I went my entire life without ever hearing the true story of Patrick. And now the current President of Ireland today says the legacy of Patrick is to make way for Muslim migrants. Let's find out why she is wrong, in Patrick's own words.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so you can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every single day. They keep coming like the mail just keeps coming. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. Today is St. Patrick's Day. 

Here is the president of Ireland celebrating this heroic brother in Christ. 

The story of Patrick's life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants, the invaluable contributions that they have made and continue to make to the countries they now call home. 

I don't think that's the story of Patrick. Migrants? I don't think that's it. 

Sometimes even in the face of great adversity. Patrick's story speaks not only to the Ireland of the 5th century, but to the millions still subjected to trafficking, forced labour and displacement today. As we recall the life of Patrick, we invoke his spirit and acknowledge our shared responsibilities as global citizens. We stand in solidarity with those who find themselves in vulnerable and dangerous circumstances. Patrick's story invites us to respond with hospitality and kindness to those suffering the consequences of war and displacement. Those fleeing their countries because of persecution or violence. 

Yikes. 

Global citizens? That is not the story of St. Patrick at all. So this is the section of our podcast we call What Really Happened. Now, if you asked me a couple of years ago anything about St. Patrick's Day, I would say nothing. Kiss me, I'm Irish. 

Green beer and leprechauns. That's my St. Patrick's knowledge. Spent my entire life, my entire childhood, every year in school, you know, you wear green. But no one ever told me the story, ever once in any way, ever told me the story of St. Patrick. Who was this guy? Here's the story. 

Around the 5th century, this guy's name was Mawin Secat. M -A -E -W -I -N. Mawin Secat. S -U -C -C -A -T. He lived in England. And when he was 16, he was captured by Irish pirates and was taken as a slave in Ireland. 

Now, I know it's a couple weird things happening here. She's like, wait, Irish pirates? I don't get that. And then white slaves? I'm confused about that. Friendly reminder, though, we actually talked about this on the radio show the other day. 

that more slaves were taken, more white people from Europe were taken as slaves into North Africa than Africans were brought into slavery in America. You just think about that one. North Africans took more white European slaves into Africa than Africans were sent to the United States. There's about 1 million, maybe 1 .5 million white Europeans were taken as slaves. out of Europe into North Africa. We fought two wars over this, the Barbary Wars, and only 400 ,000 Africans were sent to the United States of America during the transatlantic slave trade. 

12 million overall in the transatlantic slave trade, but they were sent to mostly Brazil and the Caribbean, only 400 ,000 to America. Anyway, back to the Irish pirates. So the Irish pirates take Mawin, 16 -year -old Mawin to be a slave. They bring him to pagan Ireland. Now Mawin's dad was a Christian. 

He was not. And he was held as a slave for six years. And he prayed every day for those six years. And during this slavery, he became closer to God. At a certain point, he said the Holy Spirit told him to escape and board a ship. The ship was 200 miles away, but he was able to escape and get there. 

And they didn't want to put him on the ship at first, but he prayed and they let him on board. So he's on the ship going back to England. They land in England and they're all in the wilderness starving. And I'm going to read from his own words. He wrote a book or a confession. It's called Confessio. 

How have I never read this thing? How have I never heard about this thing? Isn't that amazing? My whole life, I didn't even know that St. Patrick wrote a thing down, ever. And we have it right here. Here's what he said. 

After three days, we made it to land. And then for 28 days, we traveled through a wilderness. Food ran out and great hunger came over us. The captain turned to me and said, what about this Christian? You tell us that your God is great and all powerful. Why can't you pray for us? 

Since we're in a bad state of hunger. There's no sign of us finding a human being anywhere. Then I said to him with some confidence, Turn in faith with all your hearts to the Lord my God, because nothing is impossible for him, so that we may put food in your way, even enough to make you fully satisfied. He has an abundance everywhere. With the help of God, this is what actually happened. A herd of pigs appeared in the way before our eyes. 

They killed many of them. And there they remained for two nights and were fully restored. And the dogs too were filled. Many of them had grown weak and left half alive, by the way. After this, they gave plenty, excuse me, they gave the greatest of thanks to God. And I was honored in their eyes. 

From this day on, they had plenty of food. " So he finally makes it back home to England, back to his parents. A couple of years later, he had a vision, a dream of a man carrying a letter for him. He said, they, the people in this dream called out as it were one voice. And the voice said, we beg you, holy boy to come and walk again among us. Meaning in Ireland, go back to Ireland. 

He said, this touched my heart deeply. And I could not read any further. I woke up then. Thanks be to God. After many years, the Lord granted them what they were calling for. He went back to England. 

He went back to the place he was enslaved. He became a missionary. And it wasn't easy. It didn't go well for him. For a long time, he was thrown in jail a couple of times. One time he was beaten, robbed of everything he had, put in chains, possibly about to be executed. 

But long story short, Ireland is now a Christian nation, was a Christian nation because of Patrick. It wasn't about migrants. He was a slave and nothing in her message was about St. Patrick. So what's broken here in this story? First of all, We have a lot of Irish people in America, and I've even then I've gone my whole life without ever hearing a hint of this story. I didn't even know he was a Christian, even though I had the word saint in front of his name. 

He was the guy who drove the snakes away at best. Our culture is so broken, so broken, but it ties into so many things. If you missed yesterday's episode, we talked about England getting rid of people off of their money, replacing it with plants and animals. We talked about Harvard getting rid of any mention of John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at 1630, who said this place should be a shining city upon a hill. When we lose our history, this is what happens. 

It's so simple. They erase our history, and then they come in later and subtly say, well, you know, the real history of Patrick is that we need to let in more muslim migrants you know that's the real message of patrick's day what do you think for one second that saint patrick would have been for the invasion of muslims into ireland do you think or england or america what do you why could you possibly Well, you could only think that if you don't know the story. You can only think that if you've never read anything from St. Patrick, never any of his writings. If you've never read his writings, then yeah, that makes perfect sure. Yeah, he's a migrant from one place, came to another, and we love migrants. I get it. 

But you see how subtle the move is? I forget if I shared this one or not. I'm going to share it again real quick. Philadelphia School District. This is how they have, how Sharia law is infiltrated into the curriculum. So first of all, they talk about capitalism and how capitalism is based on greed. 

And they say, oh, greed's terrible. It's awful. Capitalism is terrible and awful. Man, if only there were another system. And this is what it says in the curriculum. Islamic finance principles guided by Sharia law prioritize equitable and ethical financial transactions prohibiting practices such as interest -based lending and speculative trading. 

These principles have informed economic systems in Muslim -majority countries and Islamic financial institutions worldwide. shaping approaches to economic development and wealth distribution. You see how that works? So after they've proven to kids that capitalism is great, and how bad it is, they're, you know, we need to be nice. And that whole Christianity, that Protestant work ethic led capitalism, oh, that's so terrible. 

Look how awful it is. We need to replace it with something nicer, something more fair and equitable and good. Well, you know, there is Sharia law, you know, based off ethical and equitable financial transactions. 

See the trick? 

They're doing that with every aspect of our culture that they can. All right, let's bring it to the Bible. So You can search online and find a nice version. It's very, very short of St. Patrick's Confession. Here's how it opens. It says, My name is Patrick. 

I am a sinner. No, it's not a good Irish accent at all. I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers. I am looked down upon by many. My father was Calpurnius. He was a deacon. 

His father was Potetus, a priest who lived at Bonavum Tabernaei. His home was was near there, and this is where I was taken prisoner. I was about 16 at the time. At that time, I did not know the true God. I was taken into captivity in Ireland, along with thousands of others. Here's the key. 

We deserved this because we had gone away from God and did not keep his commandments. We would not listen to our priests who advised us about how we could be saved. The Lord brought his strong anger upon us and scattered us among many nations, even to the ends of the earth. And it was among foreigners that I was seen how little I was. Little as in powerless compared to God. He later said, I see that already in this present age, the Lord has given me a greatness. 

The Lord has given me a greatness more than could be expected. I was not worthy of this, not the kind of person the Lord would do this for, since I know for certain that poverty and calamity are more my style than riches and enjoyment. But Christ the Lord became poor for us. I too am wretched and unhappy. Even if I were to wish for riches, I do not have them. 

I do not, I am not trying to judge myself since every day there is the chance that I would be killed or surrounded or taken into slavery or some other such happening. But I fear none of these things because of the promises of heaven. I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, who is the ruler of all places. As the prophet says, cast your concerns on God and he will sustain you. I just want you to know that we're going to do a TV special just a couple of days here where we're going to expand more on the point that we deserve. What we get as a nation is based off of how much we either abandon or embrace God. 

I believe that's a biblical principle. I'll make the argument. We'll go to Psalm 917. Psalm 917 says, the wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God. We'll do more of that on the TV show this week and we'll put that here on the podcast when we're done. But I'll end here with a final quote from Patrick. 

You know, the John the Baptist for Muslim migrants in Ireland. That's his real legacy. Just leading the way for Muslim migrants. He said, therefore, it is very right that we should cast our nets so that a great multitude and crowd will be taken for God. Also that there should be clerics to baptize and encourage the people in need and want. This is what the Lord says in his gospel. 

He warns and teaches in these words, Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you all days, even to the end of the age. How is this happening in Ireland? Never before did they know of God, except to serve idols and unclean things. But now they have become people of the Lord and are called children of God. " That was true for a long time. 

Less true now, but we'll save the migrant analysis for the satellite show. I'll leave with one more. He goes on this story and he tells of people in Ireland that were baptized, who lost family members because they became Christian. He then said, I could wish to leave them to go to Britain. I would willingly do this and am prepared for this, as if to visit my home country and my parents. Not only that, but I would like to go to Gaul, France, to visit the brothers and see the faces of the saints of my Lord. 

God knows that I would dearly like to do this, but I am bound in the Spirit who assures me that if I were to do this, I would be held guilty. And I fear also to lose the work which I began, not so much I as Christ the Lord, who told me to come here and to be with these people for the rest of my life. May the Lord will it and protect me from every wrong path so that I do not sin before him. My suggestion. is that we in America, at least, make St. Patrick's Day a Christian holy day yet again. Politics by Faith on YouTube. 

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With multiple terrorist attacks across America committed by Muslims, we need a refresher on the differences between Islam and Christianity. One religion is the truth, the other is heresy, and violent at its core.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so that we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. The story of the day today is Old Dominion University attempted murders. As of now, it's attempted murder. 

Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. The murderer injured two people. We don't know the extent of those injuries yet. And the murderer would -be murderer is dead. Kash Patel said that the shooter, the murderer is dead, would -be murder, attempted murder, because, quote, a group of brave students stepped in and subdued him. Cannot wait to find out how that went down. 

Check out the backstory of this guy. Mohamed Jala, J -A -L -L -O -H, Mohamed Jala, a naturalized U . S. citizen. It was just the other day we talked about how we have a legal immigration problem in this country. Naturalized U . 

S. citizen from Sierra Leone. And not just any, like, that's enough. But it goes on. Convicted in 2017 of providing support to ISIS and was released December 2024. The DOJ said after his arrest in 2016 said Jalloh, J -A -L -L -O -H, Jalloh, praised the gunman who killed five US military members in a terrorist attack in Chattanooga in 2015 and stated that he had been thinking about conducting an attack similar to the November 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas. 

And here we are. Why in the world was this person not de -naturalized? You can become a US citizen, a naturalized US citizen, but when you then betray this country and provide support to the enemy, in this case ISIS, you can be denaturalized and you should then be deported. We also have the story of a man in Michigan who rammed his truck into the nation's biggest synagogue, Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township outside of Detroit. We still are waiting more information on that. 

Okay. We have to talk some more and I intend to do this deeply. We've done a bunch of Muslim stuff this week already, but we have to talk about Islam and violence. First to draw the contrast, the Bible says, Matthew 5, 44, but I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Now we'll go to the Quran. Surah 9, 5. 

I'm going to do three different translations. First, kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit and wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer and give Zakah. Zakah is a tax, but it's more than a tax. It's a part of, it's proof of your conversion to Islam, right? You can't be a Christian and pay this tax. 

That's called something different, which we'll get to in a minute. Another translation of Surah 9, 5, fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them and seize them, beleaguer them and lie in wait for them in every strategem of war. And the third, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. So we have polytheists, pagans, and idolaters, and take them captive and besiege them and prepare them, prepare for them each ambush. Muhammad himself lived a life of violence, quite a contrast to Jesus. This comes from the top Sunni scholar in the eighth century. 

His name is al -Bukhari. He wrote of 199 different references to warfare against the non -believers. Some quotes from the I've been ordered to fight the people till they say none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and if they say so their blood and property will be sacred to us. Fight in the name of Allah against those who disbelieve in Allah. Invite them to Islam. 

If they respond, accept it. If they refuse, demand from them the Jizya. If they refuse that, fight them. That's the tax that the non -believers were in some places allowed to live if they paid it. We can keep going. We're going to do a lot more on this, but my work in conclusion at the moment is that a peaceful Muslim is only peaceful to the extent that they do not follow the teachings of Islam. 

Does that sentence make sense? Oh, but there's peaceful Muslims. Yeah, there are. They're not following the teachings of Islam. The amount of peaceful that they are is how far away they are from the actual teachings of Islam. If you are a true follower of Islam, then you will be violent. 

You will slay the idolaters and slice the neck of the unbelievers and wage war in every possible way. If you're a good Muslim, reading this from Caleb Gregson, he says, a better question to ask is whether or not there's a legitimate place for violence within Islam, Islamic tradition. The answer is yes. The primary means of determining this right in Islam is power. According to Islamic thinking, if you are in power and succeeding, then God is clearly blessing and supporting you. If you're not, then God has chosen not to bless you. 

Of the first four caliphs after Muhammad, three of them were violently murdered, either by assassination, mob, or in battle, all by fellow Muslims who supported other leaders. The first two Islamic dynasties came into power by slaughtering those who held power before them. Islam's history only gets bloodier from there. To the extent that more Muslims aren't violent yet is a part of God's common grace to us. It does not speak to the amount of peaceful Muslims that exist does not speak to the peacefulness of Islam. It speaks to God's common grace to us. 

Let's jump to the Bible. We're going to spend some time on the Crusades. We have a lot to do and I'm excited to do it. Let's focus on the Ottoman Empire. So during the Christian Reformation, the Turkish Ottoman Empire reached its height. This is the mid 15th century, both these things were happening at the same time. 

So whenever the people around the Reformation era were writing about Islam or Muslims, they called them the Turks. And they spoke, it's around the 1500s, they spoke of Islam as a heresy. Heresy means to pick and choose. So that more technically means to pick and choose. So a Christian heretic only picks and chooses what they want to believe and rejects what they don't. You must accept all of Christ's teachings and all of God's word. 

There's a lot of different heresy and the reformers thought that Islam was one of them. One of many different types of heresies. There's some things that are kind of ish similar, right? Like Islam is one God, Allah. It's not the same as the Christian God. In Islam, Jesus exists. 

He was a prophet. And they pick and choose some things from the Old and New Testament, but on the whole they deny the Trinity and reincarnation or incarnation of Jesus resurrection I should say of Jesus And they add a whole new prophet Mohammed and a whole new book the Quran so like that's heretical this is John of Damascus around the year 700 again Islam started around the year 600 and So this is John of Damascus in Syria around the year 700. He wrote a book called Concerning Heresy, and he wrote of Muhammad that this man, after having chanced upon the Old and New Testament, and likewise it seemed, having conversed with an Aryan heretical monk, devised his own heresy. And then he brought up a bunch of problems. One is that the revelation Muhammad claimed to receive was received without witnesses. 

Muslims allow men to take more than one wife, up to four, he wrote. And that also Islam allows men to divorce their wives very easily. That was in the year 700. John of Damascus noticed these problems. In the 12th century, Peter the Venerable, he studied Islam. He wrote translations of Islam into Latin. 

He said that Islam was a Christian heresy, one that went so far as to approach paganism. And John Calvin said that Islam, in its violence, tore away about half of the church. So here's my main point that I think is really a starting point for our further study on Islam and its dangers in America and the world. Islam thrives today in places where they have left and stopped following the Bible and God. Some of these places were conquered by Muslims by force. Others abandoned God first and then Islam just walked in and filled the void, like in England and other places across Europe and increasingly America. 

We left Christianity, we left God, and then Islam came in and filled the void. This is God's judgment on us. John Calvin, in response to the rise of Islam, he said, and therefore let us mark well that we must hold ourselves to the pure religion. I'm reminded of Genesis 13 .10 when it comes to trusting God. Genesis 13 .10 says, and Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan. 

that it was well watered everywhere before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go towards Zoar. Lot chose this valley because it looked beautiful. It looked great. It looked lush, even though it was morally corrupted. Abraham, by contrast, trusted God's promise, went to Canaan, even though it wasn't the best looking land. It's what God wanted him to do. 

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Of course the media is ignoring the reality of the latest NYC terrorist attack, but it's more concerning that we have a Muslim mayor who instead of honoring the NYPD officers as he should, he is honoring foreigners who say we should dismantle Western Civilization. What do we do now?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so that we can walk away with some peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. Thanks for being here for the True Story. The story of the day is Mamdani, after the terrorist attack in his city that could have killed many people, instead of hosting the police officers who ran to danger and apprehended the ISIS -inspired terrorists, he's hosting a Muslim who has called for the end of Western civilization. inside of the mayor's Gracie mansion. 

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faith. So, uh, we're in Utah right now. Our goal is to show our young kids as much of America as we can. This amazing country that God blessed us with. So we're going to a bunch of, yeah, Johnny. Oh, can I finish this real quick? 

20 minutes and I'll be out and we'll play. Okay. I love you, bud. Johnny wants to play baseball. He's the best. Um, where was I? 

Ah, so we're in, uh, Arches national park. Woke up early this morning, went to, uh, Delicate Arch. Delicate Arch is the picture on the Utah license plate. And my wife said, this is like our fourth day here or something like that. And yesterday my wife said, what could all the hype be about Delicate Arch? 

How could this arch be any different or like that much better than any other arch we've ever seen? We've seen Landscape Arch, Sand Dune Arch, Double Arch, Double O Arch. We've seen a million arches. Why is this the arch? 

So this morning we woke up early because we wanted to see the sunrise at it. 

So we hiked three and a half miles at 6 a . m. and it was awesome. Totally worth the hype. so amazing, absolutely deserves the place on the Utah license plate, and God is awesome. So they're running around here, the kids are, and Johnny wants to go through the baseball round, which I will in 20 minutes. 

But first, here's what happened. Yesterday, we shared the story of two ISIS -inspired terrorists throwing bombs into a crowd of people at an anti -Islam rally in New York City. And we pointed out how the media just contorted themselves in every possible shape to not call it a bomb. They called it a smoke causing suspicious device, for instance. So now we are a day later, here we are a day later, and this is what CNN was able to cobble together. This is a real, this is a real thing they did. 

Two, this is a tweet, two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York city Saturday morning. for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. 

But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change, as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti -Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's house. 

Here's what we know so far. Wow. How can that be real? Someone on Twitter said, Muslim aviation enthusiasts boarded flights Tuesday morning for what could have been normal day trips to New York City, Virginia, New York, and the abnormally warm September weather. But in less than a few hours, their lives would drastically change as their planes just crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the ground in rural Pennsylvania. Here's what we know so far. 

Amazing. So what's the deal here? Here's why the lefties wrote this. The terrorists are not the main actors here. They're acted upon by life, by white supremacy. Everything's in the passive, right? 

Their lives would be drastically changed. Zero agency, classic leftist movement. Then of course they refused, they did call it a bomb, but they refused to call the Muslim or talk about where their parents are from. Instead, they're Pennsylvania teenagers. Teenagers also makes them seem like little innocent misguided victims. They're 18 and 19, also known as adults. 

And then maybe my favorite line is the, what otherwise could have been a normal day. Yeah, it could have been if you didn't make a bomb and light it on fire and throw it into a crowd of people. You're right. It could have been a normal day. NYPD came out later and said that one of the terrorists requested paper, and he wrote, I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State. Die in your rage, you kuffar. 

Kuffar is an Arabic term that refers to you and me, non -Muslims. And we're told white supremacy is the problem. All right, so what's broken here? I want to do a side by side. After these two precious young Muslim men threw a bomb into a crowd of people, one officer in particular, many officers, but one in particular was involved immediately. And there's a baller picture of him jumping over the metal barrier fence to go and capture the terrorist. 

From what I could see in the short video, it looks like the guy dropped the bomb and then ran. And now he's on the other side of the fence as all the cops. So a lot of other cops are trying to figure out what to do, like, how do I get to him? Oh, he's on the other side of the fence. This guy just leaps over the fence in a single bound. Chief Aaron Edwards. 

is his name. He was inspired to join the NYPD after he was in college during 9 -11. And he said, I saw what happened with people running in, with our first responders running into the towers. He said, and I took one of the first tests for the academy. I saw it. I felt it. 

When everyone was running out of the Twin Towers, we had our police officers and other first responders running in. I thought that was selfless heroism. It just drew me into the profession. And since I started, I fell in love with policing. That is absolutely the best of the best attitude, what we need more of in our country. And the only way to get more of it is to celebrate it. 

Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani had a guest over for dinner at the mayor's mansion. It's Ramadan, don't you know? All I hear about is how it's Ramadan. And here's what the mayor wrote. He said, for Mahmood Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship. and by profound courage. 

A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife, Noor, when he was detained by - again, it's all - he was - it was just a normal day. He was just having a - he was just being with his wife. He was just having a nice time. Again, and was sure, because he's the victim here, to highlight the Muslimness of Mahmoud. here. Not the Muslimness of the bomb -throwing terrorist, but the Muslimness of just an innocent man sharing an iftar with his wife. 

That's the meal that breaks the Ramadan fast. He was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights and protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there's been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity, a city refusing to look away. 

Mahmoud won his freedom and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one -year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I, his wife, were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son, Dean, D -E -E -N, to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City. 

Who's this Mahmoud guy? 

Not a police officer. for sure. This is the guy who is the leader of a raging anti -semitic pro -Palestinian Marxist group at Columbia University in New York City. You may remember a picture of him. If you saw a picture, you'd probably ring a bell. He's the leader of a group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest. 

These are all just Marxists. I'm reading from their website. They say this group is a coalition of student organizations that sees Palestine as the vanguard for our collective liberation. We are a continuation of the Vietnam anti -war movement and the movement to divest from apartheid South Africa. We support freedom and justice for the Palestinian people and for all people. We know that true collect, except the ones we're throwing bombs at, we know that true collective safety will arise when everyone has access to clean air, clean water, right? 

So we're throwing in environmentalist stuff here. Food, housing, education, healthcare, freedom of movement, and dignity. So they'll just throw it all in. They'll riot for anything, anything that's against the West. This is post in particular. 

Let me pull it up here. 

One post in particular that this Columbia University group put up, run by this guy. 

We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization. Super. We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the global South. Our Infitada is an international one. We're fighting for nothing less than liberation for all people. As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness becomes even more explicit and irrefutable, we seek community and instruction from militants in the global South who have been on the front lines in the fight against tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist world order. 

" Yikes. The leader of that group is enjoying a nice meal at the mayor of New York City's mansion. Why is this person here? Mahmoud was a, he was born in a refugee camp to Palestinian parents in Syria. He's an Algerian citizen? and he came to America on a green card. 

After his activism became apparent to the Trump administration, they claimed that he lied on his green card application, which of course you would have to do. So an immigration judge ruled that he's deportable and ordered him removed. But then all the federal courts got involved and all the activist lawyers and they blocked his deportation. You want a pancake? I'll take a pancake. I'll take a pancake. 

It's vacation. 

Five more minutes. You already had a pancake. Just to be clear, it's 202 in the afternoon when I'm recording this and they're asking for pancakes. So that would be, I'm gonna put that in the it's vacation category. 

Can we have a pancake at 202 as we're about to go get pizza for dinner? 

Why not, kids? Where was I? So all these judges said that this guy is allowed, must, must stay in America until all of his appeals are done and it's going to take forever, right? This is crazy. He's not a citizen. Kick him out. 

He's ultimately going to be deported, but he's a celebrity on the left and a bit of a martyr until that day finally comes. And he gets special dinners at Gracie Mansion. The hero cop does not. All right, let's get to the Bible so I can go have a pancake. A Bible verse I think of often is Isaiah 520. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. 

And I just thought of this, of course, because of the juxtaposition between the hero cop and then this Mahmoud guy and which one's being honored by the mayor. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. It's a classic, but rarely does the verse just before it get any attention. And that's what I want to do here. First, one more point on this one. Woe to those who call, I just want to make sure we drive this home. 

Woe to those who call evil people and evil things good. And then the flip side, those who call good things and good people evil. These people have it backwards because they're so twisted and they're so demented in their soul that it's entirely backwards. And woe means that there is divine judgment coming. It is a warning against sin and the impending doom that is coming your way. Woe to you. 

Check out the verse before. Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes, who say, let him be quick. let him speed his work, that we may see it. Let the counsel of the holy one of Israel draw near and let it come that we may know it. " All right, we got to break this one down. This is such a good verse. 

I'm actually going to, that's the ESV, and I always quote ESV first. Let me do the NIV. It's a little bit more clear. Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit and wickedness as with cart ropes. Cart, C -A -R -T, cart ropes. To those who say, let God hurry, let him hasten his work so that we may see it. 

The plan of the Holy one of Israel, let it approach, let it come into view so that we may know it. So back in the day, they had carts, right? Which were loaded with whatever you were carrying. And the cart was hitched to an animal that would pull the cart. The wicked people here are the animals, the mules, donkeys, oxen, whatever it is that's pulling the cart that's loaded with sin. And they're pulling this cart of sin without any shame. 

That's the extra key here. You're pulling their sin, parading it really, and they're doing it with no shame. And that's verse 19, to those who say, let God hurry, let him hasten his work so that we may see it. This is mockery. This is mockery. Those who are pulling their cart of sin, they're saying to God, God, if you don't like this, you say you don't like this. 

Oh, I'm doing it anyway. You say you don't like it. Let's see you do something about it. Imagine the wicked shaking their fist at God, knowing that they're sinning and doing it. It's not even shaking their fist. I think it's spitting at God, spitting at God's direction. 

I know I'm sinning, doing it anyway. What are you going to do about it? They're proud of their sin. They're parading it around. And they're saying, oh, you say, you say woe to me. 

You say, you're going to give judgment to me for this. Prove it. 

Let's go. Hurry up. Come on. Let's see what you can do, God. Open mockers. And there are open mockers of God around us, and in many cases, leading us. 

and representing us. 

And woe to those. 

Ready? Whichever one you want. I'll take the one with the bite in it. That way you get an extra bite. Who took the bite? Oh, okay. 

It looks like a bite. That looks like a bite. Mm, that's so good. These pancakes are the best pancakes. They're, what's her name? Chip and Joanna Gaines's. 

Their recipe, a couple of years ago, it's called the world's fluffiest pancakes. And the key is, see, here's the secret. You gotta use Kerrygold butter. Do not make these pancakes with Land O' Lakes or any of that garbage. You have to splurge. You have to make these with Kerrygold butter. 

They're basically just, it's just butter. It's just a ton of butter. You can use the buttermilk like it calls for. You don't need to use the buttermilk. That doesn't make the biggest difference. It's the butter. 

It's all about the Kerrygold butter. I make these, we make them all the time. And every trip I go on with people, I make them and they're like our famous pancakes. They're Chip and Joanna Gaines's. They're the best. They're so unbelievably good. 

I'm going to have it at 207. Okay. I got to go. Let's wrap up with the grand finale here so I can eat this pancake. Cause they're really good. They're amazing warm and they drop off pretty quick. 

Uh, it is up to us to lift up the righteous, to highlight the good, to call the sweet, sweet, and the delicious, delicious, and to call the bitter, bitter, and to trust God. with his timeline to bring the woe. 

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Great. I got to go eat this pancake and then go play baseball with John.