The Conservative Podcast War is...unfortunate. I wasn't going to say anything until the odd altercation started by Rand Paul against Markwayne Mullin at his confirmation hearing. It seems we need a refresher on what the Bible says on how to handle personal disputes. Also, WWCKD?

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 because there's new headlines every single day. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. The story of the day today, the conservative podcast wars. 

What's really going on here? I don't even know, to be honest. I just know there's a lot of drama. I was never really going to say anything about it, but something happened today that made me feel like something's worth talking about. So, quick background here. I'm not in it. 

I'm not famous enough. I'm in a good place right here. If you're watching on the YouTube, youtube . com slash adpoliticsbyfaith, the people in the podcast wars, I'm down. I'm like here in the hole. I'm very content. 

with my life and with being with my family and my level of fame. It's a place where if you're just famous enough where you get a little ego boost every once in a while, which is nice from time to time, people thank you for your job. No one else gets thanked for their job. The amount of times I get thanked for my job versus other people's jobs that deserve way more thanks is way out of whack. And I get to talk to cool people. It's great, I love my job, but I'm not like, need to hire security for my family. 

Famous, because that level of famous is not good. 1 Timothy 2 says, pray for all the kings who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. There's a couple of cool parts about that scripture. First, early Christians were killed because they weren't worshiping the emperor. But the Bible here says the job of a Christian is to pray, not to the emperor, but for the emperor. So that's a neat point. 

But obviously the main point is just be left alone. We just want to be left alone. I just want to live as quiet and peaceable as a life as I can with the people I love. But my understanding is that a lot of the big conservative podcast people are getting in pretty public fights and it's very odd. And I don't know any of these people involved, any more than anyone does. But just watching from afar, it draws people in because it's drama. 

It's like The Real Housewives or whatever, that level of drama, but for conservatives. And it's very unproductive and should stop. And I was never going to talk about it, but I think the thing that got me into it lately is, I heard Rand Paul in the Mark Wayne Mullins confirmation hearing. He's a senator from Oklahoma and he's going to be the next head of Homeland Security. He'll he'll make it through. But he and Rand Paul, who's the head of the Homeland Security Committee on the Senate, he and Rand Paul have some beef or something. 

I didn't know this. I don't know if anyone did until today. But here's Rand Paul at the committee hearing. 

The leaders in our country disavow violence and lead by example. Through the years, I've personally been exposed multiple times to political violence. I was in the right field batting cage when the crazed shooter unleashed nearly 200 shots at our congressional baseball practice. I'll never forget Steve's police valiantly trying to drag his body away as the gunman continued. Later that year, a Trump -hating felon attacked me from behind. in my yard. 

I was just straightening up from picking up a tree limb. I was wearing noise cancellation headphones. Never saw him coming. Running pell -mell down the hill. I was struck in the back. The force of the blow sent us through the air nearly 10 feet down the hill until a shoulder impaled me as we hit the ground. 

Six of my ribs were broken. Three of the ribs were completely separated such that for weeks the ends of the ribs would grind upon each other. My lung was damaged. For weeks I could inhale but not have the rib strength to exhale. I developed two pneumonias. The pain was such that I could only sit up in bed by tying a rope to the foot of the bed and pulling myself up. 

But even then, the pain was that of a thousand knives. Over the year of recovery, I began to cough up blood. I underwent removal of part of my lung. Complications led to an infection in the space between my lung and chest wall. I spent a week in the hospital having the infection lavaged every six hours through a chest tube. Recently, Senator Mullen, if you have time to listen. 

You were confronted by constituents that were angry because you voted against my amendment to stop all funding for refugee welfare programs. Instead of explaining your vote to continue these welfare programs for refugees, you decided to transfer the blame. You told the media that I was a freaking snake and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted. I was shocked that he would justify and celebrate this violent assault. That caused me so much pain and my family so much pain. I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force. 

You might argue you were mad and angry. about being confronted by your constituents. But Senator Mullen, your constituents are justifiably upset with you. By now, most of America knows that the Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota stole over $9 billion. But instead of defending your vote, you took to continue the vote to continue these refugee welfare programs. You chose to lash out at me. 

You went on to brag that you'd already told me to my face that you completely understood and approved of the assault. Well, that's a lie. You got a chance today. You can either continue to lie or you can correct the record. You have never had the courage to look me in the eye and tell me that the assault was justified. So today you'll have your chance. 

Today, I'll give you that chance to clear the record. Tell it to my face. If that's what you believe, tell it to me today. Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken and a damaged lung. Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it. And while you're at it, explain to the American public why they should trust a man with anger issues to set the proper example for ICE and Border Patrol agents. 

Explain to the American public how a man who has no regrets about brawling in a Senate committee can set a proper example for over 250 ,000 men and women who work at the Department of Homeland Security. Senator Peters, you're recognized for your opening. 

That was his opening. Listen, I don't want anyone to be in pain and it sounds like a brutal experience physically. What does that have to do with anything, Senator? Also, I didn't know this until today, but there's a teleprompter in the back of the Senate chamber. So Rand Paul's doing this, this, this like say it to my face thing and everything you just read was off of the teleprompter screen. I just feel like I should give, I should play the clip of one of those. 

Mullen's initial response. 

Here it is. I can understand why the neighbor did what he did. As far as my terms as a snake in the grass, sir, I work around this room to try to fix problems. I've worked with many people in this room. Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us. I did address those remarks. I did explain your gimmicks by the amendment you put forth. 

And as far as me saying that I invoke violence, I don't. I don't think anybody should be hit by surprise. I don't like that. But if I do have something to say, everybody in this room knows I'll come straight to you. I'll say it publicly and I'll say it privately, but I'll never say it behind your back. So for you to say I'm a liar, sir, that's not accurate. 

And I got proof to say that because you have spent millions of dollars in my campaigns against me, because we just don't get along. However, sir, that doesn't keep me at all from doing my job. I can have different opinions with everybody in this room, but as Secretary of Homeland, I'll be protecting everybody, including Kentucky, as much as I will my own back yard in Oklahoma. It's bigger than the partisan bickering that we have is bigger than the political differences we have. The truth is I have a job to do and I don't like to fail at anything at all. So I can set it aside if you're willing to set it aside. 

Let me earn your respect. Let me earn 

very weird confrontation, like a very weird, like, I can't get over, I guess, Rand's say it to my face thing, as he's eight feet elevated above everyone else behind this, you know, Senate desk, and you, Mark Wayne Mullina, way down there below, and we're both sitting here and we can't move, and I'm reading this from a teleprompter, it's like, say it to my face. to my face. It's like just weird. Like, Grant, you could have gone to Mark Wayne's office and said all that to his face. So that's this is a good example of the show, right? So that's the news of the day is one of the pieces of drama or whatever. 

And I'm sure we could go into more detail on the the podcast wars that are out there. But let's just let's just get to the Bible here. So first, Matthew 18, 15 says, If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you've won them over. But if they will not listen, take one or two others along so that every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church. 

And if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector. So if I made it to the conservative podcasters and to Rand, to Mark Wayne, if you have a problem with someone, go and talk to them. Not a text, a phone call or in person, like talk like humans. I'll see these tweets that some conservatives will send, a tweet, a public tweet to other conservatives, and sometimes they're like, and you didn't respond to my text that I, like what? Talk to the person one -on -one, and if they don't listen and there's still some issues here that you want to get resolved, go get some advice from a mutual friend, bring them in on it, try to resolve it. If that doesn't work, you just got to 

on because people unfortunately do care about your beef that you're throwing out there publicly because it's a drama and we're attracted to that. But we shouldn't be wasting our time with this. We have a country to save. If I may make an aside here, all this podcast war silliness, it shows to me also how important Charlie Kirk was to the conservative movement. He was way more of a linchpin behind the scenes than I think most people gave him credit for. I think when Charlie was assassinated, I think, of course, there was remorse and lament for his family and all that. 

But from a conservative movement perspective, we were like, oh, you know, his speeches and his campus tours and his Q &A moments and the YouTube videos and stuff like that. That's what I think people were thinking we would miss the most, or what we've lost. But I think what we've lost with Charlie Kirk in particular was something much more important, something much more valuable, and something that was much more impressive about him as a man, and that was his ability to bring a bunch of broken, probably jealous and envious and certainly ambitious people together, and have them focus on moving the movement forward. Charlie Kirk, within the conservative movement, was a peacemaker. James 3 .18 says, peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness. The full scripture is, but the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. And instead people are fueled by, I think it's envy and anger or something, but this is why James 1 .19 says, for Christians to be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to speak, slow to tweet and slow to anger for human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. I love all the verses in the Bible about the tongue. James 3, 5 says, so the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire. 

And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life and set on fire by hell. 

Yikes. 

So my two points of practical advice, first practical advice is keep your mouth shut. Uh, Martin Lloyd Jones made that point. He gave an amazing sermon. One of his, I think the best sermon series. 

I have it right there. 

Let me pull it up. 

Martin Lloyd Jones studies and sermon on the Mount. Amazing book. Um, One of his points on Blessed Be the Peacemakers is just quiet. Stop talking. Stop talking. And when it comes to tweeting, if you sit down and you write out a carefully crafted tweet to a fellow conservative enemy of yours, or whether you rip out a hastily spit out tweet, calling someone out, just delete it. 

Just write it out and then delete it. And then just go for a run or pray or something. Matthew 5, 9. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. " Mart Lloyd -Jones, he said, the peacemaker is active, not passive. He doesn't merely reflect. 

from causing trouble. I think that's me. I just gotta stay out of it. But that's not a peacemaker. A peacemaker actively works to resolve tensions, to reconcile differences, to bring harmony where there's discord. It's one of the hardest works in the world because it requires humility, wisdom, and love. That's practical advice, is to zip it and write the tweet if you want, but just delete it. 

The spiritual advice is for all of us to guard our hearts, keep your heart with all vigilance for from it flow the springs of life. We talked about that scripture recently. I'll give one more scripture here dedicated to Charlie Kirk, Romans 15, excuse me, 14, 19. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. We have a lot of work to do in this country of spreading the gospel, spreading the good word, spreading Christian ethics and morals, spreading God's kingdom on this earth, spreading. Political wisdom we've way more focused. 

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Nick Shirley exposed some of the daycare and hospice fraud in California. How do we prevent this much outright fraud from happening? It's not with more laws.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. Thanks for being here to get the true story. Story of the day today. Nick Shirley, fraud in California. 

Nick Shirley, YouTuber, independent journalist coming out of minnesota his last greatest hit out of minnesota taking his talents to california where there are insane amounts of fraud if you're looking for fraud of course your next step is going to be california metacal spending has increased in california in five years from 108 billion dollars to 228 billion dollars more than double in five years but the population has stayed about the same. So why has Medi -Cal spending doubled? Medi -Cal is their Medicaid program in California for poor people. L . A. County, there's been a thousand percent increase in hospice care services. 

A thousand percent increase. One out of every ten dollars in home health care is spent in L . 

A. 

County. This Dick Shirley video is very good. That's 40 minutes. You should watch the whole thing. You can find it on my Twitter, Slater Radio. It is great. 

comically on the nose like if we weren't talking about tens of billions of dollars it'd be just funny but uh it's funny and sad but but there are parts that are so unbelievably you couldn't like there's a some foreigner runs a fraudulent daycare it's called a boo -boo daycare like what there's a scene where he's in an old motel that's been converted into offices and one of the guys one of the a bunch of the fraudsters they all start leaving as soon as he gets all their cars are in the center courtyard of the motel. And a lot of these offices are totally empty. So all the foreigners who are working there, they all get in their cars and they leave. And all the cars are like $100 ,000 cars. There's 150 ,000 BMW. 

One woman is driving a Maybach, $250 ,000. So he's trying to ask questions to this guy who, I guess, runs a hospice center in California. And the guy gets in his car, drives away, and the engine goes... It's this $150 ,000 BMW. And Nick Shirley gets behind the car and he goes, that's the sound of hospice care in Los Angeles. Like, oh, you couldn't write that. 

You could do 20 takes from that scene, of that scene, and you would never get it that perfect. as what happened in real life there. It's a total joke. So what's broken here? We can bring this in a lot of different directions. I'm going to pivot to a cultural discussion here because I believe this is the most important issue of our era that is protecting our culture. 

And first step is knowing that we have a culture. And part of knowing that we have a culture is knowing that there are different cultures. There are third world cultures too. And in third world countries, which is most of the world, it's all about what you can get away with. There's no such thing as guilt. If you can get away with it, it is good. 

That is the determining factor about whether or not something is good or bad. There is no good or bad. It's do you get away with it or do you do it or not? That's it. There's no moral question about anything. Did you get away with it? 

Well, then it's good. That's not how it works in our culture. Part of our culture is guilt. Teach your kids, we used to teach our kids George Washington chopping down the cherry tree. Who chopped down my cherry tree? Said George Washington's dad. 

And George said, young George said, I can't tell a lie. We don't realize how amazing this is about our culture because we live in it. But the rest of the world doesn't. They don't have that value. It's one major reason why they're a third world country. Oh yeah, can you give me like 10 minutes? 

It's one reason why they're a third world country. It's why we are a first world country because Johnny wanted to play piano because we are honest and we believe that God is watching everything we do. And the Ten Commandments say, thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not deal falsely. Thou shalt not lie to one another. 

The word deal falsely is a fun translation. The Hebrew word means lie or deceive, be untrue, to act deceptively. There's also a connotation here of feigning obedience. And I like that one because it's, it's not just about your actions. It's also about your heart. Proverbs 11 one says, dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord. 

But a just weight is his delight. So it's the flip side too. If you're, if you're honest and good and decent, it is to his delight. But an abomination, abomination, an abomination is a disgusting thing. An abomination, lying, being dishonest in your business. It's a disgusting thing to God. 

It shows how deeply God cares about being honest. You know, progressives or atheists, I repeat myself, they thought that they could just throw away God and the idea of God and leave. everything else just as it was. We could throw away God and also everyone will just be honest all the time. Proverbs 12 22 says, The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous will come through trouble. The wicked, they're ensnared by the transgression of their lips, ensnared in their lies. 

A lot of lying going on. but it's on paperwork. So, and you know, there's no one really hurt by it and who even cares? And there's a ton of money out there and it's just, I got away with it. They gave it to me. What am I supposed to do? 

Not take it? Let's go to the Bible. Psalm 15 says, he who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart, who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend and whose eyes a vile person is despised. The Bible story. that comes to mind is Joseph. The amazing story of Joseph, one of the all -time great stories. 

When Potiphar's wife comes on to him, he says, how could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God? This used to be ingrained in American culture that when you sin, you're sinning against God. God sees everything and you're sinning against him. So even if no one catches you, even if you get away with it, you're on earth. Even if the state of California, will pay out the millions of dollars of fraudulent Medi -Cal payments. even if you can cash that money and then bring it to the local Maybach dealership and pay cash quarter of a million dollars and you drive off the lot, God sees everything. 

How could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God? Ananias and Sapphira, uh, Sapphira. They lied about the sale of their land to that was benefiting the church, but, and they dropped dead, but the drive was ax five, but they dropped dead because they lied. So don't lie. And if you have, which you have, repent like Zacchaeus did. Zacchaeus, a dishonest tax collector, but he repented with Jesus and then promised to repay fourfold everyone that he defrauded. 

A biblical based culture wouldn't have as much of this. There's always gonna be some sinners. There's always gonna be sin. There's always gonna be fraud, right? You can't get away with it entirely, but a true Christian culture would have much, much less of this. A proper Christian culture, if it did happen, would be met swiftly in a justice system and the fraudsters would be shamed. 

by society, and they would properly feel very guilty for what they did. When we import people who weren't raised with these values, and or if we stop raising kids to have these values, and we throw the Bible and God out of people's awareness, then don't be surprised when the fraud increases and when tens of billions of dollars are wasted. And then even worse, when God's wrath comes upon us for turning away from him. Shouldn't be surprised. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. 

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I went my entire life without ever hearing the true story of Patrick. And now the current President of Ireland today says the legacy of Patrick is to make way for Muslim migrants. Let's find out why she is wrong, in Patrick's own words.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so you can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every single day. They keep coming like the mail just keeps coming. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. Today is St. Patrick's Day. 

Here is the president of Ireland celebrating this heroic brother in Christ. 

The story of Patrick's life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants, the invaluable contributions that they have made and continue to make to the countries they now call home. 

I don't think that's the story of Patrick. Migrants? I don't think that's it. 

Sometimes even in the face of great adversity. Patrick's story speaks not only to the Ireland of the 5th century, but to the millions still subjected to trafficking, forced labour and displacement today. As we recall the life of Patrick, we invoke his spirit and acknowledge our shared responsibilities as global citizens. We stand in solidarity with those who find themselves in vulnerable and dangerous circumstances. Patrick's story invites us to respond with hospitality and kindness to those suffering the consequences of war and displacement. Those fleeing their countries because of persecution or violence. 

Yikes. 

Global citizens? That is not the story of St. Patrick at all. So this is the section of our podcast we call What Really Happened. Now, if you asked me a couple of years ago anything about St. Patrick's Day, I would say nothing. Kiss me, I'm Irish. 

Green beer and leprechauns. That's my St. Patrick's knowledge. Spent my entire life, my entire childhood, every year in school, you know, you wear green. But no one ever told me the story, ever once in any way, ever told me the story of St. Patrick. Who was this guy? Here's the story. 

Around the 5th century, this guy's name was Mawin Secat. M -A -E -W -I -N. Mawin Secat. S -U -C -C -A -T. He lived in England. And when he was 16, he was captured by Irish pirates and was taken as a slave in Ireland. 

Now, I know it's a couple weird things happening here. She's like, wait, Irish pirates? I don't get that. And then white slaves? I'm confused about that. Friendly reminder, though, we actually talked about this on the radio show the other day. 

that more slaves were taken, more white people from Europe were taken as slaves into North Africa than Africans were brought into slavery in America. You just think about that one. North Africans took more white European slaves into Africa than Africans were sent to the United States. There's about 1 million, maybe 1 .5 million white Europeans were taken as slaves. out of Europe into North Africa. We fought two wars over this, the Barbary Wars, and only 400 ,000 Africans were sent to the United States of America during the transatlantic slave trade. 

12 million overall in the transatlantic slave trade, but they were sent to mostly Brazil and the Caribbean, only 400 ,000 to America. Anyway, back to the Irish pirates. So the Irish pirates take Mawin, 16 -year -old Mawin to be a slave. They bring him to pagan Ireland. Now Mawin's dad was a Christian. 

He was not. And he was held as a slave for six years. And he prayed every day for those six years. And during this slavery, he became closer to God. At a certain point, he said the Holy Spirit told him to escape and board a ship. The ship was 200 miles away, but he was able to escape and get there. 

And they didn't want to put him on the ship at first, but he prayed and they let him on board. So he's on the ship going back to England. They land in England and they're all in the wilderness starving. And I'm going to read from his own words. He wrote a book or a confession. It's called Confessio. 

How have I never read this thing? How have I never heard about this thing? Isn't that amazing? My whole life, I didn't even know that St. Patrick wrote a thing down, ever. And we have it right here. Here's what he said. 

After three days, we made it to land. And then for 28 days, we traveled through a wilderness. Food ran out and great hunger came over us. The captain turned to me and said, what about this Christian? You tell us that your God is great and all powerful. Why can't you pray for us? 

Since we're in a bad state of hunger. There's no sign of us finding a human being anywhere. Then I said to him with some confidence, Turn in faith with all your hearts to the Lord my God, because nothing is impossible for him, so that we may put food in your way, even enough to make you fully satisfied. He has an abundance everywhere. With the help of God, this is what actually happened. A herd of pigs appeared in the way before our eyes. 

They killed many of them. And there they remained for two nights and were fully restored. And the dogs too were filled. Many of them had grown weak and left half alive, by the way. After this, they gave plenty, excuse me, they gave the greatest of thanks to God. And I was honored in their eyes. 

From this day on, they had plenty of food. " So he finally makes it back home to England, back to his parents. A couple of years later, he had a vision, a dream of a man carrying a letter for him. He said, they, the people in this dream called out as it were one voice. And the voice said, we beg you, holy boy to come and walk again among us. Meaning in Ireland, go back to Ireland. 

He said, this touched my heart deeply. And I could not read any further. I woke up then. Thanks be to God. After many years, the Lord granted them what they were calling for. He went back to England. 

He went back to the place he was enslaved. He became a missionary. And it wasn't easy. It didn't go well for him. For a long time, he was thrown in jail a couple of times. One time he was beaten, robbed of everything he had, put in chains, possibly about to be executed. 

But long story short, Ireland is now a Christian nation, was a Christian nation because of Patrick. It wasn't about migrants. He was a slave and nothing in her message was about St. Patrick. So what's broken here in this story? First of all, We have a lot of Irish people in America, and I've even then I've gone my whole life without ever hearing a hint of this story. I didn't even know he was a Christian, even though I had the word saint in front of his name. 

He was the guy who drove the snakes away at best. Our culture is so broken, so broken, but it ties into so many things. If you missed yesterday's episode, we talked about England getting rid of people off of their money, replacing it with plants and animals. We talked about Harvard getting rid of any mention of John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at 1630, who said this place should be a shining city upon a hill. When we lose our history, this is what happens. 

It's so simple. They erase our history, and then they come in later and subtly say, well, you know, the real history of Patrick is that we need to let in more muslim migrants you know that's the real message of patrick's day what do you think for one second that saint patrick would have been for the invasion of muslims into ireland do you think or england or america what do you why could you possibly Well, you could only think that if you don't know the story. You can only think that if you've never read anything from St. Patrick, never any of his writings. If you've never read his writings, then yeah, that makes perfect sure. Yeah, he's a migrant from one place, came to another, and we love migrants. I get it. 

But you see how subtle the move is? I forget if I shared this one or not. I'm going to share it again real quick. Philadelphia School District. This is how they have, how Sharia law is infiltrated into the curriculum. So first of all, they talk about capitalism and how capitalism is based on greed. 

And they say, oh, greed's terrible. It's awful. Capitalism is terrible and awful. Man, if only there were another system. And this is what it says in the curriculum. Islamic finance principles guided by Sharia law prioritize equitable and ethical financial transactions prohibiting practices such as interest -based lending and speculative trading. 

These principles have informed economic systems in Muslim -majority countries and Islamic financial institutions worldwide. shaping approaches to economic development and wealth distribution. You see how that works? So after they've proven to kids that capitalism is great, and how bad it is, they're, you know, we need to be nice. And that whole Christianity, that Protestant work ethic led capitalism, oh, that's so terrible. 

Look how awful it is. We need to replace it with something nicer, something more fair and equitable and good. Well, you know, there is Sharia law, you know, based off ethical and equitable financial transactions. 

See the trick? 

They're doing that with every aspect of our culture that they can. All right, let's bring it to the Bible. So You can search online and find a nice version. It's very, very short of St. Patrick's Confession. Here's how it opens. It says, My name is Patrick. 

I am a sinner. No, it's not a good Irish accent at all. I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers. I am looked down upon by many. My father was Calpurnius. He was a deacon. 

His father was Potetus, a priest who lived at Bonavum Tabernaei. His home was was near there, and this is where I was taken prisoner. I was about 16 at the time. At that time, I did not know the true God. I was taken into captivity in Ireland, along with thousands of others. Here's the key. 

We deserved this because we had gone away from God and did not keep his commandments. We would not listen to our priests who advised us about how we could be saved. The Lord brought his strong anger upon us and scattered us among many nations, even to the ends of the earth. And it was among foreigners that I was seen how little I was. Little as in powerless compared to God. He later said, I see that already in this present age, the Lord has given me a greatness. 

The Lord has given me a greatness more than could be expected. I was not worthy of this, not the kind of person the Lord would do this for, since I know for certain that poverty and calamity are more my style than riches and enjoyment. But Christ the Lord became poor for us. I too am wretched and unhappy. Even if I were to wish for riches, I do not have them. 

I do not, I am not trying to judge myself since every day there is the chance that I would be killed or surrounded or taken into slavery or some other such happening. But I fear none of these things because of the promises of heaven. I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, who is the ruler of all places. As the prophet says, cast your concerns on God and he will sustain you. I just want you to know that we're going to do a TV special just a couple of days here where we're going to expand more on the point that we deserve. What we get as a nation is based off of how much we either abandon or embrace God. 

I believe that's a biblical principle. I'll make the argument. We'll go to Psalm 917. Psalm 917 says, the wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God. We'll do more of that on the TV show this week and we'll put that here on the podcast when we're done. But I'll end here with a final quote from Patrick. 

You know, the John the Baptist for Muslim migrants in Ireland. That's his real legacy. Just leading the way for Muslim migrants. He said, therefore, it is very right that we should cast our nets so that a great multitude and crowd will be taken for God. Also that there should be clerics to baptize and encourage the people in need and want. This is what the Lord says in his gospel. 

He warns and teaches in these words, Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you all days, even to the end of the age. How is this happening in Ireland? Never before did they know of God, except to serve idols and unclean things. But now they have become people of the Lord and are called children of God. " That was true for a long time. 

Less true now, but we'll save the migrant analysis for the satellite show. I'll leave with one more. He goes on this story and he tells of people in Ireland that were baptized, who lost family members because they became Christian. He then said, I could wish to leave them to go to Britain. I would willingly do this and am prepared for this, as if to visit my home country and my parents. Not only that, but I would like to go to Gaul, France, to visit the brothers and see the faces of the saints of my Lord. 

God knows that I would dearly like to do this, but I am bound in the Spirit who assures me that if I were to do this, I would be held guilty. And I fear also to lose the work which I began, not so much I as Christ the Lord, who told me to come here and to be with these people for the rest of my life. May the Lord will it and protect me from every wrong path so that I do not sin before him. My suggestion. is that we in America, at least, make St. Patrick's Day a Christian holy day yet again. Politics by Faith on YouTube. 

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