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Announcer: This is Viewpoint with attorney and author Chuck Crismier. Viewpoint is a one-hour talk show confronting the issues of America's heart and home. And now with today's edition of Viewpoint, here is Chuck Crismier.

Chuck Crismier: This is one of those programs today where you just might, in advance, want to anchor the seatbelt in your chariot. That's right, anchor the seatbelt in your chariot because some of the things that are going to be shared today on this program are challenging, to put it mildly, challenging to put it mildly. Were you aware that this very day the SAFE Act that was being promoted, passed, promoted by the legislature in our country was denied, turned down by the United States Senate?

And what would it have done? It would have required that anyone who voted in a federal election would have to prove their identity. The Senate turned it down. So we're not safe anymore. Even with all the effort to try to make us safe, the United States Senate prevented it and we no longer have, or don't have, despite the effort to protect elections from fraud and deceit, we no longer have the SAFE Act. Thomas Massie, Congressman, had done everything he could to try to protect the SAFE Act, but the Senate turned him down. Just turned him down royally.

Well, what else is going on? That's here in our nation. But how about AI taking over religion and law and jobs? Would you be interested in that? You say, "Well, I've already heard about..." Oh, you haven't heard about it from the standpoint of Yuval Harari, who addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month. You're going to be shocked. You just might be shocked at what he had to say. Now, you say, "Well, you might dismiss him and say, well, that's that atheist dude."

Yeah, he is an atheist dude, but he's also very smart. He's also very smart. He's Jewish. He's a professor at a Jewish university, and he addressed the World Economic Forum on a subject that is sure to get your attention here today on Viewpoint. Then again, AI data centers are mushrooming nationwide, taking over the whole real estate market. Since artificial intelligence, AI, data centers require massive amounts of electricity to operate, they're causing power bills to increase essentially on a nationwide scale.

States with major AI data hubs include Virginia, Ohio, Illinois. They've seen faster price increases than the national average, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Believe it or not, within just a few miles of this broadcast site, several major AI data centers have either already been installed or are preparing to be installed. And people are actually listing their homes for sale to get away from their agonizing effect in neighborhoods. They're massive and they're taking over.

Like Pac-Man, the stories about Pac-Man always eating up everything around. Well, this is the new modern Pac-Man, the real estate Pac-Man. But it's not just real estate. It's water. It's electricity. And when these are located in areas that rely upon water under the surface, like where the homes are all reliant upon wells, just imagine the impact that these will have. And again, less than half of American adults say religion is important now. Well, that's pretty telling in a nation that claims to be under God.

Then also more Protestant churches are closing than opening in America. Isn't that interesting? And not only that, but families are declining. In fact, the population is declining. And the article states that unless families get more support, religions in America could face continued decline as well. So all of that and perhaps more here on the program today. So I welcome you to Viewpoint. I'm Chuck Crismier. It's conversation, as always, with ever-increasing conviction, talk that transforms.

Today, I don't know if you noticed or have been aware, but it wasn't the stock market that crashed. It was the precious metals market that crashed. It had already gone up dramatically to sometimes 50 and 100% over the past three months. And then all of a sudden, in a matter of two to three days, boom, it just withered away. Then it pretended to gain a little bit of momentum, and then that momentum got lost. What's going on?

Is there manipulation going on through governments of the world or even the United States of America? What's causing these aberrations to take place? Are we being just... are we being manipulated? Are we being taken advantage of? Is our government actually trying to reduce the value of silver and gold so that when they want to buy precious metals for the purpose of whatever it is, the digitization of the country, that they won't have to pay the price, the elevated price to which the metals had gone and now have created a situation where there is a flurry of activity to get out of silver and gold?

What do you make of that? Has the United States of America under the Trump administration actually determined, notwithstanding the CBDC act that went forward a year ago, that indeed we are going to digitize our money? That silver and gold will no longer be part of the background for that money, but will be used for other purposes, technological purposes, digitization and so on? It's amazing what is taking place. Utterly amazing. And I try to keep up on a lot of these things. I really do.

And I don't like to trouble our listeners with too much troubling information and certainly not sensationalistic information. But what I'm sharing with you here today is not sensationalistic at all. It's the real deal. And I've done everything that I can to verify some of these things and they're true. The problem is that a lot of it is not being announced. You just feel the effects of it. But the effects of it are affecting millions and millions of people. And what will the ultimate effects be? We could call it the terrifying truth about our times. We could put any number of kinds of titles on today's program. I haven't even decided yet. But it is terrifying, some of the things that are taking place. Very troubling, at least.

So let's start with AI itself. Yuval Harari, you may not like him. I don't like him either. But he's a very smart guy. He's a historian, but he's also an atheist. He has no love lost for Christianity or anything else, quite frankly. He believes in globalization. He's one of the clear voices of the World Economic Forum. On the other hand, what he's saying concerning AI is troubling, to say the least. Wait until you hear what he has to say after this break.

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Chuck Crismier: Can AI be personalized? Can it become a human person? Can it be given human rights? Can it be given authority that ever exceeds human authority, governmental authority? Can it form its own government? Can it rule the world? Can it recreate, redefine, even create new religions? Well, Yuval Noah Harari believes that artificial intelligence is already so advanced and deeply entrenched in society that anything made by words, such as religions like Christianity and Judaism, will be taken over by AI.

Now, I want you to think about the implication of this. The Bible says in John chapter 1, the word became flesh. Notice the word "word," the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory full of grace and truth. But what if the word that the Bible talks about as the word, the word of God, that sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, discerns the hearts and the thoughts of the mind? Well, what if those words and that word become archaic? What if it becomes replaceable by AI and its multiplied words?

Maybe AI becomes the word. The word not of God himself, but the word of whatever gods or god AI wants to create. And I want you to think about the implications of that because this is an atheist, friends, who is talking about this. He has insights that very few people are willing to talk about because everybody wants to tout the great wonders of AI and how it's going to save time and money for corporations. And you get on the phone and you call for a business that you do business with, and can you talk to a human being? No.

I dare say there's hardly any business that you can call today unless it's a retail store that you can talk to a human being. You're talking to an artificial being called artificial intelligence or AI. And you're going to have to go through a multiplicity of AI intervenors in order to try to get to a human being that can answer your question. But the AI will do everything it can to answer your question and to multiply your questions. I had to deal with that just today on the internet. Couldn't deal with a human being. And neither could I get AI to ask the right questions and give the right alternatives that were really necessary to solve my problem.

That's where we are. So let's take a further look, as they say, a deeper dive, so to speak, into the statements made by Yuval Noah Harari on January 20th, 2026 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In a stark warning to world leaders, Harari said AI should not be taken or mistaken for a tool, but rather as a thinking agent that can create new things and make decisions that will likely leave humanity in an identity crisis. Identity crisis. Who am I?

Everybody has been talking in years past about an identity crisis. Everybody's got an identity crisis. Okay, what if all humanity has an identity crisis now? Don't know who we are. Who are we in the face of artificial intelligence? He said AI is not really a tool, it's a thinking agent. A thinking agent meaning it does its own thing. And eventually will do more of its own thing. He said we always think that we can just use these things as tools. They are agents though, he warned.

Now, he's a University of Cambridge distinguished research fellow in its Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. So he's talking about existential risk. Do you think some of these things sound existential? In other words, threatening to life itself as we understand it? Well, we haven't heard it all yet. Hang in there, my friends. He said previously all the words, all our verbal thoughts, they originated in some human mind. Either my mind, I thought this, or I learned it from another human. But soon most of the words in our minds will originate in a machine.

He said, "I just heard today about a new word that AI has coined, that AI's have coined by themselves to describe us humans. They called us 'the watchers'. The watchers." Oh, maybe some of you sensationalistic prophecy gurus are familiar with the term "the watchers" and you would not apply it to what Mr. Harari is saying. But he said this is a new term that AI's have coined to describe we humans, calling us "the watchers." Well, that sounds like we're passive. We're just watching.

We have nothing to do with controlling. We have nothing to do with directing. We have nothing to do with actually providing original thinking, anything that's creative or whatever. No, we're just watchers. Well, that's what a lot of men have become. They don't read. They're watchers. They just watch, passively watch television. A lot of other people are like that. They say, "We don't read." Why don't you read? Because you're passive. What are you? A watcher. That's what you are, a watcher.

So gradually over time, television has gradually taken away, seduced us away from reading to watching. And it's a much more passive experience. When I had the opportunity and God called me to speak to his church at large, whether they would hear forbear, I considered television. But I ruled television out. Number one, it was too expensive. And number two, it's more passive. With radio, it's very difficult to dink out. In other words, to kind of just become, oh well, just passive. With television, you can do that. Television puts people to sleep.

But radio, well, it's a little more commandeering of the mind. And so I chose radio in order to be able to reason with people, not in sound bites, but talking together, reasoning together about things that really matter. So Harari says AI's will soon be the origin of maybe most of the words in our minds. AI's will mass-produce thoughts by assembling words, symbols, images, and other language tokens into new combinations. Well, what will those new combinations represent? Not necessarily what God would have them to represent. Not necessarily what we would want them to represent, but we'll become passive.

We'll merely become watchers of what's happening around us through AI's that commandeer the society. He says that because of AI's exponential ability to process, create and manipulate words, the survival of human identity will likely be determined by the value society places on non-verbal feelings and wisdom. Well, already in the Western world, feelings have been superimposed on top of reality, on top of facts. So when a president of the United States says, "We believe in facts, not truth," what he really means is we believe in how we feel about things, not in how things actually are. And that was our previous president.

Harari goes on to say, if we continue to define ourselves by our ability to think in words, our identity will collapse. Wow. Now, I want you to think about this, friends. God created things to be dealt with in words. He sent his word and healed us and delivered us from our destructions. By your words, you should be judged, Jesus said, and by your words, you should be condemned. Not by your feelings, by your words. What is it about words? Well, Jesus said that the words come out of your innermost being. They are the reflection of your heart, for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

But now Mr. Harari says, no, all that's going to be reversed gradually. It's already being reversed by AI. So he says we're not even going to be able to think in words. Our identity is going to collapse. And it's all going to be about feelings. Emotions. But isn't that where we are already? I feel, I feel, I feel. Well, that was launched back in the late 1960s and early 1970s in California. Teachers were taken aside and forced to go to re-education classes. I was a teacher at that time and I was forced like all the others to go to a re-education class. I'm calling it that because that's what it was.

What was it all about? It was called the "encounter movement". It was about reframing everything we said or thought in terms of feelings rather than facts or truth. So you had to say, "I feel." You couldn't even say, "I think." You had to say, "I feel." "I feel that that's not right. I feel that that's not true." In other words, you couldn't come out with a direct statement, "That's not true," because that was deemed to be offensive. So feelings became the lord. And that spirit passed into the church.

So that in the 1970s, the "God is love" movement replaced the "God of truth" movement or the God of truth that was also a God of love. And everything changed. Our music changed. It became touchy-feely. And today, almost all of the music in our churches is based on feelings, not truth, not facts, not doctrine, just feelings. I feel. Well, feelings are important, but they can't be our Lord. If feelings are our Lord, then feelings are our master, and the master takes short shrift, and his words mean nothing.

So you see what's happened in the past 50 years? We have allowed feelings to take over. Now, just imagine then as AI continues its encroachment, words become replaced by what? Feelings. Emotions. So then we're going to have to relate to everyone not according to what is said, but according to, "How do I feel?" So Harari says there's one question that every leader today has to answer about AI. But to answer that question, we first need to clarify a few points about what AI is and what AI can do. He said the most important thing is to understand that AI is not just a tool, it is an agent.

In other words, it is a wannabe person acting on its own. He said it can learn and change by itself and make decisions by itself. For instance, he says AI, suppose AI is a knife. It could be used to cut a salad or to murder somebody. And the decision would not be yours. It would be AI's decision that the knife can decide by itself whether to cut salad or to commit murder. Harari said AI also can lie, manipulate, and think. If thinking really means putting words and other language tokens in order, then AI can already think much better than many, many humans.

Why is it? Because many, many humans have refused to think anymore. They just feel. They just observe. They're just watchers. They don't think. Men are plagued with this. They won't read the Bible. They won't read books. They say, "Well, just give me a tape or just give me something to watch." In other words, passive. Men have become passive. So they can't be trusted to be disciplers in their homes or in our churches. Men have become passive. And that's why so many pastors have found it very, very difficult, sometimes impossible, to truly have meaningful men's ministries because they feel that they have to cater to the passivity of the men. Oh, and we've just started. We'll be right back.

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Chuck Crismier: In order to carry on the increasing authority of AI's, we're now indulging in taking over the real estate in our country and all over the world to develop AI data centers. Massive centers that are mushrooming all over the world and taking over and consuming massive amounts of electric power that require massive amounts of water for cooling and affecting whole areas, communities, cities, regions, and so on. In other words, we're addicting ourselves to being taken over by artificial intelligence. Purposely. We're willingly doing it. We're not just cooperating with it. We're taking the lead and celebrating it. Is it to be celebrated? Well, leave that to your understanding.

But if you listen to Mr. Harari, who happens to be an atheist himself and is not all that concerned about religions, but he says, "Look, AI is going to become its own religion." He explained connecting how AI's ability to think using words will lead to taking over certain religions and legal systems, like Christianity, Judaism, even Islam. Why? Because they all claim to be religions of the book. The book. In other words, you've got to go to the authority, what is written.

It used to be that kings would say, "Thus I have written and so shall it be done." God says, as the King of kings, the Lord of lords, through Jesus Christ, "This is what I have written and thus shall it be done." Now, you can decide whether to cooperate with what I have written, but this is what has been written and it's there for all eternity. And God speaks digitally. He's the one that has created a word communication system that ultimately is digital because his words will never disappear. They're eternal.

The Bible says that through words, Jesus created the worlds. He spoke the worlds, he spoke the worlds into existence. Words matter. But now we're creating something that is contrary to the very God-ordained expression milieu of humankind. Harari goes on to say, if laws are made of words, which they are, then AI will take over the legal system. If books are just combinations of words, then AI will take over books. If religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion. This is particularly true of religions, he says, based on the books like Islam, Christianity, or Judaism.

Judaism, he says, calls itself the religion of the book. And it grants ultimate authority not to humans, but to words in books. What happens to a religion of the book when the greatest expert on the so-called Holy Book is an AI, artificial intelligence? It artificially applies, relates, expresses the word. In other words, it creates its own version of the word. Friends, that's exactly what Satan did in the garden. He created his own expression or synthesizing of the word. He asked the question to Adam and Eve, "Hath God said?" And Eve responded, "Yes, he did say you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for the day you eat thereof you shall surely die."

And Satan says, "Yeah, but God knew when he said that that the reason for it was that if you ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you would be just like him. And you would know good and evil. You'd be just like God." Oh, so he insinuated an idea, like artificial intelligence. He insinuated an idea into Eve's mind and it corrupted her mind because her flesh yielded to the temptation to adopt what Satan said, or the serpent, rather than what God has actually said. And the rest is history.

Because of all of that, you and I have all been contaminated with sin and a resultant death penalty. Because the wages of sin is death. So the gift of God is eternal life. But what is the gift of God? The gift of God was the word made flesh. Remember, in the beginning was the word, the word was with God, the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were created by him without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life. What? The word. You get away with the word and you have destroyed the very creative purpose and implementation of God in the earth.

So Harari states that while the world is grappling with significant discussions about immigration, countries will soon face a severe identity crisis and also an immigration crisis due to AI advancement. Now, this is an amazing insight. The immigrants will be millions of AI's that can write, can be better than us, and that can travel at the speed of light without any need of visas, he said. So like human immigrants, these AI immigrants will bring various benefits with them and that's what's being celebrated now, to help doctors, to help teachers, in corporations, and so on.

But he explained that citizens of many countries often worry that immigrants might take jobs, change the culture, or be politically disloyal. Or spiritually disloyal. It will definitely be true of the AI immigrants. The AI immigrants will completely change the culture of every country. They will change our religion and even romance, he said. And that's happening, friends. It's happening where people are actually making love, so to speak, developing romantic relationships to an artificial intelligence being representing itself as a quasi-human.

So across global jurisdictions, corporations, rivers, and even gods have been recognized as legal persons now. Like Spain recognized chimpanzees as entitled to human rights. Rivers have been entitled to human rights. It's amazing. So why not AI? Suppose some AI persons create a new religion, which gains the faith of millions of people. That shouldn't sound too far-fetched, he said. Now, this is coming from an atheist, friends. He said, now will your country extend freedom of religion to the new AI sect and to its AI priests and missionaries?

Now, I want you to think about this. This sounds suspiciously like what is represented in the Book of Revelation, where in chapter 13 and 14, we have a beast and a false prophet. And the false prophet is doing miracles, maybe AI miracles, so to speak. Maybe the false prophet is actually an AI human... an AI being. We don't know. How would the apostle John ever be able to discern what an AI really was? He can only look at the effects.

And then this false prophet is going to create an image like unto the beast. An image. Is this artificial intelligence? Is it some high, previously unheard-of expression of artificial intelligence? Is it the combination of a variety of tech experiences and proclivities that can represent themselves talking officially as the authority over the earth and that humankind are so enamored by what is being said, what is being done, that they will put their total trust and confidence?

Will this AI system actually develop a digital system so that the entire economics of the world will no longer be in terms of words, will not be in terms of numbers, but in digits? Digitals. And therefore you, human beings, become nothing but a global digit. Is that how God views humanity? I don't think so. Harari asserts that AI's have been operating as functional persons for the past decade and suggests that now is the time for countries to act to regulate AI's influence.

I think it's virtually beyond that, friends. I don't think most want to regulate the influence because they like, they've become enamored by what they can do with it until all of a sudden they can't control it. And that's what Harari is talking about. Will your country allow AI persons to open social media accounts, enjoy freedom of speech and religion on social media? AI bots have been operating as functional persons for at least a decade, he said. If you think AI should not be treated as persons on social media, you should have acted 10 years ago, he said. And 10 years from now, it will be too late for you to decide.

Now, does that kind of send a few tingles up your spine? It does to me. In a sense, but I look at it spiritually, and that's how we should look at it. It's not just about what can be done with the AI and how wonderful it can be to give us more information. It's how is it going to paralyze our minds and our hearts and our spirits to be totally trusting in that which is not of God, that which is artificial, that which is synthetic.

Is this the meaning of synthetic authenticity? Wow. We'll be back in just a moment. You might want to consider getting a copy of my book, Seduction of the Saints: How to Stay Pure in a World of Deception. That's what we're looking at. $15 will put the $18 book in your hands. It's on our website, saveus.org. Call us 1-800-SAVE-USA. Write a check at $6 for postage and handling.

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Chuck Crismier: "Come now and let us reason together," says the Lord. That's what we're doing here on Viewpoint, reasoning together five days a week, confronting the deepest issues of America's heart and home from God's eternal perspective. That's what we do. It's not about politics per se. It's not about economics per se. It's not about any one issue per se. It's about the agglomeration of all issues as they relate to God's viewpoint and the Kingdom of God and our lives as professing Christians. That's what we do here on this program.

When we talk about economics, it's not just about economics. It's about where are things going fitting in the greater picture from God's viewpoint and how you and I can or should respond. What are the impacts upon us as professing Christians? How do we deal with it? Not only practically, but from the heart. So we've talked about precious metals a number of times over the past couple months. Is it because our affections are changing? No, it's not because of that at all. It's because of the dramatic changes that are taking place and we need to understand, have some kind of understanding as to how we relate to it as Christians.

Certainly we don't want to cast our care or our trust upon these things because as we've discovered, they can be very fickle. When gold and silver can lose 40% of its value in three days from where it had accelerated to, you know it can't be trusted. Does that mean we shouldn't have any involvement with it? No. You can't trust your car. Now we want to be able to trust our cars, but they break down, don't they? Does that mean we don't use them? No. But it means we use them appropriately.

We don't put our full confidence and trust in a car. We don't put our full confidence and trust in other drivers, even though we have to trust them to some degree, as much as we ourselves can be trusted. But we're human beings. Things happen. And we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. Jesus said, "Don't be anxious about tomorrow. Let tomorrow take care of itself. You trust in God, you do what you need to do today. You trust, you believe God, you do what you're supposed to do today. Today is the day of salvation. Not tomorrow, because you don't know about tomorrow."

Many things about tomorrow we don't seem to understand. Well, we know who holds the future and we know who holds our hand. Even as AI data centers are exploding all over the country. In Virginia alone, it's unbelievable, friends. Especially in Northern Virginia, all the way up from Richmond on up to Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands of acres are being taken over by these massive, massive buildings. They're defacing and defaming the environment. So where are the environmentalists that are concerned about this?

You don't hear them, not really. Because they're looking at other things. How great, how wonderful this artificial intelligence is. It's going to save us. It's going to save our money. It's going to save corporations. It's going to make us rich. It's going to do this. It's going to do that. It's... yeah, and it's going to take away your freedom and your life ultimately. That's what Mr. Harari was trying to tell us. Now, we shift from that to take a look at if AI is going to have a profound effect upon religious thinking and truth because that is based in words.

Then what do you do with this headline? Less than half of American adults say religion is important. Despite less than half of Americans ranking religion as an important part of their daily life, America still has more devout when it comes to religion than its economic peers, like the United Kingdom or Germany or France. But should we be comparing ourselves to France that spawned the French Revolution as a godless enlightenment? That couldn't even establish a stable government for years and years and years and still has problems. Serious problems.

George Gallup or the Gallup Poll researched to find America's having a medium-high Christian identity but a middling religiosity. In other words, lukewarm, just like God described the church at Laodicea in Revelation chapter 3. So the share of Americans who now identify as Christian in America is more similar to countries like the U.K., Germany, Finland, and Denmark, which have strong Protestant traditions. But the role religion plays in daily American life like there, much larger than in these countries, is more similar to countries like Argentina, Ireland, Poland, and Italy, where Catholicism is more influential.

So we're looking at a situation now where in America, that was supposedly based upon the authority of God's word, will and ways, is losing that authority. And the authority is shifting. What's it shifting to? Government, feelings, money, AI. It's shifting. And this is exactly what we would have expected from God's viewpoint according to his word. Now, in order to deal with a lot of these issues and understand what we're up against, we're just focusing on three or four things here today. But in my book Seduction of the Saints: How to Stay Pure in a World of Deception, we focus on a whole lot of other things as well.

Things that go deeply into our thinking, deeply into the way we respond to the culture, the way we respond to issues and so on, and how we're so easily deceived. So easily seduced. And obviously we are. And if that were not true, then we wouldn't find statistics telling us that for the past 25 years, the behavior of professing Christians in our country is very little different than that of their secular counterparts. That's been found both by Christian pollsters and also by non-Christian.

It's just amazing. It's painful to understand that. Now we have this word: Protestant churches closing. More Protestant churches closing than opening in America. Hmm. So what's happening? The smaller congregations are closing up and the mega-churches are taking over. So that being the case, are the mega-churches actually doing what the smaller churches did? No. They can't actually facilitate relationships. They can't facilitate... they might think they can and they try in some ways, but it's almost impossible.

People just go to church, but they're not the church. They just go. And the church is the building where you go. It's not the people of God. And so it's a very, you might say, a subtle shift, but from God's viewpoint, it's not very subtle. If you go back to the Book of Acts, chapter 2, you'll find that what's happening in today's churches is dramatically different than what happened in the early church. So what's the difference? How is it affecting us and preparing us for the coming of the Lord? And he's coming soon, he said.

Surely I come quickly. So you might want to seriously consider getting a copy of the book Seduction of the Saints because Jesus said to his disciples just before his crucifixion, he said, "Take heed that no man deceive you." It was the number one concern on his mind. Matthew chapter 24. "Take heed that no man deceive you." Then he didn't leave it there. A few verses later he said, "And by the way, many are going to come in my name and deceive many." So it's going to happen in the church. And then he went beyond that and he said, "Hey guys, you know, I don't know how to say this to you, but the deception is going to be so great that if it were possible, even the very remnant, small remnant, elect that are overcomers that are seeking to be obedient to my word, even they would be likely to be deceived, if it were possible."

Now, that's pretty serious. So the book Seduction of the Saints is a very important book to help God's people deal with the issues of our time. And I urge you to get a copy of it. Seduction of the Saints. It's an $18 book, yours for $15 on our website, saveus.org. Call us 1-800-SAVE-USA, 1-800-SAVE-USA. Write to us at Save America Ministries, P.O. Box 70879, Richmond, Virginia 23255. Again, writing a check add $6 for postage and handling.

Then came this headline: Unless families get more support, religions in America could face continued decline. Huh. Well, here's what they mean by that. Unless families get more support and fertility rates are increased among the faithful, religious communities in America could continue on the path toward terminal decline. Terminal decline. Now, that sounds pretty ominous, doesn't it? Terminal decline. Why? Because Christians aren't having children.

Christians are not having children. Now, the Muslims are having children, but the Christians are not having children. Why? Because we've become engaged in the culture of selfishness. We forgot that God said, "Replenish the earth." We forgot that marriage was designed not to make us happy, but to make us holy, and to reproduce humankind. That the purpose of families is about babies. It's about discipling. It's about becoming the people of God. And yet we're not becoming the people of God because, well, we're just deciding to prevent having babies.

Isn't that interesting? So it's almost kind of like a tacit rebellion against God as a creator. Terminal decline of religion because Christians are not having babies. Wow. And you know what? It's not just in America. In Russia, do you know that the problem is so severe in Russia that Vladimir Putin has promised couples $1,000 for every baby they produce? $1,000. Wow. Should we actually need that kind of support and encouragement?

Doesn't that seem artificial to you? Love is supposed to be productive. Supposed to produce after our kind, both spiritually and physically. Wow. So as the writer of this article says, we're rapidly heading into terminal decline. It's a kind of death. Religious death. The death of Christianity in America. Thanks for joining us, friends. This all may seem rather negative, but actually, it's not just negative. It's we're analyzing what's happening in our world, seeing it for what it really is. Not a Pollyanna view, seeing it for what it really is and saying, "Okay then, how should we then live?"

By the way, that's why today I just finished writing my 12th book, The Power to Overcome. Now we have to go through the process of editing and so on. Hopefully it will come out in about six months. The Power to Overcome. Look for it. Be prepared for it. You won't be disappointed. God bless. Become a partner. Sign up or give by faith, friends. Do it today.

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