Bill Federer

And if you're friends with the king, you're more equal.

If you're not friends, you're less equal.

If you're an enemy, you're dead.

It's called treason.

And you had to believe the way your king tells you to believe, or you're killed.

So it gives a background of why the pilgrims came over.

But I get into the details of it, how, you know, the King of France was captured by the King of Spain, and Francis I goes over, makes a treaty with the Ottomans called the Franco-Ottoman Treaties.

And so Spain can no longer defend North Africa.

The Muslims conquer it.

One of the pilgrim ships in 1625 was sent back to England with 800 pounds of beaver skins, and a Turkish man of war captures it in the English Channel, takes it to Morocco, sells the crew into slavery.

The Muslims in the 1600s captured an entire Irish village, Baltimore, Ireland, the stolen village.

They even attacked Iceland and carried away to Morocco.

And so they even had to deal with the same things we're dealing with today.

Fascinating book.

It gives you a new appreciation for the pilgrims and how they came over and set up a government where it's bottom up.

We the people versus top down.

Well, they realized that the battle is for the hearts and minds of the people in America.

And so you had to use every way of communication.

And so Pat used the UHF TV station and then it branched into CBN and the 700 call.

But then he realized that you had to start a university to teach the kids, Regent University.