Knowing Our Ancestors, Blood And Spirit

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Politics By Faith, May 16, 2025

May 16, 2025

The 250th Anniversary of America is a beautiful time to reconnect with our American ancestors. Every day is the perfect time to connect to our spiritual ancestors.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. Last couple of days on SiriusXM, we've done a couple of segments related to education. We touch on it from time to time. We did a segment last week about how kids can't read. Well, half of Americans can't read at a sixth grade level. That's a problem. It's 46%. 46% can't read at a sixth grade level. That's a problem. It's 46%. 46% can't read at a sixth grade level. That's USA Today, so can't read a newspaper.

New York Times is at an 11th grade level, so they're not even close. Half of Americans can't read a menu, can't read a job application. Big, big problem. But then we did a segment on college kids who can't read. And they don't have the will,

but many don't even have the skill. Today we did a segment on AI. It's graduation time across the country. Many kids are graduating high school and college who are illiterate. And they've outsourced more and more of their brain

to artificial intelligence. And I think this is unwise. And I think it will be bad for our country. There's a video a 10th grade teacher made, she's quitting, a 10th grade teacher, she says, kids can't do anything at all.

She says, she'll ask them to write a five sentence paragraph by hand, and they throw tantrums. They refuse, they throw a tantrum, they can't do it. And you have to write it by hand to avoid AI. And the kids just can't understand

why they would ever need to write anything ever or think on their own in any way. There's no will. And after a while of not having a will to learn, then they'll lose the skill. And then what are we?

What is this country? She said her students don't care about anything. There's a professor at NYU who's been trying to AI proof his assignments, again mostly by writing by hand, and he said the students just complain that the work's too hard.

This is NYU. One student said, why are you not letting me use AI? You're interfering with my learning style. One student asked for an extension because chatGTP was down the day the assignment was due. The day the assignment was due.

One said, you're asking me to go from point A to point B, why wouldn't I use a car to get there? This is one professor at NYU. New Yorker wrote an article, everyone is cheating their way through college. ChatGTP has unraveled the entire academic project.

And it's all about students who literally don't do a single thing at all. They just type in the prompt AI and whatever it spits out, they just hand it in. Like one student wrote an essay or handed it, excuse me, didn't write an essay, handed in an essay.

And the opening sentence was, as an AI, I have been programmed to. Didn't even read the first sentence. Like think about that. Didn't even read the first sentence and think maybe I should take that sentence out.

Just handed that in and that's it. It's like, what's the point of this? College, I mean, what is the point of college? One professor said, well, everyone's cheating AI all the time. Let me ask people to write a paragraph

or a paper about themselves. Surely people won't use AI to do that.

They did.

Students used AI to write an essay about themselves. One student said, I spend so much time on TikTok, hours and hours until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGTP, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.

I love that. That's so good. People think, so a lot of people, most people in America think that you're born good. And this is a very Nancy Pelosi idea that if we just give people more time, then they'll

use it to write the great American novel and they'll become an artist and they'll just use it to help people and achieve their dream. No, they won't. They'll use it on TikTok. This student used a TikTok until her eyes hurt. ChatGTP makes that more possible where in the past you would have spent 12 hours to

write a paper, well now she can do it in two. So what does she do with the other 10?

Tick tock.

Cal State Chico ethics professor says, massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees and into the workforce who are essentially illiterate, both in the literal sense and in the sense of being, like you cannot read, and in the sense of being historically illiterate

and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else's. So here's my idea, and then we'll bring in the Bible. College needs to just go away, all of it and all of them. And we need to just have two separate things. I'm being serious here, I'm like half joking,

but not really at all actually. We need to have two separate things. We camp, just call it camp. Where I grew up in Syracuse, New York nearby, there was a college called Hobart and we called it Camp Ho-Ho. So have camp and camp is everything you want.

It's got the sports teams, you can watch basketball and football games, and you can play in the sports, you can get in murals, whatever, and there's parties, you can get drunk, black out every night, and I don't know, that's pretty much all colleges.

So it's just a hangout. It's a four year hangout, maybe you can go five or six years hangout. But there's no classes, like stop, like knock it off with even pretending. There's no pretending anymore. There's no point to it. Stop with the pretense of school.

Why are we even pretending this? It's a thing. Just call it camp and just do it. And then we'll have other places, and I don't know if we want to call it college or come up with a new name,

and those are for kids who want to read. I heard someone say, why would a monk cheat at meditation? Well, they wouldn't because they want to do it. An artist doesn't cheat at painting. They want to paint. If you're going on a hike, you're not going to take the shortcut because you want to hike. you want to be there. So we just need college to be only with kids who want to learn.

So you have another place called college and the kids who are there want to read Aristotle and they're with other kids who want to read Aristotle. And then the professor says, hey everyone, write a paper about Aristotle and all the kids say, that's great.

I can't wait to do that. I'll write a paper about Aristotle and all the kids say that's great. I can't wait to do that. I'll write a paper about Aristotle that'll help me understand what I read better and deeper and then we'll compare papers and I'll read your paper and you can read mine and we can discuss it. Like that's what college maybe used to be

and it's not at all for anyone anymore. So we just gotta stop with the whole thing and if you wanna go to med school, then you need to go to a med school school and you can take the classes that you want to take so that you could be a better doctor. But this arms race of AI writing papers and then professors have AI that determines

if a paper is written by AI and then we have better AI that can get around the AI, like enough with that arms race, it's never gonna work. It's foolish, just be done with it. College needs to go away, you just have four year camp, graduate 12th grade, you go to camp for four years,

unless you wanna go to actual college, and no one would cheat there, because they actually wanna learn, not just party. When I was in college, we had to read a ton. And, so I was in the very beginning of this AI stuff. I wasn't AI, but it was Google Books

came out when I was in college. So that made researching papers way easier and it messed with my brain because the goal wasn't to read a book and learn it. I could pick out enough things about a book to just kind of throw an essay together and get through.

No one ever fails out of an Ivy League school. It's impossible. You could just hand in whatever slop you want and you'll get a passing grade. No one cares either. It's so cynical. It's all like, hey, prof, listen, I got in,

I'm paying you, you're teaching at Yale, I'm here, I just want the degree, you wanna get paid, just give me a grade and let's just get out of here. That's all it is. But it retrained my brain in some really bad ways. It took me like a decade before I learned to love to read. I would maybe pick up a book from time to time

and I'd skim it, because that's what you do in college. You skim the book, get enough of it to write an essay. So I couldn't get past that. I was reading books all the time and it took me a long time, literally a decade to realize, oh, I can just like take my time on this. I don't have to write an essay at the end if I can just read it because I want to read it. This is a major problem in our country

and we're not gonna see the effects of it for a while and then it'll be too late in a lot of ways. Slater, what does this have to do with the Bible? as an intro to this project that the White House has in coordination and conjunction and partnership with Hillsdale College called the Story of America.

250 years ago, all these awesome things happened in American history. And this is the time to connect to them. This is the time to learn about it, relearn about them, be reacquainted with them, tell them to your kids. This is it.

And so it's weird in American culture. I don't know if this is true with other cultures. We love round numbers like this. So it's now or never, like no one's gonna wanna learn these things on the 264th anniversary of the shot heard around the world, it's gotta be 250 or 300. So I don't wanna wait 50 years to relearn these things.

We gotta do it now, this is it, 250 years. So 250 years ago was Lexington and Concord. So I just wanna take a minute and tell part of the story and then we'll bring it to the Bible and just pause on this moment for a second. You're here because you want to be here.

There's no grade at the end. There's no getting a degree at the end of this. I'm not going to quiz you just because you want to know. And I want to know. I'm so excited that we have that little bit of an extra excuse to learn about these wonderful moments in our history. 250 years ago, Lexington and Concord.

There was an order from the king to the general in Massachusetts to stop the growing rebellion that is taking place in the colonies. So I want you to march 750 troops to Concord to seize a weapons depot that the patriots created. The fact that we had a weapons depot seems we're pretty far along. And we were ready when they came. We talked about Paul Revere a couple weeks ago, but we knew that

they had to fire the first shot. We were not going to be the ones to fire the first shot. Samuel Adams, he says, put your enemy in the wrong and keep him so is a wise maxim in politics, as well as in war. So the Brits tried to take this depot and there were 70 Minutemen in Lexington to meet these British soldiers. The Minutemen, I love that name, what a great name, whoever came up with that is awesome. Minutemen because they had to be ready at a minute's notice. No one knows who fired that first shot. That

shot heard around the world. But then the British yelled fire and a battle broke out. Eight colonists were killed and the news spread fast. The massacre at Lexington. Many colonists from all over ran to Concord. People pouring in from all over the countryside. There was a proper battle against the British there.

The British lost 14 men and they retreated. And in their retreat they were attacked at every turn by the scrappy colonists. Now a couple weeks ago we read, I think we did it here, I know we did it on the radio, we read Paul Revere's Ride, which kids used to memorize. Kids used to memorize it in their brains, not just pump it into AI. They used to know it in their brains,

they used to know it in their heart. They used to know it deep into their bones. It's a long poem, it's a lot to memorize. Maybe that'll be the summer project for the kids. And that poem ends with, this is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere's ride. It ends with, through all our history to the last, in the hour of darkness and peril and

need, the people will waken and listen to hear the hurting hoofbeats of that steed and the midnight message of Paul Revere. And the point here is if there's ever, when there is a moment where we need to summon something deeper into us, we need to look back at our colonists. We need to look back at Paul Revere. We need to listen to the hoof beats of his steed and summon inside of us that same courage and spirit when we most need it.

Because it's been done before. You just read the story of Paul Revere and this is why it matters and this is why we made our kids memorize it. But I want to read another poem today. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836, the Concord Hymn. This is, this was written for and read at the dedication of the 1836 battle monument.

This is a monument that we put up right next to the most beautiful bridge in America. The Old North Bridge. Give it a search. Search for the Old North Bridge. It's the most beautiful bridge in the entire country. And the Golden Gate Bridge is a beautiful bridge.

The Golden Gate Bridge is worth the hype. And the Brooklyn Bridge. I can't wait to show the kids the Brooklyn Bridge. We're going to New York City next weekend. And I can't wait to show the kids the Brooklyn Bridge. I can't wait to show the kids the Brooklyn Bridge. We're going to New York City next weekend and I can't wait to show the kids the Brooklyn Bridge. It's one of the first things we're gonna see the morning after we get there.

We're going right to the Brooklyn Bridge. So we got some great bridges in this country. No, there's nothing like the old North Bridge. And there's a humble monument there and it says here on the 19th of April 1775, 250 years ago, was made the first forcible resistance to British aggression. On the opposite bank stood the American militia. Here stood the invading army.

And on this spot, the first of the enemy fell in that war of that revolution, which gave independence to these United States. In gratitude to God and in love of freedom, this monument was erected, A.D. 1836. That's the inscription. Here's the poem that was read when that monument was dedicated. By the rude bridge, rude, what do you mean rude? Rude means simple, unadorned.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April's breeze unfurled. Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world.

The foe long since in silence slept, like the conqueror silence sleeps. Everyone's dead now. In time, the ruined bridge has swept down the dark stream, which seaward creeps. This all happened a long time ago, even though back then it was only six years ago.

On this green bank, by this soft stream, we set today a votive stone. Votive means something offered or consecrated, like the fulfillment of a vow. So we give this stone, this monument here. We set today a votive stone

that memory may their deed redeem when like our sires, our sons are gone. So just like the people who came before us, they're gone. One day our sons will be gone, but we need something here. We need the stone here so that we can redeem their deeds. That memory, we can never forget what they did.

Here's the last part. Spirit that made those heroes dare to die and leave their children free. Bid time and nature gently spare. Bid means we request. We request time and nature. So, spirit that made those heroes dare to die and leave their children free bid time and nature gently spare

the shaft we raise to them in thee Monuments matter I'll never forget Every summer for like three years. Maybe I was like 10 or so around that age. I would go, we lived in Pennsylvania and then we moved to New York.

And for like three summers, I would go back to Pennsylvania and I would stay with some family friends for the summer to swim on the swim team. And it was just great, great memories. And Joe was the dad, tough guy, he's a lineman in Philadelphia.

And not for the Eagles, but like power alignment. And we were, he's a veteran, and we were driving somewhere and there was a tiny little monument. And I said something disrespectful about it. Like, oh, like it's a little, you know, like who cares about that? It was something, I forget what it was,

but you know, something snarky that a 10 year old would say who doesn't understand what's happening. And he was on it. And I don't remember what he said, but I remember his attitude. It was something like the size doesn't matter.

It's what it means. It's what it represents. It's the people that it's dedicated to are what really matter. And actually that's really interesting memory I have because I don't, I remember visualizing it, but I can't remember what they said, but I got it.

Interesting, I got the message. We need to know our history and we need to know it in our heads. We need to know it in our hearts. We need to know it in our bones. We can't AI it.

Now let's turn to the Bible. Just reading this yesterday with the kiddos, Joshua four, this Israelites 40 years wandering in the desert, old generation, all gone. Now it's just the kids. Except for Caleb and Joshua. Moses is dead. Everyone's gone.

Here's Joshua 4.

And it came to pass that when all the people had completely crossed over the Jordan so it's the second departing of a river or sea that the Lord spoke to Joshua saying take for yourselves twelve men from the people

one man from every tribe and command them saying take for yourself twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan from the place where the priest's feet stood firm. You shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place where you lodge tonight." So Joshua told him what God said and Joshua said that this may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come saying, what do those stones mean to you? Then you shall answer them that the waters of the Jordan were

cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever. This happened a couple times, six or so times that we know of in the Old Testament, setting up stones as a memorial. And I love this one here,

because it's explicit that the intent is to provoke questions from kids. We're setting up this thing so that kids say, what's that? What's that about? What does that mean? Why is that there? Who did that? I said we're going to New York next week. We're

taking a boat ride from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Statue of Liberty and then back. What's that thing? What is this big statue thing? Why is that there? Where did this come from? Who built it? Why? We cannot let the deeds of our ancestors be forgotten. And so much of it will naturally, right? Just because, you know, it's, I can't remember everything, but we need to

remember as much as we can. We need to do this in America, our history, our nation, the American story, it's a beautiful thing. But more importantly, much, much more importantly, the story of the Bible, oh, the New Testament, our ancestors, our ancestors.

I feel a deep connection with George Washington. We need to feel a way deeper connection with Abraham. Galatians 3, 7, know then that it is those of faith that you and me, you made it this far. We're at minute 21 of this podcast.

You made it 21 minutes. What are you doing here still? Why are you listening this long? Oh, because you're a person of faith. Know then that it is of those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. Wow, you are in a spiritual bloodline. Galatians 3 29, if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Wow. All the fathers of the Old Testament are our fathers too. We are

grafted to that olive tree, Romans 11. Parents and grandparents listening right now, make it a mission to teach your kids about George Washington. Make it a mission to teach your kids about the signing of the Declaration of Independence and those who met at the Second Continental Congress and all the stories of America.

Make sure they know all the stories of our country and all the great Americans who built this place. And infinitely fold. Make sure your kids and grandkids know our ancestors. Going all the way back to Abraham, going all the way back to Adam. What a beautiful thing to study

American history and also our spiritual roots to feel a connection to the great heroes of America, but even more to our ancestors in the Bible and to Jesus Christ. Mike Slater.locals.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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June 16, 2026

"One Of The Most Horrendous Failures In The History Of The Country"

Politics By Faith, June 17, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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June 15, 2026

Fight Night, Fighting Presidents and Fighting Prayer

Politics By Faith, June 15, 2026

The president hosted an incredible event in the White House. If you had the microphone for 30 seconds to talk to over 100 million people, what would you say?

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. There's new headlines every day and can all be very overwhelming, cause a lot of anxiety, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, story of the day, UFC fight night at the White House. Here's what happened. I didn't catch it live, but I've seen tons of clips of the pageantry of it all.

Unbelievable. I, I, I've heard people use the word surreal to describe it. Just incredible. Let's just look at the production value alone. It wasn't just at the White House, which is what I was expecting. It was in the White House.

It was totally immersive within the White House in every way. The main fight, the American guy, Gaethje, it started with him in the Oval Office looking at the Declaration of Independence up on the wall. And then he has this flag draped around his back and he walks out through the White House down the stairs into the Octagon. Oh, and then, by the way, beats the foreign undefeated champion for the America 250. The whole thing is ridiculous. And then he was asked at the end, he said, I mean, you were six to one odds.

And he said, oh, man, the odds that our founding fathers faced were even worse and they still won. And here we are today in the greatest country in the world. What is happening is ridiculous. There was a scene of the opening national anthem sung by Zac Brown. He's in the octagon. Behind him is the Marine Corps marching band.

Then the White House with the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds flying over the White House all the same time. It looked AI, but it was very, very real. Just incredible optics. And I want to encourage the Freedom 250 people. Don't get me started on this. It's two different groups.

America 250 was started 10 years ago by Congress. Biden appointed this woman, Rosie Rios, who is Mexican. She says, I'm Mexican more than American, and Mexicans in my blood, and California used to be part of Mexico. She's said all this stuff in Mexico before, so she doesn't love this country. She is sabotaging it. That's my unfounded claim, but look at the fruit.

She is sabotaging the America 250. So when Trump won a year and a half ago, he came in, looked around and said, you guys got nothing planned, so he started a group called Freedom 250. has decided to lean on like UFC. They're doing the state fair coming up here where there's gonna be a big rodeo. They're doing the motocross. This is great.

Big red state things that we are good at that the country loves. I haven't confirmed this, but I heard maybe 130 million people watched the UFC fight at the White House. 19 million watched the NBA finals. Like, what are we talking about here? Like lean into this stuff that works. You combine this incredible moment in the sports culture realm with the soccer win and just all the Europeans and people around the world in America loving America while they're here for the World Cup.

Also a caller called in and a listener called in and told us about this golfer, this American golfer in Canada who's playing on this course. And I guess they have something called a rink hole where it's set up. They have like hockey boards, like the wall and a hockey rink. They have hockey boards all around it. So they call it the rink hole. So this American put on Someone in the audience had a Jack Hughes jersey.

Jack Hughes was the American who got the game -winning goal in overtime to win the gold medal in the hockey game at the Olympics. So this golfer put on a Jack Hughes jersey in Canada, just want to remind you that, in Canada, and birdied the par 3. to resounding boos. As soon as he hit it, everyone started booing because it was a great shot, because he's in Canada. It's just been fun. Today's show was fun when we talked about all this stuff.

It feels very golden era -y. A lot of fun, optics, fun moments in our life. There's a lot to say here about patriotism and the political winning that this is as well. Just a very quick point on that. The left, really since like the 60s, but certainly in the last six years, have really set themselves up as the people, the party, that don't like this country. We're defined by our sins.

We have to apologize for them forever around the world and here at home. We have to teach our kids about how terrible we are. We were founded in 1690 because of slavery. America's evil and bad and awesome. And then Trump, you know, this last year, with so many amazing things that have happened, like going around the moon. We'll throw that in the mix too.

There's been like really cool moments here. And because of the left's TDS, they've had to kind of be against it. There was an article in Salon about the World Cup. And the headline was something like, are Americans with as terrible as we've been? And are we allowed to be happy during the World Cup? Or are we allowed to root for America?

It's like, what are you talking about? But they've humiliated, they've leaned so far into hating this country. And now that we are leaning so far into loving it, obscenely loving it, like to an extreme, that the left has humiliated themselves politically. And I think this is a great thing politically. Real quick, some people have said that having UFC is beneath the White House or something like that. Well, first of all, I mean, put it next to what Biden did to the White House with all the pride.

stuff and the columns in front of the White House all in rainbow colors and topless transgender people. I mean, give me a break. So there's that. But I don't even think this is degrading the White House. Teddy Roosevelt had boxing matches in the White House. He boxed in them.

He got punched in the face. He went partially blind in his left eye. He was boxing against some military aide of his who punched him right in the face. And then he decided, I don't know if I should be boxing anymore at the White House. It's not a great look for the president to have a black eye. Now, Teddy Roosevelt was kind of a different breed of man.

That was a while ago, too. But even Lincoln, you know, they had the weigh -in at the Lincoln Memorial. And Lincoln, well, Lincoln's in the Wrestling Hall of Fame, not the WWE. like Greco -Roman wrestling hall of fame. He grew up in the frontier. Legend has it, he fought in 300 wrestling matches.

And they called this rough and tumble wrestling, no holds barred, you do whatever, you gouge out eyes, hit below the belt, whatever. He was 6 '4", and Lincoln's huge. And the story is, and I'm sticking with it, that his record's 301. He lost one time to all Hank Thompson during the Blackhawk War in Illinois. He also was in a duel. Lincoln was the captain of his militia company and Lincoln was challenged to a duel.

He was debating someone. I don't know what he said. I don't know if anyone knows what he said, but I don't know what he said. And the guy challenged him to a duel. And dueling, it was illegal in Illinois. So they had to go to this island in the Mississippi River.

It's like a lawless island where people would go to have duels. So they met. And because Lincoln was challenged, he got to pick his weapon of choice. He chose the sword. So the men on the island, and I think the guy saw Lincoln enormous with a huge sword and he called a truce and he never spoke of it. The famous line is.

a man asked him about it and asked if it was true that you were in a duel. And Lincoln said, I do not deny it, but if you desire my friendship, you will never mention it again. I share that because fighting at the White House isn't unprecedented and it's not bad to like fighting. in a sported context like this. And Trump, of course, has been a boxing fan with Atlantic City for many, many decades. All right, here's why I wanted to bring UFC up during our Politics by Faith episode here.

My producer and I were talking, in my experience growing up, this is before I was a Christian, I would see these athletes thank God, like when they won the Super Bowl or something, and I would mock that and say like, oh, how ridiculous, like God cares about who won the Super Bowl. And if he helped you win the Super Bowl, what does that mean? God's not a Buffalo Bills fan or whatever. Like God hates the Bills and made them lose the Super Bowl. What about the players on the Bills who were praying to win at the Super Bowl? I just thought it was really silly to bring up God in scenarios like this.

I feel differently now. I think you should bring up God all the time, win or lose. Philippians 4, 6 says, do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, By prayer and supplication, with Thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. But not if it's about a sporting event that you're participating in. No, like all of them. Let them all know.

Let them all be made known to God. And if you don't get what you want, then no worries. It wasn't God's plan. That's why we played that clip of the Spencer Pratt from the Spencer Pratt campaign. It was one interview. I think it was in Fox.

And he said, it's all God's plan. And if I win, then that's great. That's God's plan. If not, then that's great too. I get to go home and be with the kids more. I mean, Jesus says it quite explicitly.

Mark 11, 24 says, therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you received it and it will be yours. John 15, 7 says, if you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. Matthew 21, 22, whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive if you believe. Now, of course, God's not a genie. Doesn't mean like you wish for it and you get 10 wishes a year, 10 prayers a year that won't guaranteed come true. Like that's not how that works.

But the Bible is very clear. You should make your requests known to God. Now, more than the outcome, it's about the process and it's about trusting him throughout whatever happens. Check out this fighter after one of the matches here. For everything, Donald White, Hunter, congratulations. It's a spectacular event.

Thank you so much. I'm so happy. And I have a message. In John 3, verse 16, it says, For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Jesus changed my life. Jesus saved my life.

Jesus wants to save your life too. Give your life to Jesus. Thank you so much. In case we're not allowed to play that on YouTube, he said, John 3 .16. For God so loved the world, he gave his one and only son, so that you may not perish, but have eternal life. He said, God, or he said, Jesus has changed my life.

He saved my life. You should make Jesus Lord of your life as well. So here's this man using his platform at this moment with 130 million people watching, whatever, to praise God and to worship God. That's awesome. And it's encouraging for people. I remember when I was just, I was like,

the Bible. So I wasn't yet, uh, I wasn't yet baptized and I was driving down the street and, uh, this guy who I liked on the radio was on, he was mocking God and mocking religion. And I was still in this process of, of reading the Bible whenever. And I was like, yeah, maybe this is all pretty silly. This guy has a point. This is just kind of dumb.

What if it is just all imaginary? Right. And send me down. Not a great place. And I think a lot of Chris, so they're vocal. The pagans are vocal.

A lot of Christians are quiet, silent. Just kind of keep it to themselves. It's like, oh no, you should talk about it. Make it normal. Make it normal to talk about. Make it known.

Because there's a lot of people who are studying the Bible right now or asking questions and thinking about it. And just you, just a little bit of encouragement here and there, a little bit like, oh, like this isn't weird, can do a lot of good. So get up there wherever, if you've got 130 million people watching you at a moment or one, get up there and worship God. We should be thanking God for the ability to do whatever we're doing. So it's not that you won the Superbowl. It's that you can play football or is that you can run or that you have a heart that beats.

Anything good that happens is a blessing from God. A Christian at a UFC, and maybe he could give the same message if he lost. And that's a good test. If it's a good message, is what you're saying divorced from earthly outcome? Could you, could he have said the same thing if he won or lost? Yep.

Let's go to the Bible, Matthew 7, 7, ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. And the one who seeks, finds. And to the one who knocks, it will be opened.

" Pretty amazing. Martin Lloyd -Jones, he said, I cannot imagine a better, more cheering or a more comforting state of mind. which to face all the uncertainties and hazards of our life in this world than the ones contained right here. There's nothing that could be more encouraging as we face life with all of its uncertainties and possibilities. Our future is unknown. In such a situation, this is the essence of the biblical message from beginning to end.

This is the promise that comes to us. Ask and it will be given. Seek and you'll find. NACA will be open to you. In order that we might be quite certain about it, our Lord repeats it and puts it in an even stronger form. He says, for everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks, it shall be open.

There's no doubt about it. It is certain. It is an absolute promise. What is more, it's a promise made by the Son of God Himself, speaking with all the fullness and authority of His Father. Again, God is not a genie. Thank God for that.

He knows what's best for us. We can look back on life, especially things we wanted, things we prayed for that God didn't give us right away or at all. And we look back and we're like, Oh my goodness. Thank you God for not answering that prayer. Our job is to pray and whatever happens, worship him. Win, lose, high, low, young, old, happy, depressed, always be praising God because he's our father.

He's our father in heaven. Quick preview. We're going to be doing a father's day TV special coming up in just a couple of days here. But what that means, what is a heavenly father? youtube . com slash at politics by faith.

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