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Politics by Faith, May 28, 2024
May 28, 2024

My daughter said she was hungry the other day so I went into a fatherly tale of WWII veteran Louis Zamperini. If you ever saw the movie Unbroken, it only shares half of his story. The second half is the most important. The second half is the redemption.​

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Hey, welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Wanted to give one more thought here regarding Memorial Day, but this is every day. Freedom-loving American patriots like us, we're not one day a year, it's every single day we celebrate these men and women. We don't need an excuse for it. Although we'll take the Memorial Day excuse. My kids on the Memorial Day event we went

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to on Monday, yesterday, they got to shake the hand of a World War II veteran. You kidding me? They shook the hand of a 99-year-old man who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. They shook his hand and said, thank you for your service. Each and every one of them. Ah, it was beautiful. I don't know if I share it here in this segment, so let me just share it real quick again,

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and if you gotta hear it twice, fine. We found out he's there, and the event's almost over, and I have the kids come over here. I gather them, I say, kids, you're like seven, six, and four, and I'm holding the baby. I said, you guys, you're not gonna believe this.

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That is a real-life World War II veteran. This is unbelievable. We're gonna go shake his hand, and we're gonna say thank you for his service. And Grace goes, wait, what do I say? I say, thank you for your service.

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Thank you for your service. Johnny, what are you going to say? Thank you for your service. Got it. Boom. Here we go.

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Sliders, we're going to do this. This is unbelievable. I can't believe we get this opportunity. We go up there. I'm like crying because I'm like a little girl about to meet Justin Bieber or some K-pop band or whatever.

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So I'm doing the best I can to keep it together. Sir, thank you for your service. Can my children shake your hand? Oh, yes, I'd love it. Jack shakes his hand and says, thank you for your service. you for your service." And the man, the World War II veteran, says,

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Son, you have a great handshake. Love your country. Love your neighbor. Done. I hope you had a meaningful Memorial Day as well. I want to share here our segment we did to kind of ease back into the week. It's a political show we do, but Monday is our first day back after a weekend. It's always like, I don't know, do we want to hit it hard? Get right to the politics. It's 6 o'clock Eastern Time. It's 5 a.m. where I am. It's pretty

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early to go heavy politics. So we try to ease into the week at least. And we told the story of Louise Amperini. The rest of the story of Louise Amperini. Enjoy. You've seen the movie Unbroken by Angelina Jolie. I saw it like ten years ago when it came out. I remember liking it. I think, I don't really remember. But the story is incredible. And of course the book is always better. Gotta read the book.

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And it's the story of Louis Zamparini. Is the name ring a bell? The problem with the movie is it only does half the book. It's half the book. You're reading the book. You know back in the day when you used to watch a 30 minute TV show and you're 26 minutes

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into the show and you're like, wait a second. This isn't gonna finish in time. There's no way they can wrap up this story in the next four minutes, what's happening here? And then they do a to be continued. You're like, ah, they didn't make it.

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And you have to wait a whole nother week. It's the same thing with the book. Like the book's, like the war's over, and you're like, wait a second, there's still a lot of book left to go. So let's just jog everyone's memory real quick

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on Louis Zamperini, a name that everyone needs to know. So he lived in Long Beach, California before the war, went to USC for track, qualified for the Olympics in the 5,000 meters. He was 19 years old, youngest qualifier at that distance ever, and still today, 19 years old.

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And he got eighth in the Olympics in Berlin, but there was something about his finish, he had such a strong finish, that Hitler summoned him up to his stand and to see him. He ran the mile in four minutes, eight seconds was his time. So then he goes to World War II,

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and he's flying in airplanes. And one of his flights, one of his planes crashes. 850 miles off the coast of Oahu. He's in the middle of nowhere. So three of the guys survive, and they're on this raft and all they have to survive is rainwater.

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They had a couple rations for the three of them and they were able to catch raw fish and a bird landed on their raft and they grabbed the bird and killed it and ate it raw. Meanwhile, they're fending off shark attacks in the middle of the ocean and it's totally zero hope that they'll be found. I was telling my kids a story this weekend because we went on Saturday or whatever, we went to a Memorial Day concert in the neighborhood.

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And Grace, who's six, is, Daddy, I'm hungry. There are food carts there, right? There are like four different food carts. They're like, Grace, you had your tacos. We gave you the pick of the litter. You had a whole array of food options.

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And you didn't want any of them, so okay, whatever, don't eat.

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She's like, what do you mean, don't eat, what do you mean? I'm so hungry.

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I said, Grace, Grace, Grace, Grace, Grace.

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Just don't eat.

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If you don't want to eat any of the food, just don't eat the food and just don't have dinner. It's fine. Or you can wait till we get home and there's some food in the fridge. Whatever, just like stop complaining.

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I said, I'm so hungry. I was like, Grace, kids, gather around, gather around. You could go a long time without food, you know. And they're like, how long? I was like, well, let me tell you the story of Louisiana Breed, that's why the story's in my brain.

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So they're on the raft, 33 days. Oh, by the way, they're also on the raft, airplane comes, one airplane came, and they shot off a flare, and the airplane didn't see. Oh, could you imagine the hope? And then it's shattered so then you know weeks later weeks another airplane flies

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low and they're like oh I'm blue it was a Japanese airplane and there's this shoot at him this 33 days into this one of the three men died 47 days in they They saw a ship, but unfortunately it was a Japanese ship. And thus started Louis Zamparini's prisoner of war camp life. And they were tormented as prisoners of war, particularly by a Japanese prison guard they named The Bird.

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He would force Zamparini to punch other prisoners until they were unconscious. One punishment he had to get punched 220 times in the face. Louis did. He'd beg for water. They'd throw burning, scalding water in his face. They'd put him in a cage and they'd poke him with sticks and throw rocks at him and force him to dance. Just constant torment. Then he worked in the coal barges. Just horrific. At one point he broke an ankle so they made him clean out the pig stalls with his bare hands. Just cruel dehumanizing. These guys they lost on average like 60 pounds. They only weighed 150 pounds to begin with. These guys are

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under a hundred pounds and dehumanized and demoralized in every way. It's such a weird thing in our history, culture, or whatever, that the face of evil in America, like when we look back, like we think of evil, we go right to Hitler, and not also Hirohito. Like isn't that like the weirdest thing?

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Like, Hitler, yes, I'm not like, oh, Hitler's not that bad. Like, Hitler, yes, but can we also add in a little Hirohito, too? All right, so that's the movie, the movie's all about that. But Angelina Jolie left out the second part of his life, and I think that's the most interesting. And I reread it this weekend.

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So let me share some highlights, if I may. Also I was thinking about this, because when I was, so we're at the memorial service yesterday, and here's this 99-year-old World War II veteran. It's hot out. It's hot. We're in Tennessee. It's hot, humid, gross. People

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are like, the pass out fans. I was having a tough time. And here's this 99 year old veteran over there in khaki pants, dress shoes, long sleeve shirt, and a suit jacket. Fine. Standing, totally fine. Doesn't bother him at all. I'm over here trying to be tough for my kids so they don't complain. Meanwhile, this guy's over here like it's nothing. So, Louie Zamperini, after the war,

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gets home to LA and he finds his childhood home where his parents still live. And I love this line. He looks at this house that he grew up in and he says, this, this little home was worth all of it.

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I love that.

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And the power of that line means even more when you really fully realize what all of it is. All of it is the worst thing you could possibly imagine. Yet that was all worth it because of his little house that he grew up in.

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This was worth it. That's such a beautiful thing. This. And that's why last week, we were like, hey, it's not happy Memorial Day, I hope you have a meaningful Memorial Day,

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but it's not, oh, don't have the barbecue. Like, Memorial Day should be a more solemn day, but also have the barbecue and do the community stuff and do all that fun stuff too, because that's what Louis Zamparini says, like this, this home, this is why they fought,

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this home is worth all of it. I just think that's so unbelievably beautiful. So they have a nice homecoming for him and everything's fine. And at one point in the night, his sister puts on a record player, a record on the record player of some of the Japanese propaganda that they forced Zamparini to read on the radio and he lost it.

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And he screams, turn it off, turn it off. And he tells his sister to smash it in pieces and he falls on the floor and he's shivering and it's horrible. No one knew what to do, and that was the first moment when everyone's like, whoa, and when Louie's like, oh, I'm not, this is not.

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PTSD, like we think of our, I don't know about you, but we look back at our World War II veterans, and we're like, oh, they were treated well when they came home, unlike Vietnam veterans, and they didn't have PTSD, unlike, you know,

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our current wars we've been fighting. It's like, no, no, no. We just called it something different back then. So Louis had all these requests to speak and they were overwhelming but he had awards and he went and he gave 95 speeches

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right immediately after the war and even more radio interviews. And all the attention was on him and it was exhausting. So he did two things. First thing he did is he drove to the mountains

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I

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Drove to the forest he went into the wilderness and walked among the trees and he found a peace there That he hadn't felt since he was a young boy But then he got back in his car and as soon as he got back in his car driving back to civilization all the anxiety Came back So that was the first thing he did second thing. He did there was a time a gala for the LA Times He was the man of honor of course and they offered him a drink and

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it was the first time he said yes to the offer and he felt as he called it a pleasant numbness and the anxiety went away and he started drinking more and more and finally his nightmares stopped. Every night he would dream about the bird, the tormentor, the tyrant every night and he was scared to sleep. But now he could drink and fall asleep and he could drink and maybe not remember the dreams.

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So he became an alcoholic and it was so sad because there was that other option, that nature was a true medicine for him. But the alcohol was much easier. So he would have these PTSD moments, he would be in a bar and a car would backfire and he'd fall to the ground in the fetal position or someone would yell something that sounded like a Japanese word and he'd lose it. He was at dinner with a friend once and the friend got rice.

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He was served rice as a side and he lost it because it reminded him of... And then something happened. He heard the story of a former Pacific POW who went into a store and saw one of his former Japanese captors and he called the police and the police arrested the Japanese guy as a war criminal and Louie heard that story and he decided this is it this is my new life mission my new life mission is to find the bird and kill him so now he's

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anxiety, fear, depression, alcohol, and now rage. So he walked around every single day with murder on his mind. He went and he practiced boxing, just imagining beating the bird to death. Hillenbrand who wrote the book, she says, in seeking the bird's death to free himself, Louis had chained himself once again to his tyrant. He had one nightmare and the bird was beating him as always.

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But in this nightmare he was able to get on top of the bird because he was winning, right? He was fighting in his mind all day. He was ruminating about how he was going to kill the bird. So now here he is dreaming about him actually killing the bird. And he got on top of the bird and was choking him. And then he woke up and he was choking his pregnant wife who was lying next to him in bed in real life.

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His daughter was born, he loved that girl but he couldn't take care of her. He would shake her and he would just keep drinking and his wife finally left and filed for divorce and it was the lowest point of his life. It was lower than shoveling pig filth by hand. I think this part, like this is, and I understand there is a movie made about this actually. I haven't seen it, but there's a, one of those Christian movies made about this.

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Christian movies, what do you mean? One day, a man set up a circus tent in Los Angeles and set up 6,500 chairs. And the man had a press conference to announce a three week long event that he was having in Los Angeles and not a single newspaper covered the story. So they had this event and no one showed up for the first few days and then more people showed up and then it was half filled and then by the end of the three weeks the tent

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was filled and newspapers started picking it up and Billy Graham kicked off his revival in Los Angeles. Now Louie and his wife didn't get a divorce but things were really tough. She begged him to go hear Billy Graham speak and he kept saying no over and over again he said no and his neighbor awesome Louie you got to go go here but go once go one time and he finally went he sat in the back row and

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Billy Graham's up there and these you can hear the real recordings of these sermons so Billy Graham's out there and he's reading John 8 this is the story of the adulterous woman who was going to be stoned to death and Jesus said if any one of you is without sin let him be the first to throw a stone. And he's hearing this and he was full of rage. And Billy Graham even said, oh, I'm sure you're thinking you're not a bad fella.

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But when you die, God's going to pull down a screen and show you everything you ever did and every thought you ever had in your head for every second of your life. And those words and thoughts and deeds are going to condemn you. And God is going to say, depart from me. And Louis lost it. Absolutely, I'm a good man, I'm a good man.

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And he knew it was a lie, but he left.

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He ran.

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Ran away. And his wife begged him to go back the next day. And he did. And Billy Graham, and I love this story so much. Remember this for next week's gratitude segment. This next sermon, and you can find it online, it's called, it's about communism. It's entitled, the problems with communism or something.

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I can find it, one more second, I'll find it during the break. It's not Satan's religion, that's not the one. Why God Allows Communism to Flourish, that's it. So you can hear the real sermon. Why God Allows Communism to Flourish, 1949. So he's talking about God's power and God's creation

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and God and beauty and he's talking about the beautiful California sky and how God made that and how God knows the numbers of hairs on your head and knows when a sparrow falls and loves you even more and all that. And in the midst of this beautiful sermon, Louis had this flashback. And he remembered one day when he was on this raft for the 47 days, right?

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And he was dying, but for some reason he was looking up in the sky and the clouds captured him in some way. And he forgot that he was dying and he forgot how hungry he was and he forgot how thirsty he was, and he felt this overwhelming sense of gratitude. Keep in mind, he's on the raft,

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no hope at all of anything, starving. Not like, oh, I'm at an event and I don't like the food trucks, starving. Like, actual starving, dying, being fried to death, sharks around him, but he felt overwhelming gratitude. to.

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And that feeling came back to him. He forgot it. It came back to him. And then Billy Graham said that God works in miracles. And then Louis thought of how when the plane crashed, he was underwater and he was trapped in all these wires and he couldn't get out.

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And then all the wires vanished. And he was able to get to the surface and he thought back of how the Japanese plane flew overhead and riddled him with bullets but not one hit him and once again he had a yet another flashback when he said He whispered One time on the raft

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He wasn't religious at all. He didn't know God at all. He said if you save me, I will serve you forever He said that he remembered he forgot he said it he remembered he said that That was it he went home poured all the alcohol down the drain and for the first night since Did not dream about the bird and the bird never entered his dreams

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ever again

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and for the first time in his life or I should say for the first time post-war he started to think not of everything that happened to him but of all the things look all the terrible things but of all the things that happened to save him. And he thought not of all of his misery, but of all the things that, and all the people that intervened to keep him alive.

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And totally changed his mindset. And the bird tried to take away his humanity, but instead, now, he was born again. I'll leave you to read the book and you can finish the rest because there's more to the story even after that. He did make it back to Japan, I'll tell you that.

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But I just think of that, I mean,

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there's so many unbelievable things. Like, so just to wrap up, remember last week we talked about Barack Obama's speech to the college graduates of Morehouse College back in 2013 and he said, hey, there's people all around the world today who have it way worse than you, you've ever had it.

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And people in our history have had it way worse than you've ever had it. So stop complaining. No one cares about anything in your life. No one cares about the discrimination. That's Barack Obama back in,

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no one cares about discrimination that you've had. No one cares about the tough things you've had in your life. You just suck it up and let's go.

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Almost no one has ever had it worse than Louie Zamperini.

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He made it out the other side. If you want to read the book, you can check out,

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there's more to the story, but I will say

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this one thing he did. He started a boys camp. He bought this camp with no money, it was a total dump, renovated it himself, and made this camp for troubled youths for boys, for boys who were on the wrong path and they went swimming and horseback riding and camping and mountain biking and they were back in nature they were

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back in God's creation and who knows how many lives he saved doing that as well come on that's an incredible story that's as good as it gets so remember that story next time your kids complain that they're hungry that story next time your kids complain that they're hungry kids complain that they're hungry.

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Think about it like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone or was it Home Alone 2? No, Home Alone 1 when he got a cheese pizza. He said, I got a large cheese pizza and it's all for me. That's you with the holy days that are in your house. You can do whatever you want. So celebrate All Saints Day if you want. 

So I was reading yesterday a sermon by Jonathan Edwards called The Reality of Conversion. And he was, in this sermon, articulating all the reasons why we know conversion exists. What is conversion? Of course, we'll go from a unbeliever to a believer, being born again, as we would put it today. And one of his proofs for the reality of conversion is martyrs. And I just want to read like three different paragraphs here about the existence of martyrs and how this creates evidence of such a thing as a change of nature by a supernatural power in their enduring such 

suffering for a good conscience and the glory of Christ. A very great alteration in life and manifestations of holiness of heart in doings is a great argument of a change of heart. " He said, many thousands, yay, and millions of professing Christians that have had this trial have acquitted themselves so under it as to give the most remarkable evidences of a supernatural love to God. and a weanedness from the world, like they've weaned themselves off the world. For they have been tried with the most extreme sufferings and cruel tortures that man could invent. I'll give you one of those in a minute. And the sufferings of many of them have been lengthened out to a very great length. Their persecutors have kept them under trying torments that if possible, they might conquer them by wearing out of their spirits. But yet they have rather chosen undergo all and have held out in suffering unto death rather than to deny Christ. Such has been their faith, and their love, and their courage, that their enemies could not by any means overcome it, though they had him in their hands to execute their will upon them. And very often they have suffered all with the greatest composedness of spirit, yea, and with cheerfulness. And many of them have appeared exceedingly joyful under the torments, and have glorified in tribulations." Amazing. Many have braved it out through an extraordinary stoutness and ruggedness of spirit. But so it has been with multitudes of all sort. 

Many that have been under the decays of old age, long after the strength of nature has begun to fail. And they were in that state wherein our want very much to lose their natural courage. And also women, even children, and persons of delicate and weak constitution, such as these have by their faith and love to Christ and courage in his cause conquered the greatest and cruelest monarchs of the earth. In all the most dreadful things that their power could inflict upon them, they have rather chosen to suffer such affliction than in the least to depart from their dear Lord and Savior. " These are just the parts I've underlined. Whoever reads the histories that give an account of these things must needs acknowledge, if they don't put out the light of reason, like if you're not a total fool, that those persons had something in them far above nature. 

that they were influenced by some supernatural and powerful principle that men naturally don't experience. And many of those that have thus patiently and joyfully suffered such things before their change were very loose, vain persons, contenders of all religion. Many that were cruel persecutors themselves have been seized with conviction and have then at last borne witness to Christ and his gospel by a patient suffering his will, a remarkable instance in which they have been blessed, which we have in the blessed apostle Paul. He goes and he talks about the state that people were in before they were saved. And yet here they are now. And one more part here. 

I'll end on this. I'll end on this line. It requires something above nature to make a man love an unseen object. So as cheerfully to lose all things and suffer all things for his sake, nature doesn't work in that manner. It may work so as to cause men to have a strong love to an object that they've seen with their bodily eyes and have conquered and conversed with. But it is beyond the power of nature to beget such a love to an object that they are told of. 

of which they are informed that he lived on earth many hundreds of years ago and now lives in an invisible world. Nature may operate so as to cause transient affections about that which they are so informed of, but not to knit the heart so strongly to an unseen object as to have such great effect as these. Only some mighty work of God alone hearts, changing their natures and infusing principles that strengthen them and carry them far beyond the strength of nature would be possible. Great stuff there from Jonathan Edwards. Now, if that's true for us, if we've been converted, if we've been saved, if we've been born again, do we act like it? 

Do we celebrate it? Are we grateful for it? Do we live like it? Do we tell people about it? Do we tell people about our salvation as if we were going to spend eternity in hell? But instead now we're going to spend eternity in heaven. 

Now it'd be nice if our society were a Christian society again. And we had these holy days set up around the calendar to remind us about what's really important. All the holy days that we had on the calendar have been secularized or eliminated entirely or secularized and become meaningless. So again, I just want to encourage you to make these holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, whatever you want them to be, whatever they should be, whatever they used to be. You don't have to be sucked in by the culture to make them pagan. It's your home. 

It's your family. And I would argue that if we stopped wasting our time with Halloween and made it All Saints Day again, we'd live in a better country. Because people would know the stories. They would know the stories of the people we should be emulating. We'd have heroes. Reminders of what's important. 

I always think of the story Perpetua. I'm gonna share two here, but Perpetua I gotta share. I share it every time. She lived in the year 203 under a brutal Roman emperor. She refused to worship the emperor and she was thrown in jail. She was to be executed at the next gladiator games. 

And her father visited her and begged her, pleaded with her to recant her foolish Christian beliefs, this invisible God and do it for you. You're only 22 and do it for your baby. You have a full life and you need to be here for this baby. So just do it, just recant, even if you don't really believe, or if you do believe, but you just say you don't, just so you can be free and live. Just recant it so you can get out of prison, give up your pride. Just say you're not a Christian, you'll be set free, and then you can continue to do whatever you want, but just say whatever you need to say. 

And she refused. In prison, her father visited her in prison, and she said, Father, do you see that bowl there? What is that? He said, that's a bowl. She said, of course. Could it be called by any other name than what it is? 

She said, well, neither can I. Be called anything other than what I am. 

A Christian. Couldn't lie, even when it led to her death. Which it did. at the Gladiator Games. She couldn't lie. What if we had All Saints Day, a day where we celebrated the martyrs of the Christian faith? 

What if this day was, once again, about heroes, martyrs? What if we changed the stories that we told in our country? There was an emperor in Rome, Julian. One of his main goals was to decrease the influence of Christianity in culture. He wanted to water it down. He wanted to create division in it. 

He wanted, he did, bring in more paganism. In schools, no Christianity. was able to be taught. Also, Christians couldn't be taught the classical texts, like the pagan texts, which means they couldn't rise up into the higher classes of power and influence. He just wanted to keep Christians down as much as he could. His goal was to marginalize Christians. 

So he would do some things, like a lot of unjust things, obviously. One would be if a Christian broke a minor law, then they'd get the book thrown at him. But if pagans committed crimes against Christians, then they'd get a slap on the wrist. We see versions of this today. There's nothing new under the sun. Everyone in our culture should know the name Artemis. 

He was a military leader, was a Christian. Two priests were tormented and executed, or so they were, they were exiled and then they died when they were exiled. And Artemis said that the emperor was possessed by Satan. The emperor didn't like this. So the emperor got him, tortured him. They pressed him between two rocks. 

It was so horrible. His bowels squeezed out and his eyes popped out of his head, but he lived. momentarily, but he lived. He lived enough where he had another chance to denounce Jesus, but he didn't. So the emperor beheaded him. I just think of a society that knows that story and thinks on that story, meditates on that story, lifts up that type of conviction. 

Hebrews 12 21 says, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. How would we act if we knew that these great martyrs were watching? They are our example. They are our model. 

And if we don't lift them up, how will people know what to do? 

We wouldn't. We'd flounder. We'd be tossed to and fro. And we have been. But we can't anymore. We're called for more. 

The truth is out there. The answers are out there. The models are out there. The martyrs are out there. In your home, in your family, let's bring them back. Make sure that your kids know the martyrs of our Lord. MikeSlater . Locals . com. Transcript commercial free. It's on the website MikeSlater .

 

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Why Are There 42 Million Americans On Food Stamps?
Politics By Faith, October 28, 2025

This is not a sign of a healthy nation. How can we reverse the trend of more people relying on the government dole and return to the way God wants us to help each other?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. 42 million Americans are on food stamps. That's not a sign of a strong, healthy country. We talked earlier today about creeds. AOC gave a speech where she talked about how there's countless creeds in America. 

The immigrants and people who speak hundreds of different languages. And I'm like, that's not good. The crowd was cheering. There was a Zohan rally. And they're like, oh, it's amazing, 100 different languages. And I'm like, hmm, that sounds like the Tower of Babel. 

Yay, we can't communicate with each other. Yay, none of us believe the same thing about important principles of life and governance. Yay, I think. That doesn't sound good. So then we read from this thing called the American ethos. It was about 100 years ago. 

This person says, the American ethos, I do not choose, excuse me, the American creed, I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon if I can. I seek opportunity, not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk, to build and to dream, fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. 

I will not trade freedom for beneficence, nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid. to think and act for myself, to enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this, with God's help, I have done. these 42 million Americans. And I don't want to be cruel. 

I don't want to be mean. But this is not good. One in eight Americans are on food stamps. Now I'm taking a pretty moderate approach here. I'm not saying we got to get rid of entirely. Maybe one day it'd be great if we could get, and I used to make this argument, it'd be great if we could get to the utopian ideal, which is where when someone's down on their luck, first you go to family. 

If you don't have any, you go to friends. And if you don't have any, then you go to church. And if that doesn't work or whatever, then there's other charities, faith, you know, Christian based, like rescue mission, stuff like that. And then like way down the list would be food stamps, but it wouldn't even exist at that point. It wouldn't be necessary. I think one reason why people don't want to go to church is because church requires a relationship and people don't want relationships because the person giving the charity may say, Hey, maybe you should stop doing drugs, or maybe you should make these other changes in your life. 

And people don't want to hear it. They just want the anonymity of getting the free money. So you can continue to live in this way that's clearly not going well. Another benefit of having church be the main means of charity is you don't just get regular water. You get a water where you'll never be thirsty again. People want government cheese. 

When if you go to a church, you'll get a lot more than your regular old bread. Charity through a church is a blessing for everyone. And food stamps are a track for everyone. But people don't want to go to a church because again, relationships, accountability, better to just get it for free in the mail. Better for what? 

Of course. 

So I'm taking a pretty middle of the road approach here. And I think for the next few decades, probably, we should limit food stamps to the elderly, the disabled, and people with an IQ under 80 who can't hold a job. IQ under 80, Jordan Peterson talks about this a lot. You can't fold a paper into thirds to put it in an envelope. That's what that IQ is. 

And everyone else, you gotta get to work. It's probably 60 % of people on food stamps is a combination of fraud and able -bodied adults who can work but don't. Probably 60%. So we'll say 20 million Americans are elderly, disabled, and otherwise unable to hold a job. 20 million. That's a pretty... 

Am I a horrible person for saying, I only want to give food stamps to 20 million Americans? I think if we do that for a while, then maybe, and we change a lot of other things in our culture, in our country, then I think maybe we can start to get to that ultimate ideal. But right now we're nowhere even close. Now we did talk on the radio. And we're going to do more on this tomorrow because someone sent me a article written by John Stuart Mill, or an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1861 about universal suffrage. And it's very funny because this is 1861. 

This was 60 years before women had a right to vote. So this John Stuart Mill, very progressive guy, says, no, everyone should have a right to vote. Everyone should be allowed to vote. Women, laborers, low -income people, everyone should be allowed to vote. Unless, of course, you're on welfare. If you're on government dole in any way, then no, like definitely. 

And he also said, unless you can read, if you can't read, then obviously you can't vote. He went through all these exceptions that would pretty much accept, exempt or remove everybody's right to vote in America. He said, if you've ever been, if you've ever had bankruptcy, you can't vote. If you're in debt, you can't vote. So like no one in America would be allowed to vote. today if this progressive John Stuart Mill had his way a long time ago. 

But we presented this question of if you, just in an effort to shake this up and try to turn the ship around, if you're on specifically food stamps, you can't vote in federal elections. Again, I know there's problems, there's pros and cons to this, and I get it. I mean, you're still human, you're still a person, you're still all these things, you're still a citizen, but you can't vote in federal elections. So we brought this up as just something to think about. And then John Stuart Mill said the exact same thing back in 1861. But here's what I want to talk about on today's show on Politics by Faith, different than what we do on the radio. 

One last thing, someone wrote on Twitter, they said, my mom is disabled, 78 years old. She would die without food benefits. Oh, wow. Do you hear yourself? Your mom would die without food stamps? Your 78 year old disabled mother would die without food stamps? 

Feed your mom. Feed your mom. Honor your parents by feeding them goodness. All right, here's what I'm talking about here. Isaiah 58. Last night, I was reading a sermon by Jonathan Edwards on Isaiah 58. 

I'm not done with it. So maybe we'll do a part two of this when I'm done with Jonathan Edwards' words on it. But let's run through Isaiah 58. It's fascinating. It's about hypocritical religious observances versus true God -pleasing worship and action. That's what Isaiah 58 is about. 

And this opening section here is entitled, Why Do Our Prayers Go Away? And one of the reasons why our prayers go unanswered is because of our own sin. Isaiah 115 says, When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. This is God talking. I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen. 

Your hands are full of blood. Isaiah 59 verse one, behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save or his ear dull that it cannot hear. He's like, well, I'm able to do whatever I want people. Don't don't. I'm not answering your prayers because I'm not able to don't be fooled. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. 

Adam Clark in 1823, he said, how can any nation pretend to fast or worship God at all or dare to profess that they believe in the existence of such a being? while they carry on the slave trade, and traffic in the souls, blood, and bodies of men. O you most criminal of knaves, and worst of hypocrites, cast off at once the mask of your religion, and deepen not your endless perdition by professing the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, while ye continue in this traffic. " Of course, this applies to abortion today. The fasting in Isaiah 58 that's hypocritical is a fasting that You know, you're fasting to hurt your enemies, or you're fasting for selfish needs, or you're fasting to, the scriptures say, make your voice heard on high so to glorify yourself. This is no good. 

So what's true worship? Verse six, is this not the fast that I have chosen, colon, to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry? and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out when you see the naked that you cover him and not hide yourself from your own flesh? Loose the bonds of wickedness. Don't oppress others. 

Undo heavy burdens. Break every yoke. So stop oppressing others, but then actively love others, right? So stop doing the bad things and then share your bread with the hungry. So I know, hopefully you sense the pivot here. So my opening of this podcast is about, the receivers of the welfare. 

And now Isaiah 58 is talking about the givers of charity. And what happens when you serve others? First, it should be done for its own sake. But then when you do serve others, then your light shall break forth like the morning. Your healing shall spring forth speedily and your righteousness shall go before you. The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. 

Then you shall call and the Lord will answer. How about that? So why are my prayers not going answered? Well, here's why. Okay, fine. What if I do that? 

Well, then you shall call and the Lord will answer. You shall cry and he will say, here I am. If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness, if you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness and your darkness shall be as the noon day. It's great. The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your soul in drought and strengthen your bones. You shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. 

Those from among you shall build the old waste places. You shall rise up, raise up from the foundations of many generations. You shall be called the repairer of the breach. the restorer of streets to dwell in. Wow. If we fast and pray and live a life of righteousness and love, then our prayers will be answered. 

And of course, if you're living that life. then your prayers will be in line with God's will. But I love this line, last part, those from among you shall build the old waste places. So if you do all these good things and you will build the old waste places. Wow, we need a lot of rebuilding today. It's a broken world. 

There are breaches all over the place, but you shall be called the repairer of the breach. There's brokenness, broken homes, broken hearts, a lot of waste places. We need to rebuild a lot. It needs to be a lot of rebuilding. There used to be protections. around sacred institutions or aspects of our life, the family. 

And those have been, protections have been torn down. Therefore the institutions have been torn down. We need to build up the protections again. We need to reclaim these waste places. And I'll leave you with two more scriptures that are convicting to me to be more generous. 1 Timothy 5, 8, anyone who does not provide for their relatives and especially for their own household has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 

Whoa. In Proverbs 19, 17, whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord and he will reward them for what they have done. MikeSlater . Locals . com for the transcript of this episode and no commercials. MikeSlater .

 

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Thank You, Pete Hegseth: Holy Warrior
Politics By Faith, October 24, 2025

The Atlantic wrote a hit piece on Pete Hegseth, calling him a Holy Warrior. She said his introduction of Christian principles is a departure from how previous military leaders have led the military. She's wrong. And if he can lead an organization of 3 million people this way, we have no excuse.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I want to expand on something we talked about in the show this morning. Actually, something we're going to do next week. We'll talk about gambling, sports gambling. It was an incredible hour of the show. 

We briefly mentioned the sports gambling scandal with the head coach of the Trailblazers and all that stuff. But I quickly wanted to pivot into sports gambling and how prevalent this is among people and how dangerous it is. And I don't think it should be allowed because I don't think laws Laws, well, here's the question. Are laws here to protect our freedom or are they here to promote human flourishing? Think about that. Let's table that till the weekend, till next week, over the weekend. 

Are laws here to promote freedom or to protect freedom or promote human flourishing? It's an important question. It'll lead us to two, down two very different paths. Gambling does not promote human flourishing. Let's leave that there. So we'll chat more about that one next week. 

But it was a great hour because we had all these people call in who were gambling addicts, lost everything. And they all said they weren't. Here they are years later and they're not upset at the money they lost. Although hundreds of thousands, one person was a million bucks in gambling. It's not the money they lost, it's the time. And I asked one guy, you know, what's a thing you miss that you regret? 

He said, the birth of my daughter. It was a powerful moment. This forced gambling is a bad thing. So we'll talk about that next week. I want to share this first. The Atlantic wrote an article about Pete Hexeth called Holy Warrior. 

Pete Hexeth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon. I love this. The fundamentalist interpretation. It's like THE interpretation. I guess it's opposed to the LGBTQIA plus trans -inclusive interpretation of Christianity that exists. But by fundamentalist, she means what the Bible says. 

So she went to a sermon that Doug Wilson gave and Pete Hegseth was in the front row. Although Wilson's Christ or chaos approach to spirituality is interesting enough, I like that Christ or chaos. That's great. The reason I'd come this morning is that I wanted to better understand what Hegseth saw in him. Unlike the 72 year old preacher, Hegseth heads a force of 3 million service members and civilians whose mission, a secular mission, is to keep the nation secure. So she believes that in no way are Christians allowed to introduce their ethos into their profession. 

or leadership or organizations that they run. But the left must. The left must infuse their religion into everything. And it is all a religion over there on the left. Black Lives Matter, trans, whatever it is. It has to be inserted into every single thing. 

They taught transgenderism to kindergartners for the love of Pete. We saw what they did. We're onto them now. And now we're doing it. And there's no holding back. The point I would like to make here is that Christianity has always been a part of our war department's ethos. 

This is the key to her whole article here. She goes into a bunch of examples of how Pete Hegseth is a Christian. All of this is a departure from how previous US presidents and military leaders have understood the intersection of faith and duty for generations. Although America's armed forces have always made space for religion, going back to the Battle of Bunker Hill, that place is a circumscribed one, entrusted primarily to several thousand chaplains responsible for attending to troops of their own faith and facilitating observance by those of other traditions. Prayers may be abundant in the foxholes, but commanders typically do not dictate matters of spirituality. 

" Totally wrong. By the way, she said religion is a circumscribed one. I mean, something's restricted within limits, but like outside of a circle circumference, it's outside of, right? So like we'll allow it, but it's severe, strict limits outside of what we're really here for. Totally not true. Now she brought up the battle of Bunker Hill. 

So I'm going to go as my evidence that this is wrong to the battle of Bunker Hill. There's a book written by J . T. Hedley. He's a historian. He wrote this around the hundredth anniversary of America. 

So 1876, it's called the chaplains and clergy of the revolution. Let's read a couple things here. As before hostilities commenced, there was scarcely a military muster, military gathering, at which the clergy were not present, but they were very circumscribed and kept under strict limits as to what they were on some occasion saying, behold, God himself is with us for our captain and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry the alarm. That's second Chronicles 13 12. It was to be expected when war broke out. They would be found in the ranks of the rebels, that's us, the colonists, urging forward what they had so long proclaimed as a religious duty. 

The first outbreak at Lexington and Concord gave them no opportunity to exhibit their zeal officially. It happened too fast. So some shouldered their muskets and fought like cocks. 

soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill. 

Among these were, and then he lists a couple ministers, who showed that clergy could fight as well as pray. It's great. I didn't bring up Bunker Hill. She brought it up. So here I am telling you about what happened with the tightly, very strictly, tightly circumscribed preachers, clergy at Bunker Hill. Yeah, right. 

They were deeply, intimately, profoundly involved. The militia troops were also religious. and their respect for the opinions of the clergy unbounded. To avoid the expense of chaplains, the clergy in the neighborhood of the camp near Bunker Hill were invited by Congress to perform divine service, 13 of them every Sabbath, a request they punctually complied with. Three or four chaplains, however, were attached to the army and prayed with the troops every morning on the common. " I love that. 

Like, hey, listen, we're not going to spend money on chaplains because we're kind of broke here, but why don't you just go grab some local preachers from all the churches nearby? Just knock on the door of the churches and have them come out. And they all did. Some of them grabbed guns and fought. One of the most important chaplains was David Avery. Washington saw in him the embodiment of all those qualities he wished in a chaplain, intrepid and fearless in battle, unwearied. 

And again, just to go back to the Atlantic article, what Pete Hexeth is doing is very, very different, a sharp departure from what the secretary of the military has always been, the total return. Intrepid and fearless in battle, unwearied in his attentions to the sick and wounded, not only nursing them with care, but faithful to their souls. as though they were members of his own parish. With a love for his country so strong that it became a passion, cheerful under privations and ready for any hardship, never losing in the turmoil of war. camp that warm and glowing piety, which characterizes the devoted minister of God. He rode with George Washington, ate meals with George Washington, close friends with George Washington. 

He's Pete Hex, that's Doug Wilson, David Avery. And he wrote in his journal, again, I didn't bring this example up. She could have mentioned any other time in history. She mentioned Battle of Bunker Hill. David Avery wrote in his journal, early in the morning, the enemy attacked our entrenchments, but was driven back. After repeated trials, they succeeded in dislodging the troops. 

In the retreat, many of Colonel's men were killed. My dear friend, Dr. Warren, was shot dead. I stood on a neighboring hill, the name of that hill was Bunker, with hands uplifted, supplicating the blessing of heaven to crown our unworthy arms with success. This is the reliving of Exodus 17 .8, when the Amalekites and the Israelites were battling and Moses was holding his arms up in the air. And as long as Moses' arms were in the air, the Israelites were winning. So Aaron and Hurrick came over and held up his arms and Joshua went on to defeat the Amalekites. 

This is what David Avery was doing. To us infantile Americans, unused to the thunder and carnage of battle, the flames of Charlestown before our eyes, the incessant play of cannon from their shipping from Boston and their wings in various cross directions together with the terror of the field, exhibiting a scene most awful and tremendous. But amid the perils of the dread encounter, the Lord was our rock and fortress. Oh yeah, but no, a military never had any religious tradition, ever. Only now after Pete Exe. Robert E. Lee. 

an incredible man. He would always attend prayer services, always attend church, no matter what. And he said to his troops, he said, soldiers, let us humble ourselves before the Lord, our God. By the way, just imagine if Pete Hexeth said this. I mean, he probably would, and maybe already has or will, but just imagine when this happens and the left would just freak out. Let us humble ourselves before the Lord, our God, asking through Christ the forgiveness of our sins. 

beseeching the aid of the God of our forefathers in defense of our homes and our liberties, thanking him for his past blessings and imploring their continuance upon our cause and our people. Allahu Akbar. All praise the monkey God. No, no, no, not that last part didn't happen. It was praying to God in the name of Jesus. I love this from Washington Post. 

Talks about what Pete's like behind closed doors. Several people told me that he's talked about having prayed over personal decisions. He's praying about personal decision. What a weirdo. And once called for a group prayer before an airstrike. Love it. 

This reporter then said, Hegseth has invoked George Washington as a kindred spirit. Washington was famously private in his faith, and rather than infusing the American government in its infancy with his beliefs, he stood for religious freedom. That's not true. George Washington's farewell address. Again, she brought up these examples. I'm not cherry picking anything. 

This isn't a random letter that George one time sent to his wife. This is his stinking farewell address. Everyone in school always talks about entangling alliances. In his farewell address, he said, I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you in his holy protection and that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another. and for their fellow citizens of the United States. And finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the divine author of our blessed religion. 

That's God. And without a humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation. He's talking about Jesus there. Yeah, George Washington here never said the word God. He's a divine author of our blessed religion. He's not talking about Hinduism. 

And he never said the word Jesus. Not in the farewell address. But he's talking about the humble invitation. That's Jesus. Farewell address. But he was very private about it. 

George Washington was not private about his faith. That's a lie we've been told to get us to be quiet about our faith. The Muslims want to blast their call to prayer across America five times a day. 

That is not quiet in their faith. 

But we're expected to be. Not anymore. Thank you to Pete Hegseth for being an example. Her point was, can you believe he's doing this in an organization of three million people? All the more encouragement to the rest of us. If he can do it in an organization of three million people, it's ours. 

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