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How can college kids on spring break be so foolish? But the Bible speaks of spring-breakers, and gives us a warning if we don't change our ways.
Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away the next 10 minutes or so with some peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day, spring break, kind of. I'm going to call her the other day. I said, Slater, I can't believe that the governor of Virginia lied and said, that she was a moderate when she was running for governor, Spamburger.
And now that she's elected, she's running. She's governing as far left as any governor in the country. I can't believe she would do that. What do we do? And I don't know what he was looking for politically. I said, well, she lied.
And maybe I regret saying this. OK, maybe this isn't like we can think of this more artfully. Let's workshop this out. I said, and people are stupid. Now that's not, I don't, come on Slater, my kids would call me better than that or call me to something better. Let's say people are very uninformed or people don't care, which brings me to spring break.
This aired on Fox news earlier in the week. I'm not going to play it here and play the video. It's like two minutes or so. I don't want to play it because there's girls in bikinis and it'll get a lot of views on our new YouTube channel, youtube . com slash at politics by faith. The algorithm will love it, but I don't understand bikinis.
If you walked into a room, And a girl was wearing her underwear, you'd say, oh, sorry, shut the door and ah, but it's okay on a beach to wear even less than that, I don't understand. it i was in andrew clavin show the other day on the daily wire grateful to him for having me on and and this came up i said the inventor of the bikini it was like 1946 or so he couldn't find a woman who would model it for him they slapped him not wearing that so in order to get a model he needed to go to the brothel that's the only woman he could find was a stripper who would wear a bikini And even then it was like 20 years until any woman really wore them. It wasn't until the sixties when women were brainwashed enough to actually put one on. And now today you can go to the beach in San Diego and there's 12 year old girls wearing string bikinis, dancing and tick tock videos set up on the beach. It's crazy. It's nuts.
So I'm not going to play, but I wrote down, I watched it and I wrote down, uh, the, the, the point, the comments. So this guy's interviewing people, young people, college students, and they're in college. So you shouldn't give them that much of a pass. Well, they're just young people. I mean, I don't know. They're in college.
Like when did we decide? Like if they interviewed a bunch of people at the daycare or the preschool, I'd be like, well, you know, the preschoolers, there's a 20 year old adults on the beach. And it's all, they're all about getting drunk men and women by getting it with as many girls and guys as we can hook up with one guy every night. One girl said, one girl said 10, I've been here for 10 days. I've hooked up with 10 guys. And he said, well, what are their names?
I don't know.
Can you name one of them? She couldn't name one of them. Couldn't name. What's the most exciting thing you saw? I saw one girl blackout on the street. She said that was pretty exciting.
Wildest thing you've ever done? One woman said, well, I got with somebody the first night I got down here. Ever asked what's the most important thing going on in America? They said, what bikini am I going to wear next? Getting a tan on the beach, stuff like that. And then, of course, they asked things about current events.
And she said, well, you know, I heard about a war in Iraq. It's not the country. They don't know who Maduro is. Don't know anything about Venezuela. The Ayatollah. Who what?
They don't even know what that is. Never heard that word in my life. Gross. So I just want to play that in reference to this gentleman who's like, oh, how could how could Spanberger lie? people fall for it well i mean those those people on the beach in florida those those are the voters in virginia and everywhere else across the country too and it's all types of demographics who don't know and don't care this happens to be young the young people of our nation naked on the beach who don't know and don't care but that's a good majority of our country don't know and don't care you are in the top two percent one percent most informed most engaged what are you doing here why are you listening to this podcast because you care enough Now, what's annoying, and we're not going to get to it here, we talked about it on the radio, is you get one vote and they get one vote. And the Democrats want to make it where everyone's automatically registered to vote, everyone gets a mail -in ballot, and they can just take that person's ballot and it counts as one vote as much as yours.
And that's crazy, but we're not going to get into voting rights here. We played another video where they asked some basic questions on the beach. You know, who was the civil war between? And the girl's like, England versus France? What year was 9 -11? 2012, someone said?
What country attacked Pearl Harbor?
Spain? One guy said, so they said, well, how many senators every state? He said three. I said, okay, well, how many senators are there then? And he goes, well, that's 50 times three, 65. When, I don't even, that doesn't even, when did we free the slaves?
1962? And then of course, you know, who performed at the halftime show? Bad Bunny. Who sings the song Espresso? Sabrina Carpenter.
You know, what are all these things on TikTok?
They know everything.
Okay. What do we, what do we do with this? What's broken here? I'm going to play this clip here. This is the opening of a British, it's a British historian. His name's Kenneth Clark.
And he did this 11 hour docuseries back in 1969 about the fall of ancient Rome and ancient Greece. And here is the beginning of it. If you're listening on the podcast, he's sitting by this river, right in front of an aqueduct. This aqueduct was probably built 2 ,000 years ago, still standing, still working, and it's beautiful.
But it says a lot more about the Roman people than just, oh, that's a nice thing to build. What happened? Well, it took Gibbon nine volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and I shall not embark on that. But Thinking about this almost incredible episode does tell one something about the nature of civilization. It shows that however complex and solid it seems, it's actually quite fragile. It can be destroyed.
What are its enemies? First of all, fear. Fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague. Fears that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees, or even planning next year's crops. And fear of the supernatural. which means that you don't question anything or change anything.
The late antique world was full of meaningless rituals, mystery religions, that destroyed self -confidence. And then, boredom, the feeling of hopelessness, which can overtake people with a high degree of material prosperity. There's a poem by a modern Greek called Cavafy, a poem in which he imagines the people's some late antique city waiting every day for the barbarians to come and sack it. And then, finally, the barbarians move off somewhere else, and the city is saved. But the people are disappointed.
It would have been better than nothing. Of course, civilization requires a modicum of material prosperity, enough to provide a little leisure. But far more, it requires confidence. confidence in the society in which one lives, belief in its philosophy, belief in its laws, confidence in one's own mental powers. The way the stones of that bridge are laid is not only a triumph of technical skill, but it shows a vigorous belief in discipline and law, energy, vitality. All the great civilizations or civilizing epochs have had a weight of energy behind them.
People sometimes think that civilization consists in fine sensibilities and good conversation and all that. While these can be among the agreeable results of civilization, but they are not what makes a civilization. And a society can have these amenities and yet be dead and rigid.
So if one asks why the civilization of Greece and Rome collapsed, the real answer is that it was exhausted. All right, there's a ton here. First, I love that last part about the symphony. The symphony isn't what makes a people civilized.
A symphony is the result of a civilization.
Right? You have a civilization that believes in itself and is hopeful and is good. And from that comes a symphony and all and art and other wonderful things. Also, we played this on my radio show and we talked about President Trump and how President Trump is America's best cheerleader. That's why he always goes around the world and says, America's hot. He wants us to have confidence in ourselves and where we can go.
and where we're going. But I want to focus on that last line here. He said that ancient Greece and Rome, they collapsed because they were in short exhausted. Same reason. I think it's one of the main reasons why people voted for Biden in the two elections ago, because the left in their derangement made people exhausted every day. TDS nonstop end of the world chaos.
And people were just like, enough already. I can't take it anymore. Make it stop. Just vote, whatever, for the grandpa. I don't care. Like, could we just go back to normal?
And people voted for Biden because it was normal, they thought. And he made our country more extreme and worse than ever. But I share that to encourage you to not get exhausted. If I could share a quick crusade story, the book's downstairs. Raymond Ibrahim's book, Defenders of the West. I just read about the first crusade and three years, three years.
hiking across the continent, fighting battle after battle. There was an eight month siege of Antioch and they were dying. The Crusaders were dying. They're starving to death. And they finally won that battle. And then they went on to Jerusalem where they were intended to go.
And they're out there for months doing this siege and there was no food. There was no food. They had no water.
They were so thirsty that when a horse died, they would drink the horse blood.
What is that? So finally a prayer was answered and some Italian ships showed up with siege equipment. So a siege tower, this huge tower, 60 feet tall, and you push it up on wheels and you push it up against the wall. And then this bridge falls down and you can climb over the bridge. And now you're inside on the other side of the walls, right? right?
So the ship showed up and had the siege tower on it, but the crusader, the ship landed 40 miles away from Jerusalem. So they had to move the siege tower 40 miles, but It was in pieces. They had to move the pieces and then put it together. 40 miles. 40 miles! Two marathons.
The beams were so heavy they would take 60 men to carry. These men already fought battles. They're already years away from home. They're starving. They're so desperate they're drinking horse blood. They don't have protein powder that they can scoop up every night to make sure they have their protein and calories for the day.
They're starving to death. And they go on 40 mile hikes to carry the seizure equipment with 60 men carrying the beams. Like, what are you talking about? With no food and no water. And we were like, we sit here today like, well, we're so tired. The news.
It's so tiring. I can't even like, oh man, toughen up. And I bet these ancients are way smarter than the people on the beaches in Florida too.
Let's go to the Bible.
Actually, before we go to the Bible. All right. So I have this book here. It's one of my favorite books. It's called Scripture, Emblems and Allegories. That's awesome.
It's from 1859. Let me, and honestly, I'm not even kidding. Right before I started recording, it was just sitting here. I have a couple of books here. They're like resource books. They're like, um, like some hymn books and poetry books and stuff like this.
Like quick little things you can just pick up if you have a minute. Um, and I just picked it. I was like, Oh, I bet there's something here relevant. I'm not even kidding. I promise you. It was just sitting right here.
I was like, Oh, I wonder if I open it up and I'll like take a minute and like find something relevant. It's the first page I opened to. Okay. Let me show it to you. I got to put the mic down. I'm holding the mic.
So let me put the mic down, show you the picture.
Don't show up. Okay, there you go. Can I see the woman? like a little girl holding a snake. OK, that's the picture. Let me read and then we'll get to the Bible.
This is a chapter about, oh, it's First Corinthians 14, verse 20. Be not children in understanding. The title is Simplicity. Deep in a meadow of rich verdure green, a simple child of beauteous form is seen, pleased with the serpent's fascinating charms. She fondly takes it in her circling arms. Nor of the brilliant snake thinks aught of fear, though death among its charms lies lurking there.
All right, so she picks up a snake and she's not she's totally clueless about how dangerous it is. But when the cricket's harmless form appears, she's much affrighted and burst forth in tears. Although it's merry chirp, no dangers bring, nor in its homely shape ever wears a sting. It's not going to hurt you. Just so the youth deceived by beauty's form, nor knows that roses always bear a thorn. Choose then for mates alone the good and wise and learn the homely never to despise.
And then it goes on and explains the picture. while she's frightened at homeliness, accompanied by innocence and song. She's scared of the grasshopper. This is an emblem of the young. and inexperienced. Now in this book, 1849 young was like seven.
We're talking about 22 year olds. The term simple or simplicity has a twofold meaning in scripture. There are the simple whom quote the Lord preserveth and the simple who pass on and are punished. And the first instance, it signifies sincerity, innocence, and the second folly or want of understanding. It may therefore be applied to the young. and the inconsiderate of all ages, who, for want of knowledge and experience, act without considering the consequences of their actions.
The youth knows not how to judge of objects that present themselves before him. Inexperienced, he knows not how to choose a right. He is in constant danger of putting evil for good and good for evil, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Hence, he needs the instruction of God's holy word to enable him to discern the things that are excellent, to prove all things and hold fast that which is good. Above all, he needs the enlightening influencing of the Holy Spirit to give him understanding and guide him into all truth. This want of understanding, moreover, displays itself in the wrong choice that is often made of companions.
Think about everyone at spring break. While the homely person who may have much of wisdom and goodness is rejected, the accomplished villain is selected as a bosom friend. But we'd bring the word bosom back. No one ever used the word bosom anymore. The youth, deceived by his showery exterior and smooth tongue, unbosoms himself to him without reserve. The villain laughs at his simplicity, betrays his confidence and leads him into ruin, irreparable, irreparable.
Hence, how necessary it is that the inexperienced youth should seek the counsel of the aged and the wise, and follow the godly admonitions of parents and guardians. This would save them many a false step and much misery. I'm sorry, let me add my joke in here. This would save the many a false step in STDs and much misery in the afterlife. Appearances are, we had in college, I forget what class it was, some lecture hall. The day before spring break, all he did was show pictures of STDs.
And he said, have a great spring break, everybody. Appearances are deceitful. The ignis fatus means, what's ignis fatus means? Like the foolish fire. Looks like a friendly light, but it betrays the unwary traveler down to the secret chambers of death. Poisoned berries sometimes look like tempting grapes.
Ice, though it may seem firm, oftentimes breaks in and plunges the rash youth into a watery grave. Wine, relevant here, when it giveth its color in the cup, at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like a snake. It was when Eve saw that the tree was pleasant to the eye that she took of the fruit thereof, by which act she lost Eden and brought death into our world and all of our woe. Last part here, if then an act seemed to be right, be sure it is so before you do it. If anything appears to be good, Be sure it is before you touch it. If any of your acquaintances seem to be virtuous, be sure that they are before you take them for friends.
The simple pass on and are punished, but he that trusteth in the Lord shall be delivered. And then it ends with a little poem. Ye simple souls that stray far from the paths of peace, that lonely, unfrequented way to life and happiness. All right, so we have the path to peace. It's lonely and no one takes it.
Why will ye folly love and throng the downward road and hate the wisdom from above?
and mock the sons of God. 1859 scripture emblems and allegories. Great little book. All right, let's go to the Bible. Isaiah 513. Now that's the scripture I wanted to quote.
but if I go a little earlier, if we start a little earlier, it's actually so on the nose. So the point of this, one of the origins of this podcast is like there'll be a news story. I forget what it was even, but it was like a news story years ago. There'd be a news story. And I was like, wow, that's like, I just read a story like this in the Bible. It's unbelievable.
Like it's right there. The Bible's right there. And then that kept happening. And I was like, well, I wonder if everything's in the Bible. And sure enough, it's all there. This one is so on the nose.
I didn't even mean to. I was looking for Isaiah 513. I didn't realize when I was looking for Isaiah 513 that Isaiah 5 like 9 is basically the spring break scripture. Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may follow intoxicating drink. who continue until night till wine inflames them. Now that's Spring Break.
Now, Spring Breakers aren't necessarily rising early in the morning.
They're going to bed early in the morning.
So it's not the time so much as the fact that as soon as they get up, it's about finding the intoxicating drink. And that's all they think about and all they're concerned about. Hey, what are you doing in Spring Break? Getting drunk! The harp and the strings, the tambourine and flute are wine. And wine are in their feasts.
The clubs, I've been to some clubs. It's the worst. It's my absolute hell on earth. They didn't have harps and flutes. That wasn't the music of choice at these horrible places. If it were, I might've enjoyed it.
The harp and the strings, the tambourine and flute and wine are in their feasts, but they do not regard the work of the Lord, nor consider the operation of his hands. The problem with this lifestyle or even this week, although people doing this is not just one week out of the year. This is what they do. This is the, this is college. This is what college is. It's a very expensive four year party at the rate.
These people are going and maybe a five or six year party for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The problem with this lifestyle is God's not a part of it. God's not considered one of the girls in the video who was most graphic probably was wearing a cross necklace. She had a gold cross necklace, but God is not on her mind. Therefore, the scripture says, therefore, all right, so you're not considering the Lord. You're getting drunk.
You're partying. What happens now? Therefore, my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge. God's people were taken over by neighboring kingdoms. They were cursed. That was awesome about the scriptures.
It's in the perfect tense.
It says, my people have gone into captivity, have gone. So it means it hasn't happened yet technically, but it's already done. Right? So it's, it's inevitable. It will happen because they've abandoned God. They're partying.
They're not of God. They have no knowledge of God. And either do we, we don't have to be partying in Miami. to live a life that has no knowledge of God. There are temporary atheists all the time. We all the time say we know God and then we act like we don't.
And just to prove that this scripture is not just for the spring breakers of thousands of years ago, the next line says, their honorable men are famished and their multitude dried up with thirst. So it's everyone, it doesn't matter. It could be the few leaders, the honorable men, or it could be the multitude, regular people, right? It doesn't matter. They're all unrighteous and God will not be mocked. Hosea 4 .6 says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you. " Now, he's not talking about how many senators are there of knowledge, although that's a good thing to know as well. We're talking about the knowledge of God. Now, in universities, we have the entire education system, public education system, certainly we have the blind leading the blind. In many ways, I don't blame these kids.
I do, of course, it's their lives. They need to take control of it, but they've been taught nothing more. They've been taught nothing better. They've graduated without having to know how many senators there are in America, but worse than that, they've grown up in a culture that expects nothing of them and a culture that doesn't focus on God either. If we can become a culture again, that has high expectations, high standards, and focuses and loves God. The prayer is that over time, for more people, these choices, to pick up that serpent, to hook up with 10 guys in 10 days, won't even be desirable in the first place.
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