience knew exactly what he was talking about.

Talking about how everything we do has to be inspired by the truth that Jesus is coming back. Just think where we would be as a country today if we kept even even a remnant of this just the smallest little kernel of this in our country. I'll end with one more point. This is how he ends his valedictorian address. He talks about lawyers and doctors and different

professions and he ends with pastors. But I just want to charge all of us with this. When you remember that you live amongst the most free, enlightened, and virtuous people on earth, when you remember that your labors may contribute to the hastening of that glorious period when the nations shall be spiritually born in a day, with what seal? With what diligence? With what transport must you be inspired? What pains will you spare to clear yourselves from ridiculous and disagreeable

defects? And to accomplish yourselves in learning and eloquence? With what fervor will you check the career of iniquity, break the dreams of sloth. Stop being so lazy. Pour balm into the wounded spirit and increase the angelic raptures of piety. Be these your views, these your motives, this the scope of all your wishes. Proceed with alacrity to execute the exalted design. Alacrity if I remember is clarity.

Oh no, brisk, cheerful readiness. What a great word. What a great word. Where was this? Proceed with alacrity, with cheerfulness, to execute the exalted design.

Spare no labor, no prayer, to furnish yourselves with every human and every divine accomplishment. Leave nothing undone which ought to be done. Do nothing which ought to be done. Do nothing which ought to be omitted. Let the transitory vanities, the visionary enjoyments of time, fleet by you unnoticed. Don't mess, don't get distracted. Point all your

views to the elevated scenes of an immortal existence. Set your sights on things above and remember that this life is but the dawn of your being. Oh, it's just a little glimmer, just a little split second. Encounter troubles with magnanimity. Enjoy prosperity with moderation. Exert every faculty, employ every moment to advance the glory of your maker and the sum

of human happiness. With such citizens, with such clergy, with such a laity as is above described in prospect, we can scarce forbear to address the enraptured hymn of Isaiah to our country and sing, arise, shine, for thy light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Nations shall come to thy light and kings to the brightness of thy

rising." That's Isaiah 60. That's how he ends it right there. That's his final word Isaiah 61. This is when light came out of the darkness and God tells us to arise and shine. There is no earthly light. All the light comes from God and all the glory goes to the Lord. And our founding fathers knew it. And if we want to save this country, then we got to know it too. And if we want to save this country, then we got to know it too.

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