James Van Der Beek, an actor who was a part of every Millennial's childhood, passed away at the age of 48. He died with dignity. One thing we can learn from his dying is to proclaim the whole truth. Don't hold back.

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I want to talk about James Van Der Beek, who passed away. To every millennial who's listening now, he was an important part of our childhood, star of, I was gonna say Party of Five, Dawson's Creek, and then Varsity Blues as well. He was 48 years old and died from colon cancer. He had six kids, beautiful family, kids like over the top cute. And he wrote on Instagram relatively recently, just posted this stunning picture of his family. And he said, being a father has been the most treasured honor of my life. 

Thank you to my kids for reteaching me how to live, laugh, love, and show up in my own life and in the world. And thank you to my superhero of a wife who constantly exceeds the boundaries of what I thought was human capacity. I love you with all of my heart. Being a father has been the most treasured honor of my life at Scream. His family shared pictures of his final days here on earth. This very handsome man, weak, frail, skin and bones, in a wheelchair, out in nature, outside, looking at the sunset. 

Here's a note from a friend. Spending these final days with you has been a true gift from God. I've never been so present in my life. When you know time is sacred, you don't waste a single breath. How can we live like this every day? How can we live treating life sacred? 

You don't rush. You don't scroll. You don't worry about tomorrow. You sit. You listen. You hold hands. 

You watch the sky change colors and let it change you, too. In these past days, you taught me more about being present than any book ever could. You showed me what it looks like to trust God's plan, even when it breaks your heart, especially when it breaks your heart. You are a gift, an incredible husband, an extraordinary dad. The way you showed up for your wife and your children, steady, strong, devoted, was a blessing to witness. It has been an honor to stand by your family in these sacred moments. 

It's pretty incredible how someone can fight so hard for so long, travel the world battling so much, and somehow still look so handsome doing it. You've given this world so many gifts. Your presence was a bright light in my life and in so many others. And maybe the lesson you leave us with is this. The present moment is everything. Love the people in front of you. 

Say the words. Watch the sunset. Trust God even when you don't understand. Very nice. Katie Holmes, who's, again, to millennials, indistinguishable, the two of them. together, but she wrote out this really nice note to him and hand -written and then took a picture of it, which is a nice way to present the note. 

At the end of it, she said, life is art, creating a beautiful marriage, six loving children, the journey of a hero. 

It's great. 

Someone else said, I think I can finally see the beauty in death. It's sad, but it's also one of the few things that forces us to be fully present and accept our mortality. And suddenly, everything except the people you love matters less. Maybe we're never more human than when we're dying. Okay, so this is usually the section of the podcast where I talk about what's broken in the situation and that's maybe a bit, it's not quite right, not broken. 

I just want to offer this as an encouragement. There are some videos that are making the rounds of James Van Der Beek and I want to use these to encourage you as well and not wait till the end of your life to have boldness. And I think James Van Der Beek in these videos, although beautiful and well -presented, it's missing that last little, no, I didn't say little, that last most important bit of truth. So I'm gonna play this video, it's three minutes, sit back and enjoy it for what it is and how it's presented. And then we can talk about what's missing. 

Today's my birthday and it has been the hardest year of my life. And I wanted to share something that I learned with y 'all. When I was younger, I used to define myself as an actor, right? Which was never really all that fulfilling. And then I became a husband, and that was much better. And then I became a father, and that was the ultimate. 

I could define myself then as a loving, capable, strong, supportive husband, father, provider, steward of the land that we're so lucky to live on. And for a long time, that felt like a really good definition to the question, who am I? What am I? And then this year, to look my own mortality in the eye. 

Quick timeout. Last time I'll stop. Super important to make sure you find your real identity as soon as possible. And it's not in any of these things. Beautiful things. Some people identify themselves as things that are not good, but even if people identify themselves as things that are great, but it's not your truest identity. 

And when you get to the end of your life, you realize that when you lose your body, you lose your ability. Maybe you identify yourself as a runner. Okay. What if you lose your legs? What if your legs don't work anymore? Who are you now? 

Not a runner. What are you? Well, I'm a radio show host. You lose your job. Now what are you? Oh, it better be something that's unbreakable, which actually was the last segment of our last TV special we did about building your house on a rock. 

James Van Der Beek had to confront this issue. 

I had to come nose to nose with death. And all of those definitions that I cared so deeply about were stripped from me. I was away for treatment, so I could no longer be a husband that was helpful to my wife. I could no longer be a father who could pick up his kids and put them to bed and be there for them. I could not be a provider because that wasn't working. I couldn't even be a steward of the land because at times I was too weak to prune all the trees during the window that you're supposed to prune them. And so I was faced with the question, if I am just a too skinny, weak guy alone in an apartment with cancer, what am I? 

I meditated and the answer came through. I am worthy of God's love simply because I exist. And if I'm worthy of God's love, shouldn't I also be worthy of my own? And the same is true for you. And as I move through this healing portal toward recovery, I wanted to share that with you because I think that revelation that came to me was due in no small part to all the prayers and the love that had been directed toward me. So I offer that to you, however it sits in your consciousness, however it resonates, run with it. 

And if the word God trips you up, I certainly don't know. I can't claim to know what God is or explain God. My efforts to connect to God are an ongoing process that is a constant unfolding mystery to me. But if it's a trigger, it feels too religious, you can take the word God out and your mantra can simply be, I am worthy of love because you are. Thank you for the loving prayers, everyone. 

So close. 

Let's go to the Bible. Maybe my frustration is a strong word. It's that, oh, it's like great. And then it's, well, however you define God, you're like, oh man, just according to the Bible, we are not worthy of love. We're horrible sinners. who are worthy only of God's wrath. 

Ephesians 2 .1 says we are dead in trespasses and sins. We are spiritually dead and unable to merit God's favor. It is God who demonstrates his love by choosing to save us. Ephesians 1 .5, in love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Christ Jesus. Our righteousness, whatever we think we do, is filthy rags. But Jesus 

died to save us from hell. And now if you make Jesus Lord of your life, you can come before God and spend eternity in heaven. Or however you think is best to divide, right? I mean like Hebrews 10, 19. Are you with me with that last little quip that I threw there? It's either this or not that. 

It can't be everything. It can't be this very specific thing. And then however you feel good about a thing, that I'm saying, but want to take the words, but use very different meanings for the words, like not a Hebrews 10, nine, therefore brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and the holy places, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is through his flesh. I love in the Bible, how when Jesus died on the cross, the curtain at the temple was torn from the top. So it was not by human hands from the bottom, but it was torn from the top. It was the curtain that separated. 

in the tabernacle or in the temple, from everyone else, from the most holy place, ripped. And since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering for he who promised is faithful. In Hebrews 4 .16, let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. This is scripture. My encouragement for you, for all of us. 

is to go all the way because people desperately need to hear it. They need to hear the truth, not half the truth and then new age mumbo jumbo, not 90 % of the truth and then a cop out of or whatever else you think people need to hear all of the truth. 

It also sounds like this diagnosis helped you find some sort of new perspective on faith. 

Before cancer, God was something I tried to fit into my life as much as possible. 

After cancer, I feel like a connection to God, whatever that is, is kind of the whole point of this exercise on this planet. He's right. He's right. Glorifying God, but exactly who we know him to be from the Bible is the point of life on this planet. Go all the way with the truth. Don't hold back. 

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Roy Cooper is running for Senator of North Carolina. When he was governor, he released 3,500 criminals from prison because of COVID. 51 of those criminals were serving life sentences. Why? Why would a governor do this? We'll explain here with a warning from Numbers 4.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with perspective and peace. There are new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. Thanks for being here. Let's get to the true story. Soli Deo Gloria. 

Glory to God alone. I know I missed the Super Bowl halftime show. It's now two days after it. So that's old news now. So I apologize that you didn't get my hot take right when it happened. In short, it's degenerate filth that you should keep your kids away from. 

And you. The lyrics are as obscene as you could try to make them. And all the church ladies were right when they said that CBS shouldn't allow Elvis's hips to be on the TV because it's a slippery slope downhill from there to hell. And all those church ladies were right. If we could fast forward the church ladies 50 years from when they were making the argument that Elvis was a bad influence on youth. They'd have a heart attack after they said, we were right. 

If this is what we call normal dancing and lyrics, I'm gonna break. One thing that really annoys me, and then we'll get to the show. It's when people who are talented, they're talented, but then they just sell filth. Lady Gaga, she can sing. She can play the piano. Her little bit she did was lovely. 

She was dressed beautifully and had a nice band behind her that was playing some nice puerto rican music and everyone was dancing nice and it was it was good why can't like why not just be normal why not be good money's in filth i suppose so celebrities and artists just spit out the filth first john 269 the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. All right, let's get to the story of the day. We talked to Michael Watley. Michael Watley is running for Senate in North Carolina. He's running against Roy Cooper. 

Roy Cooper, the Democrat used to be the governor of North Carolina, used to be the attorney general before that. And he's running for Senate. He's got a good name recognition. It turns out that Mike, excuse me, uh, Roy Cooper, when he was running, excuse me, when he was governor, during COVID released 3 ,500 prisoners. Because the NAACP and the ACLU, who've always wanted to release prisoners, said, oh, we can't keep them in prison because they'll get COVID and we don't want them to get the sniffles. And Roy Cooper did it. 

He released 3 ,500 people from prison. 51 of those people were serving life sentences. Why in the world would you release someone who's serving a life sentence? So what's the background here? We should know that one of the reasons why there was a major spike in crime across the country, and blue places in particular, is because in 2014 there was a Supreme Court ruling in California that said California prisons are overcrowded, and that's cruel and unusual punishment, because criminals aren't getting the healthcare that they deserve in prisons. So the Supreme Court said, you've got to fix that problem, California. 

This was back in Moonbeam. What's his name? Jerry Brown's second term. And the state of California, instead of fixing the overcrowding problem by building more prisons, they released a bunch of prisoners into the jails. And then the jail said, well, we're full. So they released a bunch of people onto the streets. 

And then the activists said, well, what if people get arrested? Where are we going to put them? So that's when. the activists in California passed Prop 57, which said, well, let's just not arrest anyone anymore. Let's make it merely a misdemeanor to steal up to $800 worth of stuff. And that was the beginning of the, I shouldn't say the beginning. 

That was a major push forward in the decriminalization movement across our country. And then crime went out of control and then we elected Donald Trump. But in the midst of that, when COVID came along, the NAACP and other prison abolition groups went to governors, blue Democrat governors, and said, we have to release the prisoners. And Roy Cooper did. 3 ,500 of them. And 51 were serving life sentences. 

If you must release someone from prison for whatever reason, you have to release a person from prison. Wouldn't you release the guy who was serving a one -year sentence or someone who was near the end of their sentence, not someone who's serving a life sentence? So now we know who some of these people are. Kids warning, if there's any kids listening right now, but I'll keep it PG. Sean 2 Jenkins murdered a pizza delivery driver. It was an armed robbery inside of a Domino's. 

Life in prison. Simon Janopoulos. He stabbed a person 24 times in the back after he tied him up. Life in prison. Life in prison plus 26 years. Released. 

Shanone McClintock. Convicted first -degree rape and robbery broken broken to a woman's home life in prison released Javier Alexander convicted of two murders unrelated two different unrelated murders life in prison released Eric Johnson first -degree murder murder shot his 22 year old estranged wife in the head Mandatory life sentence for that crime released. I got plenty more. I mean, there's 51 of them you get the idea What in the world so? what's broken here? What's going on? 

How did we get to this point? Now you can go as cynical as you want. The great Jesse Kelly shared a video of a judge in Louisville who let a criminal who was convicted by the jury of his peers, found guilty and recommended 64 years in prison, life in prison. And the judge said, no, no, no, that's too long. I'll give you 30 years. And 30 means like seven. 

for a heinous crime, horrific, horrific, horrific crime to a woman. And unrepentant, like wildly unrepentant, said to the victim in the courtroom, I'll see you in 20 years. Like that level of unrepentant. Why would this judge let this person go? And this is, again, if you want to go down this road, it's great. I'm not going to stop you. 

Jesse Kelly said, everyone would understand this stuff better if they just read about the communist revolutions in China and Russia. You want to kill your political enemies? Who's going to do that for you? Who are you going to get to do that for you? Decent people? No. 

They recruited and protected the scum of every village. So you can say it's that intentional, or you can go down the misguided compassion, the toxic empathy that we've talked a lot about in the last couple of weeks here. Like, oh, poor kid. He never had a chance. Never had anyone love him. Fell through the cracks. 

Oh, he needs to be rehabilitated and all that. And anywhere in between those two. And maybe a little bit of both. What's the Bible say? First, we need to know. that justice is good, is biblical. 

The Bible talks about punishment for evildoers. Proverbs 21 15, when Jesus is done, it is a joy to the righteous. When a person who commits a horrific crime against a woman in this last case that I was just telling you about, when justice is done and that person is put behind bars, that's a joy to the righteous. That's a joy to the woman, the real victim. That's a joy to the rest of us. 

And it's a terror to evildoers when justice is done. Justice protects law -abiding people, and it's very bad for evildoers. It is biblical. for governments to punish criminals. Romans 13 three says governing authorities as God's servants, punish evildoers and bear the sword, not in vain. We had a great caller today who, when I was talking about these horrific things that people did that had been released, he was just lamenting that we've removed God from our society. 

And that's what this all is. And of course he's right. People who commit crimes like this, no question, but also just the whole, just our country in general, that we've created these systems that let people out of jail. That only happens when you have a total disconnection from God and his word. I want to read here a piece of scripture. All of scripture is there for a reason. 

God put it all there for good. This is a seemingly irrelevant one. Those are my favorite kinds. Numbers four, verse one. Numbers four. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron. 

Sorry, this is my fault. This is numbers four, verse 18. 

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, let not the tribe of the clans of the Kohothites be destroyed from among the Levites, but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things. 

colon. Aaron and his son shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden, but they shall not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, lest they die. " So what's going on here? We have a Levite clan here that's tasked with transporting the tabernacle's most holy items. They're the ones who'd carry stuff on the poles, right? And you couldn't touch them, couldn't touch them. 

If you touched anything, or even looked beyond this curtain into the most holy place, you would die. So here, God said, do these things, do it this way so that no one dies. So what's the lesson we can get from this? First of all, obey God's commands, but also take God's holiness seriously. We are way too casual with God's wrath. We're way too casual with our own justice system here on earth. 

But more importantly, we're too casual with God's wrath. Don't take God's holiness casually. If God says, do this, you better do it. If God says, don't do this, woe to you. If you do it anyway. Now we are sinners, of course, which is why we're going to hell. 

Unless we make Jesus the Lord of our life, then we get to go to heaven forever. But that amazing thing that Jesus did doesn't mean anything. If you don't think you're a sinner and you won't think you're a sinner. If you don't think God is Holy, because you're not, what are you comparing yourself to the guys in jail? Of course you're better than them. You behave better than them, but that's not what you should be comparing yourself to. 

You compare yourself to God's holiness. And if you're doing that, then you won't take breaking his commands lightly. Take God's command lightly. as seriously as the Levites. And the command was don't even look at the holy things. Or else you will die. 

And you will die too. Are you going to heaven? Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

Don't fall for the left's fake outrages of the day, especially when they are the ones responsible for the genesis of the racism.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. I'm Mike Slater. Thanks for being here. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so that we can walk away with perspective and peace. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here so we can get the true story. 

Sole Deo Gloria. Glory to God alone. Here's the story of the day. I'm going to bite on this Trump fake racist video controversy. Dumb made up controversies don't work like this anymore. Not like they used to. 

but we'll take a minute on it anyway. So what really happened? The president at midnight last night on Truth Social, which I don't know who's on Truth Social. I think it's like just this MAGA universe thing that Trump supporters are on and Trump himself. And this is a place for him to speak to his base, I guess. I don't see the point of him being there, but he's there and he posts a ton of stuff there all the time. 

He puts only the important things on Twitter and then he goes on Truth Social and posts dozens of things all night long. That's how that worked. And last night, among other things, he posted a 62 second video. And it's a documentary. I don't know what the documentary is from, but it's a clip of a documentary about voting fraud. And this 60 seconds of the 62 second clip is all about how easy it is to hack into voting machines, which, by the way, well, now is not the episode for that. 

But Before the 2020 election, a week before, PBS NewsHour ran a whole 12 or 17 minute piece about how easy it is to hack into Dominion voting machines. But that's not here. 60 seconds of hacking into voting machines easy it is to commit voter fraud. At the end of the video, whoever made the original screenplay of the documentary, in their screen recording, the next video automatically went to another video, but only two seconds of it before that screen recording cuts off. That two second video or two second capture is of a different 55 second AI made video made by a MAGA troll guy. 

And it's the Lion King meme it's like it's like the lion king and all the animals in the jungle are have democrats faces on them and then trump comes in he's a lion right and they all bow down to the lion but the first six seconds of that original video that that 55 second lion king movie the first six seconds has barack obama and michelle obama's heads on monkeys After those six seconds, and it has a weem away, a weem away. And then after that six seconds, it goes to Hakeem Jeffries as a meerkat. Hillary's a warthog. And then AOC and Newsom are donkeys, which aren't in, like, whatever. And then Pritzker's an elephant. And Adam Schiff is a giraffe. 

And Chuck Schumer's a zebra. And Zoran Mamdani is a hyena. And Joe Biden's a mandrill, which is another kind of monkey, but that's not racist. And then the lion walks in and has Trump's head on. Okay. It's very silly video, whatever. 

But because Trump's election fraud video or whoever recorded that originally, whoever screen captured that, that video auto -scrolled into this Lion King video. And for the two seconds of it before the screen recording ended, all people saw were this as monkeys. That's what happened. Now, what's broken? Two things. 

First one's just an aside. My second one's my main point. First one is this uptight pretend being offended at racist tropes that no one thinks is racist anymore. I'm not going to make the argument that Joe Biden is racist. Remember when he called Barack Obama an articulate, clean black man? I'm not going to make the argument that we should be talking about The important issue, this is just a distraction. 

Okay, sure, fine. I'm not going to make the argument that someone in Maryland, a Maryland man, was just charged with attempted murder trying to murder Russ Vogt, the head of OMB. Let me quote this. Police say they were called to a Virginia residence after a witness reported that a man wearing a surgical mask and rubber gloves, who appeared to be concealing a firearm under his shirt, was on Russ Vogt's porch. No one in the media was outraged at that attempted murder of a Trump cabinet member. Only a dumb one -second video. 

Where you can make the argument, I think is a fair argument, is that this is a dumb Trump self -enforced error. And I'll hear the argument that all boomers need to stay off Facebook and stop engaging in all boomer Facebook slop. And that goes for even the press of the United States. Boomer Facebook slop on Facebook. I'm redundant. Boomer Facebook slop is awful and should just be avoided at all costs. 

That's as far as I'll go there. But stop falling for the communist tricks that everything is racist all the time. All the communists want to do is divide. All they want to do is rip open old rules. of racism for their own power. No one is really offended by this. 

It's all an act. It's all pretend outrage. Again, self -enforced error politically? Sure. 

Racist? 

Give me a break. All right. No, here's the real point I want to make. What's really broken here is evolution. Slater, what do you mean? How could you possibly bring the Bible into this story? 

Glad you asked. That's why we're here. Do you know where this racist idea came from that black people are the same as monkeys were that came from evolution. It came from the idea that we all evolved from monkeys, but that black people just haven't fully evolved as much as white people have. This idea, this is evolution. This is the wicked, from the pit of hell idea of evolution that comes not from Christians, but from pagans. 

It sort of started in the early 1800s. There's a scientist named Gregor Johann Mendel. He's an Austrian fella. And he was a scientist, a researcher on pea plants. And he did all the hereditary breeding of pea plants. And he's the one who coined the terms recessive and dominant genes. 

From his research, the eugenicists came and took all that and applied it to their eugenics movement, which is all anti -Christian pagan wickedness, which led to the abortion movement, which said we should kill black people and all undesirables. Margaret Sanger was a leader of that. And she founded what became Planned Parenthood. These racist eugenicists, not Christians, said that in the process of evolution, there was a separation in Africa. white people and black people became separate species and Africans are closer in evolutionary terms to the monkeys that we all came from than the Europeans are. Talk about slop. 

That is pagan, eugenist slop. There were some scientists back then who thought that, uh, maybe they wanted to, even if they wanted to say that man sort of popped out of nowhere, even not from a Christian perspective, but like man started first. Uh, there are scientists that believe like the ancient Greek was the first man, but then as they moved around the planet, man degenerated. So monkeys are degenerate versions of original man. So it was all kind of messed up. And then Charles Darwin came along and Charles Darwin said, no, no, no. 

We are all evolved from a single organism that came about by spontaneous creation. He never even tried to explain how that came about. But that little amoeba turned into a fish, which turned into a frog, which turned into a monkey, which turned into a human. Stupidest idea I've ever heard in my life. None of that's Christian. The Christian view of creation eliminates racism because God made man. 

End of story. We didn't evolve from anything. God made man. Then also God made animals and gave us dominion over the animals. We are not animals. We did not evolve from animals. 

We're separate from animals. And God made man in his image, in God's image. Here's the Bible, Genesis 126. Then God said, let us make man in our image. according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 

" Genesis 126. There is an unbridgeable gap between human life and animal life. We did not evolve or as some scientists back in the day believe devolved. No, there's no connection. We are distinct. Humans are distinct in our moral, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities. 

And I love it. These evolutionists, they try so hard. 

They'll be like, Oh, well, look, here's a video of a monkey using a tool. 

Remember monkeys made tool. That's it. Monkeys made tools and they broke a stick. off a tree or found a stick and they stuck it in a hole and they eat the ants off the stick. You're like, I don't know. It's not really a tool. 

Show me when monkeys manufacture a miter saw that can challenge the local DeWalt factory. And we'll talk about monkeys can make tools. It's ridiculous. Made in God's image means humans have a soul. Animals don't. We have reason, morality. 

We are a reflection of God's holiness. Now, of course, then Adam sinned. Then we're an enemy of God. But we can be born again and restore that communion. And we all know this. And if you choose not to accept it, then the Bible says you are a fool. 

Romans or worse, Romans 1 .18, actually not worse. We think of a fool is not that bad. We did a segment on this recently, an episode. A fool back in the Bible meant wicked. But Romans 1 .18 says, Invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world and the things that have been made. So they're without excuse. 

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their foolishness. were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Not the creator. Therefore, God gave them up to their lusts, to their hearts, to impurity, to dishonoring of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worship and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen. 

It's Romans 1 18. The world today worships the teaching of Charles Darwin and evolution. And if you're an idiot, if you believe in the biblical account of creation, but in reality, the fools are the evolutionists and woe to them. I'll quote here, George Whitfield. I saw a movie trailer. He said there's a movie coming out about him called A Great Awakening about the relationship between him and Ben Franklin. 

I can't wait for that. And he gave a sermon about Nicodemus, asking questions about being born again. And in that sermon, Whitefield says, Being made in the very image of God, undoubtedly before the fall, man had no other will but his makers. God's will and Adam's were like unisons in music. There was not the least disunion and discord among them. Now he hath a will as directly contrary to the will of God, as light is contrary to darkness or heaven to hell. 

We all bring into the world with us a carnal mind, which is not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself. Praise God that we can be born again. That comes from paganism and Darwinism that says that man is nothing but a beast as opposed to something separate and distinct and made in the image of God. So if you want to reject monkey and black people tropes, whatever, great, reject them and reject Darwinism and paganism because it's all connected. If we stayed away from Darwinism in the first place, we'd be much better off today. But politically, don't be fooled by people pretending to be outraged by it. 

especially when they're the pagans who believe in evolution themselves, which gave rise to this trope and gives it any ounce of power, whatever it still has today. Rejected entirely and acknowledge that God made all humans in his image. And you can be saved so that you can go to heaven and be with God forever. And for that, I want to play one last clip here. I, I don't endorse Jesse Lee Peterson. 

I don't know enough about him to one way or the other, but his YouTube page where the shorts that make the short videos are hilarious because no one is funnier at repeating the question multiple times, over and over. 

And his guests, I don't know where he finds these people, they refuse to answer his question and he just asks it over and over and it's just great. 

This isn't necessarily one of those clips, but it's still a funny clip nonetheless that I just saw the other day. 

Is a human being an animal? 

No. 

Oh. 

Are you sure? 

Uh -huh. So human beings aren't animals? No. 

Well, I mean, that's not debatable. That's science. Humans aren't animals. 

No, they act like animals when they fall away from God. 

I know they act like animals, you're right, those in that fallen state, but they're not animals when they are God. 

that fallen state. You gotta agree. You gotta agree. 

No, I mean, there's no debating. 

I mean, like you learned this in elementary school. 

Humans are animals. 

Oh, you believe that humans are animals? 

That's not up for debate or discussion. 

So do you believe that humans are animals? 

It is. 

You believe that? 

100%. 

You should go back and beat that teacher. Which one? 

That lied to you about that. I went to the number one teacher. public school in the country. 

No, they lied to you. They do act like animals in a fallen state. 

You believe human beings are in a fallen state? You're taking this to a spiritual conversation, but just on a scientifical, what is platform? Humans are animals. 

Humans are not animals. Unlike animals, humans are created in the image of God, so they're not animals. They do all kinds of crazy things like animals, but they're not really animals. I don't know if you know that, but she went to the number one public school in the country. It's a very scientifical school. Mike Slater dot locals dot com is where we put the episode without commercials and the transcript. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.