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March 17, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: St. Patrick: from Slave to Missionary
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Welcome to the show.
Thanks so much for being with us.
Happy Monday, everybody out there watching.
As always, we can't do the program without you, and this is the Millstone Report.
We've got a great show for you.
We're going to talk about, well, we're really going to focus as much as we can because it's St. Patrick's Day out there.
Happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody watching the program today.
You'll notice I am not wearing green.
And that is because, well, it's a couple of things.
I'm not wearing green, number one, because if I did wear green, you would see right through me.
For those of you that don't know, that's just a green screen behind me.
So, you know, this journalist wearing green on St. Patrick's Day would be, you know, just be rather transparent.
Speaking of transparency, though, I just figured, well, I mean...
What's the next best thing?
Maybe not to Irish Catholics.
Maybe they wouldn't think that the next best thing to do would be to wear Protestant orange.
Yet here I am wearing Protestant orange on St. Patrick's Day.
But we're going to dive in because it's absolutely fascinating.
This is a time for us to really take a look.
At what the gospel can do, what the Christian gospel can do to a country.
And so if you go all the way back to 5th century Ireland, one of the arguably the most pagan places in the world at that time, and essentially, you know, from a, I don't know, relatively speaking, overnight becomes a Christian nation.
It's absolutely incredible.
And really, the bedrock of Western civilization It's essentially what it turns into, because eventually they essentially begin to re-Christianize Europe in the Dark Ages, coming from Ireland.
It's just fascinating.
It also sets the groundwork, just for me personally, and I know this is a long time after the 5th century, but it also sets the groundwork for the immigration of the Scots into Ireland, and then you have the Scotch-Irish, and then that has direct roots to what happens here in America in the 18th century.
I think I'll just bring in some Scotch-Irish and I'll put them in the southern Pennsylvania because I know they'll defend the borders of Pennsylvania.
Anyway, let's start.
Let's start the show, shall we?
What we want to do today on the program is we want to make much of Christ.
We want to make much of his gospel at a time where a lot of people are going to use this day to wear green and cheers to a pint of Guinness at the end of the day, which there's not necessarily anything wrong with that.
Let's actually recognize him for what he did.
You know, metaphorically driving the snakes out of Ireland, the demons, the pagan worship, the human sacrifice.
It's really something to behold, and I want to spend a little bit of time on it today here on the Millstone Report.
So here we go.
Let's go first.
Okay, well, that's the first slide here for today.
Just letting you guys know the Irish flag.
I am wearing the orange, again, because if I wanted to wear green, the green screen would work out.
Peace.
The white's supposed to be peace.
You've got Catholics.
You've got Protestants.
We want peace.
All right, how about that?
But we've got a good article here from Slave to Missionary, written by a guy named Andrew Menkes.
Kind of summarizes that, well, he says, first, it's a tragedy that many people who hear the name St. Patrick only think of leprechauns, clovers, gaudy green clothes, and imbibing copious quantities of beer.
Or if perhaps they were a bit more historically inclined, they might ask, didn't he drive all the snakes out of Ireland?
We miss out on a lot we don't get to know about St. Patrick.
His biography reads like an adventure story.
His passion and vision for Christian missions was revolutionary.
And by the end of his life, he had transformed the country of Ireland.
Furthermore, beyond his historical significance, his humility, piety, are examples for us today as we seek to follow Christ and answer his call on our lives.
First, we've got to know that he was essentially kidnapped by pirates.
Patrick was born in Britain towards the end of the 4th century.
His family was Roman and Christian.
Calpurnius was a deacon in the church, but Patrick didn't grow up believing in Christ.
We know little of Patrick's youth.
He writes and can only surmise that he had a relatively comfortable life, given his family's status and probable wealth.
But this would be violently ripped away from him at age 16. Patrick was kidnapped by Irish pirates, transported to Ireland, and sold as a slave.
In Ireland, Patrick worked as a shepherd.
I just find, you know, biblically the idea of a shepherd is obviously ingrained throughout the Bible.
It's been a profession for as long as man has been around, right?
So he's a slave, he's a shepherd, and...
He says here, not only was the labor hard and his master harsh, shepherds were constantly exposed to the elements and their work took them away from human civilization.
It was lonesome work.
And as he traveled through the green forest and sloping mountains of Northern Ireland, though he still did not profess to believe in Christ, Patrick tells us, the way of his writings, that he began to pray.
But after I reached Ireland, I used to pastor the flock each day, and I used to pray many times a day.
More and more did the love of God and my fear of Him and faith increase, and my spirit was moved that in the day I said from...
One up to a hundred prayers.
And in the night, a like number.
Besides, I used to stay out in the forest and on the mountain, and I would wake up before daylight to pray in the snow and icy coldness and rain.
I used to feel neither ill nor slothfulness because, as I now see, the spirit was burning in me at the time.
So in the wilds of Ireland, while all the freedoms and comforts he had known his entire life stripped away, Patrick began to have what can only be described as a religious awakening.
For him, this began with prayer, prayer to a God he wasn't sure he believed in, prayer to a Christ he didn't yet trust for salvation.
Yet despite his doubt, he was irresistibly drawn to God and sought communion with him night and day through prayer.
Though he did not understand it at the time, as Patrick looked back on this period of his life, he saw the Holy Spirit had began stirring up his heart to faith in Christ.
And so Patrick labored as a slave for six years, as the story goes.
His life was radically altered.
And he tells us that one night he heard a voice in a dream telling him to leave.
So the next morning, Patrick ran away from his master, which was kind of a death sentence.
It should have been, anyway.
200 miles.
He was 200 miles from the coast.
And so he has to make it through the wilderness 200 miles.
And then he's got to convince a ship to bring him back home to Britain.
So he writes here, He would also be allowed to get on a ship.
Patrick tells us that the ship's captain first refused to allow him on board.
He turned and walked away, dejected, with no recourse left but to pray.
But before he could even finish his prayer, some sailors called out to him and said, hey, the captain's changed his mind.
They would allow Patrick on board and bring him home.
The trip was long and fraught with danger, as well as a shortage of food.
But after several years, Patrick made it back to his family.
But he didn't stay gone.
This is the big deal.
So he's a slave in the country, of an evil country, a country that is known for human sacrifice and wickedness.
And he says that he has another dream, calling him back, saying he needs to go back to Ireland.
He says one night as he was sleeping, Patrick had a vision.
He tells us that he saw a man that he had known in Ireland named Victoricus.
In this dream, Victoricus is carrying a large stack of letters.
He hands one to Patrick, which has the heading, The Voice of the Irish.
Next, Patrick says, As I was reading the beginning of the letter, I seemed at the moment to hear a voice of those who were beside the forest of Foucault, which is near the Western Sea.
And they were crying with one voice, We beg you, holy youth, that you shall come and shall walk again among us.
So at first, Patrick didn't heed the call to return to Ireland, but the visions increased according to the stories in frequency and intensity, and Patrick was finally convinced to go after a mystical experience in which he reports feeling the Holy Spirit within him, praying with him.
And so he goes.
Patrick was acutely aware that he had missed out on foundational education that other deacons, priests, and bishops had received.
Then he goes, eventually goes, and he says it testifies to the power of God, the power of God's love that Patrick could go to the Irish, to the land of his enslavers, without bitterness, truly desiring their salvation.
This is in large part because of Patrick's deep humility.
He knew he was a sinner forgiven by God, and he wanted others to experience God's grace as well.
well.
It's worth quoting Patrick at length on his call to be a missionary in Ireland.
Quote, I give untiring thanks to God who kept me faithful in the day of my temptation so that today I may confidently offer my soul as a living sacrifice for Christ my Lord.
Who am I, Lord?
Or rather, what is my calling that you appear to me in so great a divine quality so that today among the barbarians I might constantly exalt and magnify your name in whatever place I should be, and not only in good fortune but even in affliction, so that whatever befalls and not only in good fortune but even in affliction, so that whatever befalls me, be it good or bad, I should accept it equally and give thanks always to God who revealed to me that I might trust in
and who will encourage me so that, ignorant...
And in the last days I may dare to undertake so devout and so wonderful a work, so that I might imitate one of those whom once long ago the Lord already preordained to be heralds of his gospel, to witness to all peoples to the ends of the earth.
So are we seeing, and so it is fulfilled.
Behold, we are witnesses because the gospel has been preached as far as the places beyond which no man lives.
Incredible.
And so, essentially, what he did was completely change.
He completely changed his work.
God, through him, completely changed the nation of Ireland.
Now, there's an Irishman, a Northern Irishman, by the name of Jamie Bambrick, who is, you know, he's a pastor, it says here, pastor at Hope Church in...
Over in Ireland, let's say that.
Northern Ireland, right?
He also works for Clear Truth Media, and he is also, I think he's the guy that created the alternative he gets us ads.
You guys remember that?
The woke-ified he gets us ads that played in the Super Bowl, and then of course he created what they should have been, and it was...
Fantastic and viral and gospel-centered and everything.
I mean, it was like the truth versus the lies of He Gets Us.
Well, so he has a video that really, I think, does a much better job than I can do of really what exactly the odds were against the idea of Ireland being like this bastion of paganism, the idea that it could be changed or Christianized in such a short period of time.
He does a much better job than I.
So I'm just going to play just a little bit of this video.
I want you to watch it.
If you were going to pick somewhere to re-civilize and re-Christianize Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire...
Ireland would probably have been the last place you looked.
It was remote, dark.
Dangerous.
And, for good or ill, almost completely isolated.
The sacking of Rome, the descent of Pax Romana into lawlessness, the destruction of centuries of learning, the precarious future of a church that had only recently been established, the ripple effects of these major events barely reached these shores.
Not that that made things better, like, at all.
Ireland simply remained what it had been for centuries, the nightmarish home of bloodthirsty druids, the servants of demon gods who reveled in human sacrifice.
Well, let's put it this way.
The three most powerful gods in the Celtic pantheon.
Each of these required human sacrifices.
Tyrannus, most famously, Julius Caesar talks about how prisoners of war were burned alive in wicker cages.
That was to Tyrannus.
Essus, the chieftain, did sacrifice by, let's see, yeah, hanging, grotting, or impaling.
and you had Teototus who drowned his victims.
It was into this nation at a time of global crisis that there arrived a British Christian named Patricius, or Patrick as we know him today.
He had been here before as a slave, captured by pirates and forced to work as a shepherd for a Druid lord in Uli, to the northeast of the island.
Having made a miraculous escape back to his homeland of Britain, once there Patrick had a dream.
He was visited by a Celt carrying a letter entitled Vox Hiberniae.
The voice of the Irish.
And as the man read, Patrick heard the sound of a mass of Irish voices crying out, We ask you, holy boy, to come and walk among us again.
And so it was that Patrick found himself returning to Ireland, not as a slave but this time as an evangelistic conqueror, coming to win this last outcrop of rock and mud at the edge of the world for Christ.
Now you have to recognise a couple of things about this mission.
Firstly, these droids, as we've said, they weren't a particularly friendly bunch.
But secondly, Patrick's methods of reaching them, well, they weren't exactly sort of Joel Osteen levels of seeker sensitivity.
The Feast of Beltane was a big deal in Ireland.
Every year the nation would extinguish its fires for a day and no one was permitted to light them until the High King had lit his ceremonial flame on the summit of the Hill of Tara.
Patrick's first action in Ireland was to position himself on the Hill of Slain, which is slightly higher, clearly visible, about ten miles away across the valley.
And after giving it careful consideration, he decided that it would be the perfect time to light his own paschal bonfire.
Seeing this, the High King Leary exclaimed, If we do not extinguish this flame, it will sweep all over Ireland.
He sent troops of men to arrest Patrick, but every time Patrick quoted Psalm 68 verse 1, May God arise and his enemies be scattered, and the soldiers who came to arrest him fell on their face.
Apparently this happened seven times.
The High King came and knelt before Patrick and opened the entire island up for his preaching, after which followed one of the greatest cultural transformations ever in any country.
Druid lord after druid lord was challenged and defeated.
100,000 people came to faith.
And all of this permanently and drastically changed Ireland in a single generation.
I kind of view it this way.
It's like Christianity and with it, Western civilization.
Right as it was sort of falling apart everywhere else.
Found a new safe haven outside of the mainstream.
This new, completely unexpected place became totally Christianised almost overnight.
Now, most people end the story there.
Ireland is saved, three cheers, pint a Guinness, hooray, right?
But that's only half the story.
See, the other half is that it's from this place, which is still a remote, obscure island on the edge of things, that Christianity, and with it, Western civilization, would launch something of a counterattack back into Europe.
And that all starts with, well, those former Druids.
So, I would encourage everybody to watch the rest of this.
Again, you know, we're not even halfway through it.
It's only a 14-minute video, but...
Again, Jamie Bamberg here.
Pastor Jamie Bamberg does a much better job than I could of actually telling the story.
He lives in Northern Ireland and is an Irishman himself.
So, obviously, it's a lot better.
Now, I want you to think about this, though.
I want you to think about, you know, if you look at Christendom and you look at, you know, Christian history, it does seem to go in waves, right?
Where you have a Christianized country, you have this revival, and you have this affluence that comes from it, this peace that comes from it, this largesse that inevitably comes from it.
And then, unfortunately, if we just look at the rise and fall, you have a falling away.
We can see it.
In America right now, as we're going to show you, but you obviously also see it in Ireland.
If you look at this BBC article from May 26th of 2018, headline, Irish abortion referendum, Ireland overturns abortion ban.
And I remember this, and I covered it.
The Republic of Ireland voted overwhelmingly to overturn an abortion ban by 66.4% to 33.6%.
And now, and I just think this is kind of a built-in mechanism of the way things happen, now Ireland is being overrun, very much like America is being overrun by third-world barbarian hordes.
Once again, Ireland very much is being re-paganized, undoing this amazing evangelistic work of St. Patrick.
Here is Conor McGregor today.
At the White House briefing room, and I believe, has he announced that he's running for Prime Minister of Ireland, or is that still in the, people are talking about it at least, I don't know if he's formally announced.
But he took over the podium from White House Press Secretary earlier today, Caroline Levitt, and started taking questions from the press.
Here is UFC champion, MMA fighter.
What is going on in Ireland is a travesty.
Our government is the government of zero action with zero accountability.
You know, our money is being spent on overseas issues that has nothing to do with the Irish people.
The illegal immigration racket is running ravage on the country.
There are rural towns in Ireland that have been overrun in one swoop, that have become a minority in one swoop.
So, issues need to be addressed, and the 40 million Irish Americans, as I said, need to hear this, because if not, there will be no place to come home and visit.
So, he's exactly right, and he ended up taking more questions from the press as well.
So, it's fascinating where, you know...
You know, in these waves, and I think there are these waves, and then there's this decline, but I think that's why there is an actual resistance.
There's also resistance that is now forming.
You see it here.
You see it in other places.
But I will say this.
This is just my opinion.
Take it or leave it.
if it's a christless attempt to go back to the way things were it's not going to work if it's a secular attempt to try to embrace or try to get back the benefits of what was a christian society whether it's inireland or whether it's here in america and you're not going to acknowledge the lordship of jesus christ then it's not going to work.
It's just going to be man-centered and man-focused.
And I've said this for a very long time.
There's a lot of people who are not Christians who completely reject trans ideology.
They completely reject the idea that it's good for liberal white women to take their kids to drag shows specifically for children.
They reject that.
They see it's wicked and they see it's evil.
But then if you were to explain to them, if you were to tell them, hey, we need to...
I don't know, maybe we can chart the slippery slope from gay marriage to where we are now.
They say, oh, no, no, no, it's just love is love, and that's good, and we can't speak out against that.
And they refuse to see that actually, no, there is this dissent, and it's connected, right?
Where you put a rainbow on the White House, yada, yada, yada.
Now there is no such thing as a man.
Now there is no such thing as a woman.
And it goes beyond that.
We need to ruin children's lives and give them surgeries or chemical drugs in order to, you know, and we're going to call it health care.
And if you're against that, then you're against health care.
And by the way, you're a bigot and everything else.
So yeah, a Christless conservatism, as many people have called it, is not the answer.
We need to fall on our faces and repent for everything that's gone on up to this point.
As a matter of fact, the Founding Father, many of the framers, and it's been said modernly now, The one main flaw, like the biggest flaw of the United States Constitution, was leaving out the explicit lordship of Jesus Christ, which many people wanted to do, but it was too far along in the process.
They didn't want to have to go back.
And I think many of them never dreamed.
It was so assumed, the Christianity of this Christian nation.
But anyway, it's neither here nor there.
It is interesting, though, and I kind of mentioned this earlier.
That if you go back and you look, and Grok is kind of fastly becoming the new Google.
If you go back and you look at what happened after Patrick Christianized Europe, there were a few disagreements between the Irish monks versus the Pope.
There's an Easter controversy about when to celebrate Easter.
There was the...
Monastic and Episcopal power, like the Irish Christianity favored abbots and monasteries over bishops.
Rome didn't like that.
And I really think that that kind of set the stage in a lot of ways for, and again, I know this is in 5th century, 6th century, 7th century, and you don't get the Protestant Reformation until 1517 to 16th century, so there's a huge gap between those two.
But it is interesting to see a 30,000-foot view or a 100,000-foot view, and you can kind of see what happened in Ireland, established, re-established Western Christendom that eventually leads to immigrants going to America and starting our country.
So it really is incredible what happened in Ireland, in my opinion.
And I'm not a history expert on any stretch of the imagination, but that's just the way I see it.
But then, you know, where does this all lead?
I mean, think about this.
Think about America.
We have, again, Clear Truth Media.
How Christian Universities Fail.
This is written by a man by the name of John G. West.
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and many other universities were founded explicitly as Protestant Christian institutions only to devolve over time into something else.
So in the latter half of the 19th century, evangelical Protestants in America started again and created a new generation of colleges and seminaries they hoped would avoid the mistakes of their predecessors like Harvard, Princeton, Yale.
However, we are witnessing now through scandals like Wheaton College, or specifically this article is about the fall of Seattle Pacific University, it still isn't good enough.
We have this tendency to just compromise.
And as things get worse and worse, the more we reject the faith of our fathers.
That much is clear to me.
Yeah, we're going over in church last night, yesterday evening, we were going over the Tower of Babel, which is fascinating to dive in there in the book of Genesis.
And I have actually said many times on this program and other programs that the globalism that we're seeing...
It's very much like they're trying to build a Tower of Babel 2.0, as I call it.
Especially during the 2024 election, I kept saying we've got to pray that this Tower of Babel 2.0 is halted or is destroyed or whatever.
But if you really look at what happened, you've got in the Bible, the biblical narrative, you've got Noah lands in the mountain of Ararat.
People are told to go across the land, multiply, spread across the land.
And after a generation or two, you've got Nimrod or the people, they settle on a plane, and they say, no, we're not going to do that.
We don't want to be spread across the earth.
We want to create for us basically a super state.
And it's in that city, as people get in these denser and denser populations, that evil is allowed to flourish.
It's just interesting that this is the arc of history to me.
This is the pattern, I guess, if you will.
But I said we're going to make much of Christ today.
We're going to do our best.
So Jamie Bambrick, also on today, this St. Patrick's Day, publishes a video about St. Patrick's Day and one of a prayer, a very, very old prayer.
That is historically attributed to St. Patrick.
He says, Jamie Bamberg says, Why not celebrate St. Patrick's Day with arguably the most glorious prayer in church history?
To which Joe Rigney jabs Matthew 6 would like a word, meaning the Lord's Prayer.
Jamie Bamberg says, I'm excluding biblical prayer.
Joe Rigney says, yeah, I know, just fund a Jesus juke and Irishman on St. Paddy's Day, hashtag tradition.
So we've got some good fund over on Christian X going back and forth.
But this is a powerful prayer.
And I know we're now broadcasting, I know it's 1230 Central, so we haven't, this is, you guys have already, we're in the middle of the workday.
But take a moment during the middle of this workday and listen to this.
I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, through belief in the the invocation of the Trinity, through belief in the threeness, through confession of the oneness of the creator of creation, the
I arise today through the strength of Christ's birth with his baptism, through the strength of his crucifixion with his burial, through the strength of his resurrection with his ascension.
Through the strength of his descent for the judgment of doom, I arise today through the strength of the love of Cherubim, in the obedience of angels, in the service of archangels, in the hope of resurrection to meet with reward in the prayers of patriarchs in the predictions of prophets in the preaching of apostles in the faith of confessors in the innocence of holy virgins in the deeds of righteous men
I arise today Through the strength of heaven the light of the sun the radiance of the moon the splendor of fire the speed of lightning the swiftness of wind the depth of the sea the stability of the earth the firmness of rock I arise today Through God's strength to pilot me,
God's might to uphold me, God's wisdom to guide me, God's eye to look before me, God's ear to hear me, God's word to speak for me, God's hand to guard me, God's shield to protect me, God's host to save me from snares of devils, from temptation of vices, from everyone who shall wish me ill afar and near.
I summon today all these powers between me and those evils.
Against every cruel and merciless power that may oppose my body and soul.
Against incantations of false prophets.
Against black laws of pagandom.
Against false laws of heretics.
Against craft of idolatry.
Against spells of witches and smiths and wizards.
Against every knowledge that corrupts man's body and soul.
Christ to shield me today.
Against poison.
Against burning.
against drowning, against wounding, so that there may come to me an abundance of reward.
Christ with me.
Christ before me.
Christ behind me.
Christ in me.
Christ beneath me.
Christ above me.
Christ on my right.
Christ on my left.
Christ when I lie down.
Christ when I sit down.
Christ when I arise.
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me.
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me.
Christ in every eye that sees me.
Christ in every ear that hears me.
I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, through belief in the threeness, through confession of the oneness of the Creator of creation.
I rise today.
That's pretty good stuff.
Again, Jamie Bamberg is a great follow over on X and YouTube channel.
Great video creator.
Again, his He Gets His stuff was absolutely incredible.
I encourage everybody to check it out.
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Okay.
We've got a great rest of the show for you and a lot to talk about.
And I don't even know if we're going to be able to get it in because I spent so much time on St. Patrick, which I'm fine to do.
Because I think this is something...
There's a lot of negative stories out there.
I know we patched some in with the state of our country.
I guess I have one more.
I guess I do have one more negative story to patch in with the whole St. Patrick vibe thing.
Where does all this lead?
Well, we now have, as you know, Michael Cassidy has been vindicated from chopping the Baphomet statue in half or beheading the Baphomet statue.
The U.S. Navy has voted to, you know, he did nothing wrong.
Which is great.
Michael Cassidy can continue being a pilot instructor and being, you know, being in the U.S. Navy.
So that's great.
I don't know what his rank is.
It escapes me right now.
But that doesn't mean that there aren't other...
Look at these other people essentially saying that I have the American First Amendment right to be a Satanist.
And I have said for a while now, ever since this show's been on the air, actually, I don't think you do.
Shadow of Ezra saying Satanists are planning to hold a black mass at the Kansas State Capitol during the lead-up to Easter, openly promoting it as an opportunity to blaspheme Christ and worship Satan.
The event is organized by a guy by the name of Jay Frazzi, who uses he-they pronouns and wears face makeup featuring upside-down crosses.
Frazzi's profile photo bears the caption, quote, Worship thyself.
You are your own god.
Hail you.
Hail Satan.
End quote.
The grotto describes itself as a community for Satanists and allies following the left-hand path.
That is now being promoted, and they want to do this at the Kansas State Capitol because they want the government, whether directly or indirectly, just their presence there, to promote evil, to promote death, to promote wickedness, to promote blasphemy, to war against the God of Heaven.
And I firmly say this kind of behavior should be banned and should not be allowed in the United States of America.
Because banning things is good sometimes.
Here's a local media report about this disgusting plan.
Founder and president of the Satanic Grotto is speaking exclusively with our Kansas Capitol Bureau.
He says his group will host their ritual in the Capitol building, even if it means getting arrested by Capitol Police.
Stewart says it's an act of defiance and rebellion, one of the core themes in Satanism.
What are you hoping they take away from this black mass?
I'm hoping that our legislature remembers that Kansas is a diverse group of people with diverse needs and wants and stops placating to just the largest demographic of religious people.
Stewart says they're protesting oppression, those who have imposed their religion on them and have failed them.
I've never been to a black mass.
For people who don't know, how could you describe this?
We are going to observe certain rules that preclude certain things from what we would do in private.
Ours tend to be a little more bawdy, a little more ruckus, smoke and mirrors and fun.
We can't make any messes here.
We can't do a lot of things.
So what we're going to do is heavily lean into what I call the four blasphemies, kind of representing an alternate to the stations of the cross.
Stewart says religion has taken center stage in some debates at the statehouse, like abortion.
Catholic groups have advocated for more restrictions on abortions in the state.
But in 2022, Kansas voters decided to uphold abortion rights in the state's constitution.
If there are Catholics here fighting against abortion rights, which Kansas has decidingly and overwhelmingly voted for, then I will use those same mechanisms to speak back.
Then would you argue that religion has somehow infiltrated the statehouse, not just national politics, and for that reason you're using it?
As a way to combat what you're seeing here through legislation.
Absolutely.
I think that is a great way to summarize that.
Now, Governor Kelly says she won't allow protests to be made inside the Capitol.
The governor, issuing this statement tonight, saying in part, there are more constructive ways to protest and express disagreements without insulting or denigrating sacred religious symbols.
However, as governor, I also have a duty to protect protesters' constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression, regardless of how offensive or distasteful I might find the...
So here's Governor Laura Kelly's statement, a Democrat from Kansas, says, Oh, surely there are more constructive things to do than to denigrate sacred religious symbols.
However, as governor, I have a duty to protect the constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression.
Yeah.
I don't know if Governor Laura Kelly claims to be a Christian or not.
I suspect that she does not.
But there are many, let's assume that she was, because there are many Christians in politics today with power, with real political power, that would have the exact same answer as this Democrat governor.
It's like, I know this is wrong, I know this is evil, I know this is wicked, but the Constitution now is what?
Becomes a shackle?
Becomes...
I'm more beholden to this document, this Constitution, than I am to the Word of God.
And this is why, by the way, this question right here is why so many on the left are afraid of Christians getting into public office and actually governing as Christians.
They are very worried about it.
That's why they call you a Christian nationalist or they call you a Christo-fascist because they're very worried that there are those of us who have been raised, myself included, were raised in this liberalism, whether it's the classical liberalism or not, raised in this libertarianism, raised in this live-and-let-live mentality.
Where we're seeing the ends of that.
We're seeing the natural consequences of that mentality and what it essentially does is, well, there's no restraint on the wicked.
There's nothing that is going to be withheld.
There's no standards or anything.
As Jeff Younger said on the program on Thursday, he talked about how the liberals don't have a definition for what the good life is.
What is it to live a good life?
The liberals can't give you a definition for that because it's naturally going to be exclusionary.
It necessitates that there are boundaries, there are rules, there are morals.
Those morals come from God, the character of God that we find revealed in Scripture.
And so people from my generation specifically, and those younger than me, and even the Gen Xers above me, are saying, if this is what live and let live means, if live and let live means we have to be okay, and we have to accept, and we have to say, oh, it's legal, this is your constitutional right to go into the Kansas State Capitol and perform a black mass, and nobody does anything about it?
Nobody stands up and says, no, the government will not do this because we will not promote objective evil, because we will not say, no, Satan is evil and we will not promote him.
We have allegiance to God and not Satan.
There are people of my generation, younger and above, that are saying, no thanks.
If that's the deal, we've got to do something different.
And that something different does not require a constitutional, like a new constitution.
It requires getting rid of all of the fake, phony jurisprudence that has reinterpreted the constitution to say things like blasphemy laws are unconstitutional when our founding fathers were for them.
And we had blasphemy laws on the books in this country, I think until like 1933, well into the 20th century.
So, there you go.
That's the last negative story of St. Patrick.
And you know what?
So we need to take the story of St. Patrick and we need to be encouraged today.
The idea, the story of St. Patrick going with firm reliance on the fact that the Lord fights our battles goes and challenges the pagans to their face.
And a revival sweeps over.
And as you can't even see, I mean, I guess it's not really revival.
They weren't Christians to begin with.
I don't even know what the proper terminology is.
He Christianizes a whole country.
He Christianizes all of Ireland.
What an encouraging historical fact, right?
Christianizes.
Just like our founders, our framers, they come to America.
As a Christian country, as Christian colonies that form a Christian nation.
And yeah, we've seen it.
We're seeing it slip away.
We're literally running off the derivative fumes of our Christian forefathers and the prosperity that it produces.
Not to say that it's an exact formula, but I mean, it's just self-evident at this point.
And there is a way to get it back.
And I think the first, and a lot of people say, well, what do you mean?
Like, there's this allergy when you say that.
They're like, well, the way to give it back, the way to get it back is to spread the gospel and you create more Christians.
And that's exactly correct.
That's 100% correct.
Like, that is certainly a way to preach the gospel.
But in terms of America as it is today, we are not being re-paganized.
America is not being re-paganized.
Because we were never pagan to begin with.
So it's different.
And then you take a look at the amount of Christians, the people that claim Christ in America today, is a substantial number of people.
It's a substantial number of people that have forgotten what used to be acceptable Protestant political thought about what a Christian does when they do become the dog catcher, or what a Christian does when they do become a senator, or the President of the United States.
And rediscovering what is actually permissible in a Christian worldview, dare I say it, I hope Stephen Wolf's not listening, that, I think, is very much the ticket.
Okay?
That's very much the ticket, along with, obviously, more and more people coming to faith in Christ.
So, there's that.
Man, we've got a lot to get to.
What time is it?
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Over the weekend, this is not necessarily what I voted for.
I don't know about you.
So over the weekend, we have the Trump administration launching, just from what I can tell, Disastrous attack on the Houthis.
I mean, the images I saw were, I mean, it was a lot of bombs, a lot of explosions.
And so, I have a few questions.
But first, the reaction to the bombings, the Houthis are saying that the strikes killed kids.
Now, whether that's true or not doesn't really even matter in the geopolitical scheme because the idea is what...
Douglas McGregor said on Tucker Carlson's show last week, he said, any war you start will not be contained.
It will spread other places.
This is what McGregor said.
Any war that you start, Donald Trump, is not going to just stay in one location.
That's what he was pleading with the president over on Tucker Carlson.
Andy Coulter says, why do we have to do this?
Is it part of our Constitution that we must be bombing someone at all times?
Now, of course, the United States' take, the official's take, is that, look, the Houthis have been bombing or targeting the Red Sea, making it unsafe, making trade unsafe, and everything else.
Has been the case.
Israel has not been able to get their ships where they want to go.
The Houthis are saying because of what you're doing to Gaza, the loss of life in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing in Gaza, or potentially the West Bank.
Some people even say not truly honoring the ceasefire.
That's why this has all continued.
But the bottom line here is that the Houthis are backed by Iran.
And so Douglas McGregor...
Colonel Douglas McGregor responded to this over this ex-alerts that the Houthis leader has now banned U.S. ships in the Red Sea and will now officially target U.S. warships in the region.
So you see how we have this escalation now in the Middle East.
Douglas McGregor saying...
I agree.
We don't want a war in the Middle East.
Douglas McGregor reminds us that our largest battlefront is here at home.
He's exactly right with the southern border.
Yet we're now once again focused on the Middle East.
Now, you know, in Trump's first term...
He launched some missiles over at Syria at least once to pacify warmongers like Lindsey Graham.
And now he's launching these missiles at the Houthis in Yemen.
Will that be all?
I don't know.
I certainly hope so.
Look, I get it.
I get that Israeli foreign policy is baked into U.S. foreign policy.
I understand that that is the case.
I don't necessarily agree with it because, again, I am tired of my whole life being about Americans going over in the Middle East and dying.
I'm sick of that.
My generation is sick of that.
Gen X is sick of that.
We're sick of that.
I get it.
I don't want new wars.
My question to all of this is, how do we, and I've reached out to Douglas McGregor because I want to have him on the program.
Here's my question.
If we are going to normalize relations with Russia, which that is what has been said, we are saying that we're going to normalize relations with Russia, assuming that you can get Zelensky to stop being Zelensky, and assuming that NATO takes the L. My question is...
How do you normalize?
I'm talking economically, everything.
How do you normalize relations with Russia and also fight a war against Iran?
Because that's what the neocons want.
When Russia backs Iran and Russia has a presence in the Middle East, they're always going to have a presence in the Middle East.
So that's my question here.
How does this attack against the Houthis in Yemen?
And again, it is just Iran's proxy.
It's not Iran itself.
I get all that.
I want peace.
How do you normalize relations with Russia and start a new war in the Middle East?
How does that happen?
And I don't think it can.
I don't think it can.
I'm trying to get Douglas McGregor back on the show so we can talk about this because it's a really big deal.
Now, in other news, as we wind down the show, we're running out of time here.
Donald Trump saying the pardons of Sleepy Joe and his family are not real.
The pardons that Sleepy Joe gave to the unselect committee of political thugs like Liz Cheney and many others are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect because of the fact that they were done by auto-pin.
In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them, but more importantly, he did not know anything about them.
The necessary pardoning documents were not explained to or approved by Biden.
He knew nothing about them and the people that did may have committed a crime Therefore, those on the unselect committee who destroyed and deleted all evidence obtained during their two-year witch hunt of me and many other innocent people should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level.
The fact is they were probably responsible for the documents that were signed off on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the worst president in the history of our country, crooked Joe Biden.
This is certainly keeping Donald Trump's enemies on their toes.
No question about that.
In other news, the French want their Statue of Liberty back.
They can't have it.
This is a great post by Shipwreck once again.
She even throws a Ghostbusters 2 reference in there.
You know, when they're using the Statue of Liberty to fight the monsters or whatever.
It was a good one.
It really was a good one.
Also, in other news, Elon Musk has uncovered a massive scam that kept Democrats in office for decades.
Apparently, you can just print money.
Here is Ted Cruz interviewing Elon Musk.
I didn't think I'd say that this morning.
One of the things you told me about is what you call magic money computers.
Tell us about it, because I never heard of that until you brought that up.
You may think that the government computers They all talk to each other, they synchronize, they add up what funds are going somewhere, and it's coherent.
And that the numbers, for example, that you represented as a senator are actually the real numbers.
One would think.
One would think.
They're not.
I mean, they're not totally wrong, but they're probably off by 5% or 10% in some cases.
So I call a magic money computer any computer which can just make money out of thin air.
Best magic money.
So how does that work?
It just issues payments.
And you said there's something like 11 of these computers at Treasury that are sending out trillions in payments?
They're mostly at Treasury.
There's some at HHS. There's one or two at State.
There's some at DOD. I think we found now 14 magic money computers.
They just send money out of nothing.
That is incredible.
Do we even have laws on the books against that?
Surely we do.
Surely that's a crime, right?
It's what we've all expected.
I mean, it's what we've all thought.
Here we have a guy actually saying they just send money, create money out of nothing and send it to people.
Absolutely nuts, the corruption that he's uncovering.
Absolutely nuts.
All right, so we're out of time.
We're not actually going to get to it all.
It was good to see that the Trump administration, I mean, I think they ignored the orders.
I know they're saying they didn't ignore the judge's orders.
Congressman Brandon Gill is saying that he'll file articles of impeachment against the activist judge James Bosberg for trying to stop the Trendeagua, the gangs, from going to El Salvador.
Mark Mitchell, skeptical.
He says, I guarantee we'll see another impeachment of Trump for not following this order before we see this judge actually impeached.
He may be right about that.
Folks, that's all the time that we have for this edition of the Millstone Report.
God bless everybody out there watching.
And unless I'm providentially handed, we'll be back here tomorrow, delivering you the news.
God bless everybody out there watching.
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