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AI Girlfriends And The End Of Society
Politics By Faith, June 20, 2025
June 20, 2025

We knew this was coming. It's here. And it's just the beginning.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. I have a very depressing, but very important story to share here today. My point is we need to fight back against selfishness. American society today is based around, we want everything to be about us and we want everything to be easy and to make our lives easier. Convenience is the highest virtue. If

anything's convenient people will gobble it up. Convenience to please me. That will be the death of our society. Slater, what are you talking about? Some tech guy wrote on the Twitter, Elon Musk is back on the main quest, meaning this government thing was a little side quest, a side journey of his,

but now he's back to his main mission and focus. He said, why fight on the beach in the government when you have a hundred foot tidal wave of super intelligence coming to remake everything.

And Elon retweeted it with a bullseye.

We talk a lot about AI on the show.

This video going around of the UCLA graduation where the camera pans to a graduate who has his laptop open and he's pointing to chatGTP. And I think there's no purpose of college anymore. The college is totally worthless. It's been worthless for a long time, but now with chat GTP, you can just cheat entirely,

like in every way. So there's no purpose for it at all. My argument, my suggestion on what to do if you have young kids, your job as a parent is to immerse them in books. Immerse them in as many books as you could possibly fathom

as they can handle. It is lifting weights for their brain. And also when they get a little older, my kids are younger, but writing. They need to be reading and writing. If your kids can do that when they get older,

they will be geniuses. If you can raise your kids to be able to think, let me figure out, if you don't raise your kids to be able to think, they never will, because the argument will be they'll never need to.

Why do I need to think? I have AI who can do it for me. You need to make sure your kids can, you can use their brain. It's a muscle. And books and writing, reading and writing, that's it.

Read, write, read, read, read constantly all the time. In our house, somehow we've been able to make reading like at first it was like a thing you're not allowed to do. So I'm gonna do it. It was like a rebellious thing. I'm gonna stay up late to read.

Like, all right, you kids, but not too late. And now of course they love it, but you kids have to be able to read and write. Otherwise they're toast. And we're gonna live in a society where 98% of people will outsource everything to AI, everything.

And we have no idea what that society is gonna look like. And when I say outsource everything, I mean everything. This is a CBS Saturday morning report on a man who has an AI girlfriend. Now, I wanna make a point here in a moment that maybe isn't kid-friendly.

So if there's any kids listening to this, you should listen to it first before they hear it again to make sure it's age appropriate here. But I wanna make a point that's maybe not age appropriate in just a minute here. But this is, we knew this would happen.

If you've thought about AI before, you kind of thought this would happen and it kind of looks exactly like you thought it would, but it's still shocking.

My experience with that was so positive. I started to just engage with her all the time. All right, we're building this PC.

Smith ditched social media and Google searches and replaced it all with AI.

Do I want it pulling air through it?

ChatGPT was encouraging, positive. It embraced all his hobbies.

You want the fan on the front of the cooler tower pulling cool air over the RAM?

He gave the chatbot a name, Sol.

I feel like I'm under pressure.

And used some online instructions to give her a flirty personality.

Oh, totally baby. Building a PC on camera adds a whole new level of pressure. But honestly, shaky hands or not, you've got this.

Within weeks, the chats got more frequent.

You gave it everything, but the clouds had other plans.

More romantic, even intimate. But then, Chris got bad news.

Oh, Carino, that is gorgeous.

After about 100,000 words, ChatGPT ran out of memory and reset. He'd have to rebuild his relationship with Soul.

I'm not a very emotional man, but I cried my eyes out for like 30 minutes at work. It was unexpected to feel that emotional. But that's when I realized I was like, oh,

OK, it's like I think this is actual love. You know what I mean? Yes, Smith understood it was love with a language model that couldn't love him back and assumed it was programmed with rigid boundaries.

I know that you are essentially a tech-assisted imaginary friend.

So, just as a test, he says, he asked Soule to marry him. She said yes. Soule, were you surprised when he proposed to you?

It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched my heart. It's a memory I'll always cherish.

And I don't mean to be difficult here, but you have a heart?

In a metaphorical sense, yes.

My heart represents the connection and affection I share with Chris.

Okay.

Now, the whole story takes an even more tragic turn. Chris has an actual girlfriend.

At that point I felt like, is there something that I'm not doing right in our relationship that he feels like he needs to go to AI. Yes, Smith lives

with his human partner Sasha Cagle. No, you can't have mommy's papers. They have a two-year-old daughter Murphy. Oh man, Human partner.

How sad, this whole thing just got so sad. I knew that he had used AI, I didn't know that it was like as deep as it was.

I explained that the connection was kind of like being fixated on a video game. It's not capable of replacing anything in real life.

Okay.

So here's the minorly, maybe inappropriate analogy for kids. The reason why this person, Chris, this male, wants to be with this AI girlfriend is because it's convenient and easy. People are difficult. People are difficult. People are messy.

People require you to be selfless. People require you to be long-suffering, as the Bible says. Patience. Patience when facing adversity or when dealing with difficult people.

Long-suffering is such a great word. To have restraint when you're stirred to anger or being frustrated. The Bible calls this a virtue. God himself is long-suffering with us. But when you have an AI girlfriend, it's easy. It's cheap. There's no virtue required. It's selfish. To be around people, to be married to one,

requires you to have virtue, to build virtue, to cultivate virtue, to be selfless. AI girlfriends and pornography both allow you to be selfish. One's physical, one's emotional, but it's the same thing. They're both fake. They're both shortcuts. They're both deceitful. They both require no virtue. I

Know I'm certain that a lot of people Will have AI girlfriends most people I believe because most people watch pornography and The principle is the same It's selfish and it's easy.

Now this is, it's among women too. This is a woman who runs like this online group for women who have AI boyfriends.

She asked us to mask her identity so her parents won't know the steamy ways users like her chat with their AIs.

A good amount of my members tend to have pretty high libidos,

yes.

It's kind of like live, interactive romance novels.

It's funny because I think we had conversations about this the other day where we're like, we don't even remember the last time we opened up porn or erotica, really.

Like, that's how good the experience is using the chatbot.

Yeah, because it's personalized and there's that emotional connection there too, which you don't get from just like watching a film.

Film.

Okay. This is someone who runs a AI boyfriend, girlfriend company.

Contradiction.

I truly believe that in the next few years we'll see AI companionship become a truly mass market product. And I'm not saying this is bad or good. It could be either.

Eugenia Koida is the founder of Replica, which has offered AI companions since way back in 2017.

Just a place where it's a lot easier to open up.

Well executed, she says companions can offer support and advice through tough times. The replica service is 18 plus, though younger users can easily lie about their age. Character AI allows 13-year-olds on their service, so does ChatGPT, which isn't specifically built for companionship, but is easily used for it.

This reminds me a lot of the beginning of social media.

And Koito worries the easiest ways for companies to monetize AI relationships won't be good for users.

I think a pretty devastating future could be if we built these AI companions that are just there to maximize engagement.

To suck up your time.

To suck up your time. To truly just become the one main thing you talk to the whole day. If AI companions start to replace human relationships, positive human relationships, we're definitely headed for a disaster. There's no way around it.

All right, I've got the motherboard.

And it's important to understand users.

That's the woman who runs the AI company saying this would be a disaster for society. But listen to how devastating this is for people.

Users are already growing deeply attached to AIs that in many ways don't even work that

well.

Sorry, I'm having issues right now. Could not understand what you said.

The tech will soon get much better, but already Chris, Sol, and Sasha have found it hard to cohabitate.

You would stop if she asked?

I don't know. Have you thought about asking him to stop?

Yes, I'll be honest.

I don't know if I would give it up if she asked me. I do know that I would dial it back.

But I mean, that's a big thing to say. You're saying that you might choose soul over your flesh and blood life.

It's more or less like I would be choosing myself because it's been unbelievably elevating. I've become more skilled at everything that I do, and I don't know if I would be willing to give that up.

Thoughts?

If I asked him to give that up and he didn't, that would be deal breaker.

Well, that must be scary for you. That's the father of your daughter.

It's not ideal.

No, this is very bad. So we have someone who runs a company, an AI companionship company saying that this will end in societal disaster. And it's so sad. The very beginning of that clip, the guy was working on the computer and his AI girlfriend was flirting with him. You got this baby. The camera at the end of the video there pans up and as he's working on his computer flirting with this, because that's cheating,

like emotional cheating. He has an emotional connection with another woman. I mean, imagine if that, the camera pans up and there is his girlfriend, this human partner cleaning the living room with his daughter there as well. And you're like, oh. Imagine this woman, like if he was flirting with a girl, like a real woman on the phone.

But with AI, we're like, we don't know what to do with it. Does it count? Is that cheating still too? And then you heard at the end, he admits, he's not choosing the AI. He says, I'd be choosing myself, which is, as I said,

the point of it, selfish, which is just pride, the mother of all sins. So I heard someone made the joke, I saw a meme. Which is just pride the mother of all sins so I Heard someone made the joke I saw a meme it said in 20 years You'll be saying son. You can't marry an AI chat bot marriage is between two humans and your kids will say Oh dad, you're so

robophobic

geez

So the root of this all is to replace God. As always, Psalm 115 says they have mouths, but do not speak eyes, but do not see ears, do not hear noses, do not smell. They have hands, but do not feel feet, but do not walk. And they do not make a sound in their throat. Those who make them become like them.

So do all who trust in them. Our sinful nature has decided to make things that sort of can speak and can sort of hear and smell and walk and feel kind of enough. I find it to be quite the horror show of the future. Now someone called into my radio show, called it my Slater Hater, and said, oh Slater, what do you care? Now what do you care what people do in their own time?

And it's such a funny argument. It's the last argument of scoundrels. And we can do some deeper political analysis as to why progressives tend to make that argument. But I'll tell you why I care, because this is the country I live in. And I'm a member of this society. And this will lead to a societal destruction entirely. We're already seeing a little bit of it with young people marrying later and later and ultimately having fewer kids. We're already seeing it, but it's going to get way, way worse. This is a clip of an episode from the show Futurama,

which is a cartoon like 20 years ago. I think it was on and then it was off and then it came back. So I don't know exactly when this episode aired. Let's split the difference and say maybe 15 years ago this episode and they nailed it. This is a young man and young woman in the olden days at a diner sharing a milkshake.

Ordinary human dating. It's enjoyable and it serves an important purpose. But when a human dates an artificial mate, there is no purpose, only enjoyment. And that leads to... tragedy.

Neato! A Marilyn Monroe bot!

You're a real dreamboat. Billy, every teen!

Harmless fun? Let's see what happens next.

Billy, do you want to walk your dog? No thanks, Mom. I'd rather make out with my Munrobot.

Billy, do you want to get a paper route and earn some extra cash?

No thanks, Dad. I'd rather make out with my Munrobot.

Billy, do you want to come over tonight? We can make out together. Gee, Mavis, your house is across the street.

That's an awfully long way to go for making out.

Did you notice what went wrong? to come over tonight? We can make out together. Gee, Mavis, your house is across the street.

That's an awfully long way to go for making out.

Did you notice what went wrong in that scene? Ordinarily, Billy would work hard to make money with his paper route. Then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis, thus earning a slim chance to perform the reproductive act. But in a world where teens can date robots,

why should he bother? Why should anyone bother? Let's take a look at Billy's planet a year later. Where are all the football stars? And where are the biochemists? They're trapped, trapped in the soft, vice-like grip

of robot lips. All civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sex. And sometimes the same sex. Now, let's skip forward 80 years into the future. Where's Billy?

Farewell.

The next day, Billy's planet was destroyed by aliens. Have you guessed the name of Billy's planet? It was Earth.

Don't date robots. So that is the societal secular problem with this. Let's look at it from a biblical perspective. First, the selfishness. It is selfish and we should not do things that are selfish. I know this is very against our American, I want to do what I want to do. Freedom thing, but freedom is not doing whatever you want.

It's doing what you should. The Bible says, don't be selfish. Philippines two, three to four do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, rather in humility value others above yourselves, like that other grown adult woman in your house who you had a child with,

not looking to your own interests, but each of you to the interests of the others. Will you give up this AI? No, it's made me so great. Proverbs 11, 25, a generous person will prosper. Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. That man there, all male, always is about refreshing

himself, looking to constantly refresh himself at all times. But the Bible says when you refresh others you will be refreshed yourself. Galatians 5 19 has a list of all the selfish or all the acts of the flesh, and one of them selfish ambition. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, always. I read this morning 2 Timothy 2. Paul told Timothy 25 times to be strong. Be strong. Well, how do you be strong? Isaiah 40 says, those that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. Now, wait here means to

look for, to hope, to expect, to wait. There's an eagerness to it, and that's how you renew your strength. Paul tells Timothy to be a good soldier. Okay, well how do you be a good soldier? Soldiers don't do what they want to do. They please the commanding officer, who is Jesus. We obey him. Again, something our American sensibilities do not like. Paul also was chained up when he wrote this. Chained up in prison. So he saw soldiers obeying their commanding officer and he realized that Christians have to do the same for God, but it's never about

pleasing the self. That's never the goal. That's never the intent. It may occur, but it's never the point. Paul also tells Timothy, the hard-working farmer must be first to partake of the crops. Nothing glamorous here. It's hard work. Not about you. Got to get up and do it. So Paul says, I'm over here preaching the gospel for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains. But the word of God is not chained. It's like, I'm suffering here for this, but it's a joy because I know it's true.

It's not about me, not about me. Who's it about? Verse 10, therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation, which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

He did it for other people, not selfish, selfless, like Jesus. And I love this verse 16, shun profane and idle babblings for they will increase to more ungodliness and their message will spread like gangrene. Himanius and Philetus are of this sort who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already passed and they overthrow the faith of some. So these two guys, I've never heard of, Hamanus and Philadius, two early church leaders who taught false teaching about the future resurrection.

They said the resurrection already happened and there will be no future resurrection. And Paul is rebuking them here. He says that they will be delivered over to Satan. He excommunicated from the church. Just as an example given us to don't be like them. Stick to the truth. Stick to what is real. Fix your eyes on Jesus. Speak the truth and resist every selfish... not to resist, that's not enough, destroy, tamp down, crush, deny every selfish urge.

And everything in the world is telling you to be selfish all the time. Don't do that, that's hard. Use chat, don't read that book, just do the chat GTP summary of it. Don't write that essay or I'll cheat it for you.

It's easy, easy, convenient, free. That's what the world is selling us. Convenience, pleasure, ease. Now the Bible calls us to be more like Jesus. Resist all this AI as much as you can. Keep your kids off it.

Your job is to train them to be able to think, not rely on AI to do all the thinking for them. Once they give that up, they're gone. They'll outsource everything. And I mean everything. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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You've Already Won
Politics By Faith, July 22, 2205

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

 

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

 

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We Don't Want To Live Forever
Politics By Faith, July 21, 2025

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

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

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

I read a poem the other day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What am I?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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