The American Soul
The American Soul
What Does Your Calendar Say About Your Faith?
Your calendar never lies about your priorities. In this thought-provoking episode, we tackle the uncomfortable truth that many of us claim God as our first priority while our daily time allocation tells a different story.
Think about it—we intuitively know that spending time with someone is the clearest indicator of genuine care. Children understand this instinctively. Yet when it comes to our relationship with God, we often expect spiritual depth without investing regular, meaningful time. The results are predictably shallow.
Drawing from 1 Timothy 2, we explore how prayer transforms not just those we pray for, but ourselves in the process. There's something counterintuitive yet powerful about praying for leaders we disagree with and those who've wronged us. The scripture's call to "lead tranquil and quiet lives" offers a refreshing alternative to the anxiety-producing habit of inserting ourselves into matters that don't require our attention.
We also challenge the false dichotomy between scientific inquiry and Christian faith. History reveals countless scientists whose deeper exploration of our universe's complexity led them closer to, not further from, belief in a Creator. The intricate design evident in creation "bears the signature of its Creator graven in its works."
The episode concludes with timeless wisdom from Harriet Beecher Stowe, written nearly a decade before the Civil War but eerily relevant today: our nation won't be saved by partisan alignment but "by repentance, justice and mercy."
Take a moment today to honestly assess where your time goes. Does it align with what you claim to value most? The answer might be uncomfortable, but it's the first step toward authentic spiritual growth.
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Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope, back with another episode of the American Soul Podcast. I hope y'all are doing well, wherever y'all are and whatever part of the day you're in. I really appreciate y'all joining me, giving me a little bit of your time and a little piece of your day. I will try and use it wisely, hopefully give us all some extra tools for our toolbox. Hopefully it'll help us draw ourselves back a little closer to God and Jesus Christ and hopefully it'll help us draw our nation back to God and Jesus Christ. And hopefully it'll help us draw our nation back to God and Jesus Christ. For those of y'all who continue to share the podcast and tell others about it, thank you so much. Very, very grateful for that. For those of y'all who continue to pray for me and for the podcast definitely definitely need that. So thank you so much. And for those of y'all who are new, who are just joining us, I'm glad you're here and I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 1:Hope you come back, father, thank you for today. Thank you for you, father, and your Son, jesus Christ, and your Holy Spirit. Thank you for your love, mercy, grace and forgiveness of sins All your many blessings that you bestow upon us, father, the ones we admit and the ones we don't. Forgive us our lack of trust. Forgive us when we turn to the world and seek after earthly treasures here instead of eternal treasures in heaven with you. Forgive us when we don't care for the sick or the poor or the needy or those in prison, for the poor, the needy or those in prison, when we don't care for them, the widow and the orphan. Help us to truly put you as our first priority each day, father, to truly seek you and your kingdom and your righteousness first. Help us to love you with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength, not just with words, not just as a routine, but truly. Be with our leaders here in America and around the world, in the nations of those listening. Give them wisdom and courage and strong faith. Help them to rule in fear of you, father. And thank you for the time to record this podcast and the people who listen to it. Father, please be with them. Be with their families. Bless the marriages of those who are married. Guide those who have children and raising them to know you and your son, jesus Christ. Comfort them in any affliction. Heal those who are listening from illness and injury any affliction, heal those who are listening, from illness and injury. But whatever happens, father, help us to have faith in you, to trust you, and please bring us home to you and your Son Jesus Christ in your time. In your Son's name we pray, amen, amen.
Speaker 1:Have you made time for God today? Have you made time to read His Word? Have you made time to pray? Is he the top of your priority list? Is he somewhere in the middle? Is he at the bottom? Are your actions lining up with your words? And if you're married, does your spouse know? Do you act like it? Do they go to bed each night knowing that they are your second priority each day, behind only God and Jesus Christ?
Speaker 1:You hear this often at least I have over the years. I'm assuming some of y'all have and you can get it from kids. You know, kids aren't near as dumb as we as adults like to think they are. They're naive, perhaps in a bunch of ways. We all were as kids and there's things that we don't understand that we have to learn along the way. But kids intuitively grasp often what's going on in the world around it.
Speaker 1:Over the years when I've had the privilege of working with kids, whether it's junior, high or high school, college age, and we've talked about how do you know when somebody really cares? You know, and sometimes they kind of look at you for a minute and go well, if you want to develop a really good friendship, how do you do that? And they go, well, you spend time with that person, right. And if you, how do you know that? Your parents, if they tell you that they love you, how do you know that they actually do? And again they'll say, well, well, you know they spend time with you. They and you get different answers, but that's the basic gist of most of it. They focus on you, they do things with you. And just as a real quick side note here, that doesn't mean just sitting in front of a TV together or sitting in the bleachers watching them play a sport. It means you're actually doing things with them, interacting with them, right. It means you're actually doing things with them, interacting with them right.
Speaker 1:And most of us would easily acknowledge the truth of that statement that if you really care about somebody or somebody really cares about you, you're going to spend time together. And yet, when it comes to our faith faith we want this great relationship with god. We want this great relationship with jesus christ, but do we ever spend any time with them developing that relationship? And and if you know anything over the years, I've heard this too. If you know anything over the years, I've heard this too. If you know anything about working out, it's far better to work out 20 minutes every day than an hour and a half once a week. Right, you want that consistency, that habit, and the same thing is true of your spouse, right? Right, it's why you can't rely on, for example, anniversaries and valentine's day and special days to get your relationship through. It has to be an everyday occurrence loving your spouse, developing that relationship. And so if you don't spend time with them and you give that time to other things, other people besides God and Jesus Christ, besides your spouse, you can't expect to have this great relationship.
Speaker 1:Folks, and all you need to do is look at other aspects of your life. If you really want to be in in decent shape, right, you can't eat whatever you want and be a fat slob or or a what did we used to call it in the Marine Corps a fat pill always chasing food, right? And not work out each day and expect to be in great shape it. Just it isn't going to happen. Think about what you spent time on today, and if this is early in the morning when you're listening, think about what you spent time on yesterday. Really, go through it, folks. Look at what you're spending your time on. That'll tell you what your priorities are. Alright, what are we on? I don't know. Somebody knows.
Speaker 1:1st Timothy, chapter 2 I believe a call to prayer. There you go. Chapter 2, I believe. A call to prayer. There you go. First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings be made on behalf of all men for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. And to come to the knowledge of the truth, for there is one God and one mediator also between God and men the man Jesus Christ, who gave himself as a ransom for all the testimony given at the proper time.
Speaker 1:For this, I was appointed a preacher and an apostle. I am telling the truth, I am not lying. As a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. Therefore, I want the men, in every place, to pray, lifting up holy hands without wrath and dissension, women instructed. Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness, but I do not allow a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet, for it was Adam who was first created and then Eve, and it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived fell into transgression. But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.
Speaker 1:So verse 1, first of all, then, I urge that in treaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings be made on behalf of all men. Do we really pray for all men? And I don't necessarily mean pray for every single person across the globe, although that's certainly a legitimate prayer that all would come to faith in Jesus Christ, even though we know that's not going to happen, we can still pray for those right, but all of those in our circle, those people that we know, our acquaintances, the people we consider friends, the people we consider enemies. Do we pray for all of them? Do we go to God with our requests, with our thanksgivings Right, with our thanksgivings Right?
Speaker 1:A pastor one of my favorites over the years, and I've had some really good ones he kind of broke it down like this. He said go to God, tell him what you're thankful for first, ask him for forgiveness for whatever sins you've committed. Second, pray for others Third, and then pray for yourself Last, whatever you need. And he wasn't saying pray for yourself last, because it's not important folks. He was just saying that's the order you really want to go through. Tell God what you're thankful for.
Speaker 1:And if you're new to prayer folks, if you're struggling to get back into it or if you've never done it before, it doesn't have to be fancy, it doesn't have to be you know King James language formal. Just start off real simple. Just tell God a couple things you're thankful for. I'm thankful for a roof over my head and a heater when it's cold outside and forgive me for being rude to this person yesterday, you know being unkind or uncaring or looking at something online that I shouldn't have. I'm sorry for that. Truly, father, please forgive me for that. Pray for those around you spouse, kids, friends, somebody that's going through heartache, pain, illness, surgery, right. And then for yourself, what do you need? Help it in your marriage, with your kids, at your job, peace from the anxiety to go away, right, whatever it is, go to God with it.
Speaker 1:It says verse 2, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. The first part how often do we pray for our leaders, whether we like them or not? Right? Maybe you liked the last leader, maybe you don't like this one so much. Maybe it's vice versa. Do you pray for them? It's kind of like praying for your enemies.
Speaker 1:Folks, if you've got someone that's truly an enemy, somebody that you truly don't like, what's the best way to work on prayer right? Put god on them. You really want to change their hearts and mind. Pray for them. It's kind of counterintuitive, right. We don't really want to change their hearts and mind. Pray for them. It's kind of counterintuitive, right. We don't really want to pray for our enemies. We don't really want to pray for those people we don't like. But tell you what, if you do, it makes a difference and then to lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. You see this in other places in scripture.
Speaker 1:But how many of us really strive to mind our own business, to work with our hand, to lead a quiet life? I think a lot of the problems I have experienced over the years, I think a lot of the problems I have experienced over the years, a lot of the anxiety, concern, issues, wouldn't have been there if I would have just focused on minding my own business and leading a quiet life. I can think of a couple examples off the top of my head where I would have been far better off doing that. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of truth. Right, right. God isn't some mean, random God in the sky that wants certain people to be punished, folks. He wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of truth. But he gives us free will.
Speaker 1:We get to decide whether we choose to have faith in Jesus Christ or not. That's a choice we get to make and it is a choice, folks. Faith is a choice. Everybody has faith in something. It just depends on what you're going to put your faith in. Are you going to put your faith in money, in science, in people, In governments, in God, in false gods? What is your faith in them? What are you trusting in? It's a tough question, folks. It's a hard question when we really get to looking at it, because even for a lot of us that claim Jesus Christ, we have doubts, we have fears.
Speaker 1:But in those moments, I would argue, I would offer here the suggestion that we're really not trusting God and Jesus Christ. It doesn't mean it's not a human reaction. We just need to remember I need to remember certainly more to trust in God and Jesus Christ, for there is one God and one mediator also between God and men the man, jesus Christ, who gave himself as a ransom for all the testimony given at the proper time. You don't need anybody else between you and God, folks, besides Jesus Christ. You don't need a pastor, a priest, a rock star, a singer, an NFL player. You don't need anybody between you and God. There's one God and one mediator also between God and men. You don't need Mary or Joseph or the apostles, or the thief on the cross or anybody else throughout all history. You just need Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:And I would argue here and this is just me talking, and I would argue here and this is just me talking that when we do claim that we need somebody else or that somebody else can step in and do the job as a mediator between us and God, that we're belittling the Son of God and his sacrifice, and that's really dangerous territory, folks. Verse eight Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without wrath and dissension. I, just I, whether you're a man or a woman, folks, we have a responsibility to pray. But here he's really picking on the men. Men in a responsibility to pray, but here he's really picking on the men. Men in every place to pray. Do we pray? Are we praying, men? Verse 9,.
Speaker 1:Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold and pearls or costly garments, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. If you claim to follow Christ, ladies, are you following Scripture? Are you concerned more about your looks or more about your actions and this kind of cuts? Two ways right. The one what I've noticed over the years is there's there's two different types, generally speaking, of women who worry about their outfit, and on the one hand, you have the ones that this kind of fits with that make you know, braided hair, gold, pearls, the latest dress or shoes or hairstyle or whatever else it is right. And then, on the other side, though, it's the women that wear the like sweatpants and baggy shirts and really men's attire, like as a of honor, like I'm not wearing I. I hate dresses, I hate girly stuff, and and there's nothing wrong with at least I don't think there is if you don't like dresses, but there's something very wrong if you wear it as kind of like a badge of honor. If you're like proud, well, I'm not like those girly girls Then something's wrong. Either way, you're too focused on what you're wearing instead of how you're acting.
Speaker 1:Are you following scripture? Are you doing what God tells women to do? Have you looked at Proverbs 31? Have you looked at the examples of godly women throughout the Old and New Testament? And there's quite a few examples. If you're not familiar with it, do you see how they acted? If you're talking about particularly in a marriage, do you go back and do you look at Ephesians 5, 1 Corinthians 7, titus 2, 1 Peter 3, hebrews 13, 4? Is that your guide for how you're acting in your marriage? Do you go back and look at Sarah, for example, and see how she acted in her marriage? It's the actions, and this is true for guys too. This is true for kids, folks.
Speaker 1:You go back to Proverbs. Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conduct is pure and upright. That's the point. A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness, but I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. For it was Adam who was first created and then Eve, and it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived fell into transgression. But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with selfless strength.
Speaker 1:So these verses here, for one thing, make the term female pastor oxymoronic. There's no such thing. You can't have it, and that's part of the problem which has directly opened the door to LGBTQ lifestyles pastors, leaders in the church and it goes straight back to feminism and to women pretending that they can preach. And if your church has a female pastor, you need to find a new church, or, if that's not an option for whatever reason, right, Go back to my father's commentary about just institutions in general. He was talking about the military to me at that time. But you can either get out and try and change it from the outside or you can stay in and try and change it from the inside, and both are valid in different situations. But you have to make your decision. But maintaining the status quo in a church that has a female pastor, that's not going to fly, it's just not going to work.
Speaker 1:You can make this argument, I think, stretch to leadership roles in any institution very easily. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. That's going to be hard to do when you have women in positions of authority in the military and law enforcement and firefighting and politics, right, how? How do you have a woman in a position of authority Unless there's only women in that organization with men underneath her? And? And go along with verse 12 at the same time. And then one other thing, and we'll move on verse 14 it was adam who was deceived, or it was not adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived fell into transgression. You can go back and make a whole lot of arguments about the mistakes adam made as well and we have over the years inside and outside the church.
Speaker 1:We don't talk about the fact and this is part of the feminist problem. We don't, you know, you acknowledge if a man's not in, if a husband isn't following. One Corinthians, seven Ephesians five, titus, two, one Peter, three Hebrews, 13, four. We're ready, so ready to acknowledge that and that the man needs to change. But if you do the same thing with a woman, right, if you go back and talk about the fact that the man is the head of the household, the leader, and that the wife is supposed to submit to the husband as the husband is to Christ, that relationship represents Christ in the church. Obviously, christ is the head of the church. You talk about the fact that the only reason to abstain from sex if you both agree to it, only if you both agree to it is for fasting and prayer that the body, your body, is given control of to your spouse. Right? You start talking about that stuff with women and it won't take most churches long to get pretty irritated at you and to kick you out because you're talking about scripture. This is another one of those.
Speaker 1:If you go back and look, it's very interesting to see the demographic, voting demographics from election cycles, and you can look at really quite a few of the last election cycles it's not just this last one at really quite a few of the last election cycles, it's not just this last one. I think the number was somewhere in the upper 60s, though. The percentage of single women who voted for the left Folks, the policies, the values of the left are evil Abortion, feminism, lgbtq lifestyles, feminism, lgbtq lifestyles, illegal immigration, welfare state each of these core values, deicrt, which is basically just fancy for racism and bigotry. All of these lead to pain, suffering, heartache. They're all evil. They're all anti-Scripture, anti-god, anti-christ right. So if you're voting for them in that moment, you're not following Christ. You may be somebody that votes for the left and you still go to the soup kitchen and feed the poor right and that's awesome. That second part's great. We need to do that care for the orphan but you can't make the argument about the first part voting for the left, following christ.
Speaker 1:And so when you look at that 67 of women that aren't married you have to kind of start to go. Why are there so many unmarried women that vote for evil? Are they evil, are they confused, are they deceived? And what does it have to do with that relationship between a woman and a man? Why are the married women not voting in the same percentages for evil that the unmarried women are? And I would offer this verse again, verse 14 out of 1 Timothy, chapter 2. And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived fell into transgression. And then there's always the hope, though, right, you go back to. God wants all of us to be saved, verse 15,. But women will be preserved to the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity, with self-restraint. And if you're not a woman who has children, please don't hear that verse as saying that you can't be saved, because there's so many places in scripture where God talks about the joy of the woman who has no children, who's barren because he's going to give her so many other children, and there's the example of those women who don't get married right, that are also good. So please don't don't hear that as some kind of failing.
Speaker 1:So we've got some quotes to get through, but there's a few articles that I wanted to get through today out of the epic times. So we're going to do, we're going to do at today out of the epic times. So we're going to do. We're going to do at least one of those real quick. This is from a week or two ago and they've serialized a book and the book's title is how the specter of communismism is Ruling Our World. This is out of the March 12-18 Epoch Times issue. It's in the opinion section and they've taken this book and broken it down for ever since I've started taking this podcast, I mean this newspaper, so it's been at least a year. I would say Just a couple notes here. And this they say this is out of chapter three.
Speaker 1:Right, I think a lot of us don't realize the numbers in communist, socialist Russia and China that have been killed. Right, for example, between 1932 and 1933, mass starvation caused by the Soviet Communist Party killed millions of people, mostly peasants, across the regions of Ukraine, southern Russia and central Asia. The famine in Ukraine known as the Holodomor, if I said that right, claimed lives of about 4 million people. You look at some of the numbers. Other places, communist China, for example. There it is. In March 1950, the CCP issued the directive on the strict suppression of counter-revolutionary elements, also known as the campaign to suppress counter-revolutionary elements. Also known as the Campaign to Suppress Counter-Revolutionaries, which focused on killing landlords and rich peasants in the countryside. The CCP declared that by the end of 1952, more than 2.4 million counter-revolutionaries had been eliminated. In fact, more than 5 million people had been murdered in two years. Two years. In two years, two years. And you go back again Just in one year In communist Soviet Russia.
Speaker 1:One of the commentaries here is a quote by a friend of Lenin's that these disasters, or disasters like them, were good and that it would destroy faith not only in the Tsar, but in God too. You just can't ever separate folks. You will never understand why communists, socialists, leftists do what they do if you don't understand, if you refuse to acknowledge that their core value, their core value above all else, is being anti-God, anti-christ. You have to acknowledge that in order to really understand why the left does some of the things that they do.
Speaker 1:After seizing power and establishing the PRC in mainland China, the CCP targeted the elites of society who had served as the bearers of traditional culture. It destroyed the physical artifacts of Chinese civilization, effects of Chinese civilization. When you go back and you look at a lot of the places where communism has come in socialism, leftism we have just textbook example in the United States of the last few years, whether you're talking about renaming bases or tearing statues down, etc. Or where Muslims have gone in in different places around the world one of the first things that they do is they destroy physical artifacts because they're trying to sever that relationship between the people and their history in that region, their culture, particularly particularly between the people and God. It doesn't matter whether it's multiple gods, like in the case of Chinese history, right, but the ultimate goal, the ultimate goal is to separate them from God, the Father of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:And then the lead quote in this section that they printed this week millions of people gave their lives on the battlefields of World War II, yet the unexpected result was the meteoric expansion of totalitarian communism. It's hard to say this looking back in hindsight. I mean, it's easy to say looking back in hindsight, maybe it was really hard at the time. But, folks, you can't ever negotiate with the devil, you can't ever meet in the middle with the devil. It just doesn't work.
Speaker 1:People, often historians, people that I've known over the years, that I really value their, their opinion. They, they'll tell you that. You know if, if the founders had really pushed in slavery at the beginning, they couldn't have won the Revolutionary War, they would have lost the southern states, they couldn't have ratified the Constitution, etc. Etc. And the insinuation is that the country would have automatically failed. Right, but who's to say if the founders wouldn't have demanded an end to slavery there at the beginning of the country, and followed along with what we declared in our Declaration of Independence that all men were created equally by God? Maybe it would have fallen apart for a little while, but maybe it would have been over quickly. Maybe we would have saved ourselves the bloodshed of the Civil War. Maybe our nation would have been stronger quicker. Maybe we would be stronger today. Almost assuredly we would be stronger today. Who knows, it's trusting in our own maneuvering as opposed to God. Same thing is true in World War II. People will tell you absolutely flat out cannot win without the Russians, without the Soviets. Maybe we didn't try it. What we do know is that joining forces with Soviet Russia after World War II turned out to be horrific and spread the evil of communism across the world.
Speaker 1:We've got the 20th century and we're still struggling with, as they call this book, the specter of communism. Right, we're still struggling with that shadow both of slavery the first example and of communism. We're still struggling with that shadow of evil and folks. There's a real good analogy for our own personal lives there. How often do we make deals with evil in our lives? I've done it, oh man, and I tell you what I'm still paying the price in a couple instances for something that happened years and years and years ago. Every time we try and negotiate with the devil, with evil, we crack that door just a little bit. It's like a door that won't quite shut all the way and it's cold outside and you're letting that cold air get inside to your heart, your marriage, your family, your church, your school, your nation.
Speaker 1:The quote I found it both in the American patriots bible and also in america's god and country encyclopedia of quotes. I didn't look for it. A founder's Bible. It might be there, I don't know, but you can find it a few different places. By charles stein. He was the director of research for the eI DuPont company, leader in development of products, patents, propellant powder, high explosives dyes, artificial leather, paints. Really bright guy, right Scientist. The world about us is far more intricate than any watch filled with checks and balances of a hundred varieties, marvelous beyond even the imagination of the most skilled scientific investigator. This beautiful and intricate creation bears the signature of its creator, the signature of its creator graven in its works.
Speaker 1:I've heard that quote over the years from different scientists that the more and more you dig into science, the more it draws you back to God, the Father of Jesus Christ, the Creator, the Designer. Science and Christianity are not enemies, folks. When people tell you that you can't be a Christian and a scientist, don't buy into it for one second. If you're a young person listening and you really want to go into the medical field or geology or physics, mathematics, don't for a single second think that that's going to somehow put you at odds with God and Jesus Christ and your faith. It won't.
Speaker 1:There will be people that will try, I promise, having gone through graduate school in a field of science. There will be people that will look at you as if you're foolish and there will be people in textbooks that try and convince you that you cannot have faith in God and Jesus Christ, that you cannot have faith in God and Jesus Christ. But there's a lot of people, and I think I hope there are more today than there have been in recent decades. There obviously were a great number in the past of scientists and mathematicians who were drawn close to God because of their research. I hope there are more today than there have been in the past few decades, and I think you can easily make the argument that the last few decades again are thanks to oh, they absolutely are Communism, leftism, feminism.
Speaker 1:It wasn't science that pushed people in the fields of science away from God, it was the mob mentality, it was the ideology right, which is ironic because science is supposed to lead wherever the answers take you. But for the past several decades, in a lot of places we've already had a presupposed destination in science and mathematics, and that is anti--god, anti-christ. That's the destination. And then we've got to fit all the little clues into that box, so they point that direction instead of allowing all the clues to point us in whatever direction the science takes us. And you can see it with the idiocy of pretending that men and women are the same right. No way on God's green earth you can look at the actual science and then pretend that men and women are interchangeable, especially not at a cellular biological level like that. You could suddenly change all the chromosomes in your body from XY to XX to make you from a man to a woman or a woman to a man. That's definitely not science.
Speaker 1:In 1992, the state of Kentucky passed the Kentucky Revised Statute, title 13, education, 158.195. Reading and posting in public schools of texts and documents on American history and heritage. Local school boards may allow any teacher or administrator in a public school district of the commonwealth to read or post in a public school building, classroom or event any excerpts or portions of the national motto, the national anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Preamble to the Kentucky Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Mayflower Pact, the writings, speeches, documents and proclamations of the founding fathers and presidents of the United States, us Supreme Court decisions and acts of the US Congress, including the published text of the congressional record. There shall be no content-based censorship of American history of heritage in the commonwealth based on religious references in these writings, documents and records. References in these writings, documents and records. So basically what they were saying in Kentucky 30 years ago was that any teacher, administrator, coach et cetera staff member could post anything from the history of our nation and it didn't matter whether it referenced God and Jesus Christ or not. They had the right to post that, to publish it. I don't know if there's similar laws in different states, but it's super, super telling that that had to be there in Kentucky 30 years ago. And if there are similar laws in different states, that ought to be an encouragement to Christians in those states and I wish that more people knew that and would act on it in the classroom.
Speaker 1:Because that's basically what we've done on this podcast for four years is go back and read excerpts from the history of our nation that contain Scripture references to God, faith in God and Jesus Christ, christ. So if you had a quote, for example, from a president that was talking about their faith in God and Jesus Christ, you can put that up there. That's part of their writings, their speeches, their documents. You talk about just across the board folks. I can think of the 18, I think it was 85 case in Utah talking about marriage being between a woman and a man. Right, it was in reference to polygamy, but you could put that up today. That's a Supreme Court case that marriage is only between a man and a woman. Talking about immigration and the need for immigrants. You go back and you post speeches by Teddy Roosevelt, but faith in God and Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:Why did we have to pass a law to protect teachers and administrators and coaches who wanted to post that? Who wanted to post the national motto, the national anthem, pledge of Allegiance, in this case in Kentucky, the preamble to the Kentucky Constitution, mayflower, compact writing speeches, documents, proclamations, founding fathers, president, supreme Court decisions in Supreme Court decisions? Why? Why did Kentucky in 1992 need to pass the Kentucky revised statute, title 13, education 158.195?
Speaker 1:Because, folks, the idea that we were born a pagan secular democracy is not held up by the facts and the truth that we were born a Christian republic. And the left has known for years, right, you go back to that comment that we just read out of the article out of the Epic Times from Lenin's friend about separating them not only from the Tsar in Russia but from God. You go back to John Dewey talking about the main two points of education were to separate children from their family and from God I think he used church right from their family and from the church. But that's what they mean is God and Jesus Christ. That's been the point since 1947, everson v School Board of Education to separate children, and therefore the future of our nation, from God. It wasn't separation of church and state, that's what they used. What they meant was to separate them from God and that's why Kentucky had to pass this law.
Speaker 1:I ought to read this more often, folks. I may come back to a different podcast and read it again. Pretty huge. I have one more that I wanted to read. This is from Uncle Tom's Cabin Right, let me find it.
Speaker 1:Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was the daughter of Lyman Beecher and the sister of Henry Ward Beecher. Both minister preachers, and at the very end of her book, uncle Tom's Cabin, she says A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both north and south have been guilty before God, and the Christian church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together to protect injustice and cruelty and making a common capital of sin is this union to be saved, but by repentance, justice and mercy. And Lincoln met her years later. She wrote that in 1851, 52, when Lincoln met her, his quote was so you're the little lady who started the big war. Right?
Speaker 1:There's a man that I follow online on X, and he ends I've noticed quite a few of his posts with, we still have a country to save. I feel like he's indicating that, even with the results of the last election that didn't save our nation, not even close he's acknowledging we still have a war probably a physical one, but certainly a spiritual, emotional one coming, and this almost a decade before the civil war by harriet beecher stowe to me rings very true. Today, a day of grace is yet held out to us. Both north and south have been guilty before god, and the christian church has a held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God, and the Christian church has a heavy account to answer. All parts of the country have been guilty before God. We've all fallen short folks. There's no particular geographic part in the United States that hasn't and the Christian church. We do indeed have a heavy account to answer.
Speaker 1:We've approved of abortion and feminism, implicitly, if not explicitly, for decades, and LGBTQ relationships. We've approved of evil. She says, though, here what? Not by combining together to protect injustice and cruelty and making a common capital of sin? To protect injustice and cruelty and making a common capital of sin. So not by protecting sin, not by encouraging it, not by pretending that it's okay Feminism, abortion, lgbtq lifestyles, not by approving of those things can we save our nation, can we save our union, but by repentance, and here right, justice and mercy. There's no possible need or even ability to have mercy without justice, and you can't even understand justice and mercy if you don't acknowledge the need for repentance. God bless y'all. God bless your families. God bless your marriages. God bless America. God bless your nation, wherever you are around the world. Listen, folks, we'll talk to y'all again real soon, looking forward to it.