Why Do So Many Boomers Hate Trump?

MikeSlater

Politics • Spirituality/Belief • Culture

Politics By Faith, April 25, 2025

April 25, 2025

An approval poll came out about President Trump; the only age demographic that didn't support Trump was people over 70. Why did this happen? What happened to the boomers?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I thought this may come up in one of our episodes, but it is not. So let me just jam it in here. Why were we thinking? Oh, it was the Supreme Court case.

There's a Supreme Court case heard on Tuesday about LGBTQ books that were mandated in a Maryland County school district. And at first the school board said, you can opt out. It was pre-K through fifth grade. And you can opt out of this.

So many parents opted out, that instead of the school saying, oh wow, I guess we shouldn't mandate these books clearly. They said, all right, fine, no one can opt out anymore. We're gonna give you no notice and you're not allowed to opt out.

What? So it made it all the way up to the Supreme Court and it seems like the justices are on the side of the parents. But the two previous court decisions were against the parents in favor of the school. So one of the books is called Pride Puppy and it's for the pre-K, so three and four year olds. And it's, you know, I is for intersectional justice and all this stuff, right?

And it's about a puppy that gets lost at a pride parade. So just to make the point of how far we've fallen, I bought this book the other day by Eric Sloan. I just bought, actually bought all the books by Eric Sloan. And I haven't read enough of them yet to fully praise them, but they've been great so far.

I'm reading this one called American Barns and Covered Bridges, and it's just about wood. It's about wood and our founding fathers and before that, and their love of wood and their use of wood and their infatuation with wood. And it's awesome.

It's super fun so far.

Anyway, so I was just thumbing through the pages and I haven't gotten to this page yet. I don't even know why he put this in here. But this is one of those ABC books. You know, like today it's A is for apple, B is for banana, C is for cat, right? Why it's really today it's, you know, G is for what? I don't want to say it on this podcast, but you know, it's like horribly inappropriate stuff. Look what it used to be.

I'm going to read the whole thing. We're going to go A through Z. We're going to do our ABCs together, how we used to do it in America. In Adam's fall, we sinned all. A for Adam. Heaven defined the Bible mind.

Christ crucified for sinners died. D, the deluge drowned the earth around. E, Elijah hid by ravens fed. The judgment made Felix afraid. How about G, as runs the glass our life doth pass. G, that's heavy for a baby. Jeez, for you're going to die soon. H is my book and heart must never part. Job feels the rod yet blesses God. That's an eye.

I don't know why that's I. I Job feels the rod. It blesses God. I don't know, a little creative license there. K, proud Korah's troop was swallowed up. Just talked about that the other day. Lot fled to Zoar, saw fiery shower on Sodom poor. That's a good one too for the

kids. Well Sodom and Gomorrah for the three year olds. And Moses was he who Israel's, sorry this is a bad picture, hoffed led through the sea. And Noah did view the old world and new. Oh, young Obadiah, David, Josiah, all were pious. Obadiah, David, Josiah, all were pious. Obadiah, David, Josiah, all were pious. Peter denied his Lord and cried.

Queen Esther, I couldn't, I took a bad picture and saves the Jews. I don't know what that was. Queen Esther, I can't, sues?

I don't know.

I can't say it's all right. It's a bad picture. Young pious Ruth left all for truth. Young Samuel, dear, the Lord did fear. T. Young Timothy learnt fin to fly. I don't know that one. You. Van vanished for pride was set aside. W whales in the sea.

God's voice obey. Yes. See all these ABC books. Whenever I get one of these, I'm always like, how are they going to do the last ones? You know, are they going to cop out here? Is it always going to be x-ray? Are they going to try something a little different? X. Xerxes did die and so must I. I feel like the W is kind of a stretch.

Whales in the sea, God's voice obey. That doesn't even rhyme. I would have worked out that one a little more. Y. While youth do cheat, death may be near. And then Z, let's see, yeah, they were able to crush the Z.

Zacchaeus, he did climb the tree, our Lord to see. That's a good Z, good Z. Anyway, that's how we used to raise our kids. Look where we are now. And we made the point too that the Ten Commandments case in the Supreme Court was only 1980. It's only 45 years ago.

So it was, should we force kids to see the Ten Commandments? No, we must take them down. And now here we are, should we force kids to sit through LGBTQ books in the classroom at pre-K?

Anyway, just wanted to share. The old school ABCs. So we're gonna do a special next week on media propaganda and we're gonna talk about this poll, so I don't wanna get too far ahead of myself here, but in this poll, it's every age demographic. Do you support Donald Trump is the question.

And it breaks it down to age demographic and every single age demographic is in support of Donald Trump, ranging from two to five, one is nine points. The only group that does not of Donald Trump ranging from two to five, one is nine points. The only group that does not support Donald Trump are people over the age of 70, negative 14.

What is that about? The only age demographic that does even, even 18 year olds support Donald Trump by quite a bit. I think it was plus five, but negative 14 for 70 year olds. What's going on there? So we talked about this on the radio for a while.

I got a couple of reasons. I think the biggest is probably because it's 70 plus year olds are the ones who are watching cable news and network news and The View. So when you start your day with Whoopi and Joy, Veyhar, and you end your nightcap

with a little David Muir, and you end your nightcap with a little David Muir, and you either sprinkle in or have a steady 12-hour stream of MSNBC in between, all you do is fed propaganda all day long, then you're probably gonna believe it. And most of the people who do that are over the age of 70. So I think that's gonna be a part of it.

We'll talk more about that on our special next week. But what I wanna go a little deeper here today, not media propaganda, but something else. Now, I will say this up front, I'll only say it once. We're speaking about all the boomers, and you can't do that without lumping people in a group.

So if this isn't you, then it's not you. So you don't need to send me an email but like I actually like Trump. It's like, okay, I know. But this is the one age group that's negative 14, negative anything. So an idea came up when we were talking about this

on the radio about the baby boom generation, boomers as they're now disparagingly known, is that the 60s was a time when a lot of bad ideas came out. Now I don't know how much blame you can put on the baby boomers for these terrible ideas, as maybe it was just the circumstances that existed. I don't know what led them, there's no other choice.

I don't know what the excuse is. Maybe they get all the blame, that's for you to decide. But so many of the bad things that we're dealing with today, so much of the fallout, so much of the nuclear fallout is from the bad ideas that exploded in the 60s. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll,

and even when I say that now, it sounds very romantic. And you can see like in the beginning, it's like, well, what's the big deal? It's just a little bit, a little this, a little that. You know, whenever I come out and say, you know, we're going to hell in a handbasket. The younger generation, you know, people always say, oh, every generation has said that the generation younger than it is the worst.

And to that I say, yeah, they were all right. They were all right. Look at what I just shared with the ABC book. So when the first generation, I don't know when that ABC book was, let's say it's 1700. So in 1750, or 1850, when they stopped using all biblical references for the ABCs,

and they were like, oh, the younger generation, they don't know their Bible, they were right. They were right. And you could do it with music, right? Rock and roll's the devil's music. Can you believe people used to think that? Yeah, I can. And they were right. Is it catchy? Yeah, of course. Is there something

inherently sinful about an electric guitar? No, but there's a world of difference between the content of the music in the forties versus the sixties. Sirius XM, they have decades channels. You just go to channel six and it's the 60s, and you go to channel four and it's the 40s. You can turn on the 40s channel and you can listen with your grandma.

You can listen with your grandma and your children and you don't have to worry about anything. You listen to anything in the 60s, hit or miss, but then you go to the 2010s and you would not do it with your grandma, you are guaranteed to have horrific things rapped about or sung about.

I got some quotes here from John MacArthur. "'Our music cannot be like the music of the world "'because our God is not like their gods. "'Most of the world's music reflects the world's ways, "'the world's standards, the world's attitudes, "'the world's gods.

"'To attempt to use such music to, the world's standards, the world's attitudes, the world's gods. To attempt to use such music to reach the world is to lower the gospel in order to spread the gospel. If the world hears that our music is not much different than theirs, it will also be inclined to believe that the Christian way of life is not much different than theirs. The association of hard rock with violence, blasphemy, sadomasochism, sexual immorality and perversion, alcohol and drugs, and Eastern mysticism and occult are not accidental. They're fed from the same one godly stream.

A leading rock singer once said, rock music has always been the devil's music. It lets in the baser elements. Putting a Christian message in such musical form does not elevate the form, but degrades the message to the level already established in the culture by that forum one more quote rock music is a product of a disoriented despairing drug-related sex mad generation

There's no question about that the first big rock singer was Elvis Presley who killed himself with drugs and it went through women Continuously and he gave rise to the whole rock generation He was the first and his whole act was sexual sensual. It was terrible nowadays We think he was comical but that's only because we've come so far. Or I would add, we've come so low. Right, you look at Elvis Presley now

and he's shaking his hips, you're like, what? Like, who cares about that compared to what we're doing? So like, they were right. Like all the people back then who were like, this stuff is not on a good path take, I suppose. But the sexual mores of the 60s, we see the fruit of that now, that goes without saying,

right?

It's just acting more like the world. And the reason I bring this up is the baby boomer generation, and I think this is a fair, like a sociologist analysis would agree with this, that the baby boomer generation is more materialistic. Not everyone, not everyone, generation is more materialistic. Not everyone, not everyone, but generally more materialistic.

Maybe that comes from being raised by people who were raised in the Great Depression and raised through World War II. And then they had kids and they wanted to get more, right? More, bigger, more, bigger houses, whole thing. And when you're more materialistic,

you're gonna lose focus on God and you're not gonna seek God's wisdom as much as you could have. I think that's a fair analysis. Delano Squires, we've had him on the TV show before. He's a great, wise person.

He put up a post of Michelle Obama, who has a podcast recently, she's a great, wise person. He put up a post of Michelle Obama, who has a podcast recently, she's complaining about whatever. Shannon Sharp, who is the former football player on ESPN, who is getting accused of rape now, but I don't know, rape, I don't know, or consensual,

but he's sleeping with 19 year olds, he's 60, sleeping with 19 year olds. Some other woman, I don't know and then this clip of Tina Knowles this is Beyonce's mom let me play you married let me play a section this is listen to this this is Beyonce's mom she's 71 talking about divorcing her husband who's 78 and how she was encouraged to do it by Tyler Perry and Oprah and every Oprah thinks it's great And everyone in the audience thinks it's wonderful.

Listen to this mumbo jumbo.

I married again when you were 61.

No, no, mumbo jumbo is a joke. That's too jokey. Listen to this. Lies from the pits of hell.

Then you married again when you were 61, I think, went to actor Richard Lawson and divorced after almost 10 years. And our friend Tyler Perry, in the book you talk about, told you something. What was that? He told you about that.

He just told me that, um, I told him what happened, and he loves Richard also, and he was like, I'm very sad to hear that. And I said, but, you know, this marriage is not bringing out the best of me. And I have finally found my worth, and I know that I deserve to be happy.

I know I deserve to be for somebody to be happy when they see me and to celebrate me. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

So it's not only do you deserve to be happy, but other people deserve to be happy when they see you. And then the camera pans to this woman in the audience who's like, yes, I hear that. I hear what are you talking about?

Deserve to be for somebody to be happy when they see me and I'm

sorry, I gotta go back again.

What is she saying or to be happy? I know I deserve to be for somebody to be happy when they see me and to celebrate me other people.

I have to divorce this person because other people deserve to be happy when they see me and celebrate me and the, and the woman's yes.

Yes.

And it's not doing it for me. It's bringing out the worst in me and it's got to stop. And he said, I mean, he was teary eyed and he was like, I am so proud of you coming from a family where women stay no matter what. And it's taken a lot of courage. I said, I'm doing this for my daughters, too. So I want to set that example for them.

And he said, you're not only doing it for your daughters, but you're doing it for your grandson. Because you think that you're doing something to stay in a marriage that's unhappy, that you're not celebrated or you feel fulfilled, you are affecting your grandson too

because he wants you to be happy and how he's going to treat the woman that comes along and I never thought about that but he was just so supportive of me.

Delano Squires said there's an elder epidemic that needs to be addressed. People who should be imparting wisdom to the younger generations are instead revealing themselves to be immature, bitter, aggrieved, selfish, and miserable. These are the last people anyone should be going to for advice. Again, I'm not saying all people in the baby boomer generation are these things, but most of those of that generation who have a microphone, have a voice, have influence, are immature, bitter, aggrieved, selfish,

and miserable. And the only advice they should be is their life. Meaning people should look at them be like, I don't want any, I don't want that, I don't want to be them. I'm gonna do the opposite of everything they did. Someone called in, talked about his wife, who only only watches The View and MSNBC and then David Muir and he said, what do you do when she's watching this? And he said, she's usually with her friends.

He may have used the word squawking. The girls, the gals are squawking. I don't know. Maybe I don't, I didn't need to introduce the misogyny here. I said, what do you do when, when all the broads are doing it? And he said, I usually go in the other room

and read the Bible. I was thinking, what a case study, right? What an A-B test, a parallel universe test. I love doing these where you, one life is you're just in front of the TV watching cable news and the view and everything.

And then the other world is you're reading the Bible. Where will you be in a week? You don't even need to give it a lot. Where would you be in a week? Where will you be in a month? In a year, you'll be two totally different people.

What are you putting in your soul? Are you putting in the word of Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg? Are you putting in the word of God? Are you putting in the words of the world? Always worth a friendly reminder to curate your inputs. And I think of the Bible, Jesus speaks this, he says, 1 Corinthians 11 24, do this to remember me. You think, well, remember me? What do you mean, like we'd forget? We'd forget what you did for us? Well, yes, of course.

You will forget. You'll forget immediately. As soon as this podcast is over, you'll forget. As soon as I'm done talking, I will forget. We forget all the time. We forget what's important. We forget what matters. We forget we're captivated by things that are much less important.

Lesser things steal our attention all the time. Charles Spurgeon, he said, the incessant turmoil of the world, that's what cable news capitalizes on, right? The constant attraction of earthly things, that's just everything else, takes our souls away from Christ. The way to avoid the immature, bitter, aggrieved, selfish, and miserable way is to turn your soul back to Christ.

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Of all the accolades and titles and fame and praise, Terry Bollea wants to first and foremost be known as a Christian.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. Hulk Hogan has passed away. Real name Terry Bollea. 71, heart attack, we're told. People know his wrestling persona, of course.

Jesse Kelly said, I'm not one of these everything was better back in my day people But I cannot properly describe how much different the 80s were than what we have today It was fun and happy and patriotic and ridiculous and over-the-top It was wonderful and Hulk Hogan was a big part of it and he put a picture of Hulk Hogan in there ring holding this huge American flag my wrestling childhood Was after Hulk Hogan that was more of the Rock era

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Yes, without a doubt.

Terry, what did that mean for you?

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Like he'd do the thing, because that's what people wanted. But you do that your whole life and it'd be really easy to not know who you are anymore. But after becoming a Christian, he knew what his proper identity was.

Well, the moment I come home, the headband comes off the bald head. And you know, it's just Terry. Dad, father, husband, friend. I have no wrestling pictures in my house. I have no wrestling belts. Just Terry. The problem is the moment I leave the house, the moment I walk out the front door, the world doesn't want Terry.

I can't imagine the ego that would be built up over the decades of being Hulk Hogan, right? That'll mess you up. You go on Madison Square Garden, you have tens of thousands of people cheering for you. That'll really mess you up. So he was all out of whack, but once he became a Christian,

he knew what his true identity was, and he knew what he brought to the table compared to his creator.

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and I'll never make those same mistakes again.

I never heard this story from, about Hulk before, about Terry. It's about his dad and it ties in so perfectly because we seek approval. We're looking for our proper identity and when it's not in Christ we're so lost we don't know what to do. That's why I was lost but then I was found. But also we seek approval and one of the people we seek approval from the most of course is our earthly father and

Terry never got that and that could cause a lot of trauma a lot of wounds and Really hurt Terry until this happened. This is his answer to the question. What's your most memorable moment as a wrestler?

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management. But when I left college and didn't become an accountant or whatever that degree would lead me to, there was a huge divide as far as communication with my dad and I. You know, so it kind of was a void. And so that night after Madison Square Garden, you know, my dad goes, man, you know,

Terry, I'm very proud of you. You made the right decision. I love you so much, I'm so sorry that I tried to make you do something you didn't wanna do. So that was the greatest night for me, for my dad to say that to me. Because I really didn't know if I was right or not,

it's just I was doing what I love doing. And to me that felt right, but then to have my dad confirm it, but I had to be the main event at Madison Square Garden to get him to break. But that was probably the greatest part of my wrestling career to have that moment with him because I really valued what he thought about me.

A lot of people when they're first becoming a Christian are trying to figure out who God is. And that is very much informed by their earthly father. For better or worse, often for worse. But your heavenly father will never let you down. Your heavenly father is absolutely perfect in every way. Where earthly fathers will surely let their children down, your heavenly father never will. I'm reading John Steinbeck's East of Eden right now.

And I just read this last night. It says here when a child first catches adult out, when it first walks into his grave little head, that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise. They're thinking true. Their sentence is just.

His world falls into panic, desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there's one sure thing about the fall of gods. They do not fall a little. They crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It's a tedious job to build them up again.

They never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It's an aching kind of growing. We realize our father is not God. But how wonderful to know that God is God. All powerful, all knowing, and loves you.

All Christians need to go through this process of finding their true identity in Jesus. Galatians 2 20, I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I

get sick and tired of myself. You know, The two people in my head, the ego and the real I am, I mean, I just surrendered. I just said, I can't do it anymore. And I went back to the Bible and I started reading again. And I'm either all the way in or all the way out with whatever I do.

So if you're with me, there's no guesswork. If I'm with my Lord and Savior, I'm all the way in.

What message do you now convey at this stage of your life?

It's a spiritual war in this fallen world. To turn to the truth, seek him and you shall find. To step outside their comfort zone and accept Christ, knowing that he would heal the land and heal this nation and heal the people. It just seems like such an easy choice for everyone. If you'll just surrender, accept him as your savior.

A lot of people are going to be reminiscing and talking about the legacy of Hulk Hogan, but I think Hulk Hogan would want his legacy to be as one of a Christian

and a slave of Christ. I just read this poem yesterday. It's by St. George Tucker.

It's probably written late 1700s. Let me see here. St. George Tucker, born in 1757, died 1827. So we're gonna go late 1800s or late 1700s. Ready for this poem? George Tucker, born in 1757, died 1827. So we're gonna go late 1800s or late 1700s. Ready for this poem? Just read it yesterday. Gosh, this is true for all of us,

but I just think Hulk Hogan, because of his so much strength, right? In what he was doing as a wrestler, and then we all die. It's called Days of My Youth. It says, days of my youth, ye have glided away.

Hairs of my youth, ye are frosted and gray. Eyes of my youth, your keen sight is no more. Cheeks of my youth, ye are furrowed all over. Strength of my youth, all your vigor is gone. Thoughts of my youth, your gay visions are flown. All those good times, strong, vigorous, our youth, it vigor is gone thoughts of my youth your gay visions are flown." All those good times strong vigorous our youth it's all gone her eyes are her

hair, her cheeks, strength all gone right? Days of my youth I wish not your recall hairs of my youth I'm content ye should fall. Eyes of my youth, you much evil have seen. Cheeks of my youth bathed in tears have you been. Thoughts of my youth, you've led me astray. Strength of my youth, why lament your decay?" So this first stanza, it's like, oh, I'm so sad. I hate that my strength and vigor has gone away. Oh, my youth, I hate that it's gone. And the first stanza, it's like, oh, I'm so sad. I hate that my strength and vigor has gone away. I, oh, my youth.

I hate that it's gone. And the second stanza is, oh, but there was so much pain, actually. There's so many days that I don't even want to think about again. So many tears, so many thoughts that I've had that have sent me in a bad direction. I've seen so much evil in my life. And it ends with this stanza, days of my age. All right, so now here we are, older, reflecting on right now. Days of my age, ye will shortly be past. Pains of my age, yet a while ye can last.

Joys of my age, in true wisdom delight. Eyes of my age, be religion your light. Thoughts of my age, dread ye not the cold sod. Means being buried. Don't dread dying. Hopes of my age be fixed on your God. Can I do this last part real quick?

Eyes of my age be religion, your light. Thoughts of my age dread ye not the cold side. Hopes of my age be fixed on your God. Let's take it from Hulk Hogan that the most important thing in life is being a Christian. Mike Slater dot locals dot com for the transcript and no commercials Mike

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July 23, 2025

You've Already Won

Politics By Faith, July 22, 2205

Christian Scottie Scheffler won the British Open last weekend. What Nike did with his win could be a sign of the cultural shift we need in America. But Scottie's boldness led the way.

I got back this last weekend from a three hour drive with the family and loved it. It was great. I like car trips because we're all together. I came across this clip recently from this TV show called the middle. I've never heard of the show, never seen the show, am not endorsing the show, I know nothing about it.
But I came across this one scene where the mom and dad, I'm guessing they have older kids who are out of the house now or on the way out, and the dad's reminiscing.
You know when I was happiest? I mean really happy? When I was driving everybody. When they were small, I'd be driving, didn't matter where. It was just me at the wheel and you next to me, those three idiots in the back.
I knew everything was okay. I was driving. And I had it.
I had everybody.
We have a nine hour drive coming up in a couple months with the whole family. Can't wait for it. We spent the night at my house my wife grew up in and we love doing that because it's like 1200 square feet and we all camp out in the living room, big slumber party in the living room. Johnny and I sleep in the lazy boy reclined all the way back.
They've never seen a lazy boy before, I guess. So they're like, what is this? So that's just as good as it gets. Did you see the newest Nike ad? I saw it and I thought it was fake. I didn't confirm that it was true.
And indeed is true. So Scottie Scheffler, he won the British Open in golf and after he won, him and all the big wigs are on the final green and up waddles in the scene his one year old son and then he trips on the little hill, the sloped green, falls down, oh the whole crowd.
Dad goes over and gets him and it was a nice little moment. So Nike took that moment as inspiration and they made a new Nike ad and it's a picture of Scottie kneeling down with his putter in front of him and the baby is crawling towards him reaching out for the club and the ad says in the Nike font it says says, you've already won. This could be a data point of a massive cultural shift that's happening in our country.
And I pray that we keep having in our country. Every Monday on Sirius XM show, we have gratitude Monday. People call in the first segment of the show and say what they're grateful for. And guy called in yesterday said he was excited because he's getting married soon it's awesome and and I asked him first are there no oil the old ball and
chain or none of that none of those jokes because it's a beautiful thing and marriage needs to be celebrated and I asked him why why get married why not just yeah keep shacking up Are you just doing it for tax purposes? What's the reason? He said, Oh no, we're doing it so we can help each other get to heaven. He was getting off the night shift at a chemical plant in Louisiana. The answer he had to that question had more wisdom to it than anyone at Ivy League school or wherever.
So Scotty Scheffler, when he won, he said, the first person I look for is my wife. She's always the first person I want to celebrate with. So just a lot of loving your family. A lot of celebrating families. That's a good thing.
I saw this video, I saw like 10 seconds of this video and what I heard, I was like, oh, that's Ecclesiastes. I didn't know he's a Christian or not, but sure enough, his Instagram handle says Christ follower pro golfer. So he has his priorities, right? Oh, one last thing about Nike ads.
This cultural shift, like people have been posting like old Nike ads, actually old, like 2020, 2021 Nike ads where our culture was really leaning hard into ugliness and it'd be like an obese black woman grinding and be like, get on the floor. Nike. I like what, gross. And here's Scotty Shuffler, him, his baby, you already won, you're like, oh yeah, like that's clearly the direction we need to be going in as a country.
So here is Shuffler, this is before he won. This is a couple of days before in the press conference. It's a few minutes long, but it's worth it all.
You know, I think it's kind of funny. I think, you know, I think I said something after the Byron this year about like, it feels like you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament for like a few minutes. It only lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling. And I like to win the Byron Nelson championship at home.
I literally worked my entire life to become good at golf, to have an opportunity to win that tournament. And you win it, you celebrate, get to hug my family, my sisters there, it's such an amazing moment. And then it's like, okay, now what are we gonna eat for dinner, you know? Life goes on.
Is it great to be able to win tournaments and to accomplish the things I have in the game of golf yet? I mean, it brings tears to my eyes just to think about because it's literally worked my entire life to become good at this sport and to have that kind of sense of accomplishment I think is a pretty cool feeling.
You know, to get to live out your dreams is very special, but at the end of the day, it's like I'm not out here to inspire the next generation of golfers. I'm not here to inspire somebody else to be the best player in the world, because what's the point? This is not a fulfilling life. It's fulfilling from a sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.
There's a lot of people that make it to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life, and then you get there and all of a sudden, you get to number one in the world, and then they're like, what's the point? And I really do believe that, because what is the point? You're like, why do I wanna win this tournament so bad?
That's something that I wrestle with on a daily basis. It's like, showing up at the Masters every year, it's like, why do I wanna win this golf tournament so badly. Why do I want to win the Open Championship so badly? I don't know. Because if I win, it's gonna be awesome for about two minutes. And then we're gonna get to the next week and it's gonna be like,
hey, you won two majors this year, how important is it for you to win the FedExCup playoffs? And it's just like, we're back here again, you know? So we really do, we work so hard for such little moments And I'm kind of a sicko. I love putting in the work. I love being able to practice. I love getting out to live out my dreams. But at the end of the day, sometimes I just
don't understand the point. Because I don't know if I'm making any sense or not. But am I not? It's just one of those deals. I love the challenge. I love being able to play this game for a living. It's one of the greatest joys of my life,
but does it fill the deepest wants and desires of my heart? Absolutely not. I mean, I love playing golf. I love being able to compete. I love living out my dreams. I love being a father.
I love being able to take care of my son. I love being able to provide for my family out here playing golf. And every day when I wake up early to go put in the work, my wife thanks me for going out and working so hard. And when I get home, I try and thank her every day for taking care of our son. It's just, that's why I talk about family as being my priority,
because it really is. I'm blessed to be able to come out here and play golf. But if my golf ever started affecting my home life or it ever affected the relationship I have with my wife or with my son, that's going to be the last day that I play out here for a living. This is not the be all, end all. This is not the most important thing in my life.
And that's why I wrestle with why is this so important to me because I would much rather be a great father than I would be a great golfer. At the end of the day, that's what's more important to me.
But I think that's why I asked the question,
what is losing like for you?
It sucks.
I hate it.
I really do. But that's part of the competition. That is, and I think that's why we try to work so hard to not lose, but golf's a game where you just lose a lot more often than you win. I mean, that's just a simple part of it.
You know, in basketball or football, when there's only two guys out there, you can win a lot more than you lose. But I think I was looking at stats. It was one of the best tennis players. It might've been Federer or Djokovic or somebody.
They only won like 48% of their points or something like that. I mean, playing professional sports is a really weird thing to do. Like, it really is, just because we put in so much effort, we work so hard for something that's so fleeting. I mean, it really is. Like, the feeling of winning just doesn't last that long. You know, when I sit back at the end of the year and, you know,
I kind of try to reflect on things, like having that sense of accomplishment from winning the Masters Tournament, from winning the PGA Championship. I have a deep sense of gratitude and appreciation for it, but it's just hard to explain how it doesn't, it just doesn't satisfy, is how I would describe it. It's an unsatisfying venture. And so I guess what I'm trying to say is this is not the place to look for your satisfaction.
This is something that's where you can have a great appreciation for and a great amount of thankfulness for being able to do this. And it's, I mean, like I said, it's literally one of the most fun things that I can do in my entire life.
I love being able to come out here and play golf and compete. But at the end of the day, it's just not what satisfies me. I'm right here, Jamie, where are you?
You're right there. You could sit there and you could sit that chair if you want. Or you want to come in daddy's lap. He says, I want to go in daddy's lap. Jamie, good timing, by the way, but okay. You could sit right there.
Uh, here is a bit of a more explicit explanation of what does satisfy him.
I would say that, I mean, in the simplest of terms, we have a Creator. You know, God created the earth and he sent his Son to save us. I mean, the Lord covered our sins on the cross and victory was secured over death. We will live forever with Christ when we eventually pass on from this earth and Jesus saved us. He died and saved us from our sins. It's really just as simple as that.
So the victory is secure whether or not I win a golf tournament or never be able to play golf again. You know, my identity and victory secure, know that I'm going to spend eternity with Jesus.
You want me to go downstairs?
Okay.
Jamie, can I just make one last point here?
Okay.
Let me take one last point here. Someone posted on this video.
Hello.
So I'm posting on the video, uh, a quote, if you're not good enough without the gold medal, you're never going to be good enough with it. That is from John Candy in the film, Cool Runnings. It's not fulfilling, of course, none of this stuff is fulfilling because what we are all searching for is eternal meaning
and these earthly things will never give that eternal meaning. The only identity that you can have for eternity is in Christ. And I'll leave you with this because Jamie says, I need to go downstairs.
Second Corinthians 5.17, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old is passed away. Behold, the new has come. Mike Slater dot locals dot com transcript commercial free on the website,
Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Jamie, come here, say hi. He's playing with the printer. Come here. Come say hi, you wonderful boy. Say hi to everybody.

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July 21, 2025

We Don't Want To Live Forever

Politics By Faith, July 21, 2025

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about heaven. With the recent tragedies—devastating floods in Texas, the passing of John MacArthur, and loved ones of friends reaching the end of their lives—it’s only natural to reflect on what comes next. In the midst of it all, I found a poem from the early 1800s that brought me peace and perspective about death. In this episode, I share that poem and explore why we’re not meant to live forever.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I've been talking a lot about heaven lately and how awesome it's going to be. So I'll start it with the disaster in Texas, the tragedy in Texas. There's been a few people in my life who have another friend or family member who have passed away, all old age, and just the last couple of weeks here, old age where it's a relief for them

and everyone involved, and a celebration. John MacArthur passing away the other day, we're doing a TV special on him this week, so just heaven dying in heaven has been on my mind a lot lately.

I read a poem the other day

and I have nowhere else to put it. I have to tell people this poem. And I, I don't know, I don't want to spend, I kind of pushed the limits on what we do on SiriusXM as it is kind of outside of politics. So I don't know if I can just sit here and read a poem, maybe a little much, but I just want to put it here and I could put some politics into it.

I could also save it until we have another tragedy, but I haven't stopped thinking about it since I first read it and I just want to share it here because it is written by William Augustus Mullenberg. Should I give a little background to this first? So I bought this book, it was published in 1896 or something. It's called An American Anthology, and it's just poems.

It's thick, it's huge, it's like 1,000 pages, it's just a poem. So every day I've just been opening it up to a different one and this one is early in the book by a guy I've never heard of, William Augustus Mullenberg. He was born in 1796 in Philadelphia,

founder of St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, all according to Wikipedia. He's known as the father of church schools in America. The poem is called, I Would Not Live All Way. Let me read these first two lines and then I'll tell you what I did to make it make sense.

I would not live all way, live all way below. Oh no, I'll not linger when bidden to go. The days of our pilgrimage granted us here are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer. I had no idea what that meant. I would not live all way?

What does that mean? It means I don't want to live forever. So it's an old timey way of saying, I don't want to live forever. I don't want to live for always. I don't want to live all way.

No, no. I will not stay here when I'm called to go. The days of our pilgrimage granted us here are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer? Would I shrink from the path which the prophets of God, apostles and martyrs so joyfully trod? Like a spirit unblessed over the earth, would I roam while brethren and friends are all hastening home?

What am I?

I'm not going to go to heaven when I'm called to go to heaven. Are you kidding me? I'm just going to roam around here on earth forever? When everyone else is going home? Going home to heaven? No way, I'm out of here.

I would not live all way. I ask not to stay. Where storm after storm rises dark over the way. We're seeking for rest, we but hover around Like the patriarch's bird, and no resting is found. Where hope, when she paints her gay bow in the air,

Leaves its brilliance to fade in the night of despair, And joy's fleeting angel never sheds a glad ray, Save the beam of the plumage that bears him away. I would not live all way, thus fettered by sin, temptation without, and corruption within. Man, it's so good.

I don't wanna be here forever, held down by sin, temptation everywhere around me, corruption everywhere within me. In a moment of strength, if I ever sever the chain, scarce the victory is mine before I'm captive again. Oh, it's so good.

If I'm ever strong enough in a moment where I'm not held by sin, scarce the victory is mine before I'm captive again. Oh, I could fight against this sin for just a moment, but the victory is mine for just an instant before I'm captive again. Oh, I could fight against this sin for just a moment. But the victory is mine for just an instant before I'm captive to sin again.

Even the rapture of pardon is mingled with fears and the cup of thanksgiving with penitent tears. The festival trump calls for jubilant songs, but my spirit her own misery prolongs. I would not live all way. No, welcome the tomb.

Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom. Why would you be afraid of dying? Where he deigned to sleep, I'll too bow my head, all peaceful to slumber on that hallowed bed. Then the glorious daybreak to follow that night, the orient gleam of the angels of light, with their clarion call for the sleepers to rise and chant forth their

matins away to the skies, singing, Who, who would live all way, away from his God? That's the best thing about heaven, see? Who would live all the way away from his God, away from yon heaven, that blissful abode, where the rivers of pleasure flow over the bright plains and the noontide of glory eternally reigns? Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet, their Savior and brethren transported to greet, while the songs of salvation exultingly roll,

and the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul. Man, that makes me wanna go there so bad. That heavenly music, this is the last stanza, that heavenly music, what is it I hear? The notes of the harpers ring sweet in mine ear. And see, soft unfolding, those portals of gold, the king all arrayed in his beauty behold.

O give me, O give me the wings of a dove, to adore him, be near him, enwrapped with his love. I but wait for the summons. I list for the word. Hallelujah. Amen. Evermore with the Lord." Come on. How good is that? It's like, I don't want to live here forever. You know, there's that tech guy, that billionaire guy who's doing everything he can to try to live forever, eating just the precise amount of every particular food.

And he's monitoring every single aspect of his body that he possibly, he's worshiping the body. I mean, this is all ancient pagan stuff. Worshiping the self, worshiping the body. And here's someone with a proper perspective. It's like, no, I don't wanna be here.

This life, it's got enough woes. I'm ready to go to heaven. There's one way to get there. Acts 4.11, there is salvation in no one else besides Jesus. And there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

There's only one way. You have to believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, came down in the flesh to die for your sins, was killed on the cross and then resurrected on the third day. If you believe that, congratulations, that's it.

The five solas. Sola is alone. Grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone, scripture alone, glory to God alone. And you will know that you are doing those things when this poem speaks to you in a powerful way, because this poem is the opposite of what this

world of what the world is trying to tell you. The world wants you to live for this world, for the moment, and this is all there is and all that matters. When the Bible tells you this is but a fleeting moment, eternity is what we need to set our eyes on. Mike Slater.locals.com,

transcript commercial free on the website. Again, the poem, if you want to read it yourself or share it or have it William Augustus Mullenberg, M-U-H-L-E-N-B-E-R-G William Augustus Mullenberg, I would not live all way. Mullenberg, I would not live all way. Mike Slater dot locals.com.

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