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Separation of Church and State is a lie.
Politics by Faith, June 20, 2024
June 20, 2024

Don't let anyone get away with this misconception again. Thomas Jefferson did NOT mean that the church will have no influence in government. He meant that the government will have no control over the affairs of the church. We got it completely backward.


Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Thanks for being here. So Louisiana just passed a law that says the Ten Commandments have to be posted in every single classroom in the state, including in colleges. And we'll have to just freak it out. So we did a segment on this on Breitbart News Daily.

I just want to present the whole segment to you here and please arm yourself with these facts and never let anyone, anyone ever get away with saying that separation of church and state was meant or intended to clear all Christian influence out of public life and even out of government life. That is so absurd and I'll hopefully fully and thoroughly debunk it right here. The very short of it. Separation of church and state. It was not meant to keep the church out of government. It was meant to keep the government out of church. Here's the full story about the separation

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of church and state. I want to start off this hour with this though, Louisiana, first state country to mandate that the Ten Commandments be placed in every school classroom. Like it used to be. But I guess it was never mandated in the past. We just did it. Everyone just did it because we were a Christian nation.

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Just as we were founded on. So here's what it says in Louisiana. A poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in large easily readable font that's good you got to put the easy you know someone can like put it in Wingdings like there it is it's just in Wingdings easily readable comic sans in all public classrooms from kindergarten to state-funded universities this is

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great so it's going to be sued into oblivion, of course. And the governor said, I can't wait to be sued. The posters, which will be paired with a four-paragraph context statement describing how the Ten Commandments were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries, must be placed in classrooms by the start of 2025. The posters can't be paid for with state funds.

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So they're getting around one of the one of the arguments is gonna be made so I can only be paid for by donations so what what does each poster cost four dollars maybe like should be like 50 cents but knowing it's the government I'll chip in four bucks for for a poster the law also authorizes but does not require the display of other items in K through 12 schools including the Mayflower Compact, which was signed by the Pilgrims,

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the Board of the Mayflower, often referred to as America's first constitution. That'd be fun to go over. We should talk about that one. The Declaration of Independence, Northwest Ordinance, which established a government in the Northwest Territory

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in present-day Midwest, and created a pathway for admitting new states to the Union. So the court decided this issue back in 1980. And it was in Kentucky. The school was in Kentucky, it was a 5-4 decision that the Ten Commandments served no secular purpose and was only a religious resource and therefore

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constituted a law respecting an establishment of religion. And it's high time we revisit that absurd decision, just like we've revisited many Supreme Court decisions over time. We're now at the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education so that's that's great so we can we can revisit Supreme Court decisions. They're not etched in stone. See what I did there? Zach that was a that was a Ten That's good.

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I just want to make sure you caught it.

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Are you not on our Raw Dog Comedy Channel? Take that, cut that, put that over on Raw Dog Comedy. Hey, you think this is funny? Check out Breitbart News Daily. Comedy like this. So listen, of course this is good.

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If you, and of course this is nothing to freak out about, that's the other thing, if you walk into the House of Representatives, there are 23 marble reliefs of different figures all around the room of different people related to the development of law. And the first one, right over the door when you walk in, so you walk in, if you ever walk into the house of representatives chamber and look up look right behind you There's a relief of the main guy Moses

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There he is that's the guy right there in the halls of Congress So obviously I'm for this and let me tell you why first about it's a first of all It's about high time that Christians go on the offense and stop being fooled into silence, stop being hoodwinked by this separation of church and state nonsense which everyone has backwards, I'll explain in just a minute. But Christians walked away from the public arena. We removed our religion and it was immediately replaced with many other pagan religions.

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What do I mean pagan religions? I don't know exhibit a we're currently in the middle of pride month There's a pagan religion right there. You don't think that's a religion of course. It's a religion. We left they filled it in I'm against this law I'm against this law Because it doesn't also require the beatitudes be placed in every single classroom doesn't go nearly far enough. Ten Commandments, good start.

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And don't come at me with this hypothetical, well, Slater, what if Buddhists want their dumb Buddha sayings on the wall? We don't live in a Buddhist nation. If the founders were Buddhist, then we could talk. If we were founded as a Buddhist nation, we'll have a

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conversation. If we were living in Sri Lanka, then yes, I would expect a statue of a fat guy in every classroom. All right? But we don't. So that's a stupid hypothetical. What if the Buddhists? Now we got to let the Buddhists. No, you don't. Well, now you got to let the Satanists. No, you don't. You don't have to now do that.

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Here's what the poster says. So hide your children.

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Hide your children. I'm going to quote the Ten Commandments here.

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Just so you know. Just so you know exactly what's in every... You know what we're talking about here, right?

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You just hear...

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So that the media, they don't tell you things.

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They don't tell you the things. I've read all these articles and none of the articles have a link to what is actually put up on the wall. Right? They don't have any context. They don't have any story, they don't tell you the thing that you need to know. But hide your kids, I'm going to read the text. By the way, I saw a video of a mom, a cool mom, with maybe her, probably Johnny's,

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probably four years old, old enough to know what he's doing, but young enough that they still think it's cute. And they were singing the Please Please Please song. Producer Zach, I know you're a big pop star. I got, who sings Please Please Please?

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I'll have to look it up.

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Sabrina Carpenter. There you go, Sabrina Carpenter. And that's like the big pop song right now. And the kids dropping F-bombs. And everyone thinks it's hilarious. So, that's great.

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But come at someone with, come at that same person with the Ten Commandments and they're like whoa, whoa vulgar vulgar I got children in the car. All right The text shall read as follows the Ten Commandments I am the Lord thy God Thou shalt have no other gods before me thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain

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Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor

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his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbors.

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There you go.

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It's got to be in every classroom in Louisiana. All right, I got, which by the way, that used to be in every classroom in America not that

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long ago.

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All right, I got two arguments. I was watching a debate the other day between Michael Knowles, who I like a lot, big fan of Michael Knowles, big Michael Knowles fan. I appreciate him very much. And there was a debate between him and this famous British atheist guy who I guess is becoming more and more popular. His name is Alex O'Connor.

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I think. Yes, Alex O'Connor. Alright, so it's Michael Knowles and Alex O'Connor. And the question was, is America a Christian nation? Or was America founded as a Christian nation or something and this atheist guy brought up Thomas Jefferson and his separation of church and state and Michael Knowles who I love missed it totally missed it and I I don't make

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this argument really much anymore because I think everyone's sick of hearing it but apparently we need to keep making it because I guess not everyone knows it. So I'm going to do it in full here. And I'm going to read it in full because we're adults. And it's serious exam and there's no commercials really. So we have plenty of time.

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But I don't want to insult you. I think the media is insulting. Every time I read some article about how, oh you know, to make your reels more successful, they need to be quicker and faster. And it's like, particularly adult people can think, we can like read a thing and, no, no, cut to the chase. All right, so here's the back.

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This is the story of separation of church and state. All right, everyone's got it backwards. Here's the story. There's a letter written by the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist Association. They were a religious sect that was persecuted by the Congregationalists at the time. They were the Puritans, basically. That were the majority in Connecticut. So Connecticut, the majority of people there

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were Puritans. Yale was a Congregationalist seminary in 1701. So this is a Congregationalist state, Connecticut. But you got these Baptists who are there and the Baptists are like, hey, we were being persecuted here by our fellow Connecticutians. And so they wrote a letter, the Danbury Baptists wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, the new president, got this new president in here and these Baptists were worried that Thomas Jefferson, who's now in charge of the federal government was

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going to impose religious laws and mandates on them or I should say laws and mandates on their religion they were worried that Thomas Jefferson was gonna come down and crack down on them well now we got it coming from all sides we got it coming from everyone here in Connecticut and now we're gonna get it in Washington as well. So they wrote a letter. They're very worried. They didn't want the state imposing on their religion. So here's the letter. I'll quote it in full. Dear sir,

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among the many millions in America and Europe who rejoice in your election to office, that's a lot of a lot of this stuff in the beginning, but it's good. We embrace the first opportunity which we have enjoyed in our collective capacity since your inauguration to express our great satisfaction in your appointment to the Chief Magistrate of the United States. And though our mode of expression may be less courtly and pompous than what many others clothe their addresses with, we beg you, sir, to believe that none are more sincere.

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Our sentiments are uniformly on the side of religious liberty, that religion is at all times the place and matter between God and individuals. That no man ought to suffer a name, person, or effects on account of his religious opinions. That the legitimate power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbor. So we are... so by the way, they're not saying... the Danbury Baptists are not saying, there should be no religion. They're saying like, leave us alone.

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We just want to be left alone. So we are sensible that the president of the United States is not a national legislator. And also sensible that the national government cannot destroy the laws of each state. We'll get to that in a minute.

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But our hopes are strong that the sentiments of our beloved president, which have had such great, I have such genial effect already, like the radiant beams of the sun, will shine and prevail through all these states and all the world, till hierarchy and tyranny be destroyed from the earth. Sir, when we reflect on your past services and see a glow of philanthropy

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and goodwill shining forth in the course of more than thirty years, we have reason to believe that America's God has raised you up to fill the chair of state out of that good which he bears to the millions which you preside over. May God strengthen you for the arduous task which providence and the voice of the people have called you to sustain and support you in your administration against all predetermined opposition of those who wish to rise in wealth and importance on the poverty and subjugation of the people.

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And may the Lord preserve you safe from every evil and shall bring you at last to his heavenly kingdom through Jesus Christ our glorious mediator. Danbury Baptist. There you go. So they're saying, listen, don't impose any religious mandates on us, please. Don't make any laws mandating us. Religion should be between God and an individual. No, we don't want any national laws telling us what to do. Please don't get involved in the affairs of our religion. That's the letter.

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And here's what Thomas Jefferson said. Gentlemen, the affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you're so good as to express towards me on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association gives me the highest satisfaction. My duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interest of my constituents and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those

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duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing. Happy to be your President. Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions. I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared

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that their legislature, the Congress, shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation, the Constitution, in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights.

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Convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties, I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you for yourself and your religious association assurances of my high respect and esteem Thomas Jefferson. You with me? This is the Danbury Baptist saying, hey new president please don't impose on us any laws that interfere with our religion and this is Thomas Jefferson saying, hey Baptist in Connecticut don't worry about it. I will not get involved in the affairs of

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your church in any way at all. You do your thing. There's a wall of separation between me and you. There's a wall of separation between me and you. There's a wall of separation between me, the federal government, and you, the individual and the organization. Don't worry about you being able to practice your religion. The Constitution says that the Congress shall make no law

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creating a national religion for everyone to adhere to. Congress shall make no law establishing a religion. So don't worry about it. We're not going to tell you what you need to do in your church. You're free to practice however you wish. So don't worry about me. There's a wall separating the federal government from you. Got it? What was this exchange not? This exchange was not some atheist association saying,

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Hey, Thomas Jefferson, make sure no Christians ever have anything to do with government at all in any way. And it was not Thomas Jefferson responding, You're right, we should have no religion in any government thing in any way whatsoever. That's not what it was. Separation of church and state means that, Excuse me, let me say it like this.

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It has come to mean, people have misinterpreted, it has been spun backwards to mean, that the church should have nothing to do with the government. But Thomas Jefferson was promising that the state will have nothing to do with the affairs of the church. I'll say it again. 99% of people think that separates the church and state means that the church, that Christians,

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Christians should have nothing to do with government. There should be no Christian displays in public spheres or, you know, no Ten Commandments in the classroom. That the church, that Christians should have nothing to do with government. But Thomas Jefferson was saying that to the church, don't worry, the government will have nothing to do with the affairs of you. You're free to do what you want to do how you want to do it

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the congress shall make no law saying you can't you see the switcheroo it's an old switcheroo totally backwards and if thomas jefferson came back for ten seconds that would be my first question i'm like thomas jefferson what do you mean by separation of church and make it clear

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he's like i already made it clear read the letter And if you need any more evidence than the actual text I just read, by the way, 99% of people think separation of church and state is in the Constitution or in the Declaration. It's not. It's that letter. It's just that one letter he wrote, which with the context couldn't be more clear.

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But if you need any more evidence than what I just read, when the first, so the claim is that the government should have nothing to do with religion or that the religion should When the First Amendment was ratified, each colony or state at this point had their own official religion. So the issue wasn't that states shouldn't have their own official religion or that there shouldn't be an official religion. It was that the federal government can't come up with their own official religion and impose

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that on all the states. Because the Anglicans in Virginia, that was the official religion in Virginia at the time, the Anglicans in Virginia didn't want the Puritans in Massachusetts to mandate that we're all Puritans now, sorry Anglicans we're a puritan country this is the official religion we're now the the congregationalist country and the Anglicans are like well hold on Virginia is an Anglican state you can't you

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federal government that we all created you can't come in here and tell us what religion we have to do have to be see the difference there were already established churches official state religions in every state at the exact passing of our First Amendment. And notice there were no Hindu states. There were no Muslim states. So we can do this all day. I just picked a few of them. This is the Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776, written by George Mason. All men are

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equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, and that it is a mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. So even in the Declaration of Rights, like, hey, you guys can do whatever you want, and obviously we're all going to be Christians. People are like, hey, you know, it's not all about you and you Christians. Look, they say you can do whatever you want to get they were all Christian we're no buddhists here

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so virginia was an anglican state the official state religion like we are in angla it wasn't like oh just a majority of the more anglican none of the official state religion was we are anglican so was new york massachusetts is congregationalist this is chapter 6 article one of their state constitution any person chosen governor the ten governor senate representative and accepting the trust,

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shall before he proceed to execute the duties of his or her office, of his place or office, make and subscribe the following declaration." All right, so here's what you gotta do. You want to be, you want to be governor of Massachusetts, here's what you gotta say. I, insert name here, do hereby, excuse me, do declare that I believe the Christian religion... That's in the Massachusetts Constitution from 1780.

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So you have to vow. So hold on. If these same people who passed the First Amendment were supposed to believe that, oh, no religion in anything at all related to government, those exact same people passed the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780 and their oath of office was I, insert name here, do declare that I believe the Christian religion, those same people did both those things?

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You with me? The same people who wrote the Massachusetts Constitution and also ratified the federal government first amendment? You think they meant, oh, we really meant no religion in government. Delaware had no official religion. Aha! No official religion. All right, well, Well, here's the Delaware State Constitution 1776, Article 22. Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house or appointed to any place or office of trust shall take the following oath.

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You thought the Massachusetts one was tough. I, insert name here, do profess faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his only Son and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed forevermore. This is the state that had no official religion. This was your oath of office I profess faith in God the Father and Jesus Christ his only Son and in the Holy Ghost one God bless it forever more

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and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old Testament and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration that's the opening oath of office if you want to hold any office any public office in Delaware in 1776 and beyond but that but that what they really meant was no religion in politics. That's what they really meant. What are you kidding me?

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Like this debate, was America founded as a Christian nation? Like, okay. Like, what are you talking about? How could you possibly say no? All right, let me say this. Here are some opinions you can have.

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Oh, wait, so you can't tell me what to think. Okay, here's some opinions that you can have. You can say, I wish we weren't founded as a Christian nation. I wish we weren't. Okay, you can have that opinion. You can have the opinion, it was bad that we were founded as a Christian nation. Okay? You can think that, you're wrong, but you can think that. I disagree, but you can think that. You can think it was bad. You can say, we shouldn't be a Christian nation today.

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Okay? I'll debate that. But to have this debate, were we founded as a Christian nation? Yes, of course. What are you talking about? Now you can even say, it's irrelevant that we were founded as a Christian nation. But you can't really, because the justification that people are using to not hang the Ten Commandments

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is the First Amendment. They'll say, oh, the First Amendment says you can't hang the Ten Commandments. Okay, let's talk about the guys who wrote the first amendment. Because look at all these other state constitutions they passed that require you to profess faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ before you become lieutenant governor. Yeah, but they really wanted a separation. Connecticut

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was a congregational state as you said New Hampshire's New Hampshire the student have New Hampshire Constitution 1784 Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience and reason because you're free To do whatever you want Nevertheless no person shall be capable of being elected a senator who is not of the Protestant religion But they were really against they wanted a separation. The same people from New Hampshire who thought that we should have no religion in government

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and you need to be a Protestant in order to be in the state senate. You see how ridiculous that is? For people to think that we weren't a Christian country. This is a good one, this is South Carolina. This is the state constitution that ratified 1778. There is one eternal God and a future state of rewards and punishment. God is publicly to be

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worshipped. The Christian religion is the true religion. That the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are divine inspiration and are the rule of faith and practice. And that it is lawful and the duty of every man being there unto called by those that govern to bear witness to that truth. Oh yeah, but we weren't we weren't a Christian nation. Even though it says in the South Carolina state constitution of 1778 that the Christian

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religion is the one true religion and that God is to be publicly worshipped. But they didn't want any public worship. Look here's Thomas Jefferson. And the argument that I heard, and I don't want to put this guy on blast anymore, but the argument that I heard from this conservative, who I love, was, oh well that was just one guy. Or Thomas Jefferson wasn't the majority opinion.

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Or we as a country didn't go that way. It's like, no, no, no. That's not what Thomas Jefferson meant. Theopsy meant exactly what all these other guys were saying. Let me do one more. Pennsylvania.

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So people will often quote this last line. So this last line in this section of the Pennsylvania state constitution says, they were Quaker, of course, and no further or other religious test shall ever hereafter be required of any civil officer or magistrate in the state. So there's Pennsylvania saying no religious tests.

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But they leave out the line before it. Section 10 Each representative, before they proceed to business, shall take the following oath. I do believe in one God, the Creator and Governor of the universe, the Rewarder of the good and Punisher of the wicked, and I do acknowledge the scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration." You have to make that oath and then no

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further or other religious test shall ever be hereafter required. But except for that first one, that the Old and New Testaments are written by the Holy Spirit of divine inspiration. All right so that's enough. Knock it off with the are we a Christian nation or not. We were a million percent founded as one. Nothing could be more obvious. We of course have since lost our way and obviously we're under God's judgment now. There's plenty examples of that. Just go to your nearest college

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campus and ask someone what a woman is. They won't even be able to tell you. There's a thousand other examples of how we've lost our way. You can think this is all bad. I wish this weren't the case. We shouldn't be like this anymore. Okay. You can think of those things. But this ridiculous, are we a Christian nation? Of nation. Of course we were and I would argue that the only way back to being a thriving country again is with a revival. Our founding fathers came out of the

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Great Awakening, the first Great Awakening in this country. The second Great Awakening led to the end of slavery. We need a third and pronto. So is putting the Ten Commandments in every classroom against the Constitution? No, of course not. Is putting the Ten Commandments in every classroom going to fix all of our problems? No. Pretty good start.

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We played the clip of Rosie O'Donnell earlier, talking about her transgender ten-year-old, who told her, said, Mommy, gender is infinite. And Rosie O'Donnell's like, where'd you learn that? And the 10 year old said, I just know it. Where do you think she learned it? She learned it in school.

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So pick your religion.

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You may wanna do this like,

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namsy-pamsy, middle of the road,

like, oh, you know, I'm Christian or whatever, but maybe I don't want religion in the classroom. All right, pick one. There is one. There are religions in the classroom. So pick your religion. Do you want the trans gay pride flag in every classroom? Or do you want the Ten Commandments? Pick one. Which way, Western man? Pick one. Because we took the Ten Commandments


and it wasn't replaced with nothing if we're not a Christian nation what are we don't say nothing gotta be something you better pick one you don't pay his will you don't pay his will payments

 

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Exodus 28:34 So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and again another golden bell and a pomegranate.

Exodus 39:23 And little bells of the purest gold, which they put between the pomegranates at the bottom of the tunic round about:

Exodus 39:24 To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate, wherewith the high priest went adorned, when he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Sirach 45:10 He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an ephod, and he compassed him with many little bells of gold all round about,

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October 10, 2025

Good day Brother Slater,

Given your propiquity for History, here’s a Euro-Catholic Christian Feast of Great Fanfare for you and your peeps.

The Salvation of Western Civilization: The Battle of Tours, October 10, 732 A.D.
by Jack Wheeler, October 10, 2022

Gibbon noted that had the Muslims won this day, all of Europe would have been Islamized and Western Civilization would have been extinguished.

https://x.com/RodDMartin/status/1976624966696149365

That's all I got; have a grand and Glorious Columbus Day, you and yours.

Pax Christi in regno Christi

Top Silva 🔝

October 09, 2025

Good day Brother Slater,

Wondering if you have checked out this dialogoue between Ross Douthat of the NYT and Pastor Doug Wilson and if you have any commentary of consequence.

Thanks and may God Bless you and yours.

He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.
Doug Wilson’s political project to “stop making God angry. By ROSS DOUTHAT and VICTORIA CHAMBERLIN 2025-10

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/opinion/doug-wilson-america-religion-theocracy.html

Pax Christi in regno Christi
Top Silva 🔝

Happy All Saints' Day
Politics By Faith, October 31, 2025

It's time for my annual lament as to what our holy days have become. But the good news is, we can reclaim them right now.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. It is October 31st, so it is time for my annual lament about the holiday season and what the holidays have become in our secular pagan country. All of the holy days that we have on our calendar used to be, I should say, all of our holidays that we still have on our calendar used to be holy days. It's a better way of putting it. Thanksgiving started off as a day of prayer and fasting. 

Fasting. Thanksgiving used to be, used to be a day of not eating. And now it's a day of football and gluttony. Christmas was about the birth of Jesus. Now it's Santa and presents. Easter was about the resurrection of Jesus. 

Now it's an Easter bunny and eggs. St. Patrick's day, even it was a day at St. Patrick or Patrick was this guy. He's born in England. It's not even an Irish. And he was abducted and he was put on a slave ship to Ireland. And he spent six years there, six years there. 

And then he escaped to his home country, became a Christian, went back to the people who enslaved him. to spread the gospel to these lost people. And now it's drink green beer and pinch me. And so I was like, this hit me, I think it was like five years ago. And it was around Halloween. I've never really liked Halloween, but it was like, especially meaningless, whatever shred of meaning there even was. 

And I was like, this is really, like, what is this? Like, what is this silly thing? And I looked it up and turned, Halloween is All Hallows Eve. Hollow, meaning sacred. Webster's original dictionary definition, 1828, to make holy. Hollow means to make holy, to consecrate, to set apart for holy or religious use, to devote to holy or religious exercises, to treat as sacred. 

as in our father hallowed be thy name. And Eve, All Hallows Eve, day before All Saints Day. All Hallows Eve, kind of put it together, Halloween. That's where that came from. But what's All Saints Day? I mean, think about this. 

Even Halloween used to be a religious holiday, and now it's pagan. Even worse than pagan, right? It's like satanic in many ways. So I'm talking about All Saints Day. and give you the encouragement that your house can be whatever you want it to be. Your home does not have to be influenced by culture in any way at all. 

You can do anything. It doesn't matter how you grew up. It doesn't matter the things you did when you were a kid or what your parents did. You can do whatever you want. 

You're an adult. 

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. 

MikeSlater . Locals . com. Transcript commercial free on the website MikeSlater .

 

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