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Reclaim The Names
Politics By Faith, January 24, 2025
January 24, 2025

Donald Trump signed an executive order reclaiming Denali as Mt. McKinley and turning the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America. This matters and the Left knows it matters. Having symbols and names that reflect your country’s history is important.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. The point of this podcast has been to take the news of the day and share some truth from the Bible, put it through a biblical lens, because there's nothing new under the sun. It's amazing how much of what we've been going through and are right now, it's all in the Bible.

And the objective of all this was to decrease our anxiety. It always made me feel better knowing that we've been here before and we've made it through before. So it helped with any anxiety that I was feeling and hopefully you as well.

Because when you're anxious, well that's not good. You can't think clearly and anxiety can take you out and we need you. So that's been what this podcast is for the last couple years. But this moment, I'm gonna be honest,

I'm not anxious. Not about anything politically. We're winning. Trump's crushing it. I don't know how long this will last. Hopefully forever.

Right? Why not? The new American golden age. But, at this moment, anxiety is not my big concern. So in this episode, we're going to put a little less emphasis on the anxiety part and a little extra emphasis on the truth.

In this show, we believe in the good, the beautiful, and the true. Of the million things that have happened in just the last few days, this one got a little bit of attention, but I think it deserves a little bit more, because I think it's actually a very big deal. And a sign of many more things to come. And that is the renaming of Denali back to Mount

McKinley. The Associated Press said that they will indeed refer to Denali as Mount McKinley as per Trump's executive order. They said the area lies solely in the United States and as president Trump has the authority to change federal geographical names within the country.

I think that's a little jab at Trump also renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Sounds like the AP will not be honoring that one. We will, though. Mount McKinley is the highest mountain in North America, and President McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo in 1901. It was Obama, back in 2015, who renamed it to Denali, which is what the local peoples called it, meaning the high one. So someone on the Twitter

said, can someone explain to me why the name of a mountain in Alaska is even remotely on the top 10,000 issues facing this country? Who is this for? So this is a form of attack called minimizing and it's when someone acts like what you're doing is so silly and so stupid and the goal is to undermine your zeal for what is good.

And undermine your zeal for what is proper. Like you'll have a conviction about something and their reaction is, Oh, come on, what's the big deal? Doesn't matter. Why do you care so much? To try to get you to loosen up on your conviction. But you shouldn't because things like this actually do matter? And I'll explain to this person who's not asking honestly, but I'll take the time to explain anyway. Why does it matter? Well

first of all it takes one second, so it's not like this is some like major time intensive activity that's going to take the entire term. Like it's done. Second point, if it's not important, why do you care right now? You care because you know it matters. The left is very good at propaganda and iconography as well. And we lived through it, and we've lived through the last few decades, but more recently with

Black Lives Matter and George Floyd making their own statues and defacing and even tearing down our statues. You know this matters. Everyone on the left is like, oh what's the big deal? You know it matters. Language matters. Why did you woke fools change the name of nine military bases just a couple years ago? It's been 21 million

dollars. A lot of confusion. A lot of time actually to change the name of a military base. Why? Because you know language matters what we name things says a lot about who we are and we can't have it be Fort Bragg anymore no no no no the left had a naming Commission right and it wasn't just the military is all over the place like I mean I was in San Diego when this hysteria was going on and they had a naming Commission where they overviewed all the names of all the schools and San

Diego ended up getting rid of Henry Henry Clay Elementary because he owns slaves. Of course, Robert E. Lee Elementary, San Francisco, of course, is even worse in the middle of covid as if there's nothing else to worry about. Right. They renamed 44 different schools and they wanted to get rid of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. They want to rename all of these is a form of conquest over America, over our own history. And they were so ridiculous, they were so zealous that they wanted to get rid of Paul Revere as it was an elementary school. And it was

because they thought that he attacked the Penobscot Indians. But in reality he was a leader of something called the Penobscot Expedition. But that was actually a battle against the British. It wasn't attacking the Indians. It was attacking the British in the area where these Indians lived.

It wasn't attacking the Indians. But they didn't care. It was just, we gotta destroy our history. Okay, so my point is, the left knows this matters. So when Trump comes in and renames a thing, like one thing, oh, how stupid is that? What's the point?

I know, names matter and it's time we reclaim them. Now let's go to the Bible where names matter a lot there too. God had Adam name the animals. That's significant, isn't it? Why didn't God just tell Adam what the name of the animals are? Among other things, this shows that man has a responsibility with accurate language and naming. Psalm 147, He, God, determines the number of the stars.

He gives all of them their names. He names all the stars. Christians know the name Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. This has always bothered me. Well, I shouldn't say it always bothered me because I didn't know. But when I learned that that wasn't their real names, it bothers me that that's what

we still call them. I wish we knew their, I wish we called them by their real names. Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Those were their Hebrew names. But when they were taken captive by King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, they were given new names. So Hananiah means Yahweh is gracious His name was changed to Shadrach which means

Command of Aku who is the moon God So I'm under the command of the moon God see how blasphemous that is Mishael his real name means who is what God is? And that was changed to Meshach, which means, who is as Aku is, the moon god.

Right? So replacing the one true God with these pagan false moon gods. Azariah means, Yahweh has helped. And that was changed to Abednego, which means, slave of the god Nergal, who was the god of death and disease back in Babylon. So you go from a name that honored Yahweh, the honored God, and change it to a name that honors the god of death and disease, Nergal.

So names matter. What we name things matter to the king of Babylon, we're going to rename people in an effort to change their identity. That's why he did that. Strip them of their true identity and give them this new identity. Or at least try. They were unsuccessful as per the rest of the story. We in America, we don't have this association with names like we used to for the most part. I mean there's some people like my fourth son's middle

name is David, named after my dad, right? So we'll do stuff like that. But for the most part, our name, like most people, a lot of people, they give a name just because it sounds good. One of my buddies, his name is totally made up, like his parents just made up a sound.

So we don't have that connection with, like your name actually means something and you have to live up to it. So over time, we've lost sight of the fact that names are very significant. The Israelites, God gave them many different names.

Israelites, Jews, Hebrews, children of Abraham, daughter of Zion, God's chosen people. God renamed Abram to Abraham. He renamed Jacob to Israel. Jesus' name means something. It means God saves or Emmanuel, God with us. You have a name Whatever your name is your parents gave you

But you're gonna get a new name Check out this from Revelation 2 it says to the one who conquers I Will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone With a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it. If you were born again, you still keep your old name. It's just everything else about you is different. As it says in Ephesians 4, put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its

deceitful desires, to be renewed in the spirit of your mind and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. But you keep your name. My name is still Mike. It was before I was a Christian and my name is still Mike. But when I go to heaven I will be given a new name. I love that Revelation 2 when it says to the one who conquers or another translation to the one who overcomes which means you're saved. First John 5 4 says for everyone born of God overcomes the world.

And this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith. So that's 1 John, John wrote Revelation as well. So you overcome the world, you're now in heaven. And when you get there, you get a new name. And that name that you get is your true identity.

I was talking to Miriam about how our names don't really mean that much anymore. My name is Michael. My parents were not thinking, oh, Michael means who is like God or a gift from God. Like they were, right? We don't, we don't put that.

It's like the sound of it. We don't put that cultural emphasis on our names anymore. Other cultures might, but God does. When you go to heaven, your name is who you truly are. And one of the commandments, you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. For the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain."

This is all to say names matter. So do not be discouraged by the people who are trying to trick you by saying they don't matter. They know that they do. Satan knows that words matter. We must understand that truth as well.

There's a guy on the Twitter that I follow that is right about some things sometimes. And he's wrong about this though. He was responding to Dan Crenshaw. Congressman Dan Crenshaw took a picture of Apple Maps. That was his first mistake, Apple Maps.

Who uses Apple Maps, come on. Sorry, this should not be as divisive. Like this, out of this whole podcast, that's gonna be the divisive thing. I was in the car the other day with a buddy who was driving he typed an apple massive. What are you doing? What is that?

Apple Maps every time I've ever tried to use this stuff anyway Dan Crenshaw took a picture of Apple Maps, and it still says Gulf of Mexico and Dan Crenshaw Like maybe half jokingly maybe not send it you know tags Tim Cook on it like hey you got to change this room But this guy on Twitter said this sort of thing is too dumb to even rise to political correctness. It's more like membership in a cult of personality in which dear leaders directives no matter how silly must be enforced. And he said let me quantify the importance of

changing the name of this body of water. Zero. And that guy's wrong. Having symbols and names that reflect your country's history and identity is good. I like this line someone wrote, they said, icons, symbols, and names of public spaces are important tools for shaping cultural norms in a society. When an invading army comes in, this has always been true,

when an invading army comes in and conquers a land, they change the name of it. They put a new flag on top of it, this is ours now, and we're changing the identity of it. And we've had for a while now, we've had a sort of invading army from within

trying to destroy our history and to change our identity. That's been their ultimate goal. Orwell wrote about this in 1984. He said, everything faded into mist. The past was erased. The erasure was then forgotten, and the lie became truth.

So in conclusion, names matter, and words matter. If I may, as I'm recording this, it's the March for Life in Washington, D.C., the day after Donald Trump just pardoned 23 pro-life activists who were put in prison by Joe Biden.

Ridiculous.

We'll save face act for another day, but you have these stories of these pro-life activists who would be singing or praying outside of an abortion center. There's one story where a guy pushed an abortion escort. And the local police came and they're like, hey guys, whatever, everyone go home, knock it off. And no charges were filed by the local police.

And then months later, the feds come in and arrest this guy and throw him in jail for years because he violated the FACE Act, it stands for the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. So Trump is the most pro-life president we've ever had. He's done more for the pro-life movement than any other president. That's for certain. What did W do? Anyway, you have activists, pro-abortion activists, who will not call abortion murder. And they will not call this clump of cells a baby.

If you remember the other day, we were talking about the clump of cells that was in its 207th trimester, the former CEO of Planned Parenthood, whose life was no longer viable, died the other day.

Poor clump of cells. The left knows that language matters, and far too often we've let them have the upper ground when it comes to language and they've been able to conceal the truth and deceive so many people because of it. So the other day Trump signed this executive order ending

birthright citizenship and it's gonna go to up to the Supreme Court which I'm happy about and the New York Times said undocumented women ask will my unborn child be a citizen? You're like well hold on hold on first of all it's not undocumented it's illegal alien second of all women? You mean birthing people? And then all of a sudden now it's an unborn child and no longer a clump of cells. See how they use language? The left has known for a long time the importance of names and words. It's time we do too.

Juliet said in romeo and juliet what's in a name a lot actually that was the last rallying cry during all the black lives matter hysteria right say her name it's all there is a say her name george floyd died say his name and i agree with him names matter it's mount mckinley and the gulf of america Mike Slater dot locals dot com is my website up there we put the podcast commercial-free with the transcript on the website MikeSlater.locals.com

 

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Bryan Johnson is a super-rich tech bro who thinks he can biohack his way to immortality. He was just diagnosed with an incurable disease. We can criticize his foolishness, but the truth is, we aren't much different from him.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so you can walk away with peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day. That can be, make me anxious. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. 

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to 11 a . m. every day, takes like 100 pills a day. Every you know, zinc, all the vitamins and stuff you could possibly imagine, spends millions of dollars a year. He built this home laboratory with this dedicated medical staff to track every aspect of his health, constantly taking blood panels, red light therapy, gene therapies, tried this plasma stuff. One of the creepy ones that got a lot of attention a couple years ago is he would take plasma from his son and inject it into himself, right? 

He claims He has the body of an 18 year old, but he puts every aspect of life into like a checklist, like a box. So one of his aspects of health is he wants to meet with one in -person, he has to have one in -person friendship contact a week to support his social health. And you're like, yeah, that's a good thing to do, but checking a box, that's not really in the spirit of friendship or life. His philosophy, and this is so sad, his philosophy, this is the name of his documentary that he made, like this is his, If you go to his Twitter page or his Facebook page, like this is what it says up at the top is don't die. It's like he's gamified his body for maximum longevity, but he was just diagnosed with an incurable stomach disease. 

He says his stomach is eating itself. So he is going to die. Now we're all going to die. Not sure when exactly. Some people have a better idea of when, as you get closer to the end, kind of a better idea of when the end will be. But even then, you don't know for sure. 

But I can assure you, you will die. We don't like to think about this. I don't know why. I like to think about it. We should think about it. We used to live in a society where you couldn't not think about it. 

People were dying all the time. You probably had six kids who died in child when they were born. Probably had a wife or two who died giving birth. Like you were surrounded by death all the time. Today we're not. We've sanitized it from pretty much every aspect of our life. 

But death was a pretty normal thing. Like most people saw many people die in their life. Have you seen anyone die? Really? And even maybe you think you have in the hospital. or something, like my dad in the hospital, it was also sanitized and hospital -like. 

And you know, then even then the body's whisked away and that's, that's the end, right? So we don't really have any associations with death like we used to. So we kind of forget that we're going to die. So I'm just here to tell you, you will. Now, not everyone has died. True. 

Enoch and Elijah, those are the only two. They were taken by God. Actually, I think the Bible is pretty funny on this. I don't, I don't think the intention here was to be funny, but in Genesis five, uh, it says the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years and he had other sons and daughters. Thus, all the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died. When Seth lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh. 

Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters. Thus, all the days of Seth were 912 years and he died. That's the genealogy of Genesis 5. It keeps going on and on and on and it always ends with, and he died. But Enoch was taken by God and Elijah and Elisha were walking together and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. Those are the two. 

And, uh, Brian Johnson's never going to join that list because you cannot hack your way to immortality. And God, so the first thing is you will die. Second thing, God already knows how long you're going to live. He knows when you're going to die and how. Job 14, 5, our days are fixed. The number of our months with you, you set a statute, a statute, and we can't exceed it. 

Our days are fixed. Psalm 139, 16, your eyes saw my unformed substance and your book were written. Every one of them, the days that were formed for me. when as yet there was none of them. So God knows even before you were born, how long you would live. God's outside of time and he knows everything. 

So you can't biohack your way past God's control and power and like take the right number of vitamins. Now, I don't want to totally dismiss all of this. Like some people take that to mean like, well, I can just do whatever. And like, there are things that are still in your control within the days that you have. So God may know that you're going to die when you're 82 years and six days. Oh, but it's not that close to your birthday. 

Although it'd be pretty cool to make it to 82. It's something to celebrate. Whatever the day is, he may have those numbered, but there are things in your control that you can do to make those 82 years and six days better than they otherwise would. Right. Does that make sense? So the amount you move, exercise, all that stuff. 

Right. So there are some things that are within your control, but the days are not. And it's sad that someone could be so deluded into thinking that they can live forever in their earthly body. Maybe it's even worse that someone would want to live forever in their earthly body. So let's go to the Bible. Um, because here's the truth. 

We can talk about how sad it is Brian Johnson for him to live his life in this way, but we all kind of live like it. Not with the doctors and the constant blood panels and all that stuff. We don't, no one lives like that, but we live with the same mentality. We all live like we're going to live forever. or we live like this is all there is. We live like we're going to live forever because we don't. 

do what we need to do now. We don't take care of the things we need to take care of now. We don't do the things we need to do now as if we have forever to do them. And we live like this. We live like this is all there is when we don't consider all the actions, all of our actions based on eternity. This one short blip that we call life. 

We live like this short blip of existence. Is this the end of it? But in reality, eternity is forever. It's sad because Brian Johnson dedicating his life to keeping this forever. But this isn't forever, and it's not meant to be forever, and it's not forever, and it shouldn't be forever, and I don't even want it to be forever, but eternity is. We just can't comprehend it. 

We can't comprehend eternity. Our heads can't wrap our head around it. There's no end to it. We just can't think that way. So we live our life in a way that says, you know, YOLO, you only live once. Who cares what I do here? 

And we live in this fallen atheist society that doesn't even think heaven exists or hell. So we don't think that there's an eternity after it. So as delusional and sad as you think Brian Johnson is, we, for the most part, are much better. We spend so much time on the things of this world and planning for things that we think are coming. And there's prudence, of course. Proverbs talks all about it, but we don't think about eternity. 

I mean, Jesus is so clear. Treasure and set your treasure in heaven. What about my 401k now? It's like, yeah, okay. 401k now, but also treasure in heaven. Like that's where it needs to be. 

And life is a vapor. The Bible says life is a vapor. So how should we live our life? Well, with eternity in mind, with the afterlife in mind. Our life today should be lived with the afterlife in mind. Brian Johnson, his main problem was he didn't think there was an afterlife or he wants to avoid the afterlife. 

He can't. But I want to live in such a way now that I only am considering the afterlife. Jonathan Edwards, he said, our lives, though short, are deep, beautiful, and meaningful if we view them as means to glorify the eternal God. When Jonathan Edwards was young, he was like 19, he vowed, while I do live, I should live with all my might to glorify God. Why is Brian? What does Brian Johnson live for? 

His motto was don't die. Big whoop. Jonathan Edwards motto was something more like live for eternity. And of course, with that comes a yearning to die. I can't wait to die. How great will it be to be in heaven? 

Why do I get to heaven? Great question. Believe that Jesus is the son of God who died for your sins and go get baptized. Peter said, and it's the only way you can't. Avoid it. You can't avoid dying. 

And when you do die, go in one of two places. Peter said in Acts 4 .12, salvation is found in no one else for there's no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Now in our post -Christian world, we think everyone goes to heaven. If heaven is ever considered a thing that exists, everyone goes there or, you know, you just gotta be nice. All right. But the truth is only Christians go to heaven. 

John 3 .36 says, whoever believes in the sun has eternal life. Eternal life. But whoever rejects the sun. will not see life. For God's wrath remains on them. That's one of my favorite verses right there. 

God's wrath remains. God's wrath is on the unbelievers. already. If you are unsaved from that wrath, then you will go to hell for eternity. If you're saved, then you're saved from hell and you'll go to heaven. Life is short. 

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JD Vance and The Progressive Pagan Tone Police
Politics By Faith, June 19, 2026

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I love when pagans criticize Christians for not being "Christian enough" or the right type of Christian that they would prefer. Obviously, don't listen to them, but what does the Bible say about the words we speak and the tone we should have?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible. The point of this is we need to walk away with some peace and perspective because there's new headlines every day and it's all very anxiety inducing, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. Story of the day, J . D. 

Vance making the rounds and doesn't like his tone. Got a mean tone. Got to watch that tone. The tone police are out. J . D. 

Vance is making the rounds because he's got a new book out. and he is also a great spokesperson for this administration. So where Trump can sometimes be maybe rough around the edges, Vance is smoother, more polished, if you will. I don't know if that's entirely true. I think Trump is pretty smooth and polished, too, in his own way. But maybe the biggest advantage that Trump, excuse me, that Vance has over Trump is he's not Trump. 

So as much as much TDS people have seething through their veins, pulsing constantly through their entire body and soul, they don't yet have the same hatred for J . D. Vance. They will, don't worry. But right now, there's no such thing as J . D . 

D . S. That's right. One day there will be. Aw, he's even worse than Trump because he actually believes what he's saying. That's what's gonna happen. 

But there's certain places where I would much rather have the president be. Like negotiating with Iran, for instance. Trump's great at these big press conferences. Obviously, he's the best at the rallies. But when it comes to one -on -one with adversaries, I choose Vance all day on that one. All day long, you put Vance in that battle. 

big press conferences, Trump with another world leader, you put Trump. Someone versus, you know, meet the press lady or whatever, you send JD on. No question. JD Vance did great with the Ladies in the View, for instance. We played the entire 25 minutes or so he was on on my radio show. My one critique, if I had to have, critique's not even quite right, a nitpick, is the women on The View, they would hit him with like 48 questions at one time, and he'd have to think in his brain, okay, I have 12 seconds to respond. 

How can I possibly combine all of these questions? How am I gonna be able to find a cohesive thread, coherent thread to your incoherent questions, and somehow come up with an answer that can best encompass everything that's been said here? with a 12 second response and a smile. So there's times when he would say, okay, um, let me say this. You can see his brain. I try to put the pieces together. 

That's my one critique. My goodness. He did as good as any human can do in that unenviable situation. But I want to pick out this moment from the New York times podcast. Russ Dothat as this guy's name or an unpronounced or sign. He's very upset that the administration is not nice enough with their tone. 

Here's what he said. We could have a longer argument about the economics, but I just want to let's let's stipulate that the Trump administration has in some way a kind of vision of rebuilding the working class that's connected to Christianity. Was that hard to say? Was that hard to say, Ross? I'm stipulate for the sake of argument. and the fact that you have not given us three hours to have this discussion, we're stipulating it. 

It also seems to me like the administration has distanced itself in different ways from some other sort of obvious expressions of Christian influence on politics, some of them more sort of liberal coded, some of them more conservative coded, right? Like, the administration has been more hostile than any prior Republican administration, to say nothing of Democrats, in the last 20 years to the way we do humanitarian aid. It has kept religious conservatives, pro -life organizations especially, at arm's length in a way that has led to a lot of criticism. And then, you know, let's be honest, the tone of the administration is not consistently a Christian tone. there is a tone of aggressive uncharity to people who aren't on board with the administration's policies. So I would describe those as three areas where the administration has felt functionally post -Christian to me. 

And I'm curious what you think. Well, so on the first point, well, sorry, the third point. You can work backward. So on the tone thing, This is it's it's very hard to rebut this because it's like fundamentally unfalsifiable because for every clip that you could show me of me or the president or some cabinet secretary saying something that in your view is unchristian i could show you another few clips of us doing something or saying something that is like very christian the nature of political communication in the era of mass media is that sometimes people are going to say jokes that are taken out of context sometimes people are going to say I'm not saying I make mistakes. I talk about this in the book a little. 

In my book, Communion, available where books are sold, I talk about the own mistakes that I've made as a Christian reader in America. There is an apology to childless cat ladies. We don't need to get sidetracked by that. Go on. But my point is, I'm not saying we're perfect because we're not. My point is that the tone argument is in some ways, I think, people see what they want to see. 

And I also think that tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working class ways of communication and covering them in elite preferences. So let's talk about what's broken in this scenario here. So yes, the Bible, God, talks about the way we should speak. Proverbs 51, a soft answer. turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. " President, we've talked about this before, his game theory approach to talking with people and negotiating, but just everything, he will always start positive. 

He'll start kind every time, always. He will always start with a soft answer and a soft response and a soft initiation, always. 1 Peter 3 .15 says, make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and respect. The fruits of the spirit. One of them is kindness. Another is gentleness. 

Also, we are told to speak boldly. Acts 4 .31 says, and when they had prayed, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. " So what do we think boldness, what would boldness mean today? I bet based off of the New York Times editorial board, if they heard a preacher today speak with boldness, they might say, Oh, that tone makes me uncomfortable. That's not very inclusive sound. And we talked about this just the other day. 

The Bible says there is one way to get to heaven. Oh, that's. I don't like your tone. Paul speaks about boldly proclaiming the gospel. First Thessalonians 2 .2. But though we had already suffered, we had been shamefully treated at Philippi. 

As you know, we had boldness in our God to declare you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. How were they treated shamefully in Philippi? Or I should say, why? Is it because the people loved so much what they were saying and how they said it? No, that doesn't make any sense. They were treated shamefully, but what does that mean? 

Does that mean, uh, they, they, they preached the gospel boldly. And then people went on Twitter and said, I don't like your tone. No, they were stripped and beaten with rods, all without a trial, of course, then thrown into prison and placed in stocks while bleeding from the beating they just took. And they weren't treated this way because the people of Philippi liked what they were saying. And then all of a sudden, these are two different things. There's what's being said. 

And then there's how it's set. And. Progressive could make the argument, and it's not accurate, but they could make the argument that, oh, they don't mind what the administration's saying, they just don't like how it's set. No, that's you trying to get around. That's just a trick. They don't like what the administration is doing, and they're trying to tone police it as a way to seem like they're morally superior. 

So let's go over the four options though, right? I mean, there's four options. We can make like a chart of these four options. You have bad tone, mean words, good tone, nice words, bad tone, nice words, or good tone, mean words. So maybe this example work, we'll see how it goes. Bad tone, bad words. 

I hate you. Good tone, good word, nice word. Good tone, good, good, good. I love you. Well, let's mix it up. Bad tone, good words. 

I love you. I love you. That's almost like too passionate. How do you do it like hatred? I love you. Good tone, bad words. 

I hate you. The New York Times guy. thinks it's best that we say or do bad things, but in a nice way. That's like the Democrat way. Do bad things, but with a smile. Let's give a political example. 

Maybe this'll make more sense. So the Democrats, they were so nice when they opened up our borders to millions of illegal aliens, many of whom went on to murder and steal and destroy neighborhoods and take jobs and do terrible things. I just saw a story of, it was like 1 ,700 maybe illegal aliens who were arrested in I think like the Houston area. And they went through all their crimes, five murders, 170 burglaries, 78 sex offenses, like 50 against children, 40 domestic abuses, 500 DUIs. Just go down the list. But it was all done with a smile. 

It's so nice. And the poem on the statue says, it's great. The poor, tired, huddled masses. We were so kind when we did this. That's the binary. Bad things, but nicely. 

The Trump administration comes in and says, I actually think they'd said it quite nicely, but they say, you have to go. Oh, that's so mean. Your tone. But that's not even true what I'm saying here, because the real argument is it's the right people. And this is what J . D. 

brought up, right? J . D. after that, where the clip stopped, he said, let me just take a classic example. So the Biden administration had a very humane way of talking about immigration, about illegal immigration. It was very charitable. 

And some of the words that it offered to people who were coming into our country, I would say that it was not particularly charitable to the people who were living with the consequences of mass migration into our country. So at a certain level, what I think matters much more than perceived tone is actual conduct. " Well said, J .D. Vance. There was a similar moment on The View as well. So the questions from a bunch of them at the same time was, the first question from Whoopi was, what did black people do to this administration? that you treat them so terribly." And J . D. was like, what? 

And Whoopi said, she's like, what are you talking about? And they went around the table and they were all like, well, like erasing black history. And he's still like, what are you talking about? But it was all like a tone argument. They were all toned, like the ladies didn't like the tone of this administration or whatever. And J . 

D. says, all right, we've taken over the police department in D . C. , the law enforcement in D . as many murders. Last year, there were Last year, there were 42. 

This year, at the same time period, 20. And that's just murder. I mean, that's like all quality of life crimes are way down. People can go outside. Kids can walk to school. It's a safe city again. 

And it's a predominantly majority Black city. So these are Black people's lives that have improved. So you may not like that we removed a Black history overreach from the Black Lives Matter era. at the Smithsonian. We removed like a sign that was in the Smithsonian about Thomas Jefferson's slaves or something. Is that the most important thing or do you care about actual black lives in DC? 

So that's like, that's a, I think that's like a perfect example of content and tone. So the tone would be, Oh, you're erasing black history. Like, no, they're not. But like, even, but the content is, yeah, but we're saving black people's lives. Don't you care more about what's actually happening? All right, let me go to the Bible. 

So Jesus didn't always have a nice tone. We can't tell the tone really what Jesus was reading, right? But I can't imagine him having a great tone when in Matthew 23, Jesus says to the Pharisees, woe to you, hypocrites, for you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces, for you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. I don't think he said that like politely or something. There's seven of those, by the way. Woes to you. 

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people. bones and all uncleanliness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you, you're full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. I don't think the people around were like, Oh, he's got such a nice tone. Listen to his tone. 

Wow. Or John 8 44, you are of your father, the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning. and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. That's not very nice, Jesus. 

Revelation 2 .20, speaking about Jezebel. Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her. I will throw into great tribulation unless they repent of her works. And I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searched mind and heart. And I will give to each of you according to your works. 

Yikes. What is, what is Ross Dothat from the New York times? Think about that. Paul said in Galatians 1a, but even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preach to you, let him be accursed. As we've said before. So now I say again, if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you receive, let him be accursed. 

The accursed in Greek is anathema. And the definition is devoted to the direst of woes. It's not very lovely sounding. Paul in Galatians 1a. Eric called the Galatians foolish. He calls people liar. 

He calls false preachers ungodly, wretched wanderers. Micah said that people hate good and love evil. That sounds judgmental. I think we need more of a strong tone from Christians. And I don't really care if Ross Dothat or whoever at the New York Times, they don't like it. We need strong tones when confronting hypocrisy, when guarding the truth, when protecting the church, when warning of judgment, and every time love requires it. 

True words and a strong tone is not bigoted. The truth demands nothing less. youtube . com slash at politics by faith. If you're listening to this on podcast, thank you. You can watch it as well on our YouTube channel, youtube . com. So if you could please subscribe, we've got youtube . com slash at politics by faith.

 

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"One Of The Most Horrendous Failures In The History Of The Country"
Politics By Faith, June 17, 2026

The Rape Gang Inquiry report was released in England. It's more horrendous than anyone could imagine. They believe over 250,000 white British girls were trafficked in England. These crimes were committed by Muslim men, again, IN England. Every story they told of how this happened followed the same 3-step outline.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day. What Ecclesiastes says is not the new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. And if you're listening to this on podcast, you can watch it on YouTube, youtube . 

com slash at politics by faith. Kids warning for the story of today, of the day to day. No kids allowed during this episode. If you do listen to the show with your kids, that means the world to me. I really want this to be a place that is wholesome and pure and something you can trust kids at least to be around. This episode is not that episode. So this is your official kids warning for today's episode. 

Give me a second to change the podcast away from this one. Story of the day today. Rape or gang rape inquiry report. Here's what happened. It's a British Congressman, essentially they're called member of parliament, Rupert Lowe. He's the lead of this effort. 

And they released a 219 page report outlining the horrors and scale of mostly Pakistani Muslims trafficking white British girls. The rape gang inquiry looked at the systemic targeting of overwhelmingly white British girls across the United Kingdom. The report says that the evidence put to the inquiry The evidence put to the inquiry confirms that this scandal constitutes one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country. The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. Check this out. It has been previously established that at the very least, how many young girls do you think were trafficked inside of England? 

Like British girls trafficked within England? How many girls? What if I said 10 ,000? That'd be crazy. 250 ,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and obviously lifelong trauma. The report says the number, the actual number is probably higher. 

87 % of people convicted in these child sex exploitation cases had distinctively Muslim names. And those are just the ones convicted. Of the accused, it's 99 % Muslim. The report is tough to read. What's encouraging about it, if anything, is that this is the first time I've ever heard people not afraid to name the enemy. In this case, it's Muslim men, mostly Pakistani, but other cultural identities as well. 

All Muslim. The report says that the pattern was reinforced by eight theological and legal aspects of Islam. Talk about naming the enemy. These include the doctrine of Muslim superiority, drawn from Qur 'anic verses and the report goes through all the different verses of the Qur 'an. The gang members justification for their crimes can be found in the Islamic principles of loyalty and disavowal, the superiority of men over women, forced marriage combined with the absence of any fixed minimum age of consent, also the perception that a family sexuality is inherently dangerous. 

A system of sex slavery that authorizes sexual relations with non -Muslim captives. Also a religious sanctioned social hierarchy that subjugates conquered non -Muslims. Or in this case, British girls while in England. You take these Islamic aspects and you filter it through a clannish immigrant subculture The report says it provides religious justification that enabled the systemic rape and slaughter of white British girls. My goodness. So what's broken in this report? 

A lot, but I'll tell you what some, some initial thoughts I had after reading it. All of the stories they shared had the same outline as a three -step outline. First, the girls were the victims of abuse, neglect, and trauma at home. White British girls, abuse, neglect, and trauma at home. Second. Muslim gangs were ready to pounce. 

And three, the absolute failure of police, hospitals, all British institutions to do anything because they were scared that they would be called racist. It's the same outline, every story that they talk about. I'll give one example. Again, I encourage you to read the whole report. It's really tough, but it's really important to know what's happening. And it's important to know the full scale of this. 

I'm going to choose to go over just Chloe as the study here. It's not the worst story that they share. It's not the most brutal. It's the first one they share. So I'll just share Chloe just to get the outline out there. Chloe's parents divorced when she was young. 

She and her brother were in the custody of dad, which means her mom had major problems. Turns out she was homeless, but he was an alcoholic. Now she said life was generally secure with her dad, though, all things considered. But then dad died when she was 10. So then she went to go live with her mom and mom's new husband, who was also a pedophile, who, of course, abused her. Mom even caught the husband abusing her multiple times and did nothing, which might be the worst betrayal imaginable. 

One time this step dad or whatever was in the shower with her and mom walked in and then walked right out and she was 10 years old. This stepdad gave her alcohol and drugs to keep her quiet. She, of course, started running away, hanging out late at night with terrible people, unsupervised. So there's step one. And step two, that's where the Muslim men preyed on her and took her in, wooing her, treating her like an adult, whatever, all the grooming stuff. They filled that void that her own degenerate parents and people around her left. 

Her aunt and uncle were the only adults that she could confide in. And one time she went to them for help and her uncle raped her. So she's done. She's done. And she goes and she lives with all these Muslim men. She's 11 and she has passed around Pakistani men all through town and, and traffic through the taxi drivers in the city who were all Pakistani. 

So you see the two opening failures here. You have her parents and the adults around her, just total failure in every imaginable way. Then number two, there were the Pakistani Muslim men waiting to hunt her down. And then she had no help from the police or from the hospitals. And that's the third failure. The report says that around the age of 13, Chloe disclosed 

to social services that she was being sexually abused by gangs of Muslim men. In response, social services did not intervene, but rather talk to Chloe about contraception and sexual health. One social worker started regularly taking Chloe to a sexual health clinic where she was diagnosed with chlamydia in her throat, gonorrhea, genital warts, pelvic inflammatory disease, all the rest. At one point, a Pakistani man put a whiskey bottle up inside of her and then broke the bottle. And she went to the ER and the hospital did nothing to ask her, how did this happen? The hospital did nothing to ask her, how can we help you? 

How can we remove you from this obviously horrible situation you're in? They did nothing. When she was interviewed for this report, she was asked how many men abused her in this period of her life from the ages of 10 to 18. She said hundreds, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. It's just one story. There's many, but again, the same outline every time. 

Broken home, then Pakistani Muslims. wading in the wings, and then the failure of the politically correct system to save any of these girls. I would argue that failure number one comes from a lack of Christianity and a lack of Christian culture. Of course, everyone sins and everyone makes mistakes, but the level of abandonment that these girls faced, then the taking advantage of that brokenness is where the Muslims came in and that's Islam. And again, they talked about eight parts of Islam in this report, naming the enemy. It's great. 

Muslim supremacy. Number two, an us versus them mindset. 3. Superiority and dominance of men over women. 4. The seclusion of women. 5. Forced marriage and no age of consent. 

Number six, female sexuality. Number seven, jihad and sex slavery. And number eight is an Islamic clan culture. And the report goes through each of those and quotes the Quran. We don't need to do it here, but again, I recommend that you read the full report just to know that we need to be reminded that this evil exists in the world. And it's not just in England or Pakistan. 

It's in our backyard in America as well. You just search for rape gang inquiry and it'll pop up. So let's bring the Bible in here. First, we're supposed to take care of widows and orphans. Instead, we become such a degenerate people that we make orphans, not just because parents die in a tragic accident, but because they're totally alcoholic, drugged up, whatever. We're making orphans. 

And then the state abandons them and the Muslims take them in as sex slaves in our own countries. Listen, when Job is talking about all the wicked things that God is allowing in this fallen world, he's venting. One of them, it's in verse, uh, sorry, chapter 24. Uh, and he just goes through this list of all these things like, God, like, how can you allow this? And in verse nine, he said, there are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast and they take a pledge against the poor. What is that? 

This is back then when people who would take babies. So babies without fathers, but maybe the woman was in debt and they would take the baby as debt collateral as a young infant. And then do what with the baby? Who even knows? But the point is that Joe put this right in there, the list of extreme depravity. And Joe's upset that this goes on and goes unpunished. 

And it's going on today in the Western world too, if not worse. I'm recording this day on Pride Month. We're halfway through Pride Month. 1 Thessalonians 4 .3 says, it is God's will that you should be sanctified, that you should abstain from sexual immorality. There is so much sexual immorality. In phase one of this, where the parents fail, and then phase two, where the Muslim gangs take over, my goodness, it is the worst of sexual immorality, sexual depravity. 

Think, it's hard to say, right? But I think the worst would be pedophilia. Which leads me to Matthew 18 .6, if anyone causes one of these little ones, those who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. So if you think that sounds bad, if you think having a millstone tied around your neck and dropped overboard, if you think that sounds bad, you would prefer that than what you're gonna get. These people who are putting these young kids in a situation that is horrific, causing them to be in these places where sin is everywhere. Everyone involved in this failure, has put these children in these horrific situations, and a millstone should be placed around their necks, or they would prefer it than what's coming next in life or afterlife. 

They may get away with it here, but they won't in the end. A millstone, to be clear, was a giant stone with a rope through it, and the rope would be tied to a donkey, and the donkey would walk in a circle, and it would grind the grain. And these millstones would weigh hundreds of pounds. And apparently in Rome, they did this as a form of execution. They would tie this heavy rock like this and throw you overboard. And the Jews thought this was barbaric and awful. 

And here was Jesus. coming in saying, what's coming for you is even worse than that. In In a just society, we would do everything we could to stop this immediately. We'll see how the British people react. We'll see if political correctness, truly political correctness, we'll see if political correctness wins the day. And then we'll see if we decide to root this out in America as well. 

You want to talk about an 80 -20 issue in America that every political party, every political, everyone could get behind? You would think would be getting rid of this. But with so many oppressed peoples involved, Muslims, migrants, foreigners, I don't know if we will. Stay tuned on this one. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. 

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