The American Soul
The American Soul
Freedom requires vigilance, or tyranny will surely follow
What does your calendar reveal about your true priorities? Jesse Cope opens with this challenging question, reminding us that our time allocation speaks volumes about what we genuinely value – whether it's God, family, or something else entirely.
Diving into Revelation 19, Jesse examines Christ's righteous war against evil, establishing a critical framework: sometimes conflict becomes necessary when the alternative allows evil to flourish unchecked. This perspective provides context for understanding historical struggles like World War II and the American Civil War, while drawing parallels to contemporary moral battles that may require similar moral courage.
The podcast takes a fascinating historical detour through the often-overlooked Barbary Wars, questioning why some modern narratives sanitize this chapter of American history. Jesse quotes the Tripoli ambassador's candid admission that their hostilities against American ships were religiously motivated, building toward a larger thesis about ideological incompatibility with liberty-oriented principles.
Through moving accounts of Medal of Honor recipients like Harvey Curtis Barnum Jr., whose unassuming appearance belied extraordinary courage, Jesse challenges our stereotypical expectations of heroism. These stories serve as powerful reminders that we should be teaching such examples of sacrifice and bravery to our children rather than focusing exclusively on entertainment and sports trivia.
The historical accounts from Fox's Book of Martyrs illustrate a sobering pattern: when any ideology – religious, political, or otherwise – obtains unchecked power, persecution inevitably follows. Jesse argues that genuine tolerance and liberty can only flourish when rooted in Christian principles that recognize human dignity and divine accountability.
As the podcast concludes, Jesse calls for prayer and unity among Christians, not merely as spiritual practice but as practical strategy for preserving fundamental values and freedoms. Have you considered how your community might come together in prayer for spiritual and cultural renewal? The invitation stands – will you answer it?
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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 attention. I know y'all have other things that you could be doing, could be giving your free time too, so maybe it gives you something to do on a walk or while you're doing laundry or dishes or riding up and down the road or whatever else, and hopefully you get to listen to it with somebody else, maybe around the table after dinner, at night or at breakfast or at lunch. I remember my parents listening to Paul Harvey in the middle of the day when I was a kid growing up. For those of y'all that are old enough to remember Paul Harvey, he was a newscaster that did a little segment in the middle of each day for years and years. We've talked about him a few times on the podcast, at any rate for those of y'all who continue to share the podcast and At any rate, for those of y'all who continue to share the podcast and tell others about it. Thank you Very, very grateful for that and most of all, for those of y'all who continue to pray for me and for the podcast.
Speaker 1:Thank you Incredibly grateful for your prayers. Need them and want them. Father, thank you for today. Thank you for this day that you have made. Help us to rejoice in it, help us to be glad in it. Help us to do your will throughout it. Thank you for your Son, jesus Christ, most of all, for your Holy Spirit. Thank you for this life just in general. Father, forgive us our lack of gratitude. Forgive us when we forget where our blessings come from, that they come from you, father. Forgive us our doubts and our fears, our cowardice, our unbelief. Help us to overcome them, father. Help us to trust you and know that you will get us all the way home, because you have promised, through your Son, jesus Christ, that you will. And help us to take that promise and to trust you completely.
Speaker 1:Be with those around the world, father, who are hurting for the sake of your name and your son Jesus Christ's name, for whatever reason, whether they're being persecuted by civil authorities or religious China, north Korea, iran, nigeria, syria. Please comfort them and please help us to comfort them as much as we can, in every way possible, and to encourage our governments to do the same. Please be with those families, father, that are hurting, that are broken. Be with those marriages that are hurting, that are broken across the country and in the nations where people listen to the podcast around the world, and in the nations where people listen to the podcast around the world. Help us to make people our priority, to follow the example of your Son Jesus Christ, and help us to follow his commands and show others that we actually love him by following those commands, father, to love you with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Please be with those who are listening to the podcast, be with their families, bless their marriages of those who are married, help those who have children to guide them to know you and your son, jesus Christ. And just again, father, just help us to do your will, please, and bring us home to you in your timing. In your son's name, we ask and pray Amen. And, father, please watch over our pastors and our priests and their wives and their children. Be with them, bless them, surround them with your angels. In your son's name, we pray Amen.
Speaker 1:Have you made time for God today? Have you made time to read his word. 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 for your spouse? Have you made time to actually love them in the way that makes them feel loved? Not the way that you feel loved or the way that you wish they felt loved.
Speaker 1:It's just time, folks. It's priorities. It shows what your priorities really are and what is really important to you. Whatever you're giving your time to, whatever we give our time to folks shows what's really important to us. Maybe it's social media. Maybe that's what really is important to us. Maybe it's sports. Maybe we watch a lot of sports each day. Maybe that's what's really important to us. Or playing them. Maybe it's TV's really important to us, or playing them. Maybe it's TV movies, youtube videos, tiktok. Whether you like to admit it or not, whatever you're giving your time to is what you value. So if you're not giving time to God through reading his word, praying, serving, loving your neighbor as yourself, right, then he's not our priority. If we're not giving him time, our spouse, if we're not giving them time and it shouldn't, it's not like once a week and a check in a box. It's not even once a day, folks. If they're not our priority throughout the day, then they're not our priority, and it's just that simple. Whether again, whether we'd like to admit it or not.
Speaker 1:Revelation I think we do. I don't even know what we did. Maybe I think I read the same chapter two days in a row and y'all didn't stop me. Maybe we needed to hear same chapter two days in a row, and y'all didn't stop me. Maybe we needed to hear that chapter two days in a row. We're going to go with Revelation 19, though Maybe we did. I don't know. I'm pretty sure we're on 19.
Speaker 1:The fourfold hallelujah, the Fourfold Hallelujah. After these things, I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven saying Hallelujah, salvation and glory and power belong to our God, because His judgments are true and righteous, for he has judged the great harlot, who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his bondservants on her. And a second time they said Hallelujah, her smoke rises up forever and ever. And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who sits on the throne, saying Amen, hallelujah. And a voice came from the throne saying Give praise to our God, all you, his bondservants, you who fear him, the small and the great. Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying Hallelujah For the Lord, our God, the Almighty reigns.
Speaker 1:Marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me Right, blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me these are true words of God. Then I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me Do not do that. I am a fellow servant of yours and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, the Coming of Christ.
Speaker 1:And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse. And he who sat on it is called Faithful and True and in righteousness, he judges and wages war. His eyes are a flame of fire and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written on him which no one knows except himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood and his name is called the Word of God. And the armies, which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword so that with it he may strike down the nations and he will rule them with a rod of iron. And he treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on his robe and on his thigh he has a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Speaker 1:Then I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds which fly in midheaven Come, assemble for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free men and slaves, small and great. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. Doom of the beast and false prophet. And the beast was seized and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone, and the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
Speaker 1:I know this is not exactly light, sunny imagery, but the last part there reminded me of a scene from the Disney cartoon Aladdin, at the very end, where the evil genie he's now a genie, he was a man is being sucked back into his little lamp If you're familiar with the movie, if you're not, just forgive me for a minute and as he's going in his little parrot that's been with him the whole time and kind of his like sidekick and doing evil, tries to escape, but he grabs him and sucks him in with him and I, for whatever reason that that imagery kind of stuck when they were talking about the beast was seized and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence. It would be too much to hope for that, even 20 or 30 years ago, whenever it was that Aladdin came out, that there were some Disney cartoonists that were trying to put a little writers that were trying to put a little imagery of God and Jesus Christ in the Bible into the movies. At any rate, that struck me. So verse 11, and I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and wages war. The wages war part.
Speaker 1:I was talking to somebody on X the other day and we were talking about this. I think I mentioned it on the podcast. But there are worse things than war, folks. And you see here Christ waging war, and I'm not even remotely trying to compare our judgment to his righteousness. But what I'm saying is there are times when war is not only necessary and I guess this kind of is saying the same same thing just in a different way but but the alternative is worse because the alternative allows evil to flourish. And you can take an extreme example, like I guess war is an extreme always, but like Hitler, very clearly evil. And if you don't go to war against that, then you allow that evil to spread unchecked across the globe. You look at our American Civil War and having to abolish slavery. Horrible, horrible war, the worst war in the history of our nation, More deaths than all the other wars combined up to, like Korea or something, I believe, if I remember that statistic. And yet what was the alternative? The alternative was to allow slavery to continue to flourish, and sadly, folks. That's why one of the reasons, the main reasons, I say we likely have a fight coming today is because of abortion, abortion's evil, and it's an evil that dwarfs slavery and it has to be abolished, completely abolished, and that may take another civil war.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I have no idea what God has in mind, but that certainly seems easily plausible somewhere in here. Nine. Then he said to me right, blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb, right, and that that ought to be encouraging. Is is being invited to that because of Jesus Christ. There it is. Verse five give praise to our God, all you hiservants, you who fear him, the small and the great. Do we give praise to God each day? What does that even look like to you? It's probably going to be a little different for different people, but do we talk to him, Do we tell him? Do we offer our praise in words in in serving others in song, or do we just kind of take that for granted? Do we just go to God when we want something, or do we also take the time to go back and tell him thank you and express our gratitude for his blessings? So one little thing it's not so little that popped up on X within the last few days is apparently I think it was PBS. They did a. I don't know if it was just a paper or if it was an actual radio or TV show, I have no idea, but somewhere they did something on the contribution of Muslims to Thomas Jefferson and maybe Benjamin Franklin, george Washington, john Adams, I don't know they had a few of our founding fathers and in that whole or how they influenced the founders. I think maybe that was the title of this and that whole deal. Apparently there was no mention of the Barbary Wars.
Speaker 1:One of the catchwords or phrases in the 90s into the early 2000s was profiling and there was a big push that police in particular profiling man. That was just wrong. You couldn't profile. I can tell you firsthand from overseas folks. I don't have a ton of combat experience but the little bit that I have you need to profile Profiling is what keeps you alive. If you're in a village overseas and all of a sudden, everybody disappears and you see two military-aged men walking down the street by themselves, you've got problems. By the same token, if the village already just happens to be empty and you see two old women walking down the street, the, the likelihood of problems is not as great. Now, of course, the muslim terrorists don't seem. They don't seem to have a problem, the muslims using women to blow themselves up any more than men. But you get my idea. If you're looking for a criminal that looks a certain way, yeah, you ought to profile the heck out of that, and and so one of the ways that this the way I'm tying this in is well, you can't profile somebody because they're a young muslim military age man as if they're all terrorists. They're're not all terrorists, you're right, that's the predominant terrorist. And so if I'm a police officer and I'm walking on the street and I've got somebody that fits that description, you can be 100% sure that I'm going to be looking at them more closely.
Speaker 1:So this PBS documentary why would they ignore something like the Barbary Wars, which are incredibly important had a huge influence on those men that they were talking about, because it shows Islam for what it is and it shows people that truly follow Islam how not peaceful and not tolerant they are and the evil that's pushed by Islam, and so this example I wanted to read to you. There's a lot of places you can find some good information. The Founder's Bible actually has a couple pretty good segments in it. Wall Builders Association, which helps edit the Founder's Bible, so this makes sense. They have some great papers on the Barbary Wars and the Treaty of Tripoli and a couple other things, but this quote is by the Tripoli ambassador, and Adams and Jefferson were asking him you know how come?
Speaker 1:How come y'all are taking all of our sailors prisoners? You know how come you're attaching our ships? We don't have any beef with y'all. We don't have any conflict. We haven't been coming after y'all. We're not at war with y'all.
Speaker 1:And this was the ambassador's response that it was founded on the laws of their prophet Muhammad, that it was written in their Quran that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Muslim who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise. So the PBS thing was frustrating because they're obviously cherry picking what they want to talk about and they've got an agenda. If they're going to leave something as the very first war in our nation, the Barbary Wars which were with Muslims, and you're going to talk about how that affected Jefferson and Adams and Washington and anybody else of that generation, you have to talk about that. But that's to be expected from the media and the left today. So not surprising.
Speaker 1:But the other reason that this is important is just to reiterate folks that both the left whether you want to that whole bucket of isms, leftism, socialism, communism, nazism, fascism and Islam, which goes hand in glove with those. They are incompatible with liberty, with the principles of Christ, which are the foundation of America. You cannot have long-term peaceful coexistence inside the United States with citizens that insist on following either that bucket of isms or Islam. At some point it's got to come to a head and we need to be prepared for that. We need to mentally wrap our heads around that. It just will.
Speaker 1:Not those two if you want to put that bucket of isms and Islam on one side and the principles of Christ and the foundation of our American Republic. On the other side. It's like converging roads in the sense of conflict Right, because they are not Compatible and so one side or the other is going to have to. Maybe this is a better analogy. It's like two cars driving down a road and that road is getting narrower and narrower and at some point one of those two vehicles is going to have to take control of the road. Right, there's no like. You can't both stay on the road together and and you can look at it a couple different ways one of them can shove the other one off the side of the road, or one of them can get in front and one can go behind. Which those two analogies would equate to? You're either going to have a fight, or one or the other is going to have to be willing to submit. You're either going to have to see the left in Islam submit to the principles of Christ, the foundation of our American Republic, or you're going to have to see the people, the principles of Christ right, the people that follow those, submit to the bucket of Islamisms and Islam, and that's going to turn out really, really bad. All right, medal of Honor. Let's see when are we left off. I think William H Barnes in the Civil War is where we left off, so we're going to pick up with Harvey Curtis, barney Barnum Jr.
Speaker 1:Captain Rank at the time of action was 1st Lieutenant, highest Strength Colonel, vietnam War Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, reinforced Fleet, marine Force, us Marine Corps. Medal of Honor. Action date 18 December 1965. Place outside the village of Tai Phu, quang, tinh Province, republic of Vietnam. Citation as follows For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, at the risk of his life, above and beyond the call of duty.
Speaker 1:When the company was suddenly pinned down by a hail of extremely accurate enemy fire and was quickly separated from the remainder of the battalion by over 500 meters of open and fire-sweeped ground and casualties mounted rapidly, lieutenant Barnum quickly made a hazardous reconnaissance of the area, seeking targets for his artillery, finding the rifle, company commander mortally wounded and the radio operator killed, he, with complete disregard for his safety, gave aid to the dying commander, then removed the radio from the dead operator, strapped it to himself of the heavy fire, rallying and giving encouragement to all units reorganize them to replace the loss of key personnel and lead their attack on enemy positions, from which deadly fire continued to come. His sound and swift decisions and his obvious calm served to stabilize the decimated units and his gallant example, as he stood exposed repeatedly to point out targets, served as an inspiration to all. Provided with two armed helicopters, he moved fearlessly through enemy fire to control the air attacks against the firmly entrenched enemy, while skillfully directing one platoon in a successful counterattack on the key enemy positions. One platoon in a successful counterattack on the key enemy positions. Having thus cleared a small area, he requested and directed the landing of two transport helicopters for the evacuation of the dead and wounded. He then assisted in the mopping up and final seizure of the battalion's objective. His gallant initiative and heroic conduct reflected great credit upon himself and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the US Naval Service. Cheshire, new Haven County, connecticut, not awarded. Posthumously Presented February 27, 1967. Marine Barracks, washington DC. Presented by Secretary of the Navy Paul H Nitz, born July 21, 1940, cheshire, new Haven, connecticut County, united States.
Speaker 1:If you look at this picture of this gentleman, folks, he seems a very unassuming individual, and it reminds me of something that one of my trainers has said over the years in martial arts that you always want to assume the other person knows more than you do, that they're more dangerous than you are, because that'll keep you out of a bunch of stupid fights that you shouldn't be in to begin with and it doesn't matter what they look like fights that you shouldn't be in to begin with, and it doesn't matter what they look like. Sometimes the very, very most dangerous people are the ones that don't look dangerous. Always assume that somebody else knows more than you, is more dangerous than you are. And when you look at this picture of this man that that accomplished all that that we just read through, he doesn't. He just doesn't look like what you would expect. He's got a beard, glasses, balding. He just looks like your everyday average at this point in time when the picture was taken, probably, I would guess, in his sixties, I don't know, picture's probably older. But just just some thoughts on another good name to remember Harvey Curtis Barney Barnum Jr, if we got time for one or two more.
Speaker 1:Henry A Barnum, us Civil War. Henry Allison Barnum. Colonel Nia Strank Brevett General, us Civil War. 149th New York Infantry, us Army Medal of Honor. Action Date 23rd November 1863. Place Staten Ooga, tennessee, usa. Although suffering severely from wounds, he led his regiment, inciting his men to greater action by word and example, until again, severely wounded, credited to syracuse, onondaga County, new York, died January 29th 1892, new York, new York. Buried Oakwood Cemetery MH 12, tac 24, syracuse, new York, united States. Henry Allenson Barnum We'll do one more.
Speaker 1:James Barnum, US Civil War, also known as James Baumann Rank, boatwain's Mate, us Civil War Command. Uss New Ironsides, us Navy, january 13-15, 1865, place Fort Fisher, north Carolina, usa action and several attacks on Fort Fisher 24 and 25 December 1864, and on 13-14 of 15 January 1865. The ship steamed in and took the lead in the ironclad division close inshore and immediately opened its starboard battery in a barrage of well-directed fire to cause several fires and explosions and dismount several guns. During the first two days of fighting Taken under fire as she steamed into position on 13 January, the new Ironsides fought all day and took on ammunition at night, despite severe weather conditions. When the enemy came out of his bomb proofs to defend the fort against the storming party, the ship's battery disabled nearly every gun on the fort facing the shore before the ceasefire orders were given by the flagship. Barnum was commended for highly meritorious conduct during this period.
Speaker 1:Accredited to Massachusetts, not awardist, posthumously. Born 1816, massachusetts. No death, no award date James Barnum. Just a couple more names folks Harvey Curtis Barnum Jr, henry A Barnum and James Barnum To add to our list some names. We ought to teach a lot more than a lot of the sports statistics, singing, songwriting, lyrics, etc. That we teach our children today. All right, we will move on. We're going to get back into the Fox's Book of the Martyrs and we're going to start with the persecution of Dr Agidio.
Speaker 1:I think Dr Agidio was educated at the University of Alcala, where he took several degrees and particularly applied himself to the study of the sacred scriptures and school divinity. The professor of theology dying, he was elected into his place and acted so much to the satisfaction of everyone that his reputation for learning and piety was circulated throughout Europe. Egidio, however, had his enemies, and these laid a complaint against him to the inquisitors, who sent him a citation and, when he appeared to it, cast him in a dungeon. As the greatest part of those who belonged to the cathedral church at Seville and many persons belonging to the bishopric of D'Artoia approved of the doctrines of Egidio, which they thought perfectly consistent with true religion, they petitioned the emperor in his behalf. In his behalf. Though the monarch had been educated a Roman Catholic, he had too much sense to be a bigot and therefore sent an immediate order for his enlargement. He soon after visited the church of Validoid and did everything he could to promote the cause of religion and, returning home, he soon after fell sick and died in an extreme old age. The inquisitors, having been disappointed of gratifying their malice against him while living determined as the emperor's whole thoughts, were engrossed by a military expedition to wreak their vengeance on him when dead. Therefore, soon after he was buried, they ordered his remains to be dug out of the grave and a legal process being carried on, they were condemned to be burnt, which was executed accordingly. I'm going to talk about being petty. You wanted to torture the guy for following God and Jesus Christ in life and you were denied that. So you dug up his bones and had them burned. What true church would ever approve of that nonsense? Or rather, butter said what true church would ever approve of that nonsense and then, later on, not recant and admit how wrong they had been? The persecution of Dr Constantine.
Speaker 1:Dr Constantine, an intimate acquaintance of the already mentioned Dr Agidio, wasa man of uncommon natural abilities and profound learning. Exclusive of several modern tongues, he was acquainted with the Latin, greek and Hebrew languages and perfectly well knew not only the sciences called abstruse, but those arts which come under the denomination of polite literature. His eloquence rendered him pleasing and the soundness of his doctrines, a profitable preacher. And he was so popular that he never preached, but to a crowded audience. He had many opportunities of rising in the church, but never would take advantage of them, for if a living of greater value than his own was offered him, he would refuse it, saying I am content with what I have. And he frequently preached so forcibly against simony that many of his superiors who were not so delicate upon the subject, took umbrage at his doctrine. Upon that head, having been fully confirmed in Protestantism by Dr Agidio, he preached boldly such doctrines only as were agreeable to gospel purity and uncontaminated by the errors which had at various times crept into the Roman Church. For these reasons he had many enemies among the Roman Catholics, and some of them were fully determined on his destruction. On his destruction.
Speaker 1:A worthy gentleman named Scobaria, having erected a school for divinity lectures, appointed Dr Constantine to be reader therein. He immediately undertook the task and read lectures by portions on the Proverbs Ecclesiastes and Canticles and was beginning to expound the book of Job when he was seized by the Inquisitors being brought to examination. He answered with such precaution that they could not find any explicit charge against him, but remained doubtful in what manner to proceed when the following circumstances occurred to determine them. Dr Constantine had deposited with a woman named Isabella Martin several books which to him were very valuable but which he knew, in the eyes of the Inquisition, were exceptional. This woman, having been informed against as a Protestant, was apprehended and after a small process, her goods were ordered to be confiscated. Previous, however, to the officer's coming to her house, the woman's son had removed away several chests full of the most valuable articles, and among these were dr constantine's books. A treacherous servant giving intelligence of this to the inquisitors, an officer was dispatched to find what he did not look for. He, however, told the young man that he was glad these books and papers were produced, but nevertheless he must fulfill the end of his commission, which was to carry him and the goods he had embezzled before the inquisitors, which he did accordingly, for the young man knew it would be in vain to expostulate or resist, and therefore quietly submitted to his fate. The inquisitors, being thus possessed of Constantine's books and writings, now found matter sufficient to form charges against him. When he was brought to a re-examination, they presented one of his papers and asked him if he knew the handwriting, perceiving it was his own, he guessed the whole matter, confessed the writing and justified the doctrine it contained, saying In that and all my other writings, I have never departed from the truth of the gospel, but have always kept in view the pure precepts of Christ as he delivered them to mankind. After being detained upwards of two years in prison, dr Constantine was seized with a bloody flux which put an end to his miseries in this world. The process, however, was carried on against his body which, at the ensuing order to pay, was publicly burnt.
Speaker 1:You cannot ever give evil total power. The idea that evil organizations or ideologies or people can ever get total power and there still be peaceful coexistence Is just bereft of historical evidence, if that's the right way to say it. There isn't any historical evidence to back that up Every time you get. You can look at the 20th century, with socialism, communism, leftism. You can look at the last several centuries, even farther back, with Islam. You can look at like we have been in Fox's Book of the Martyrs, the Roman Catholics in the 1500s and centuries around that.
Speaker 1:One of those organizations gets total power, they immediately cease to pretend to have any design on peaceful coexistence or tolerance. There is no tolerance. You see it here when we're talking about the Roman Catholics or the Protestants. You see it in the 20th century when you're talking about socialists, communists, nazis, fascists. Uh, with anybody else, there's no. There's no tolerance for opposing ideas. You only ironically, folks. You only get tolerance, you only get liberty when you have the principles of Jesus Christ at the core and, of course, when you have that right. We just seem, as humans, we seem to have a propensity for self-destruction. You look at New York that just elected a Muslim socialist. You would never be able to elect a Christian in Iran, an outspoken biblical Christian in Iran, or China, or North Korea or North Korea not that there are elections really in any of those places, but just pretend you would never get away with electing those people. It wouldn't be allowed. And yet here in America we have the ability to elect a socialist, communist, leftist, nazi, fascist, muslim. We have the ability to destroy ourselves and we seem to be doing a pretty good job of it. History of the rise, progress and Termination of the American Revolution.
Speaker 1:Mercy Otis Warren, the next that was called forward for Foster Hutchinson, a brother of the governor's, a man of much less understanding and as little public virtue, in short, remarkable for nothing but the malignancy of his heart. He, after much altercation and abuse of the General Assembly, complied with a very ill grace with the requisitions of the House. But the chief seat of justice in the extraordinary administration was occupied by a man unacquainted with law and ignorant of the first principles of government Peter Oliver Esquire, a brother-in-law of the governor's. He possessed a certain credulity of mind that easily seduced him into erroneous opinions. At the same time, a frigid obstinacy of temper that rendered him incapable of conviction. His insinuating manners, his superficial abilities and his implicit devotion to the governor rendered him a fit instrument to give sanction, by the forms of law, to the most atrocious acts of arbitrary power. The forms of law to the most atrocious acts of arbitrary power. Equally deaf to the dictates of patriotism and to the united voice of the people, he preemptorily refused to listen to the demands of their representatives and boldly declared his resolution to receive an annual grant from the Crown of England, in spite of the opinions or resentment of his country. He used as an excuse the depreciation of his private fortune by his judicial attentions. His station was important and influential and his temerity was considered as holding a bribe to execute the corrupt measures of the British court.
Speaker 1:The House of Representatives, not interrupted in their system nor intimidated by the presumption of the delinquent, proceeded directly to exhibit articles of impeachment against Peter Oliver Esquire, accusing him of high crimes and misdemeanors, and laid their complaints before the governor and council. On a division of the House, there appeared 92 members in favor of the measure and only eight against it. The governor, as was expected both from personal attachment and a full approbation of Mr Oliver's conduct, refused to act or sit on the business. For course, all proceedings were for a time suspended suspended. Everson versus Board of Education and Roe v Wade are two glaring examples when those Supreme Court justices who voted for those two either one should have been impeached, they should have been removed and those rulings should have been immediately overturned, even if that meant the entire court. There's absolutely no basis for separation of God and state in the history of our nation, the founding of our nation, our Constitution, and there's absolutely no basis for taking away the right of life from American citizens via abortion. When the detail of these spirited measures end, and regardless, since they weren't impeached at that time, those rulings should be immediately overturned today and any justices that refuse to rule in that manner should be impeached today.
Speaker 1:When a detail of these spirited measures reached England, exaggerated by the colorings of the officers of the crown, it threw the nation, more especially the trading part, into a temporary fever. The ministry rose in their resentment and entered on the most severe steps against the Massachusetts and more particularly the town of Boston. It was at this period that Lord North ushered into the House of Commons the memorable bill for shutting up the port of Boston, also the bill for better regulating the government of Massachusetts. The port bill enacted that after June 1, 1774, every vessel within the points alderton and nahant, the boundaries of the harbor of boston, should depart within six hours, unless laden with food or fuel, wharves or quays within those limits, and that any ship, barge or boat attempting to convey from other parts of America, either stores, goods or merchandise, to Boston, one of the largest maritime towns on the continent, could be deemed a legal forfeiture to the Crown. This act was opposed with becoming zeal by several in both Houses of Parliament who still inherited the generous spirit of their ancestors and darted to stand forth the defenders of English liberty in the most perilous season. Though the cruelty and injustice of this step was warmly criminated, the minister and his party urged the necessity of strong measures. Nor was it difficult to obtain a large majority to enforce them.
Speaker 1:An abstract of an act for the more impartial administration of justice in the province of Massachusetts accompanied the port bill. Thus by one of those severe and arbitrary acts. Many thousands of the best and most loyal subjects of the House of Brunswick were at once cut off from the means of subsistence. Poverty stared in the face of affluence, and a long train of evils threatened every rank. No discriminations were made. The innocent were equally involved with the real or imputed guilty and reduced to such distresses afterwards that but from the charitable donations of the other colonies, multitudes must have inevitably perished.
Speaker 1:The other bill directed that, on an indictment for riot, resistance of the magistrate or impeding the laws of revenue in the smallest degree, any person at the option of the magistrate or impeding the laws of revenue in the smallest degree, any person at the option of the governor or, in his absence, the lieutenant governor might be transported to Great Britain for trial and there be ordered to wait, amidst his foes, the decisions of strangers unacquainted with the character of the prisoner or the turpitude of the crime that should subject him to be transported a thousand leagues from his own vicinity for a final decision on the charges exhibited against him. Several of the southern colonies remonstrated warmly against those novel proceedings toward Massachusetts and considered it as a common cause. The House of Burgesses in Virginia vigorously opposed this measure and passed resolutions expressing their exclusive right to tax their constituents and their right to petition their sovereign for redress of grievances and the lawfulness of procuring the concurrence of the other colonies in praying for the royal interposition of favor of the violated rights of America, and that all trials for treasons or for any crime whatsoever committed in that colony ought to be before His Majesty's courts within the said colony, and that the seizing of any persons residing in the said colony suspected of any crime whatsoever committed therein, and sending such persons to places beyond the sea to be tried was highly derogatory of the rights of British subjects. You see a simpler pattern here when you're reading this, when we read the Fox's Book of the Martyrs, when they're talking about the Inquisition, right, the Inquisition? Often they hauled people away and and they tried them in private, right away from friends, not that any of those people would have been brave enough to come and defend them to begin with, but they did it in secret. You know that one example of the lady that we read for a few days, where she was holed up as a sex slave to the Catholic priests and all the others that they tortured. They did all of these actions in private.
Speaker 1:You go back to let me see if I can find it quickly the Bible verse. I think it's in John, basically the Bible verse. I think it's in John, maybe John chapter three, with verse 18, he who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation that the light has come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they had been done in God.
Speaker 1:You see this similarity right in the British. They're trying to haul people all the way across the ocean to be tried and then in this Fox's Book of the Martyrs, the Inquisition, dragging people away in secret or even publicly, but dragging them away in secret or even publicly, but dragging them away somewhere else to be quote-unquote, tried. It's actually a pretty consistent trend with organizations and people who are evil. They don't want to have to expose or put all the facts out there before the people, not in the sense of you know when you're in a war and you don't want all of your, the locations of your ships or what your plans are exposed. This is in the sense of we're doing something wrong and we don't want to have to deal with the people knowing that we're doing something wrong. There was something else there that we just read oh, from the house of Burgesses in Virginia, the lawfulness of procuring the concurrence of the other colonies and praying for the royal interposition in favor of the violated rights of America.
Speaker 1:Praying together, folks. We need to be praying together. I talk often on the podcast about the need for us to be coordinating between conservative Christian families, communities, schools, counties, states. We need to be praying together too. We need to be praying for our leaders. We need to be praying for our leaders. We need to be praying for our nation. We need to be praying that we would specifically turn back to God and Jesus Christ as a nation for perseverance, for courage, for wisdom, patience and to do God's will and to trust him, regardless of the outcome.
Speaker 1:God hears the prayers of the righteous folks. He hears us when we talk to him. God bless y'all. God bless your families. God bless your marriages, if you're married. God bless America. God bless your nation, wherever you are around the world listening, and I would offer that also there as we close folks if you're married. God bless America. God bless your nation wherever you are around the world, listening, and I would offer that also there, as we close folks Wherever you are I'm talking about America, but wherever you are, one of the very best things that you can do is encourage those around you to pray and pray together for your nation Canada, uk, australia, france, a number of different places where we have people listening. Get together with those around you and make a point to pray for your country to turn back to God and Jesus Christ. We'll talk to you all again real soon. Folks Looking forward to it.