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This is a program planned by AI. I’m torn, because there are so many ways we could use AI to do better work… I don’t know if I want to do this, but here we go. The Todd Herman Show, produced by Grok:

GROK - Podcast Episode Outline: "Faith in the Fight: How Democrats and Republicans Weaponize Christianity for Power"

Episode Title: Faith in the Fight: How Democrats and Republicans Weaponize Christianity for PowerAir Date: Monday, November 17, 2025 (Recorded live from the studio on November 15)Host: [Your Host's Name], award-winning journalist and political commentator

Producer Notes: This episode unpacks the cynical ways both major U.S. parties invoke Christian faith to rally voters and justify policies in 2025's polarized landscape. With Trump's second term sparking debates over "Christian nationalism" via Project 2025 and Democrats countering with progressive "faith outreach" amid immigration raids and shutdown fallout, we'll highlight how scripture is twisted for electoral gain. Drawing on fresh polls, articles, and video clips, the show reveals the moral asymmetries and hypocrisies. Runtime: 50 minutes. Tone: Provocative yet balanced, blending outrage with nuance and guest debates. Music: Somber choral opener evoking hymns, shifting to urgent percussion for policy clashes.

Episode Structure & Script Teaser

1. Cold Open (0:00–3:00)Audio Hook: Montage of Trump's Bible-waving rally clips, Pelosi quoting St. Francis during the shutdown, and evangelical pastors endorsing deportations as "God's will."

2. Segment 1: The Polls – What Christians Really Think (and Vote) (3:00–12:00)
Focus: Dive into data showing stark divides: White evangelicals' lockstep GOP loyalty vs. Black Protestants' Democratic tilt, with independents disillusioned by both sides' faith pandering. Host reads synopses aloud, weaving in analysis on how parties exploit these splits.Key Talking Points:
  • White Christians (41% of voters) gave Trump 72% support in 2024, per PRRI, seeing him as "God-ordained" (60% of white evangelicals agree). Republicans leverage this for anti-abortion and immigration policies framed as "biblical mandates."
  • Black Protestants (83% for Harris) and Hispanic Catholics (50% Dem lean) prioritize social justice, which Democrats tie to "welcoming the stranger" (Matthew 25).
  • Overall, 25% of voters believe God picked Trump; Christian nationalism correlates perfectly with Trump votes in red states. But 62% oppose declaring the U.S. a "Christian nation," signaling backlash to GOP theocracy pushes.
Poll/SourceSynopsisLinkPRRI 2024 Post-Election American Values SurveyWhite Christians (41% of voters) backed Trump 72%, with 60% of white evangelicals believing God "ordained" his win; Black Protestants favored
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a program planned by AI. So I've been
playing around with this stuff and the title of the
program is that I came up with the seduction of AI.
Grock planned this show. And I'm really torn, I'll tell you,

(00:22):
because there are so many ways that we Alex and
I could use AI so that we could do better
work for you. Get out of the studio, go produce
some original content. I'd love that, man, I'd love to
stop being dude behind the desk. Love that even if
it was a cool desk. My wife got me. But

(00:43):
I don't know if I want to do this. And
a lot of other podcasts are doing it. They're firing producers,
they're they're they're firing team members, they're firing researchers, and man,
I don't know if I want to do this. So
you're about to hear a program that AI designed. Will
do this with the help of God Almighty and maybe

(01:05):
even asking forgiveness to God Almighty for even entertaining such
a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
But Todd Herman's show is one hundred percent disapproved by
big pharma technocrats in Tyrne's everywhere from the high mountains
of Free America. Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Today is the day the Lord has made in. These
are the times through which God has decided we shall live.
Here's how AI would have had it open. It would
have been a cold open, So the cold open would
have had an audio hook. A tense montage of twenty
twenty four election clips, Trump's inauguration, recent twenty twenty five headlines,

(01:57):
New York City Mayor Zaron Mundami's victory speech, Virginia Governor
Abigail Sparenberger's pragmatism of a partisanship line, and shut down protests.
And this is the host script AI wrote for me.
Now I gave it the prompt. I told Ai what
I wanted. I said, you're an expert podcast producer. You're
preparing a show for your host on Monday. The topic
is how the Democrats and Republican Party each use the

(02:21):
Christian faith to help them. So this is what they
would have me read the AI. Let's see if I
can do this teleprompter style. It's not fun of me.
I forgot to give this to Alex. It's November twenty
twenty five. In America's two party system is more fractured
and fascinating than ever, the Republicans hold the House and Congress,
but Democrats just swept key races in Virginia, New Jersey,

(02:43):
in New York City? Is the Trump backlash? Is this
the Trump backlash? Who've been waiting for or assigned the
parties are realigning around wealth, identity, and power. Today we're
breaking it down. It's gross. We're breaking it down, baby.
Now the Democrat Republican parties got here and where they're
clashing and what it means for you. Welcome to the

(03:04):
podcast name Todd Herman Show. I'm Todd Herman, and this
is Red versus Blue, Decoding the divide. So now we're
supposed to go through an historical evolution from a New
Deal to Trump and the focus is to trace the

(03:24):
party's ideological shifts, et cetera. And so we're to do
this from FDR's New Deal liberalism to today's progressive coalition.
Fifty one percent self identify as liver up from twenty
seven percent in twenty seventeen. Republicans from Eisenhower's moderate conservatism
to mega Dominans, with Trump flipping the party's base toward

(03:44):
working class voters. Key talking points Ready Democrats inward drift
embracing social warfare, regulation and identity politics post twenty sixteen,
Republicans right word pivot, prioritizing nash deregulation and cultural traditionalism
since Reagan, accelerated by Trump twenty twenty five twist post

(04:08):
twenty twenty four alignment. GOP gains two point four million registrations,
a net four point five million swing from twenty from
the Dems, but Dems rebound in urban centers and economic discontent.
Guest teaser historian, and we're supposed to a historian on here.
Historian Jake Paul on how the parties switched jerseys on

(04:29):
civil rights and economics over decades. Producers tip alexises for you,
use archival audio, FDR fireside chat versus Trump rally chants
for transitions. That's what worth to do. So that was
supposed to be the segment two, and we'll get to
some of the soundbites that polled, and we'll actually go

(04:49):
through the show. Not to make it super super boring,
but this is what AI said, and it's not what
it said to do. We're supposed to be using these
things to inform the show, so I could do a
better job, I guess because I'm torn on this. I
could do a better job of doing what the AI
told me to do. Go through some talking points. So
what about these Christians white Christians. Turns out that forty

(05:13):
one percent of white Christians is forty one percent of voters.
But white Christians forty one percent of voters gave Trump
seventy two percent support in twenty twenty four. This is
a pulling firm called PRPI, seeing him as God ordained.
Sixty percent of white evangelical voters agree that President Trump
is God Oderians, which is interesting, only sixty percent. God

(05:37):
allows all leaders. He allowed figurehead Biden to be what
he was. Nothing happens without God's consent. Mean he can
strike anything down. This maybe he likes it, doesn't mean
it's not come up and for us going our own way.
But of course God allows President Trump to be in power.
Many people believe he was saved by them by God's hand.

(05:58):
Republicans leverage this for anti abortion and immigration policies framed
as biblical mandates. That's the AI, and now, of course
that's ridiculous. The fact is that God is anti abortion.
I mean, reading the Christian Bible is very very very
clear and there's only one Bible. You shall not murder
as you treat the least of these, so you treat me.
It doesn't take much leverage to make being anti abortion

(06:23):
aligned with Christianity at all. So that's how the AI
wants us to talk about white voters. But how do
they want us to talk about black voters. I find
that interesting Black Protestants eighty three percent for Harrisills in
Hispanic Catholics fifty percent dem Leaning prioritize social justice, which
Democrats tie to welcoming this stranger in Matthew twenty five.

(06:47):
Now what's interesting here is even on groc which you
would assume would be a more fair AI given that
it comes out of Twitter and Elon Musk runs Twitter.
Note they're able to pull up Matthew twenty five for
the Democrat's position the kind of the sojourners. They weren't
able to pull anything up in terms of being anti
abortion or immigration policies. As biblical mandates Romans thirteen were

(07:14):
to obey the laws of the land and kings and magistrates,
right unless they violate the Word of God. There's your
border enforcement, you shall not murder, there's your anti abortion policy.
So even Grok doesn't get that. Now, maybe if I'd
said I'm a conservative host or a conservative Christian host,
maybe they would have pulled those things up. But I

(07:34):
don't know if I believe that AI is not artificial intelligence.
AI is code, and AI is informed through the ethics
the faith systems that exist within the Democrat Party because
Democrats run Silicon Valley leftists do. And again it should

(07:56):
be more fer at Grock. So the other thing that
they wanted me to say is overall, overall, twenty five
percent of voters believe God picks Trump. Christian nationalism correlates
perfectly with Trump's votes in red states, but sixty two
percent opposed declaring the US a Christian nation, signaling backlash
to GOP theocracy pushes. Again, this comes from Groc. Do

(08:18):
you see any theocracy pushes I do. Among some people
who aren't in office, I see people saying Jesus is Lord,
therefore we should be a Christian nation. Great. What does
that mean to me? It means a nation of people
converted to Jesus Christ, a nation of people who've repented
of their personal sins, who have gone with great sorrow

(08:42):
to God for having committed these personal sins and ask
for forgiveness and then accepted the Lord Jesus Christ first
of all in their heads, yes, he is the Lord
and savior. In their hearts, yes, my will is to
fall the Lord Jesus and then can infesting them with
their mouths. That's a Christian nation to me. But being

(09:04):
led by the top in a theocracy, that's anti Christian.
Why because Jesus himself never pursued that, never once to
pursue that. So if you look at all of what
AI wanted me to say, and you look at all
the research, and all this is in the show notes,
by the way, you can go click on the links.
This is what they pulled up. And it took this

(09:25):
AI thirty five seconds maybe forty maybe to create this
entire show outline. Now, if I'd gone through and done
research like I normally did to put together a show
like this with all these details, this show is probably
in terms of research, probably a half hour maybe, And

(09:47):
I've been doing this a long time, so if you
were new to this, this might be an hour or
two of research and posting it and formatting it. And
to be fair, I didn't make the AI format it
like we normally format shows because we have a template
we use. It's not a teleprompter, it's just where what
clip goes where. So dig further into what AI wanted

(10:08):
me to do and some of the video clips that
showed and polled. We'll get to that in a second.
You know, over this weekend, I was checking with my
friends it's port of art to Mexico, saying, hey, so
you know that whole thing in Mexico City and the
President of Mexico apparently working for the cartels, and are
you guys okay? And it got notes back from people saying, yeah,

(10:31):
it's so far away, We're fine. It's everything's normal here.
And I thought that was really really interesting. And then
one of my friends wrote back and from Mexico, I
love this, and he said, hey, how are you guys?
Post jan six? Kind of comparing these too. I think
it's more serious in Mexico City and these charges at
the President of Mexico is in ownership of the cartels,

(10:56):
but it seems localized to Mexico City. At this point.
Support of art is really sealed off from this. And secondly,
there's no secret that the cartels run parts of the
government there and the Mexican citizens get this, and can
I just point something out. Our cartels run our country.
Pharma helps run this country. We have cartels too, and

(11:19):
they're not as obviously violent as the cartels in Mexico,
but they run it. So this is my way of saying,
I understand people's caution right now about going to Mexico.
That's probably wise. I get that. But if your health
is in the balance and you're talking about surgery or
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(11:39):
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a rectile dysfunction. The stem cells there taken from donors,

(12:01):
so they understand the health profiles of these people. They
monitor the health of the women and the child during
pregnancy and afterwards. It's the exact opposite of the junk
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part of Mexico, which is port of Arta, and I
checked and they're not feeling the effects of this at all,

(12:22):
and they probably won't because Mexico has been there a
long time and these things have been happening in Mexico
a long time. It's renewed r E n ue dot healthcare.
So this is the show that AI created and what
it wanted me to talk about, and then it went
through this Support for Christian nationalism is the highest in
Missouri and Oklahoma at fifty one percent, and they say

(12:45):
it perfectly correlates with Trump votes. Sixty two percent nationally
opposed US as a Christian nation, exposedes GP's state level
theocracy push. This is an article that they suggested we
put in here a survey on Christian nationalists. Now, what
does Christian nationalism mean? I don't think people even know
what it means. Pure Research Center twenty twenty five, surveying

(13:06):
religion and politics. Fifty nine percent of Protestants lean GOP,
fifty percent of Catholics Republicans, up from an even split
sixty seven percent of Republicans want Bible influencing laws versus
thirty two percent of Democrats. Reveals parties faith appeals. GOP
pushes Christian morales and policies. Dems emphasize church state separation.

(13:28):
No they don't, No, they don't. They emphasize Christian church
state separation. They're integrating Islam into what they do. Look
at some of the major cities. Look at their push
to have Islamic people elected. Zara Madami poses as a moderate.

(13:51):
You think he is one. You think he's just posing.
Look at what's gone and in Texas Democrats hand in
hand with It's something like twenty eight new mosques in
Texas over the past couple of months. There's a city
there that was initially expressly just for Muslims. Now they've

(14:11):
stopped saying it's just for Muslims. Everybody just knows it's
just for Muslims. There's a post election analysis on American values.
So I said this, White Christians forty one percent Trump
voters back Trump. Sixty percent of white Evangelicals believe he's
God ordained. They say here in the II that this
highlights GP's divine mandate. Narrative versus Democrats, justice focused, but

(14:33):
only twenty five percent overall see God's hand in elections.
Well that's stupid because God's hand is in everything. But
this is how they would have me process through this
as the whole. So what we're supposed to do is
just show this to on the screen and here's what
the results were, and act as if this is all
very up and up. But I can't help myself but

(14:54):
ask questions like did they define what Christian nationalism means?
In segment three, the AI wanted us to go through
some focus points to talk about how Republicans use face
with faith with Nationalism Project twenty twenty five, and while
Democrats rebrand compassionate Christians on immigration and equality. So what

(15:15):
we're supposed to do here as a host is discuss
the synopsies contrasting the GP's moral restoration with the dems
perversion of Christianity critiques. And they give us some things
to talk about here, and they give us some articles
to go to the key talking points. The AI wanted
me to cover these GOP Project twenty twenty five as
a Christian nationalist fever dream redefining freedom by God not

(15:39):
Man to justify anti LGB so called T and Q
plus abortion bands. Okay, let's talk about that. Great, that's
a talking point. There is nothing redefining about saying God
designed man and woman. You can design this in his image,
male and female. He designed this. Nothing redefining there. There's

(16:00):
nothing about nationalist fervor in that. That's simply a reality
what the Bible says. Then there's the biological expression of
God's will. Men and women are distinctly different, all of
these so called trans women, these men pretending to be
women when they die, if their bodies are ever dug up,
archaeologists will look at that and go, that is the

(16:22):
skeleton of a male, and that is a skeleton of female.
It's not hard to tell from the very bone structure
up that's different. So there's nothing redefining there in abortion bands.
We've talked about this. You shall not murder as you
treat the least of these, so you treat me. On
the topic of same sex activity, again, no secret here.
Jesus Christ define marriage as being between one man and

(16:44):
one woman, and except for ongoing sexual perversion or adultery.
God hates divorce, and you're to be very very reluctant
to grant one. And it doesn't say a man shell
divorces life, or a wife shall divorce a husband in
the case of marital infidelity, it doesn't say that. It

(17:06):
says you can. It doesn't say you shall or you will.
In fact, if you're to follow the words of the
Lord Jesus were to forgive for will be forgiven in
the same way that we forgive others, he who grants
mercy shall receive it. That's a tough teaching when something
hurtful like that happens. When people choose to abide and

(17:27):
to follow Jesus in those cases and to forgive, they're
demonstrating that they see God's forgiveness of us because we
all sin. So on the DEMS, the talking points was
these In these articles, dem shift to faith outreach i e.
Pelosi Saint Francis invocation to counter Christian fascism, but accused

(17:48):
of ignoring biblical basics like life's sanctity true and anyone
who believes that Nancy Pelosi has any bone of Christianity
and her simply not paying attention. There's nothing in Nancy
Pelosi's recent or even distant paths to indicate that she
ever was an actual practicing Catholic. Then on the topics
of both the historical poisonous bargain since Reagan turning faith

(18:12):
into votes while eroding morals, an ex posts sixty one
nails it. Pastors must call out DEM's platform as detestable policies.
Now we're supposed to have a guest spot and a
historian to come on, for example, Christian Dumez to debate
a GOB strategist over whether DEM's Christian socialism or GPS

(18:33):
theocracy is the biggest threat. Isn't that fun? So this
is where we turn the cameras over. We'd have one
person in this square, one person this square to be
Hollywood squares. Gosh, I wonder what they'd say. I wonder
if during that debate, what of it might say, you
know what, I'd never thought of, that you're right. I'd

(18:54):
never thought of that you're absolutely right. And the other
person say, you know, I appreciate you saying that I've
been thinking about what you've said, and I have to
confess I love you. That's what happened, right, What happens
in these debates. My friend Joshua Travino told me about
this once. He was on MSNBC one single time once.

(19:18):
Then Josh was one of the smartest guys working in politics.
He's largely now taking himself out of national politics. He's
cleansed his social media. I don't even know if I'm
even friends with him anymore on social media. Got to
know him when I worked in DC, had dinner a
few times. I consider him still to be one of
the smartest guys going. Josh when he worked in DC
as a young on fire Republican strategist, he got invited

(19:40):
on MSNBC and he was sitting down in one of
their remote studios and he had the earpiece in his
ear and they had this guy who was good a debate,
and that guy just went on and said this, this
and this, and then the producer for MSNBC got in.
Josh's already said, man, Josh, he's really laying it to you.
He hits you hard. You need to come out swinging.
Here's the first thing you should say. And so Joshua

(20:03):
the commerce seame that Joshua go down or to Republican
strategust Josh Travino, Josh, you heard what this dude said,
what do you say? And just said, well, funny you ask,
because the producer just said, in my ear he had
something for me to say that it was supposed to
come out swinging, and he wanted me to say some line.
I'm not going to say that last time he was
ever invited on. So I wonder if AI knows that

(20:27):
those these things are largely scripted, that everybody knows what
everybody's going to say. Although's some things they link to.
It's something I'd never look at. I never would have
considered going to the Oregon State University for political analysis,
but they gave that to me. God in the voting
booth Our Religion shapes the politics of both Republicans and Democrats.
Daniel K. Williams OSU dot edu origins current events in

(20:51):
historical perspective. Editor's note, According to Thomas Jefferson, the First
Amendment to the US Constitution built a wall of separation
between church and state, but that doesn't mean politics haven't
brought religion into paul or really brought religion into politics.
In this essay, historian Daniel Williams details how both liberal
and conservative politicians have used Christianity to further their agendas.

(21:13):
In view of the decades long close alliance between the
Christian Rights and the Republican Party. It may not have
been a surprise when Donald President Donald J. Trump established
a White House Faith Office in February twenty twenty five
to assist faith based entities, community organizations, and houses of
worship and their efforts to strengthen American families, and entrusted

(21:33):
its oversight to his favorite television evangelist PAULA White Kine.
After all, the GOP's courtship of Christian voters has sometimes
been so overt that some have suggested that the Grandel
Party's acronym should stand for God's Own Party. But may
be surprising is that Democrat Party and American progressive movements
have also been just as strongly influenced by Christianity. Note

(21:54):
the twist influenced by see president Trump is using Democrats
are influenced. President Trump's choice to run that office is
in fact ridiculous. Paula White is a full on heretic,
full on, complete embarrassing heretic, and influenced by those See

(22:20):
the passive from William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold speech
at the eighteen ninety six Democratic National Convention to President
Joe Biden's frequent invocation of principles from his Catholic faith.
Democratic politicians have quoted scripture, appealed to the moral teachings
of Jesus, and brought their campaigns to the nation's churches,
just as Republicans has. Do you sense a difference here?

(22:43):
President Trump slapped together this office with this television pastor,
and Joe Biden talked about his Catholic faith, which is
linked by the way, and if you click that link,
you go over and look at his Catholic faith. Yeah,
President Trump or Biden really showed his Catholic faith in
everything he did right, like stealing, robbing, lording his power

(23:04):
of others, promoting abortion or all costs, transing kids chemically
and surgically, and trying to force parents to go along.
That says Catholic to me. It turns out that both
political parties have long identified God as a strong ally.
But this alliance doesn't mean that Republicans Democrats think of
God or religion in the same way. Instead, the two
parties have been drawn to different sets of Christian principles

(23:25):
that have appealed to very different Christian constituencies. If we
understand those differences, we better equip to understand the religious
origins of contemporary partisan polarization. And the article goes on
this way, and it goes back and forth, but it's
always appealing to the Democrats as people who are simply
kind of communicating their faith, whereas Republicans are using their faith,

(23:46):
particularly in a modern says not defensive AI. Really interesting source.
I never would have thought of that, So maybe that's
something I could use AI for. And interestingly, I see
that they're using a logo. They're using a logo my
team created. That's interesting. I haven't seen that logo in
a long time. That's interesting to see. One of the
other articles I suggested is from the Hill. Now you

(24:07):
know this is going to be unbiased, right, because nothing
from the Hill is ever biased. So the Hill is
a left leaning organization that the AI at Google recommended
that I use for sourcing. Here's the headline, America is
facing a threat of biblical portion pro portion the rise
of Christian nationalism. Maybe they can prove this to us.
This week brought two children reminders that despite America's constitutional

(24:28):
commitment to secular government, wait, it's what where is that?
Where's the where's the commitment to secular government. I mean,
I want government informed by Christianity, but not a theocracy.

(24:51):
Did we make that commitment? Huh, that's interesting. So this
week brought two chilling reminders that this fight America's constitutional
commitment secular government. No, it's just constitutional that doesn't exist.
There's no constitutional commitment to secular government. If you ran
a president and a vice president who happened to be

(25:13):
evangelical Christians, and had an evangelical Christian Speaker of the
House and an evangelical Senate majority leader of all the
same party, they would be free to appoint evangelical Christians
to run this or that cabinet, and they'd be free
to say, you know what, we're going to have everything
we do alignment the Bible. They'd be free to say that. Sure,

(25:34):
they'd get sued, but they'd be free to say that.
Christian nationalism is thriving in the Trump era. From the
Alabama Supreme Court stunningly thrughoucratic ruling on the status of embryos,
to the mega aligned groups designing Donald Trump's Christian nationalists
second term, it has never been clear that Republicans are
at war with their fundamental separation of church and state,

(25:54):
or with Thomas Jefferson's idea that he wrote in the
letter to a friend. That's another way to put it,
the theocratic ruling on the status of embryos. Let me
ask this in a biological sense, Name one time that
human life began without an embryo? Is there a time? So,

(26:20):
name one time that an embryo was created without first
joining a sperm in her neck? Okay, cloning of what
a human being created? How sperum and a neck joined.
There's your biology. So this is what Grock suggested for
me as one of my source documents. Now, certainly, certainly

(26:44):
there's going to be some things in here that criticize
the left right. Maybe it's from the weak. I'll show
you that in a second, because maybe that's where this happens.
Maybe that's where they question this. So I'll show you
that in just a second. Hey, there is something I've
been just dying to tell you. I haven't been allowed
to tell you this, And I learned about this last week,

(27:06):
and really frustrating, I had to record ads for national
radio on this. I didn't get to tell you about this.
But Angel Studios went and did what no one else
was willing to do in regard to Anthony Fauci. They've
created a movie called Thank You, Doctor Fauci, and it
goes way way back. It goes into the Wuhan Lab.

(27:30):
It looks way back into the creation of this virus,
and they've growt a conclusion that's interesting to me because
it's not one that I'd drawn, And that conclusion is
that we might have seen in COVID. What we might
have seen is an actual arms race between US and
China for the creation of biological warfare. Now that's interesting

(27:54):
to me because it's my perception and it seems to
be an indication to me of the history of this
that we were core ordinating with the Wuhan Lab to
create the COVID flu or rather to weaponize it because
it was already in the field, but to create these
injections that China didn't use. But award winning director named
Jenner first put together a cast of doctors, dissonant doctors, scientists,

(28:18):
government whistleblowers, intelligence whistleblowers, and they're going through and looking
all over the Fauci fingerprints on all this. And the
movie is called Thank You, Doctor Fauci, and it confronts
this chapter in history through which we're still living and
they're planning more of these things. Hollywood wouldn't do it,
CNN wouldn't do it, HBO documentaries won't touch it. Netflix

(28:41):
won't really touch it. They had a movie that made
doctor Fauci out to be a hero. This is a
must watch and a must support. Go to Angel dot
com slash Herman and join the Angel Guild today. When
you become a member, you can stream Thank You Doctor
Fauci right now and praise God, thank you Angel for
making this movie become part of the conversation that demands

(29:02):
tough accountability in filmmaking like this that the other studios
would not touch. This is a must watch. Go to
Angel dot com slash herman, join the guild today, stream
this movie immediately. It's called Thank You Doctor Fauci, Angel
dot com slash Herman, and thank you to Angel students
that we're trying to get someone on from the movie,
trying to get the director on, maybe some of the

(29:24):
people behind the film, but definitely trying to get the
director on to talk about this. Angel dot com slash Herman.
So let's see if the week maybe this is better
on us, maybe this is more fair to Republicans. Democrats
strategy to woo voters for twenty twenty six. Religion politicians
like Rob sand and James Tallerico have made a name

(29:45):
for themselves by pushing their faith. Which just over a
year to go until the twenty twenty six midterms, Democrats
are looking for new ways to win our voters at
the ballt box. One of their strategies is to push
a faith based agenda that's far more often associated with Conservatives.
This isn't the first time the Democrats have used religion
to their advantage. Former President Barack Obama made large gains

(30:05):
with the religious voters in two thousand and eight, but
his elections creep ever closer. Democrats are hoping to appeal
to religion will help make the contest a referendum against
conservative momentum. How are the Democrats using religion? This party
is testing whether church going, Bible quoting Democrats can connect
with voters and provide an early gauge of whether messages

(30:26):
rooted in spirituality will appeal to the party's base, said CNN.
This is especially noteworthy given the continuing demographic scus among parties.
Democrats are increasingly secular or growing shares who attend church
regily identify themselves as Republican. The trends come in part
as reaction to the Republicans using religious messages to advance
conservative positions and issues like so called gay rights and abortion.

(30:47):
CNN also said that's pretty much more fair. So who
are some of the Democrat candidates doing this? Two notable
names include Iowa politician Rob sand and Texas state Representative
James Tallerrico. The Georgia Senator Rafael Warnick, a pastor, is
another high profile figure. Let's just talk about these guys.
Raphael Warnick is a guy who divorced his ex wife

(31:08):
and in the process of divorcing her, ran over her
foot in the driveway trying to flee an interview. He's
a guy who, as a so called pastor, was also
part owner of a full on slum housing in states
of disrepair, completely unsafe. He's a guy who's a pastor

(31:29):
who stands adverse to every bit of the word of God.
James Talerico remember this guy. He was on Joe Rogan's
podcast and Tallerica got on and he really impressed Rogan
because Rogan's a little tiny baby Christian. So he didn't
understand that. When Tolerico said Jesus never talked about homosexuality,

(31:49):
taler Ico was telling it thinly veiled lie. Jesus came
to fulfill the law, not to destroy it. And when
Jesus saw fit to clarify the law, Jesus did that
because Jesus was in his God. So when Jesus clarified
the dietary laws, when Jesus overturned the tables in the
temple because they were being used to economically blackmail people

(32:11):
to get into the temple, Jesus has God acted in
a righteous way. But Jesus strengthened laws against perversion and
against acts on acting outside of God's will sexually. He
strengthened that when he said, you've heard it said a
man shall not kim an adultery. But I'm here to
tell you that a man who looks at a woman
with a lust in his eyes has already committed adultery.

(32:33):
He strengthened these things. So the week is a little
bit more fair in this and they try to be
a little bit more fair, which is great. So this
is Ai presenting a show to you, And the last
one they present comes from a source again, I never
would have considered the friendlyatheist dot com got it. Here's

(32:53):
the points on this, and I'm not even going to
give him a click. Republican Platform borrows from Project twenty
twenty five for quote Biblical Value US on abortion desk
LGBT ANDLGB so called T and Q ignores Church state
separation DEM's critique for not countering aggressively allowing GOP to
co opt Christianity. This is atheists saying Dems have allowed

(33:15):
the GOP to co opt Christianity by being biblically accurate.
Now this isn't in the prep sheet from the AI.
From groc can, I point out why USAID spent your
tax money to create false Christian churches. You see why, right,

(33:36):
Why go out and convert real Christian churches to your
false religion when you can steal money from taxpayers laundered
through USAID and fund one hundred percent of the activities
of false Christian churches that have no actual faith. They're
completely just stand up voter turn mechanisms, persuasion mechanisms for

(33:59):
the Democrat Party. That's why there's so many false churches
because the Democrats have used tax payer money to build
fake churches, fake Christian churches with fake doctrine. Somehow that's
not covered in any of this. I guess we're the
only ones who noticed that it wouldn't be complete if
we didn't have video. I asked the AI to create

(34:21):
a show, and I think I said six video clips.
I said I wanted me to create or wanted them
to pull. So here's some of the clips they chose.
So this is in their synopsis, Evangelical Breakdown, Geopeia Lignes
on life and gender, Dems Onjustice. This is Alan Parr.
Should Christians vote Democrats or Republican? This is a video

(34:42):
the AI polls and Alex put into the show.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Should a Christian vote Democrat or Republicans? And the reason
why I say that is because not everybody starts on
the fifty yard line, right, Let's be honest about it.
And the problem is that you have liberal Democrats who
are in favor of abortion. Then you have more conservative
Democrats who are not necessarily in favor of abortion, but
still vote for the party that is in favor of it.

(35:07):
Not many Democrats will criticize the Republican Party as only
being concerned about life in the womb, but not outside
of the womb. And now let's move on to this
issue of transitioning children. So I probably could need to do.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
A whole video on this one.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
All right. We need to be careful that our politics
don't overshadow our faith.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
All right.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
So you've come to the end of this video. I
know it's been a super long video, but I want to.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Share with you my Yeah, not super long, because we
ran an extract of it. That's what it recommended. It
pulled it from YouTube. So if this guy is asking
this question on Republicans and Republicans not caring about life afterwards, okay,
how well, of course, because we're in favor of cutting

(35:54):
snap benefits to whom to illegal immigrants? Why because they
broke the law and that shouldn't be rewarded. How can
you align that with Christian values? Uh, we're not to
break the law. He who will not work shall not eat.
See we can line this all. But Republicans don't get

(36:16):
this yet. If you're going to invoke the word of God,
invoke it completely. Don't tiptoe around these things. And Democrats
they care about life after the womb. How by pumping
kids full of wrong sex hormones surgeries that are going
to require constant follow ups, by allowing the cities to
fall into a gang infested, cartel owned areas of their

(36:39):
towns with insane murder rates, by making fentanyl freely available,
by defending the sexual trafficking of children and making it
a lesser crime in countries like California, all falls apart.
The AI didn't go this.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Now, I could have gone back to the AI and
said think harder. But you know, the question had asked
me if the want to make it more provocative, so
it could have I guess poured some more extreme things.
It also pulled this Grok decided that this is we
when of the videos we've run, this is Tim Malash.
Why would Christians vote Democrats.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
This year's Emmy's Awards, actor Mark Ruffalo took the opportunity
to make an appeal to American voters, and here's what
he said. How are we going to deal and honor
and take care of each other and our most vulnerable people.
We do that with love and compassion, and we do
that by fighting for them. And that's what we have

(37:36):
to do today. We have to come together with love
for each other. And if you have privilege, you have
to fight for those who are less fortunate and more vulnerable. Ruffalo,
known for his role as the Hulk in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe, captures the basic sentiment that animates many of
your Christian brothers and sisters to vote Democrat now. I

(37:58):
don't pretend to know every facet of a person's choice
to vote, but what I hope to do in this
short talk is to address several questions or points related
to the question why would Christians vote Democrat now? Mark
Ruffalo provides a good starting point, as the outlines several
values that are familiar to our Christian ears, values that

(38:18):
we could readily find scriptural support for. So why don't
we start there with the question is there a biblical
case to vote Democrat?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Now?

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Happily, this is perhaps the easiest part of my talk
because the simple answer is no, at least, there's not
a comprehensive, contextualized biblical case for voting for a particular
political party.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
What it goes on to say is that faith transcends politics.
It does. Faith overseas politics. It supersedes entirely our relationship
with God does. It's pretty fair, and that's an extract
of it. But can you see the difference. Right, the
left leaning one is very hip, very tiktoky. The right
leading one is very staid, very presented, kind of like
a dude behind a desk like me. Now see the

(39:02):
part of AI that's so seductive is I could do
this every day. In fact, there's a really interesting question
that the AI asked me at the end of this.
It was an offer. It made me so I could
do this. Alex and I right now could be let's say,
down at Washington State University where they decided to take
down that course on how to help kids who are

(39:24):
gendered as fork or gender rebellious without hormones and surgery
hours after it was posted. It was research for years.
Alex and I could be down at the Washington State
University Medical Center. We could be out there with a camera.
I could be interviewing people as they came out, and
I could be asking questions like this. I've been into
the Washington University or Washington State University and Medical Center,

(39:46):
and I told them I had a brain tumor. There's
not a single doctor in there who will remove my
brain tumor without making me go through a bunch of
insane tests. Can you explain to me how this is
allowed when I know I have a brain tumor. We
could be interviewing medical students and they said, wait a minute,
you can't you just think you have a brain humor? No,
I know, I know my body, don't you tell me?

(40:07):
And of course they wouldn't figure out that we were
talking about gender, and of course at some point we'd
come with the sucker punch. Well, but then how is
it that I could walk in there and say I'm
really a woman?

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Right?

Speaker 1 (40:16):
We could be producing content like that and bring it
back to you all while the AI is going through
and scraping the web for this. In fact, I could
probably set this up so that groc would do this
for me every day. I know there's AIS I could
do that with. I know I could pay a subscription
fee and every day Alex and I could walk in
and hey, here's the top news and it's been pulled,

(40:38):
and Alex and I could go out and produce maybe
like a mini film. We've been talking about doing that.
Something we've talked about film called Strong and Courageous. FAUP
A bunch of time. But every time I'm doing this,
I'm teaching AI something about myself. I don't think I
want to teach AI about myself, because you know what
else I could do. I could take every I could
take twenty five thirty one hundred show as we've done.

(41:01):
I could upload them into an AI and I could say, Hey,
this is the sort of work we do every single day.
I want you to prep a show for me, two
shows per day in the following formats. And I could
even teach it our show outline so that I wouldn't
ever need to do any more show research. Alex would
never need to pull another clip. We could just walk

(41:22):
in here and our day could be much much shorter.
And then what would I learn? I mean, the seductive
part of this would be it could get so good
that we could actually teach an AI to be me.
I wouldn't need to tell anybody just hey, produce a show.
Just make sure you change my T shirt every other day.

(41:43):
Think of the money we could make on that, because
our margins would go way up. We wouldn't need the studio,
we wouldn't need the gear, wouldn't need these lights, wouldn't
need to pay Alex would need to pay myself. That's
us seducted this stuff is. My friend Zach Abraham, chief
investment Bulwark Capital Manager, has been looking into AI and
what it's going to do, and man, it is going

(42:04):
to be a wrecking ball. It is already going after
some of the top intellectual jobs of the country. Matt
Walsh just this past weekend he says he wants a
ban on this because it's going to destroy every creative job.
And I know it's going after creative jobs. I think
it's going to be live shows that last. I think
it's going to be people who you can actually look
up on stage and say they're real until the robots

(42:25):
take over. Then they have robotic comedians a lot cheaper.
So my friend Zach Abraham has been looking at this
in relation to your retirement. How much time do you
have before this radical change destroys some of the big
investments you've made. On November twenty second, at three thirty Pacific,
Zach is doing a free live webinar about this. He's

(42:46):
going to talk about what AI did this year, what
it's likely to do next year, and at what point
our retirement funds are really really affected by this. He's
going to talk about why Bulwark right now is stressing
value investing, But what does that even mean right now?
Value investing? And of course Zac is always obsessed with
risk management. This is probably his most important free level

(43:06):
webinar He's done November twenty seconds at three thirty pacific.
This is free. All you have to do is register
to attend. So go to Know Your riskpodcast dot com.
By the way, let me correct the date. November twentieth
at three thirty Pacific. November twentieth at three thirty pacific,
So go to Know Your riskpodcast dot com. That's no
kanow Know Your riskpodcast dot com. Investment Advisors services off

(43:29):
through Trek Financial LC and SEC registered investment advisor. Investments
vol risk are not guaranteed past performance, dosn't guarantee future results.
Truck twenty five. That'sh three three eight. Few more clips
that the AI wanted us to run. This comes from
PBS because nothing says balance like PBS. Concerns grow over

(43:49):
ties between Christianity and right wing nationalism.

Speaker 5 (43:53):
A growing movement led by right wing politicians is increasingly
challenging a centuries old value of America's political system, the
separation of church and state. Laura Baron Lopez explores the
rise of this religious rhetoric and what it means for
November's midterm elections.

Speaker 6 (44:10):
On the ballot this November are a number of high
profile Republican candidates who are embracing Christian nationalist ideals. That's
a belief that America was founded by and for white
Christians and that the government.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Okay, would we get white? Sorry you said Christian nationalism?
How did the white get inserted? See that it's not
always the hand that possesses the rabbit.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
You need to watch should center its policies on those
religious beliefs. Take a listen to these Republican candidates facing
voters next month.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
You can call us extremists. You can call us domestic terrorists.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
You know who else was called a lot of names
this whole life.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
Jesus, I'm a Christian and I say it, Probably we
should be christianalists.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
The church is supposed to direct the government. The government
is not supposed to direct the church.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
So much for this myth of separation at church and state.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
When you look at our platform, it's the only platform
out there that recognizes the creator, that recognizes that we
have rights that supersede government.

Speaker 7 (45:19):
We need people all over the country to be willing
to put on that full armor of God to stand
firm against the left schemes. You'll be met with flaming arrows,
but the shield the faith will stop them.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Know this, When you take someone's statement and you take
ten seconds of it, you're not getting the full story.
You know that the church is supposed to direct the government.
How by seizing control, no, by informing the votes to
the people who are there. If you're an elected official
and you are a Christian, then the first thing that

(45:55):
should inform your votes is is it a godly vote?
How do you know that? Because you read the Bible
as you read it in full context, because you study it,
because you'd send time with Christians more mature than yourself,
because you've made yourself accountable to church elders who lead
your church, because you seek the wise counsel of people
who are more mature in the faith, who've studied it longer,
have abided longer. In that way, yes, the church should

(46:17):
direct the government. The Church, meaning the Body of Christ,
that should be our goal. That's not Christian nationalism. You
cannot have a theocracy and be a Christian because Jesus
never modeled that. But this is again from PBS. Now,
of course, they never go into the various religions of
the left. At no point here do they take secularism

(46:37):
and make it into what has become a religion, such
as the worship of doctor Fauci, the worship of science itself,
the worship of the planets, not the creator, but the planets,
the rocks, the sun, et cetera. New pagotism. None of
that's in here. So this is meding get through all
of it. But this is part of the show that
AI told us to do. Can you understand the seduction

(46:59):
of it? Yes, I mean I could fine tune this.
I could go back to grok and say this is
like this clip from PBS is trash. Give me something
more balanced. I could go back and correct this. But
one of the things that asked me was do you
want it to be more provocative? So I could say, yeah,
make it more. Then there's also this at the end

(47:23):
of our engagement together me and the computer code named
groc it came back and asked me a question or
made an offer for me. And this is the part
that should frighten people who are in the production business.
Need full scripts or clip edits hit me up. So

(47:44):
I could go back to GROC and say, yeah, could
you edit these clips down that just highlights. Could you
create a script with cues? Could you just write the
show for me? Could you write an entire script. I
could go back and tell it this is some monologue.
There's going to be needy guests, so just present this

(48:06):
to me in a telepromptor form something I could sit
down and read. Hey, that would make me just like
the mock andbird media people who sit down and read
from computer screens for a living. But at least in
that case it comes from human beings. I'm unlikely to
use AI in that sense. Maybe for research, maybe for

(48:26):
polling clips. But the last thing I'd want to do
is have a show that's created by something that is
not me, something that is disingenuous. It's a lie. We
might have AI written articles on a substack, but if
I do, it's going to say written by AI. I
don't need to do that. I do think there should
be some laws. One law is, any media created by

(48:48):
AI should say created by AI. Any article done by
AI should say created by AI. Anything that is AI
at all should say that. Otherwise it's a lie. And
that's the lie that Silicon Valley hopes to jump on
top of as they make human beings disappear into the background,
because human beings are annoying and refuse sometimes to be

(49:13):
led by the smartest people in the world. This is
the Todd Hermann Show. Please go, be well, be strong,
be kind, and please make every effort to walk in
the light of Christ.
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