The American Soul
The American Soul
Have We Forgotten What Made America Great?
What happens when a nation built on faith abandons its spiritual foundation? In this powerful exploration of America's soul, we confront the hard truth that our country's struggles—economic, cultural, and political—stem from a deeper spiritual crisis.
Drawing from the prophetic warnings in the Book of Haggai, we see striking parallels to modern America: "You have planted much, but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes." These ancient words resonate with our current national condition, where material abundance coexists with spiritual emptiness.
The podcast examines Ronald Reagan's prescient "Time for Choosing" speech from 1964, which warned that "freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp." Decades later, these words ring truer than ever as we witness the erosion of constitutional protections and traditional values. But the solution isn't merely political—it requires rebuilding on the "rock of honesty and fairness, with the cement of faith in God."
This spiritual renewal must begin personally. Have you made time for God today? Is your spouse truly your second priority after God? Our individual choices reflect our true values, and honest self-assessment is the first step toward transformation. As Barry Goldwater once advised his son: "There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock with the cement of faith in God, then you have a real start."
Turn back to God and Jesus Christ—in your personal life, your marriage, and your community. While it might be too late for our nation, remember John Quincy Adams' wisdom: "The duty is ours, the results are God's." Will you answer the call to rebuild America's spiritual foundation?
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Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope, back with another episode of the American Soul Podcast. Hope y'all are doing well, wherever y'all are and whatever part of the day you're in. I sure do appreciate y'all joining me, giving me a little bit of your time and a little piece of your day. I sure do appreciate it. Giving me a little bit of your time and a little piece of your day, I sure do appreciate it. I will try and use it wisely.
Speaker 1:Thought today was a nice day to come outside. Hopefully you all can still hear me despite all of the background noise, particularly the guineas. They seem to be very upset today about something. Guineas are always upset about something. I think they like like being upset, and they make this. I don't know how clearly y'all can hear them in the background, but they make this like repetitive squawk, and I'm pretty sure that any other creature in the world, if they did that same thing, they would drive themselves mentally insane. So this excuse me, this may be a bad idea. Hopefully not. The ducks are coming over now too, so we'll see. We'll find out For those of y'all as always, though that continue to share the podcast and tell others about it.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for those of y'all who pray for me and for the podcast. Thank you Very, very grateful, father. Thank you for today. Thank you for you, father, and your son, jesus Christ and your Holy Spirit. Thank you for your love and your mercy, your grace and your forgiveness. Thank you for sunny days and cloudy days. Rain Thank you for sunny days and cloudy days, rains, cars that run and clothes to wear and food to eat and water to drink for those of us who have it, and help us to help those that don't have it. Thank you for your word, thank you for the ability to read it without fear, imprisonment or persecution, and help us not only to pray for those who don't have that ability and to help them as much as we can, father, but help us to truly take advantage of that blessing for those of us that have it. Be with those who listen to the podcast, father. Please Be with their families. Guide them, surround them with your angel. Protect them from evil and bad. Be with our nation here in America and those around the world where people are listening. Guide our leaders, not only on the civic side, but also, father, in the pulpit. Guide God does not be with their wives. And God. My words here. Father, please, in your son's name, we pray, amen, amen. Have you made time for God today? Have you made time to read his word? Have you made time to pray? And if you're married, have you made time? Happy May time. Thank you, scott.
Speaker 1:We're going to read a little bit different Bible verse today. We're going to go to Haggai, to chapter one, a particular Bible that I have. In each little section it kind of has a what's the point, why is this book written, or what's the main theme of it. And for this particular book, that theme was God doesn't take second place to anything else, or God doesn't place second fiddle behind anything or anyone else, or that he's not willing to. And that goes along real well with our theme as a podcast in general, the American Soul, and with the questions we ask each night here what are you really doing with your time? Is God really your first priority? Is your spouse really your first priority? Is your spouse really your second priority? There shouldn't be anything else that comes before those two folks, not kids, not parents, certainly not sports or social media. One of the puppy dogs decided to come over to see what the heck I was doing. And and if they do, folks, you need to. Either if you consider yourself or you want to be a decent individual, good as far as human standards go, you need to be honest enough to admit that you don't really care that much about God or your spouse. But if you actually do, and they aren't your first priority and your second priority each day, then you need to start to work really hard, more than anything else.
Speaker 1:You know, there's a quote that I've talked about from Joe Rogan. This is I don't know how long ago a year or two ago maybe and he was talking about the fact that if you wake up one day and you find yourself in this job, that you can't stand and your dreams, aspirations have kind of gone off track and just things just aren't doing good. But he was really talking about people that just find themselves in this job that they just hate, can't stand, go to work each day, and I think some of that has to do with our level of gratitude simply for having a job. But you understand his point and he said look, you need to. The very first thing you need to do is you need to admit that you screwed up, and he used some more colorful language than I'm going to today. But you need to admit that you're the one at fault, that you did this, not somebody else. Don't start pointing fingers at somebody else. You need to own up to the fact that you're here because you put yourself here. He said that's the very first thing. You can't do anything until you do that. He said that's the very first thing. You can't do anything until you do that. And then he said you need to spend every free waking minute that you have trying to figure out how to get yourself out of that really bad situation that you've gotten yourself into, every spare moment, every ounce of energy.
Speaker 1:And again, it's funny to me that we acknowledge this often professionally, academically, athletically but we don't. We just I don't know if it's just, I have to think often it's just because we simply don't really care that much about God or our spouse, but we don't acknowledge that If your faith is weak, as mine sometimes is, folks, I can look back at my life and I can point out multiple spots along the way where I just simply wasn't paying much attention or time to God, and I'm still working on that. I'm picking up the pace a little bit because the more I realize how far off track I've gotten, the more I realize how much effort I need to put into it. And the second thing is, the more I feel like these storm clouds are getting closer for our nation, the more I feel like I need to really step on it a little bit and put more and more energy and effort into it. And then with your marriage, folks, if you look up and your marriage isn't what you wanted or hoped, or if it's in a spiral, you need to put everything else on the back burner like the way back burner besides God and Jesus Christ, and you need to pour really poor time and energy into fixing that marriage. And if you're in a marriage where you're already trying to do that and your spouse just isn't reciprocating, then, kind of like we talked about the other day, you take that energy and that effort and you pour it into being the man or the woman that God called you to be. And as much as that hurts folks and Lord, I know the heartache there. I've seen so many examples over the years. God told us there'd be suffering.
Speaker 1:And again, rogan, you know we put ourselves here. Nobody, if you're the man, nobody forced you to ask a woman to marry them. I mean, you could have gotten out of it, Even if your parents really put a lot of pressure on you. If you really, if you knew that that was a bad idea, you could have gotten out of it. And for a number of people, you probably had some people, if you ended up in a bad marriage, telling you, hey, this isn't right, this is not a good idea. But even if you didn't, you had your own ability to think and did you talk to God about it. Right? And if you're on the female side, if you're a woman, nobody forced you to say yes, you didn't have to agree to the marriage and there were probably some red flags going off in there.
Speaker 1:So again, the first thing, just like Rogan said when he was talking about a job, the first thing is we have to acknowledge that we're the biggest culprit in this scenario. If our faith is weak, are we really really focused on God? If our marriage is horrible, are we really really focused on that and have we been or did we really mess up in the past? And then we need to do everything we can to strengthen our faith and our marriage. The great news about the faith is the more we draw close to God, the closer He'll draw us in folks. The more we turn to Him, the better things we'll get. As far as our faith goes, they might not get better here on earth and that includes our marriage. You draw closer to Christ and your spouse isn't interested. That heartache, it may not go away and it may seem to intensify once you realize that the marriage is kind of shot. But the point is for us to look at ourselves and see what our actions, how they really line up right, how they really line up.
Speaker 1:And the only other thing, before we move on to high guy, that I will leave you with folks is the roles and responses. If you're not married yet, but you're looking right, if you're listening to this podcast and you're in high school, college or a young adult, or maybe you're already divorced and you're thinking about remarrying folks, the roles and responsibilities for husbands and wives are real clear. It's real easy to find, simply broken down a husband has a responsibility to love and cherish their wife, following the example of Christ, following the example of how they treat their own body, and the wife has a responsibility to respect, submit to and physically satisfy their husband Again very clearly laid out in the Bible you can go find them Titus 2, 1 Peter 3, 1 Corinthians 7, ephesians 5, hebrews 13.4. It's not hard to find folks. It's not gray, it's very black and white. So if you're looking for a spouse, or if you're going to be looking for a spouse someday, you need to make sure that you find somebody that strives to fulfill those roles and that you strive to fulfill those roles for them. Because if you don't folks, it's going to be a really long hard road.
Speaker 1:Husbands. If you don't folks, it's going to be a really long hard road. Husbands. If you don't find a wife that wants to follow those verses, that doesn't respect you, that doesn't submit to you, that has no desire to physically satisfy you, it's going to be a long hard road. Wives. If you don't find a husband who strives to love you, it's going to be a long hard road. Wives. If you don't find a husband who strives to love you as Christ loved the church, to nourish and cherish you as they do their own body, it's going to be a long hard life. And if you're not willing to do your part with this person, right, if you don't husbands, if you don't really love this person, nourish them, cherish them. If you don't really love this person, nourish him, cherish him. If you don't really want to, don't get married and wives. If you don't really respect this man that you're thinking about marrying, if you're not willing to submit to his authority, as the church does to Christ, if you're not willing to physically satisfy him, then don't get buried, because it's just man. It's going to be long and hard and miserable.
Speaker 1:So we're jumping to Haggai and I think we're only going to just read this one we might read there's only three chapters One of the minor prophets. Some of y'all probably know a lot more about it than I do, but when I read it the other day it struck me like he was talking to America almost, and I'll just read it and we'll see what y'all think. This is Haggai, chapter one the call to rebuild the temple. On August 29th of the second year of King Darius' reign, the Lord gave a message to the prophet Haggai, to Jeroboam, son of Shiltil, governor of Judah, and to Jeshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies says. The people are saying the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord. Then the Lord sent this message through the prophet Haggai.
Speaker 1:Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins? This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies says. Look at what's happening to you. You have planted much, but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear, as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes. This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies says. Look at what's happening to you Now. Go up into the hills, bring down timber and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord. You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor, and when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the Lord of heaven's armies. Why I have called for a drought on your fields and hills, a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.
Speaker 1:Obedience to God's call, obedience to God's call. Then Zerubbabel, son of Shiltil, and Jeshua, son of Jehoshadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of God's people began to obey the message from the Lord, their God. When they heard the words of the prophet Haggai, whom the Lord, their God, had sent, the people feared the Lord. Then Haggai, the Lord's messenger, gave the people this message from the Lord I am with you, says the Lord. So the Lord sparked the enthusiasm of Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the enthusiasm of Jeshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the enthusiasm of the whole remnant of God's people. They began to work on the house of their God, the Lord of Heaven's armies, on September 21st of the second year of King Darius's reign.
Speaker 1:I think in a lot of ways, folks, we've been living on the achievements of those who have come before us for a long time. In America, we keep pointing back. We like to point back to World War I and World War II, or Korea or Afghanistan or Iraq or Lebanon or any of these places. Why do we have to go all the way back to World War II and World War I? Why do we to World War II and World War I? Why is our dollar seem to go so far less than it used to? Why are our schools in so much more disarray? Why? You can just go down the list. Why has our military struggled to reach their quotas in recruiting? And it ties into the left folks, of course, but what it really kind of like we were talking about with ourselves and our faith and our marriage.
Speaker 1:We really need to look in the mirror. Those of us that consider ourselves patriots, conservative Christian I think a lot of us have really been sitting back and kind of going well, look at who my ancestors were, look at what they did, look at how much good we've done in the past, and we really need to be looking a lot more at what are we doing right now? What are we doing with the blessings that God gave us through this nation? Are we worried about him? You know, you go back up to verse 6. You've planted much but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes. And you look at verse 4. Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins?
Speaker 1:How many of us strive after money, promotion and fortune and, to a certain degree, there's nothing wrong with striving to be excellent at whatever you do. But the point is, why Are we working as if we're working for the Lord? Are we striving in order to do His will and then being content with whatever he gives us? I can tell you right now that I struggle at the being content part a lot. And why do I strive for more money, better pay, a promotion? Am I striving for it so that I can do God's will, so that I can save more lost souls? I hope I'm turning more that way, but I can tell you in the past I certainly haven't been. You know, we look around and we say, man, our money just doesn't go as far as it used to. We can't even keep food on the table. You go to the grocery store these days, despite whatever anybody says in the papers. Folks, it costs a lot to buy groceries right now for the vast majority of American families.
Speaker 1:Another reason that welfare is so immoral. You're taking money away from people that go out and earn it to give to people that didn't, and they're already struggling to put food on the table. They're already struggling to pay the insurance bills for their kids that got injured. They're already struggling to pay their own electricity bills, gas bills, etc. You don't have any right to take money from them to give to somebody else. You have absolutely zero right and you're not being moral or loving or kind at all. You can pretend in your own head if you want, if that's really even what you want, as opposed to power, but you're not. Same thing with illegal immigration. Why, why?
Speaker 1:And then it becomes clear. God said hey, turn back to me, focus on me. He's telling the Israelites, focus on building my house before you focus on building your own houses and living in luxury. And when the people did what did he tell them? He said hey, I'm here, I'm with you. When they really turn back, right, it says in in verse 14 right and the whole remnant of god's people. They began to work with enthusiasm.
Speaker 1:Are we enthusiastic about serving god? Are we enthusiastic about serving God? Are we enthusiastic about loving our spouse, fulfilling our role as a spouse, and that ties into God? Right, because your marriage is supposed to exemplify that relationship between Christ and the church. Are we enthusiastic about exemplifying that relationship as a nation? Are we zealous for God when people blaspheme God and Jesus Christ? You know we used to have blasphemy laws in the United States at the beginning of our country and, as we've talked about, god was written into the state constitutions of most of our original 13 colonies, actually even specifically the Protestant faith, and in quite a few of these state constitutions you couldn't even serve if you didn't acknowledge your faith in God and Jesus Christ. And now today you can't even talk about it. We have to have laws like we talked about the one back in 92 from Kentucky where they had to make it okay for teachers to post the writings of our founders and the history of our nation if they reflected that relationship between God and Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:We've turned away from God and Jesus Christ for the last 80 years and we can't seem to figure out why we have all the problems that we do. There's no guarantee that God's going to save us folks. We may have pushed too far, we may have gone too far in America as a nation, but there's an absolute guarantee that we will destroy ourselves if we continue to turn away from God in our individual lives, in our marriages, in our public life as a nation, our institutions, our military, education, law enforcement, firefighters, sports. And you can't turn back with half measures, right? You look at some of these churches that have negotiated with feminism and have female pastors that have negotiated with the LGBTQ lifestyles and encouraged those relationships. You can make the same comment about no-fault divorce.
Speaker 1:Right and perfection isn't the goal, folks, because there's no perfect people in this world except for Jesus Christ. Not the Pope, not priests, bishops, pastors not Mary, not Joseph, not the disciples, not the thief on the cross. There's nobody else that's been perfect. Save God and his son, jesus Christ. Save God and his son, jesus Christ. So you're not looking for perfection, but you're looking for striving toward perfection, and we have to be willing to repent.
Speaker 1:Right, you go all the way back to Joe Rogan. You need to acknowledge that you messed up. We need to acknowledge as a nation that we've messed up, that we chased after the world, that we chased after greed and lust and money and sex and drugs and alcohol and everything else, instead of chasing after God. Gotta start there, folks. Alright, I had a couple quotes that I was going to read from the art of war, but I did something fantastic with that book I didn't bring it outside with me. Maybe we'll read that at the end of the podcast if we have time. So we're going to go back into Ronald Reagan's the Time for Shoes and Speech from 1964, october the 27th 1964. And keep going with that.
Speaker 1:No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size, so government's programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth. Federal employees, federal employees number two and a half million and federal, state and local one out of six of the nation's workforce employed by government. These proliferating bureaus with their thousands of regulations have cost us many of our constitutional safeguards. How many of us realize that today federal agents can invade a man's property without a warrant, they can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let alone a trial by jury, and they can seize and sell his property at auction to enforce the payment of that fine? In Chico County, arkansas, james Wehr over-planted his rice allotment. The government obtained a $17,000 judgment and a US marshal sold his 960-acre farm at auction. The government said it was necessary as a warning to others to make the system work.
Speaker 1:Last February 19th, at the University of Minnesota, norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said If Barry Goldwater became president he would stop the advance of socialism in the United States. I think that's exactly what he will do, but as a former Democrat, I can tell you Norman Thomas isn't the only man who has drawn this parallel to socialism with the present administration. Because back in 1936, Mr Democrat himself, al Smith, the great American, came before the American people in charge that the leadership of his party was taking the party of Jefferson, jackson and Cleveland down the road under the banners of Marx, lenin and Stalin. And he walked away from his party and he never turned till the day he died. Because to this day the leadership of that party has been taking that party, that honorable party, down the road in the image of the Labour Socialist, image of the labor, of social, the labor socialist party of england.
Speaker 1:Folks, I cannot emphasize enough wherever you are around the world, around america, listening, if you're an american citizen, there is absolutely zero chance of peaceful coexistence with the left. Leftism, socialism, leftism, socialism, marxism, communism, fascism, nazism, they're all just different shades of the same evil folks and they go hand in glove with Islam and the core value across the board. The core value of all of those is anti-Christ, rejection of God, rejection of Christ. You need to understand that. The stuff he's talking about from the 1960s all the way back to the 1930s, is the stuff we're dealing with today. It's the same problem. There just simply is no peaceful coexistence inside of America with any of those ideologies. Where liberty is maintained. It's not possible Now.
Speaker 1:It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on people. What does it mean? Whether you hold the deed to the or the title to your business or property, if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property and such machinery already exists the government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of the government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. Today is well, folks, today is well, and if you think the solution is simply Elon Musk and Dodd, or President Trump and the people he's appointed, and you don't put God and Jesus Christ as the solution before any of them, it's only going to be temporary. We might buy ourselves some time, but not much, and we certainly won't buy our children and grandchildren any.
Speaker 1:This property thing, just a reminder. None of you that are listening right now in America. Own your property, not a reminder, none of you that are listening. Right now, in America, own your property Not a single American because you have to pay property taxes on it. And if you don't pay your property taxes, they're going to come and they're going to take it. And if you don't even do what they tell you to do on your property, right you go back to that example he gave of the farmer who planted too much rice on his own property. Are you kidding me? What if you have too many cattle on your property, or sheep, or plant too much corn, or don't pay your taxes, you don't own your property.
Speaker 1:Right now, folks, and that's not the way it was intended to be. Something truly has gone very wrong. There's been a deep perversion. Our Democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate these issues. They want to make you and I believe that this is a contest between two men that were to choose just between two personalities. Well, what of this man that they would destroy? And in destroying, they would destroy that which he represents, the ideas that you and I hold dear. Is he the brash and shallow and trigger-happy man they say he is? Well, I've been privileged to know him when I know him, long before he ever dreamed of trying for this high office, and I can tell you personally, I've never known a man in my life I believed so incapable of being a dishonest or dishonorable thing. This is a man who, in his own business, before he entered politics, instituted a profit-sharing plan before unions had ever thought of it. He put in health and medical insurance for all his employees. He took 50% of the profits before taxes and set up a retirement program, a pension plan, for all his employers. He sent monthly checks for life to an employee who was ill and couldn't work. He provides nursing care for the children of mothers who work in the stores.
Speaker 1:When Mexico was ravaged by the floods in the Rio Grande, he climbed in his airplane and flew medicine and supplies down there. An ex-GI told me how he met him. It was a week before Christmas during the Korean War, and he was at the Los Angeles airport trying to get a ride home to Arizona for Christmas. And he said that there were a lot of servicemen there and no seats available on the planes. And then a voice came over the loudspeaker and said any men in uniform wanting a ride to Arizona go to runway such and such, and they went down there and there was a fellow named Barry Goldwater sitting in his plane. Every day in those weeks before Christmas, all day long, he'd load up the plane, fly it to Arizona, fly them to their homes, fly back over to get another load.
Speaker 1:This is a great example, folks, of not being able to use money to identify virtue or vice. Just because somebody has a lot of money doesn't mean they're evil. Just because somebody's poor doesn't make them automatically virtuous. You have to look at the actions. If you know people in your community, you see what they do, how they live consistently. You can't just look at one example, right, you see multiple examples here that Reagan laid out for Mr Goldwater and I don't know him and I don't know much about the politics from that time frame but you look at the people in your community and you see how they act day in and day out time and time again. I'll tell you what will really tell you a lot. A rooster decided he wanted to be involved.
Speaker 1:Apparently, watch how people act in the stands at sporting events. The older I get, the more convinced I become that that's one of the clearest places to see the true character of individuals, adults in particular. It doesn't matter what the age is. I have seen young men acting a fool, screaming, yelling obscenities in the stands, and I have seen women that I have known for decades doing the same thing. I have seen men who are supposed to be upstanding citizens in our community lawyers, doctors, etc. Completely lose their minds in the stand of a sporting event for kids, and I have seen some that a lot of people think are not the greatest people in the world that they want to attack for whatever reason. And yet when I watch them in the stands they don't get all riled up. They might on the inside folks, they might be really into it, but you don't ever see them yelling obscenities or acting a fool in front of these kids, at the referees or coaches At any rate.
Speaker 1:The point is you have to look at actions and the left as a whole. Folks, whether they're your family, your aunt, uncle, cousins, brothers, sisters, mother, father, daughter, son, they have been continually telling us for decades now, by the way that they vote, that they hate America, and they hate America because they reject Jesus Christ and his principles. That's what they really reject. They reject the founding principles of this nation and no, it's not slavery, before some really intelligent person out there says that you go back and read the history of our nation and you look at the documents and we haven't always upheld them, folks, slavery is one of the ways where we didn't adhere to our founding faith and principles the left has been telling us. John Dewey again told us a hundred years ago the purpose of education. When the left gets a hold of it socialist, communist, leftist when they get a hold of it, it's to separate children from God and their family. And they've done it. We need to listen and I use that word in quotations when people tell us what they're going to do by their assets and voting is an action motion. And when you vote for the left, when you vote for abortion, illegal immigration, lgbtq lifestyles and all the mutilations, depression and confusion that you bring on kids through that feminism that destroys marriages, that destroys families, that weakens our institutions like the military and law enforcement and firefighting. When you look at the DEICRT, it's been crammed into our public school systems as well. When you look at the voting that supports those actions, that tells you about the people In your community. You don't have to look at the national stage, you don't even have to look at your state stage as a whole. That tells you about the people in your community. Right there During the hectic split-second timing of a campaign, this is a man who took time out to sit beside an old friend who was dying of cancer.
Speaker 1:His campaign managers were understandably impatient but he said there aren't many left who care what happens to her. I'd like her to know I care. This is a man who said to his 19-year-old son there is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start. This is not a man who could carelessly send other people's sons to war, and that is the issue of this campaign. That makes all the other problems I've discussed academic Unless we realize we're in a war that must be won, discussed academic unless we realize we're in a war that must be won.
Speaker 1:We are in a war that must be won folk. We're in a cold war and we've been in one for several decades inside the United States, not outside with the Soviet Union, and there's a real good chance it's going to turn hot and you better figure out which way you're going to go, as it's getting there. Before it comes to that point, there is no peaceful coexistence with people. You can't have two sides of each of these issues that can peacefully coexist. You can't peacefully accept abortion, the murder of children, and peacefully acknowledge that it's murder and want to abolish it. One side or the other is going to have to give away folks, one side or the other, and the choice is either probably a fight or willing slavery under the tyranny of leftism, socialism, communism, marxism, whatever you want to call it Nazism, fascism, and they all kind of go together, because the left is never going to stop. Islam is never going to stop. Islam is never going to stop.
Speaker 1:What do you say again? Regan said unless we realize we're in a war that must be won, if we don't win this war, folks, we will go back into the dark ages in the united states and therefore the rest of the world will come down with us. Because there's not a, there's not a torch for liberty anywhere else right now. That's not saying God couldn't raise one up. He sure could In a heartbeat, but right now there isn't one. That quote again by Mr Goldwater. There aren't many left. No, no, no, that wasn't it. I'm sorry. There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness. And when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.
Speaker 1:I wish I had the names man who was the journalist, I think from the 1800s, and he was interviewed and asked what made him so successful. Because he was highly successful and he said one of the things he said was integrity above all else, at all times. Be honest all the time, in every situation. Unflinchingly honest, didn't matter whether it was going to hurt you, whether it was going to hurt somebody else. Honest above all else, with a semen of faith in God. Everything comes back to God and Jesus Christ. Whether you like that or not, folks, it doesn't really matter, it's the truth.
Speaker 1:You could be a conservative that doesn't want to hear about any of that stuff. You think, oh, that's going to cost us those independent voters. No, it's costing us our country, not to. It's literally costing us liberty in our nation, not to put that cement of faith, those founding principles that John Adams said unified that generation, those young men, the only thing that could have. If you don't have that cement of God and Jesus Christ, the nation falls apart. Calvin Kulich said if those principles aren't almost universal, right, the country's going to fall apart. And so we have Andrew Jackson. The Bible's the rock upon which this republic rests, and without it we falter. We're just on sand, and so we are and we're sinking.
Speaker 1:Every other issue outside of God and Jesus Christ at the center is academic books. Jesus Christ at the center is academic works. Abortion if you don't take God and Jesus Christ into consideration, then it's just your opinion, kind of what you feel like on that given day. Same thing with feminism, same thing with LGBTQ issues, same thing with illegal immigration. If it's just you don't like it, I mean and I get it, I get not liking abortion, just from a purely secular point of view, it's pretty gross. You would think most people wouldn't. But that's not grounds for abolishing it just because you don't like it. And if you're going to say it's murder, why is it murder? Where does that principle come from? Because you decide. If you take God and Jesus Christ out of the equation, folks, everything else falls apart.
Speaker 1:Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy accommodation and they say if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say. We offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer Not an easy answer, but simple If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
Speaker 1:Morally right, folks. How do you know what's morally right? See, it always comes back to this question how do you know the difference between wrong and right? If you wake up on a Monday morning, how do you know that what you consider is true on Monday morning is still true on Friday morning? Are you just consulting your own feelings? Are you seeking to gratify the feelings of someone else? How do you know what's the basis and why should I believe you If the basis is just your opinion? I can have my own opinion. I can decide what's true, what's right, if we don't have those unchanging standards of God and Jesus Christ. If we bow to the political whims of man, as we've been doing, then there are no unchanging standards. Right, oh Lord?
Speaker 1:Many have decided that something's really important. And if we don't have those unchanging standards and we're willing to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state, right, those people on the left? They tell us we have this utopian solution for peace without any kind of victory, that we can peacefully coexist. You know, the only times that Nazis, fascists, leftists, communists, socialists and Muslims use coexistence is when it's to their advantage. The only time they want peace is when it buys them some more time in order so they can gain victory. Folks, trust me, they're working toward victory, but it's not the same victory that we're looking at. It's a victory that is absolutely absent of liberty.
Speaker 1:They say. If we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. That's really what a lot of us on the conservative side seem to be saying these days and for the last several decades. If we'll just avoid confronting the left and Islam, they'll forget their evil ways and they'll really love us and we can peacefully get along and all sit together around the campfire and sing Kumbaya, and it'll be great. Tell me where that happens in all the history of the world, when you get to this supposedly utopian solution of peace with the left, socialist, communist, fascist, nazi, muslims? Not, unless you're dealing with them from a position of superior power, and in that case they're only trying to buy some time folks. In that case they're only trying to buy some time.
Speaker 1:Folks Inside the United States, inside I want to be real clear Inside the United States. That idea just isn't going to floss. Peaceful co-existence you can have peaceful co-existence outside the United States with other countries that are socialist, communist, muslim, as long as you're the one that's in supreme power. But you have to understand that they're just biding their time. Still, you don't have to go fight them, but you've got to know that they're looking for ways to hurt you. Still, what's the solution? Folks? Turn back to God and Jesus Christ. It might be too late, might not be. As John Quincy Adams says, the duty is ours, the results are God's. God bless y'all. God bless your families, your marriages. God bless America. God bless your nation, wherever you are around the world. Listen, we'll talk to y'all again real soon, folks.