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The New American Pope and Ordo Amoris
Politics By Faith, May 8, 2025
May 08, 2025

The new pope is from America. That's neat. As people search his twitter account, they're finding more insight into his politics, including a criticism of JD and his application of Ordo Amoris to illegal aliens. 

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. There's a new Pope. I'm not Catholic so I have no connection to this and I don't know how it all even works. But I am an American and we have our first American Pope so that's something. The Catholic Church has had 217 Popes from Italy, 16 from France, six from Germany, five from Syria, four from Greece, and then on down the list,

the last Pope was from Argentina. And finally, America is an, is a underrepresented nation in something. This guy's from Chicago, he went to Villanova, served in Peru for a long time, he's a naturalized citizen of Peru.

And that is all I've learned from his Wikipedia page so far. Now in the few hours since he's been named Pope, people have perused his Twitter account. Now I don't know how much this guy was involved in his own Twitter account. Maybe he had some interns who don't know.

But if you look at his Twitter, big lefty guy, that's not really surprising. He is from Chicago. Now, since that's not really surprising, the Cardinals who voted for the Pope of Aspen, I'm guessing it was I think it was like 108 out of 133, something like that, of these Cardinals were put in there by the last Pope, so they're gonna vote for another guy who's kind of like this. One of the tweets that this Pope, new Pope sent out, was critical of J.D. Vance. It's something

that J.D. Vance said back in January. The new Pope tweeted this on February 3rd. He said, J.D. Vance is wrong. Jesus does not ask us to rank our love for others.

Uh oh.

So what is this about? This is back January 29th. J.D. Vance did an interview. The context here is illegal aliens versus American citizens. The left, they're the ones who have compassion for illegals

at the expense of American citizens. That's the argument. That's the concern here. That's what the election was all about. And here's JD Vance speaking to that.

But there's this old school, and I think it's a very Christian concept, by the way, that you love your family and then you love your neighbor and then you love your community and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country. And then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that. They seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside

their own borders. That is no way to run a society. And I think the profound difference that Donald Trump brings to the leadership of this country is that the simple concept America first. It doesn't mean you hate anybody else. It means that you have leadership and President Trump has been very clear about this that puts the interests of American citizens first. In the same way that the British Prime Minister should

care about Brits and the French should care about the French, we have an American president who cares primarily about Americans, and that's a very welcome change.

A lot of progressive theologians, pastors, et cetera, did not like J.D. Vance for saying that. And they say, Oh, you know, how could you quote Jesus like that? We didn't quote Jesus. J.D. and then said, and I think it's a very Christian concept as well, which means it's compatible with Christian culture, not that it's an originally Christian concept. So first thing to note is we have two different spheres we're talking

about here. We're talking about the state and the role of the church. We got the role of the state and the role of the church, two different things. So that's the first point. There's another guy, his name's Heracles, Stoic philosopher. He wrote about oikosis. That's where we get the word economics. Economics means management of the home.

Oikos is home and the family in Greek. Heracles, we believe, was the first to come up with the concentric circles that we've talked about many times on this show before. And that is the self is in the middle, and then the next concentric circle out is the family, then the neighborhood, then the country, then the foreigners, the foreigner of the world.

His argument was that the natural thing is to take care of your family before others. And while Stoic said we should have greater concern for every circle beyond the next, he said that the key to the development of justice and ethical behavior is to concentrate or concern yourself first with you and your family and then you can move out. Jordan Peterson makes this point all the time as well. It's one of his central theses and one of his original messages at

least was focus on yourself before you go out and try to change the temperature of the planet, for instance. And I believe that's a Christian message as you yourself need to repent. You need to repent of your sin. Get the plank out of your own eye before you go trying to take the speck out of everyone else's, focus on you and you need to be born again. First and foremost, top priority before you go calling everyone else to repent

while you continue to live an unrepentant sin. Now, every social movement that I've ever lived through my entire life, it always concerns the outer circles of people, right? Black Lives Matter, global warming, right? The marginalized, right? It's always about these big outer circle things. And I've never lived through an era

where the main cultural impulse or calling was repentance of sin, of yourself, or as Leo Tolstoy called it, the regeneration of the inner man. Every social contagion, is a better word, that I've lived through is these outer circles of far away things and never a true focus on the self. Now, anytime there is a focus on the self in our modern world, it's all, you go girl, you're perfect just the way you are.

Everyone else is the problem. They just don't realize how wonderful you are. That's the self-help movement of the last couple of decades. And it's just as toxic. So what JD Vance is talking about here, the Latin term of it is ordo amoris, ordo amoris, ordered loves.

Lots of philosophers have talked about this. Go back to Thomas Aquinas was one of the first. And there is sight of this in the Bible. First Timothy 5.8 says, if anyone does not provide for his relatives and especially for his immediate family, there's an especially there, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. The progressive worldview is this undefined altruism and focus on the universe and love for

all of existence, oftentimes at the expense of those around you. So Thomas Aquinas, these ordered loves, ordo amoris, he says, but living a just and holy life requires one to be capable of an objective and impartial evaluation of things. To love things, that is to say, in the right order. So that you do not love what is not to be loved.

Okay, we don't want to do that. Or fail to love what should be loved. Or have a greater love for what should be loved less. Or an equal love for things that should be loved more or less or a lesser or greater love for things that should be loved equally. We're often all screwed up. There's things we should love that we don't.

There's things we don't love that we should. There's two things we love the same and we shouldn't. Or there's things we don't love the same and we're all screwed up. And Aquinas outlines the proper order. Remember the Stoics, it was self in the middle and then your family and you move out. Thomas Aquinas says, no, it's God who's in the middle. Then the self, spouse, family, extended family, community, nation, and then the world.

Augustine, he said, this, and then the world. Augustine, he said, this is true of everything created, but though it is good, it can be loved the right way or in the wrong way. In the right way, that is when the proper order is kept in the wrong way, when the order is upset.

So this is nothing new. This has been around for thousands of years. It's order versus disorder. Now, this new pope in February tweeted an article about a woman who was against what JD said, or at least JD's application of ordered loves. Now perhaps it's easier for the Pope to say, oh we should love the world because he's ahead of this this church that

has its arms in every corner of the world. So maybe that can be the Catholic church's first priority. And I would argue that the Protestant church, wherever your church is, my church has missionaries all over the world that we support and send out, and that's great. And you're called to do that.

But then there's also the role of the state. And the state should order its love. I believe as J.D. Vance has articulated it. If you're called as a Christian to go and minister to the world, great. But even that has an ordered love to it. There's no way that the Bible says to abandon your family, to go minister to people somewhere else around the world. I have a ministry field right here in my home that I need to pay attention to as well. And if we all focused more on a proper ordering of love,

then we would focus on the self and being born again and becoming a slave to Christ, slave to the Lord, where he is at the center and the highest of all order. I don't know what this Pope will do, who he will be, I don't really care. I'm concerned with your soul and mine. Let's put God in my children. Let's put God in my wife. Let's put God first. Seek first the kingdom of God. Let's pray about how the loves in our life should be properly rewarded.

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A man from Sudan tried to behead a man in a street in Belfast, Northern Ireland. When will it be enough for the people of Europe and America? When will we reverse this Third World migration? What does the Bible say about this?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible, so we can walk away with some peace and perspective. We do this because there's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. And if you could subscribe to our YouTube page, that'd be great. YouTube . 

com slash at politics by faith. The story of the day today, a man from Sudan tried to cut the head off of an Irish man in the middle of the street. Here's what happened. Man from Sudan, just let that sink. I'm sorry. I should have said, This happened in Belfast, Ireland. 

This guy's from Sudan. Now, it may be worth looking at a map. Belfast, Northern Ireland is nowhere near Sudan. Ireland has nothing to do with Sudan. They have no history together. They were never a colony. 

Ireland was never a colonizing power. I don't know the exact route this gentleman took from Sudan to Northern Ireland, but if you just go straight, then you have to go through Libya, Tunisia, Italy, France, England, and then Northern Ireland. This person's in his thirties. We may never know his exact age, having been born in Sudan. And we have video of this man from Sudan sitting on top of an Irish man in Belfast, cutting off his head. He's in the act of slicing off his head with a knife. 

And there are people standing around yelling at him to get off. Now I should note here that the BBC decided to characterize this event with this headline, man taken to hospital. with quote serious injuries after stabbing. he was not stabbed as much as sliced in the neck in an attempt to cut off his head the mass migration of people into western countries has to stop and it has to be reversed we have gone absolutely mad we have gone suicidal with our empathy let's give you one fun multiculturalism story it's a 15 year old girl in germany and there's a kid warning sorry i should have given a kid warning earlier sorry uh kid warning There's a 15 -year -old girl in Germany who was gang raped. This is in 2020. Nine males happened in a park. 

One of the rapists was given no prison time because he was underage. And by underage, when I say underage, what do you think? You think under like 18 or something, right? No, no, under the age of 20. Of the, uh, excuse me, did I say one? I take it back. 

I'm sorry. I said one of them didn't spend time in jail. None of them spent time in jail except for one of them. He was a 19 year old from Iran. And this happened in Germany. The court, the judge, no, no, excuse me, the, uh, the, this, the guy from Iran who was a part of the rape, he said, what man doesn't want that? 

That was his excuse and justification for rape. Now, none of those men went to jail except for that one guy. Okay. In 2024, so that happened in 2020, 2024, this woman somehow was able to text one of the rapists and she texted him and called him a disgraceful rapist pig and a disgusting freak she was sentenced to a weekend in jail for her verbal attacks so just to be clear the act of rape by the foreigners no jail time the act of verbal assault you disgraceful rapist pig and disgusting freak which are all true weekend in jail for the woman okay that's suicidal empathy so what's broken here it's a couple things first there's something to be said about how the people who were videotaping this beheading took a long time. Now, I don't know exactly. 

I could never really know until you're in the heat of that moment, how you would react. There's ways that you like to think you would react, but you can't really know until you're there. But when there's the man and the woman shouting, hurry up, like, like someone help do something and like, Oh, he's going to do something. Hurry up. Like you're not doing anything. If you're yelling, hurry up, then you're there. 

You're never going to do anything. They would have stood there the whole time as this, as this head gets slowly sliced off. So that's the first. or another concerning part of this whole thing. The government is not going to do anything. There will be riots. 

This is in Northern Ireland. It's a part of the country that's known to do such a thing. The government in the UK is absolutely the worst. They won't say anything about it. They don't want anyone sharing the video because they say it jeopardizes the investigation. It's not. 

It's about information control because it is quite radicalizing to see one of your fellow countrymen get butchered on the street by someone from Sudan. There's a story to be said, of course, about high -trust societies. We'll save that for the radio show. We've talked a lot about that before, but you can't take people from no trust or low trust societies and just throw them in a high trust society and think that everything's going to go great. It was Alexander Hamilton in 1802. He said in the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all important and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency, meaning it won't go well when you put ingredients that don't mix By the way, Alexander Hamilton was talking about immigrants from Germany and Ireland and France when he wrote that in 1820, but not about the Sudan. 

Okay. Uh, let's get to the Bible. I need the Bible. Um, you're called to love your enemy and the government has the sword and should use it to defend the quality of life of their people. Romans 13 three says rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? 

Then do what is good and you will receive his approval. For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. " Now, I don't know if this person was saying he was a Muslim, but in the Quran, if this was, I don't know the exact motivation of what happened in this particular case, but if this guy was a Muslim and he was killing a Christian, then he was following the word of Allah. He was doing great work here. He wasn't in the wrong. 

So the Bible says, if you're in the wrong, be afraid, for our leaders don't bear the sword in vain. But if he's a Muslim, then he wasn't doing wrong. by his perspective, just so you know. But our Bible says, for he is the servant of God, meaning that our rulers are the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Our government is not avenging and they are not carrying out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. And they're not even preventing wrongdoers from coming to our shores. Now, multiple things can be true at the same time here. And this is one of the tensions in the Bible, and there's many of these, and I appreciate all of them. We need to have discernment on how to best love, like love your enemies, right? So you have that on the one side, we've got to love our enemies. And then also there are enemies who are invading our nation. And we have to balance this as individuals and as a nation that has a government that has a biblical role as well. Yes, love your enemies. We want everyone also to know Jesus and become Christians all throughout the world. Also Deuteronomy 7 .1, when the Lord, your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it. clears away and clear away many things before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you. And when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You must make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons. For they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods. So the anger of your Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. But thus you shall deal with them. You shall destroy their altars and break down their sacred pillars and cut down their wooden images and burn their carved images with fire." Now, Now, I'm not saying we need to go over to Sudan and destroy them. I'm just saying we should prevent people from the third world coming to America to destroy us. I'm not calling for the same zeal shown there to destroy other peoples. 

I'm calling for just a little bit of zeal, a teeny tiny amount of zeal to prevent other countries from destroying our culture. I'm going to save an analysis here for the special that's going to come out this weekend about America. I'll tell the story of the Plymouth Foundation, the Plymouth Colony. And then the colony right next door, Merrymount, and it was run by this guy who was a total pagan. He was a British guy, pagan, came in and set up a pagan pole, like an asher pole with horns on the top of it. And they got super drunk all the time and orgies and carows and the whole thing. 

And the Puritans from Plymouth, they came in with guns ready to take them all out. and they didn't have to because they were also drunk. They just rolled in and detained them without a shot fired and exiled them back to England. They had a little bit of zeal. They didn't want this foreign culture. They're both from England in this case, but they were pagans. 

They didn't want this foreign pagan culture coming in to their new Israel. 1 Kings 11 says, But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughters of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidionites, and Hittites, from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, you shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods. He didn't listen. He had 300 concubines and the Bible says his wives turned away his heart. The difference with us in this story here is our hearts have already been turned away from God. 

which is why we are allowing this to happen. Jonathan Mayhew in 1750, his name came up the other day in our last special, he gave a sermon called A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non -Resistance to the High Powers. 1750, this is one of the original sermons, not one of the original, there were more before this, but one of the big sermons, most certainly the most known in the colonies, sermon against or justifying revolution. from a Christian perspective. And he said that civil tyranny is usually small in its beginning, like the drop of a bucket, till at length, like a mighty torrent, it bears down all before it and deluges the whole countries and empires. He said, tyranny brings ignorance and brutality along with it. 

It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes. It damps their spirits. It suppresses arts. It extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity. Now these preachers, Mayhew and many others, they were speaking against a tyrant in the form of a king. This is a different kind of tyranny. 

And the government that is allowing this, and in many ways encouraging it, they need to be replaced as quickly as possible. Don't know what it will take. Don't know when people will care enough. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith to subscribe to our page. Spread the word.

 

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Stephen Spielberg Wants You To Question The Existence Of God
Politics By Faith, June 9, 2026

Will you see Stephen Spielberg's new movie? Do we need more things in our culture causing us to question the existence of God? Luke 19 has some insight into what we should do with Spielberg's offer.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible, so we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day. But Ecclesiastes says he's not the new one of the sun. So thanks for being here. To get the true story, the story of the day, Steven Spielberg says his new movie, Disclosure Day, will leave Christians questioning their faith in God. 

So we got a new movie coming out. Disclosure Day, it's a story of a cybersecurity expert and a TV meteorologist who race to leak classified government archives proving non -human intelligence exists. Yet, they're pursued by a shadowy establishment determined to suppress the truth to maintain the world order. Steven Spielberg hasn't had a good movie in like 20 years. Breitbart's, our friend John Nolte is the senior writer at Breitbart. He's one of the main culture writers there. 

massive movie expert. He watches like two movies a day for his life. He says Spielberg's on about a 20 -year losing streak, had some of the big hits early on at Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, got it, E . T. Then a couple other ones, I'll throw Saving Private Ryan in there. That was 1998. 

All right, so really since 1998, Nolte, who's seen them all, said Lincoln And Bridge of Spies, he said, we're all OK. But in that same period, you got the Indiana Jones with the ghost or the crystal skull, the adventures of Tin Tin, War Horse, BFG, The Post, Ready Player One, West Side Story, The Fablemans. The Fablemans and West Side Story were two just massive box office disasters. So he's going on this publicity tour for he's trying to make this as big next. And here is what he said on CBS Sunday morning. This truth were just known overnight. 

If the government announced, yes, we have been keeping this from you since 1947, that would mess up a lot of people. And the movie also takes the position of the church. What does this do to the fundamental beliefs that many of us have? And, you know, is God our God only on this planet? Or is God a God for us? So what's broken of this story? 

Why talk about it here? I don't need my belief in God question. The devil's working overtime to try and get people to not believe in God. I don't need Steven Spielberg to join in on that effort or work as a tool of the devil. Romans 10 17 says faith comes through hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. This needs to be our top priority. 

To increase our faith in God. I would say most people's problem in America is not that we don't question God's existence enough. It's that we question it too much already. You with me? The problem with America is there's too many people that believe in God and they haven't really thought it through. The problem is not enough people believe in God. 

Or they say they maybe kind of do, but they don't understand the ramifications of God. We need to spend more time in this country increasing our faith, not questioning it. I also don't need non -Christians telling me and other Christians what we should believe or not believe or what we should question. No thanks, Steven. Did you see the other day, the Pentagon, they reduced the number of recognized religions. 

How many religions could you name? If we sat down and brainstormed religions, how many could we name? We've got Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism or something. I don't know, five? Maybe we could sit here and get to eight. They've removed uh so they had uh 211 they had 211 religions and they cut it down to 31 and that's still like what 31 so they removed atheism that was a recognized religion humanism paganism wicca witches druidism asatru unitarian universalism which is hilarious that's the that's the funniest religion because it's just all of them they're like we believe in all the things of all the religions and they're all true as they what one is pronounced magic m -a -g -i -c -k i don't know shamanism deism n -car n -kin -car bathomet b -a -t -h -o -m -e -t i don't know and troth troth t -r -o -t -h what in the world so the ones that remain are a bunch of christian denominations and then agnostic bahai Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikh. 

Those are the main ones. But the idea, I bring this one up here because the idea that we had 211 recognized religions in the military, and by the way, still have a handful of blasphemous religions allowed in the military, shows how far we've fallen and how much we've already been questioning the existence of God. and coming to our own ridiculous conclusions. 211 different, after all, let's say Christianity is one of them, let's say. So 210 false, wrong conclusions after all the questioning of his existence. If I may make a suggestion before we get to the Bible, I hate to be a cultural prude here, but be careful of anti -Christian culture being I was going to say being pushed into your home and into your heart, but it's not, I mean, it's being pushed, but in the end you still allow it. 

So be aware of what you allow into your home and into your heart. C . S. Lewis wrote a lot about this. He said, the world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. 

So I'm not saying every book you read has to be the Bible or that every book you read has to be about the Bible or that every book you read has to be explicitly Christian. But we need more Christians writing good literature of all genres. Read old books, right? The older authors are often usually more informed by Christian culture in their writing. And it's just better. See, this is Lewis's advice to read old books, at least every other. 

Secular books by secular authors can stumble upon a truth here or there. And again, I don't want to be a prude about it, but if I can just encourage us all, there's so much good stuff out there. There's so much good literature that's been written. that so many of the greats we haven't read before. Go to the good stuff. There's so much good literature and poems and movies and tv shows that have been made 

Why do we have to fill the short time that we have here on earth with more modern secular slop? There's enough good stuff there. I don't need new. My last C . S. Lewis quote of the day, it's one of my favorite quotes of his. 

He says, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half -hearted creatures fooling about with drink and sex and ambition. When infinite joy is offered us, Like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. Like a vacation. That's a British word for vacation. Vacation at the sea. 

We are far too easily pleased. Here we are messing around with Steven Spielberg's latest stupid movie, which it promises to question your existence of God. Oh yeah, I can't wait to play with that mud pie in a slum. What a fun night that'll be when God has so much more available to us. We are far, far too easily pleased. Let's go to the Bible. 

I read this, uh, this morning, Luke 19. And I got a minute, I read it and I was like, ah, this, I don't get it. This parable made no sense to me. So obviously I had to do more research on it. And I think it fits in here pretty nicely. We'll see if it does. 

So this is Luke 19. It's right after Zacchaeus climbed the sycamore tree. And he decided to give half of his goods. He's a thief. So he decided to give half of his goods away and then restore the people he defrauded fourfold. And then Jesus goes right into the parable of the ten minas. 

Minas, M -I -N -A -S. So one minas is three months. It's money. It's three months of wages, three months of labor. One is. So he gave ten servants each one amount of money, a lot of money. 

money, three months worth of money. So I don't know if you make 60 grand, right? So it's like a good chunk of money he gave people. So he gave each of those, each of the 10 servants, the same amount. Let me pick up here. He said, therefore, a nobleman went into a far country. 

This is the parable. To receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling 10 of his servants, he gave them 10 minus and said to them, engage in business until I come. But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, We do not want this man to reign over us. More on that in a second. When he returned, having received the kingdom, he offered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they gained by doing business. 

What have you got? What did you do? I've been gone. What have you done with the money? The first came before him saying, Lord, your mina has made ten minus more. And he said to them, Well done. 

good servant, because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over 10 cities. " Pretty good. And the second came saying, Lord, your mina has made five minas. And he said to him, and you are to be over five cities. Then another came saying, Lord, here's your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, for I was afraid of you because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow. And he said to him, I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did, taking what I did not deposit, reaping what I did not sow. Why then did you not put my money in the bank? And at my coming, I might have collected it with interest." And he said to those who stood by, take a mina from him and give it to him. who has ten minas. And they said to him, Lord, he has ten minas. I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given. 

But for the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me. is even if you are that third servant who did nothing and was scolded, at least we're not the enemy who were slaughtered, who were killed right there on the spot. The point of this part here is that everyone has to answer to the master, just like we will all have to answer to God. The main point of this parable is that Jesus's kingdom will not appear immediately. There will be a period of time when the King of Kings is absent before the kingdom will be fully set up. So this nobleman left, his master left, and he put in charge, he gave his servants a commission. 

to see if they would faithfully execute it until he returned. Go do business. Some did, some did not. We similarly have a short time here on earth to do God's will well. We need to be good and faithful servants. Now, I pray that we're not going to be the ones who reject God outright, like the people who hated the master and who were executed when the master got back. 

But everything we do on earth should be done in the hope of hearing well done, good and faithful servant. And I would argue part of being a good and faithful steward of our lives is how we spend our time, and what we consume, and who we support with our money. I suggest we choose accordingly. If you're watching this, listening to this on the podcast, you can join us over on YouTube, youtube . com slash atpoliticsbyfaith for free. 

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What Happens When We Throw Away God: The Karmelo Anthony Murder Trial
Politics By Faith, September 8, 2026

We once had a God-fearing society. Then the pagans came in and threw God out of our culture, but thought they could keep all the good stuff. They were wrong. And one of those things that we lost was the ability to dispense justice through a jury system. Unfortunately, Pagan tribalism killed the jury system in America.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective, live to fight another day in this fallen, broken world. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. Thanks for being here to get the true story. Thanks for subscribing to our YouTube page as well. If you're listening to this podcast form, you go to youtube . 

com slash at politics by faith and subscribe over there. The story of the day, the Carmelo Anthony trial. All right, we're about halfway through the trial right now. Here's what happened. Get caught up, get in front of things here. Here's the basics. 

Austin Metcalf. He was white. It's an important part of the story. He was 17 years old at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas. Carmelo Anthony is black. He's from a different high school in that area. 

They were both at this track meet and there were thunderstorms, so the meet was delayed. For some reason, the black student, was in the white student's tent, the school tent area at this meet, right? And in the trial yesterday, two days ago, we found out from a witness that the black student, the black athlete was told to leave at least 15 times. Like, get out of here. This is not your school. Your school's tent is over there. 

We don't know why he was there. We don't know the motive behind why this interaction ever even took place at all in the first place. At one point, Carmelo Anthony said, touch me and see what happens. Metcalf then pushed him. Anthony then pulled out a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the chest, then ran away. Carmelo Anthony told police I was protecting myself. 

We also know he was quote crying hysterically when he was arrested. He told police he put his hands on me. I told him not to. And then he asked the officer if what he did could be considered self -defense. Carmelo is charged with murder as an adult. He was 17 when this happened. This was last year. 

This happened last, I want to say April. There is security camera footage of this. No one in the public has seen it yet. The jury has. They've now seen it. All right. 

Pun to do with this story. I want to talk about the most upfront, obvious surface level part of the whole thing. And that is the skin color of the people involved and of the jury and of the outrage that you're going to hear when the verdict is ultimately given. This is a woman who is outside the courtroom. in support of Carmelo Anthony. If evidence does come out that Carmelo was not in fact fighting for his life when he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, do you think that the black community will accept that? 

If evidence shows that he did not, no, we're going to stand by ours regardless. They stand by theirs. We're going to stand by ours regardless. I'm a mother first. I'm a black mother. Let me put that on there. 

I'm an African -American mother. So I have to put away my color first and step into the motherhood. Nobody wants to see their child slain. So I do want to send prayers to Officer Metcalf, their family. But at the end of the day, I got to think like, okay, what did you do to them or whatever to cause this to happen, the reaction? We got to start taking accountability for our kids. 

Because then again, if my kid, that's why it's a catch -22, if my kid was Carmelo and I feel like his back was up against the wall, I'm going to tell you something. up, better mine than yours. Better mine than yours. So either way it go, everybody loses. A black boy allegedly erred, and I say allegedly, heavy on the allegedly, allegedly erred at somebody. You see what I'm saying? 

So yeah, this is about race. Because if the shoe was on the other foot, they wouldn't give a damn. Who wouldn't give a damn? The, let me say this, let's say the community. So if Carmelo Anthony was the one stabbed and killed by Austin Metcalf. They wouldn't give a damn. 

George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose and country. You can't have a jury system like this. There's been studies on this, plenty of analyses on this. There was a study that looked at trials with black and white defendants. So black and white defendants and then black and white people on the jury. and who voted guilty. 

So what they found in this analysis was if the juror is white, so a white juror, white defendant, the white juror says guilty 39 % of the time. If the defendant is black, so white juror, black defendant, the white person says guilty 32 % of the time. So about the same, but actually less. of but we'll call it the same, 39%, 32%. Okay. 

Then they looked at black jurors, black juror. If the defendant was white, the black juror found that white guy guilty 73 % of the time. If the defendant is also black, so black juror, black defendant, they only found that black defendant guilty 24 % of the time. That is a massive difference. So again, when it was a white juror, it didn't really matter if it was a white defendant or a black defendant, 39, 32, whatever, it was about the same. But if there was a black juror, massive difference. 

What did she say? We protect our own or something like that? That's tribalism. You can't have a jury system like that. You really can't have a jury system in a multi -ethnic society because the ethnicities become tribal. Now, in this particular trial with Carmel Anthony, Austin Metcalf is the person who was murdered, with Carmel Anthony, there are no black jurors at all. 

Because in the jury selection process, which might be the most important part of the entire trial, one prospective juror said, I don't, this is a quote, I don't know if I feel right putting a brother in jail, even if he murdered someone like that woman said, what if it came out that he wasn't acting in self -defense? Well, nah, I still wouldn't put it. And then like someone who was actually, that's just some crazy woman outside the trial, but even someone who was selected for jury was like, nah, I can't put a, I can't put a brother in jail unless he admitted it. So it doesn't matter what One of the OJ jurors admitted on camera that letting OJ off was payback for Rodney King. It did not matter one bit what was ever said in that trial. However long that trial lasted, trial of the century, it didn't matter at all what happened. 

It was already done. One of the jurors on the trial, as he walked out, threw the black power fist over at OJ, the whitest black guy ever, threw the black power fist at him. What? There was another major study done. This was done by the American National Election Studies, University of Chicago at Stanford. supported by the National Science Foundation. 

It's like maximum credibility in the study. This was done before and after the 2020 presidential election. So they asked a bunch of different questions, like 100 different questions. One of those set of questions was, they called it a feelings thermometer. So the question was, how would you rate different ethnicities based on zero to 100? So 50 to 100 means you have a favorable and warm regard towards this group. 

Zero to 50 means you don't have a favorable view towards this group, and you don't care much for that group. These are the words that they use. And they would ask you to rate, so let's say you're white. They'd say, all right, well, how do you feel about black people? How do you feel about Asian people? How do you feel about Hispanic people? 

And then if you're any of those other races, they would say, well, how do you feel about white people? So they asked white people first, right? And they said, well, then not first, but I'll do my analysis first. They said white people, right? So hey, white people, how do you feel about white people? Actually, they would ask white people how they feel about white people. 

So white people, how do you feel about white people? And white people are like, OK, I'm going to go around 70. And then, hey, how do you feel about black people? How do you feel about Hispanic people? How do you feel about Asian people? It was all around 70. 

How white people felt about white people? 75%. How white people felt about black people? 73%. That two point difference in America we call systemic racism. Two points. 

But they also asked Hispanic people. Hey, Hispanic people, how do you feel about Hispanic people? 85 % love Hispanic people. Hispanic people think Hispanic people are the bee's knees. Love, love Hispanic people. All right, Hispanic people, how do you feel about white people? 

65%. Pretty big spread. 20 points. Again, white people, two points. Two point spread between white and black. Two. 

And zero between white and Asian white and Hispanic. Zero. The same, same, same. White and black, two points. But Hispanic, between Hispanics and white, 20 points. Then they asked Asians. 

Hey Asians, how do you feel about Asians? 82%. Love. Asians, how do you feel about white people? 68. Pretty big spread. 

And then they asked black people. Hey black people, how do you feel about black people? 85%. Love black people. All right black people, how do you feel about white people? 60%. 

25 point difference. Biggest spread at all. All these other three groups of people had huge spreads between, if I may, my own kind and white people. For black and white, 25 points spread. Meanwhile, white people, a two point spread between black and white people. And we call that systemic racism. 

And we're lectured about it all the time. Back to the justice system. Hey, black juror, did this black 17 year old murder this white kid? No. Oh, well, here's security camera footage of it. Don't matter. 

Now, if Carmelo Anthony is found guilty, there will be mass outrage from the left. Black Lives Matter, the whole thing. And then the video will be released finally to the public a year later. And it won't matter. One iota. to any of those people. 

Truth doesn't. So as I'm recording this right now, the prosecution has rested their case. The defense picks it up next. The prosecution, the state, Metcalf's team, can then give a rebuttal. And then the defense gives a rebuttal to the rebuttal. And then it's up to the jury. 

And it's got to be unanimous. We'll keep you up to date. But let's go to the Bible now. I want to talk about justice. How does the Bible define justice? Justice is giving people what they are due. 

Now, when it comes to heaven and hell, you do not want what you are due because you are due hell. That's where Jesus comes in. Justice. There's a lot of different elements of justice. Let me just pick one for the sake of our time here. Justice is impartial. 

Deuteronomy 1 .17 says, you shall not show partiality in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man for the judgment is God's. Justice should be based, according to the Bible, based on the facts of the case. and the facts of the case alone. Now, partiality can go all sorts of ways, and you should go no way, only the way of the facts. 

The Bible says you can't judge against a person because they're poor or because they're rich, but you can't do it both ways, right? So someone may say, well, don't be mean against poor people. Well, you also can't go against rich people either just because they're rich, right? You can't judge a person guilty because they're black, but you also can't say they're innocent just because they're black. It had nothing to do with it. And you also can't judge someone guilty or innocent based off of a different case, like they did with OJ. 

Oh, what was the payback for Rodney King? The Bible speaks to this a lot, actually. Leviticus 19 .15, you must not pervert justice. We're going to get back to that word in a second. You must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich. You are to judge your neighbor fairly. 

Deuteronomy 10 .17, by the way, neighbor, your neighbor, not race. Your neighbor, Deuteronomy 10, 17, the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God. Let's get back to that in a second as well. Showing no partiality and accepting no bribe. If I could pick one story as if the biblical God talking is not enough here. 1 Samuel 8, 3, this sentence here, his sons, speaking of Samuel and his sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice. 

" There's the word again, perverted justice. The Bible a lot, Exodus 23 says, you shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute. Keep far from a false charge and do not kill the innocent or the righteous for I will not acquit the guilty. You shall not take a bribe for a bribe blinds the clear sided and subverts the cause of of the just. I want to get back to Samuel, Deuteronomy 16, 18 says, You shall appoint to yourself judges and officers in your towns, which the Lord your God has given you according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. You shall not distort justice. 

You shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe. There it is again, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. It's all throughout the Old Testament. So let's go back to Samuel. How terrible is it that Samuel's sons did not follow his way? They didn't follow dad's way. 

or their Heavenly Father. They turned aside. Turned aside is a verb that is translated 30 different ways in the Bible. Isn't that amazing? And it depends what noun you have next to it. So if you have the word tent next to this word, then it means to spread it, spread it out. 

If you have the word justice next to it, then it means to pervert it. Don't pervert justice. In the case I'm referring to, like what I'm talking about here, it's more denying it. Same thing, I guess, right? Now I'm not, well, I guess what's different is I'm also, I'm not saying the judge is taking bribes, but the jurors, They can't be motivated by anything other than the truth, whether it's taking a bribe, monetary bribe, or it's just deep seated racial resentment. The Bible has so many verses about taking bribes and just in general, lack of justice. 

It is clearly something that God hates. If we had, and this goes back to that scripture we shared of, you know, your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords. If we had a jury of our peers, a system that we created full of Bible believing Christians, who were afraid of the wrath of God for perverting justice, when they are given the solemn responsibility of dispensing justice, of finding someone guilty or innocent, if we had a jury of peers who all agreed, all felt that same way, and all knew that God was watching, then a jury system can work, then a jury system is fair, and a jury system is good. But with the tribalism we have in America today, what's keeping people honest? Who cares? This is what happens when you throw God out of our culture. 

We lost so much more. Pagans thought they could throw God out and keep all the other good things that came from a God -fearing country. We had all this good stuff that happened from a God -fearing, biblical -minded country and culture. All these amazing things. We took it all for granted. The godless pagans came in, threw out God, and thought they could keep all the good stuff. 

And one of the good things they thought they could keep was a jury system. Who thought we were going to lose that? It's gone. Truth doesn't matter. You throw God out of our culture, you lose everything. I pray in this case, and all cases, for God -fearing justice. 

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