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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

Seeped and Steeped in The Bible

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Our founding fathers and grandfathers knew the Bible deeply in their minds and souls. How can you hear the words of George Washington and Patrick Henry's most famous speech and come to any other conclusion?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to politics by faith.

0:04.5

Thanks to being here.

0:05.5

The word of the day is seeped.

0:09.1

Seeped.

0:10.3

It's a good word in it.

0:11.5

To be seeped.

0:13.6

The modern dictionary definition, Webster did not have this word in his original 1828

0:19.0

one, is to flow or leak a liquid slowly through porous material or small holes.

0:29.5

The idea, though, the concept is that something is so deeply permeated into the item that it is now an integral part of it.

0:42.3

Now, we're in that's interesting English situation here where you have the word seep and steep.

0:49.0

And they can both do with liquids so it can get confusing.

0:52.3

But when you're talking about a deep tradition of something,

0:56.6

it's actually the word steep. So something is steeped in tradition, for instance. I like both

1:03.6

concepts. Right. I feel like the idea of seeping into.

1:13.1

And the argument I want to make here is that the Bible,

1:17.1

it seeped its way through all the aspects of us,

1:18.6

of our culture in America.

1:24.1

But I also like the idea of our culture being steeped in the Bible.

1:27.6

Let's go with steep for now.

1:30.4

So I suppose the word of the day is steep, not seep.

1:32.6

But this is the idea I want.

1:35.1

Either way, this is the idea that I'm looking for.

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