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Oct. 10, 2026

Faith, Freedom, and the Responsibility to Pay Attention

Faith, Freedom, and the Responsibility to Pay Attention

Everybody Looks What's Goin Down

How well do you know the people asking for your vote—and the ideas shaping the next generation? In this departure from my usual Feeding My Faith episode, I challenge you to look beyond headlines, campaign promises, and social media talking points. Beginning with Romans 1:22, I share my concerns about political ideology, religious extremism, and America’s future—and explore what it means to exercise discernment when faith and politics collide.

In This Episode

I share my perspective on:

  • The Democratic Socialists of America and why I believe voters should examine candidates’ policy proposals more closely.
  • Social media, influencers, and the role belonging can play in shaping young people’s political beliefs.
  • The distinction I draw between peaceful Muslim believers and radical Islamist movements.
  • Immigration, assimilation, religious liberty, and the relationship between religious beliefs and constitutional government.
  • Reports of child exploitation in the United Kingdom and my concerns about institutional accountability.
  • How political figures use Scripture—and why we should examine the conclusions attached to biblical language.
  • The importance of researching local, state, and national candidates rather than relying on party labels.

Scripture Referenced

Romans 1:22

“Claiming to be wise, they became fools.”

This verse frames my challenge to question confident claims, examine what people actually advocate, and consider whether persuasive language reflects wisdom.

My Challenge to You

Know who represents you. Read candidates’ platforms, examine their public statements, and investigate the policies they support. I close this episode by encouraging you to take personal responsibility for understanding your government and making informed voting decisions.

About This Episode

This episode contains my political commentary and discussion of terrorism, war, and child sexual exploitation. I reference statistics, quotations, and accounts from several commentators and videos. These show notes summarize my views; they do not independently verify the claims discussed in the episode.

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Dave Jackson

Today we're going to talk a little bit about the us it's not your typical uplifting kind of talk, but nonetheless, we really need to know what's going on around the world, because what happens around the world usually ends up at our doorstep.And we need to make some changes if we're going to keep our country.

AI Sinnger

Feeding my faith.Well, God's word is made simple.Yeah.

Dave Jackson

All right, this is gonna be a different kind of talk.And I guess we'll start off with some scripture.This is from Romans 1:22.And I love this verse.This got me through a lot of junior high claiming to be wise.They became fools.And so the first thing I want to talk about, and I didn't even realize this was a thing, and that's kind of what inspired this, because I'm going to guess you don't know a lot of these things.I spent a lot of time researching this, and that is the Democratic Socialists of America.Because I know they're like Nazis in America, I know they're communists in America.And when I heard about the Democratic Socialists of America, I was like, yeah, that's one of those things that'll never amount to anything.But here's the thing.This is from.And all this stuff, none of this is hidden behind a paywall or secret code.This is all way out in, in the open.And so in the Democratic Socialists of America, we're going to call that the dsa.They say you work as much as you are able and no more than needed.Now the interesting thing, Karl Marx, who co authored the Communist Manifesto, had something very similar.He said, for each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.And so there are a lot of people that communist sounds great.You don't have to do anything.Everything is free, you know.And Mayor Mandani in New York City has an assistant, Sia Weaver.And she said, and again, this is out in the open.If you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize private property, it's over.She also said, and again, I'm not making this up, impoverish the white middle class.She also said, again, we need to elect more communists.And it was just interesting.When you look at the dsa, they're talking about seizing all properties from landlords.And then inside the dsa, there's another group called the Marxist UN Unity Group.And it says our commitment is to the long term struggle for a fully liberated, classless society.In a word, communism.That's a quote.That's a quote.And again, Classless.They hate billionaires.You know, everybody's going to have the same thing.It's all going to be fair.Okay.They also want to.And again, this is from the dsa.They want to redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system.I don't know where you guys live.Not a great idea.And by Public Systems do we need like, as I recorded this this week, a tape came out from a shooting from three years ago where a six year old, a six year old boy shot his first grade teacher.Now she lives.She lives with a bullet in her chest.But the video came out and he's sitting there with the cops dropping F bombs like he's in Goodfellas.And the reading assistant asks him, did you hurt yourself when you shot your teacher?And I'm like, I don't think that's the right response for that.But he's just.It was.That's a whole other podcast.Uh, some other things.They want to replace the President and the Supreme Court, better known as 2/3 of our actual government.And they want to replace it with an executive and judiciary chosen by an subordinate to Congress.Sure.Just, you know, it's funny how they talk about so many things are sacred, but not the actual way we run our government.There was a again, DSA candidate in Wisconsin.Her name was Francesca Hong and she sounds like a beauty pageant contestant.That's about 13.This is a quote.I think that my perfect world would be a world without prisons.Right.Because we all see the humanity in one another and then we know nobody's disposable.What world are you living in?Recently, two Democratic congressmen put this out.They said in public, we are capitalists, not socialists.We want safety, not lawlessness.We are proud, not ashamed of America.And it's weird to think that they had to think about saying that in public.The fun thing is we have 212 congressmen and women and a whopping eight had the courage to sign that.Yeah, we're not ashamed of America.Here's some more quotes again.Seize the means of production.That's something that Mayor Mamdani also said.Uh, here's another quote from this person.I forgot my napkin, so I used the American flag.Uh, also she said, fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.Civilization.And she deleted a message.But honey, the Internet writes in ink.So somebody got it and it says, she says, yes, literally, abolish the border.Who is this?I'm going to butcher her name.Darieliza Avila Chavalier.Who is she?She was just elected Congresswoman of the 13th District of New York.So congratulations, we have somebody in Congress who really hates the United States of America.And you might be thinking, wait, how, how are we voting communists into our government?How does this work?Well, it's, it's actually Fairly simple.Number one, if you're older than 20 right now, you're like, what?If you're under 20, you have to think about this because what they're doing is they are playing the long game here, the long game.And they're going after our young people 10 to 24 and they're convincing them that the US is awful.To the point where it's like, you know, that whole 911 thing.Yeah, we probably had it coming because we're just awful.20% Of Gen Z holds a positive view of Osama Bin laden and only 41% of Harvard youth say that they are proud to be an American.And for me it just feels like they're over sensitized and under educated.They just don't know what's going on.Then if you can, you'll get some influencers to spread the propaganda.Did you hear about the guy named Macklemore?He said, and this is a guy that's like Free Palestine, F Israel, giant bold letters.And he gets, you know, thousands of kids to cheer him on.And he's, this is what he said because somebody said, well, do you, do you know what you're talking about?He said, I know enough that that is genocide.So we'd like to give Mr. Macklemore a little math lesson here because right now, and look, war is horrible, killing people is horrible.But right now 73,000 people have died in Gaza.That is 3% of the population.If you look at Poland before World War II, there were 3 million Jews in Poland and after the war there were 45,000.That means, I did the math, 98.5% of the Jews in Poland were dead.That is genocide.Then the other thing you can do to the young people to get them to go out and protest for your cause, etc.Is you give them a community.It's kind of weird that they always say there was your home, your work, and then the third place, the place you went to go hang there kind of isn't one anymore, partly due to the fact that everybody has a phone so you can't go out dancing because you're going to end up on the Internet.So you give them a community where they all belong and there's A Jewish guy on Facebook that interviews people at Palestinian protests.They're like, yay, we're pro Palestine.And he's, like, asking them to explain why they're out there.And most of the people don't know.They're just doing it.And they repeat the same rhetoric that somebody else said.And so what's interesting is the DSA is now slowly being tied to radical Islamists.And so it's the case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend.And so, look, first things first.I grew up, one of my biggest heroes was Muhammad Ali, who was a Muslim.And we'll talk about the fact that they're not all bad.Well, that's true.But I saw this video by a guy named Tommy Robinson.He's out of the uk, who has gone to jail for saying some of this stuff out loud in the uk.We'll talk about that.And look, when it comes to the Middle east, it's a mess.It's been a mess forever.In looking at the history of Israel, I didn't see them killing civilians for no apparent reason, but I just watched a really horrible documentary about October 7, 2023, where, you know, 1200 people were killed and 200 plus were taken as hostages, in fact.And again, I'm not saying Israel is great.They've done some really horrendous things as well.But people talk about how Israel is so bad.Well, they actually won the Gaza Strip in a war and then gave it back to them.People say Israel is starving people, and the truth is Hamas is stealing it.Israel sent more than 94,000 trucks carrying over 1.8 million tons of aid to that territory.It's not making it to the people there because of Hamas.In fact, Israel actually enabled over 36,000 patients to leave Gaza for treatment abroad.That doesn't sound like somebody.Something you do for people you're trying to genocide.But here's the thing about radical Islam, and somebody made a great point when 9, 11 happened here in the U.S. there were 2.3 million Muslims in the U.S. and we didn't seem to have a problem.But there were 19 hijackers that took down those towers.It's not the peaceful ones.It's the radical ones.And it only took 19 to take down the towers.And we kind of.I live in Ohio.We have a large Amish community.And there are a lot of times when we're like, oh, Islam is just this little harmless religion.And they kind of want you to think that.But if you dig into the religion, you'll see it's a government where they have all these different departments and you're like, that's not a religion, that's a government.And they kept talking about Sharia law.And when I looked into that, the Quran and all that, they say Sharia law is for all of mankind.And when I mean all.I mean every single human on the planet.And it is above everything, everything.So if we were to be taken over, the first thing it would go would be the constitution.And in 1990, a bunch of countries signed a human rights kind of agreement that this is what we agree on.Except, of course, you know, yeah, the Palestines, they were Palestinians, they wanted to sign a thing in Cairo about human rights where they said, we will agree to any human rights that are mentioned in, you know, basically Sharia law that follow Sharia law.And then you'll.We've heard about jihad's.That's holy fighting.Well, it is ordained and it's kind of somewhat mandatory.And those.There's a lot about immigrating to different places, but Muhammad immigrated to different cities and towns.And they say if you immigrate and fight and die, your sins will be wiped away.And what was funny in a way is again, New York City Mayor Mondani, he mentions Muhammad's migration.He.He did kind of forget to tell the part where he then later slaughtered everyone.So that was kind of interesting that he just left that out.But speaking of migration, and this is what caught my eye, that I was like, I don't think people know this is going on in Europe.They had 500,000 Muslims in the year 2000.That number is not 500,000 now.It's 50 million.And since 1997, there has been more migration into the UK than in the previous 1500 years combined.And when he was around, Muammar Gaddafi predicted that Muslims would take over Europe without lifting a sword.And so here's the plan.How would they do that?It's easy.You move, right?Migration is part of your thing that you do and you have more babies.The average US person has like 1.3.The average Muslim has 3.1.It's a numbers game.And eventually they will outnumber us and they will take over.And what's interesting is because we keep calling them a religion, they have freedom of religion and freedom of speech.And so we're not going to stop them, which is kind of weird.But again, this is in an online video of links in the show notes.And this is at a mosque and some guy is talking and he's a leader.I don't know his name, the audio wasn't great.But he said change is coming to America.You, meaning the Muslims are the best of nations.You are better than everybody else.That's what Allah is saying.Let's work towards that.Let's work towards the Muslim mayor.Next election that comes in, nominate people for the school board of education.Next election that comes here, nominate people for the local township, begin the demographic change.He says people are converted.That's big.Huge conversion is going on in this country.But where are the converts?They just convert and they're gone into the wilderness.And so yeah, Muslims are having 3.4 children where American has basically one per family.And it's interesting because for Muslim, these are not just babies being born in hospitals, they are voters.And I saw a clip from Joe Rogan with Dr. Grad, I guess it's just Saad S aad and he has been studying all this and he said, Look, 0 to 2% of your population that's described as a quiet exotic minority, but when you have three to five, it's characterized as a phase where the population becomes significantly more engaged in the political process.And when you have a population that's 6 to 10% Muslim, that's associated with the development of Sharia no go zones.So they'll be like your dog isn't allowed here.Or areas where local norms are challenged or replaced by different standards.So this is happening right now in Britain, in France.France right now, half of it's on fire.You got people that are.It's weird what we're getting reported on that we have students that are complaining and they're setting things on fire because there's no air conditioning in their school.But it's all about convincing our young people again that you are being oppressed.I'm being oppressed.For those of you that love Monty Python and that we must overthrow, they're holding you down, you're feeling oppressed and that again builds that community.I'm oppressed too, but all those percentages.And I watched another documentary by Bill O'Reilly who was talking about London.He said it's now 15% Muslim.And when I looked at, there was a video called the Immigration Crisis by Nick, I believe it's Freitas, might be Freitas.And they said since 1997 there's been more migration into the UK like I said, more than 1500 years.The past 1500 years combined and 2024 estimates suggest that the foreign born population in Britain is roughly up 19%.Again, it's the numbers game.And the other thing that happened is Boris Yeltsin, from 21, 2021 to 2024, he basically let in 4.8 million.And while that was happening, and this is where things changed very quickly.330,000 People said, I am out of here, and went to Australia or Canada or wherever.And what does that leave you with?Well, now, Parliament, those meetings, you know, their government, they are open with a Muslim prayer.Yep.Let's look at the US border.There were basically 400,000 encounters at the border the year before Biden took office.Now, the next year, there were 1,659,206.That is a 76% increase.In fact, during the whole Biden administration, 10 million people imported.And why?Who cares, Dave?Well, here's the thing.If we look at what's going on in Europe, and this is where things get really scary, especially because if you say anything again, remember, they're being oppressed.We're a special religious group, don't pick on us.And so if you say anything like, oh, well, this is, you know, this is a hate crime, this is discrimination, this is, you're a racist.But there are these things called grooming gangs.And we'll get into this, but it's super scary.But when I was listening to the one about the immigration crisis, 55 towns in the UK and different cities have been identified as sites for industrial child sexual exploitation.That's a lot of towns, that's a lot of cities.Bill O'Reilly, when he was in London, was talking about this and said, it's up to 250,000 victims.That's your daughter.It's crazy.And this again is from Tommy Robinson.And he said, Muslim men, while they represent roughly 3% of the UK population, are responsible for 90% of the convictions of groups of men who rape children.This is happening in Telford.That's a small city in the UK.He notes that the police identified 20% of the Muslim male population as perpetrators of grooming and abuse.In one of the documentaries I watched, they asked a. I think he was Palestine.And they said, what's the difference between rape and sexual?And he said, rape is sex.Like, there was no difference.But how are these young girls getting raped?Like, are they just taking and grabbing them?Nope.Tommy, the guy, I was talking about his daughter, or I'm sorry, not his daughter, his cousin was raped at the age of 13.And so what he is saying is basically young girls.So we're talking 10 to 13 or whatever.And these guys often, but not all are drug dealers.So they got really expensive cars and things like that.And they will get them alcohol, they will get them cigarettes, they might get them free Lyft rides because everybody they know is a Lyft driver.And they tell them, look, you're a big girl now, you don't need to listen to your parents.So they slowly isolate them from their parents.And the young girl thinks this guy's great.Look, I'm riding around in his sports car, I'm drinking and smoking.I'm a big girl now.And then they separate them from their friends.You don't need them, listen to us.And then they take them to a house where they're basically gang raped and kidnapped.And the one when they were in the uk, they were talking again to Tommy and Tommy said there were six fathers that got together to steal their daughters back.And they went over to this house.And the part that you go, what?They were arrested because as you might imagine, the guys that were holding them captive just didn't go, oh, there they are, take them.So there were some fisticuffs going on.They were arrested and the girls stayed there.And a lot of this is because the governments, including the police, don't want to be called racist.They don't want to be called Islamophobes.And so what this boils down to is assimilation.And look, when people migrate here, bring your food, bring your music, bring your culture.But you came to America, you left your country for a reason, and now you're coming here to be an American.Not to completely whitewash all of your, and that's, it's kind of a pun, but not really.We're not trying to make you forget all of your culture.Bring your culture.But you're going to have to adapt to being an American.And there are rules for that.I mean, in the early days, the immigrants were European, they were Chinese, they were Japanese, in some cases they were Irish.And there wasn't a huge difference culturally.Right?They could assimilate.Well, in Germany there were 39,000 Japanese immigrants.They were admitted into Germany and they had four violent offenses.They let in 25,000.So a smaller number, 25,000 Algerians, were admitted to Germany and they had 1,794 violent offenses.And that's what kind of this whole video was about.Like we're noticing a pattern here in Germany, 54% of the rapes were committed by Muslims, despite them making up 10% of the population.And Tommy also claims that in Paris, 76% of rapes last year were committed by Muslims.And he mentions that in U.S. swing states, immigration increased by 700,000%.That's crazy.And it's always kind of weird that, like, why did all these immigrants end up in Minnesota?Why did they end up in Michigan?Why are they in Dallas?They're all, you know, bringing in together and then they're dispersing.It said that 63% of murders in the US last year were committed by illegal immigrants.And so this is where.Well, we'll get to this in a second.But what's also interesting in the UK is they're starting to squelch free speech.In fact, there are now laws limiting your comments about things like immigration, about Islam, about women's rights.And there are people that are going to jail for, you know, and they're granted.There are people that are like, burn them all.Burn down the whole.No, no, you can't advocate violence.But if you were to question something.Now, the other thing people do to kind of keep us so that we're not noticing the change.One I noticed is they now refer to pregnant people.Now call me weird.I call those women yes.So when somebody says yes and they were pregnant, I'm pretty safe to assume that's a woman.Now the other thing that you don't notice is it used to be if you were filling out a form, you could put in your sex and now, of course, it's your gender.On TikTok, they refer to Hamas not as terrorists.They're a liberation movement.And if you have again, a young kid from 10 to 22 somehow grab their phone and delete the TikTok app.Because a lot of this propaganda is coming through social media and they just see it so much and all their friends see it and they all believe it because they're not smart enough to go do a little research and learn a little history.But they actually say avoid using the word terrorism or terrorist unless it's in a quote by a source, as the words are emotionally and politically loaded.It's a word the Canadian broadcast, their new staff were told to not refer to September 11th attracts as terrorist attacks.That's crazy.They said the word terrorist itself, this is from the BBC.The word terrorist itself can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding.You know what else is a barrier to understanding?Bill Maher said this.Lying.Lying is a barrier to understanding because terrorism is the intentional use of violence by non state actors against civilians in pursuit of political or ideological objectives.That's terrorism.Not a scary word.It's a scary act.But Josh Howard is a pastor, and there is a guy, he's the Democratic state legislature, and he's been going around on different shows and such.His name is, I guess, James Talarico.And what he's really good at is mixing in some Bible stuff and then pointing it at something to where you go, well, yeah, and it gets you agreeing with something that is not at all right.Again, it's propaganda.And so an example that James might say is scripture tells us that we can't love God and hate other people.And you kind of go, well, yeah, you can't love God and abuse the immigrant.You can't love God and oppress the poor.You can't love God and bully the outcasts.And so you can kind of see where people go, yeah, who's going to disagree with that?But that's not what we're doing.That's the problem.We're not bullying the outcast.He says enforcing immigration laws is not abusing the immigrant.There are plenty of legal ways to come into the country.Opposing socialism at the state level is not oppressing the poor, oppressing transgenderism and the legislation of queer theory is not bullying the outcasts.He said, here he goes, if you want to to see an example of this.He goes, I'll use the same thing and just switch it around.He said, you can't love God and advocate for Max boosting infant murder.He says, you can't love God and redefine marriage that God designed.You can't love God and change God's identity by saying God is non binary.It says, you can't love God and legislate national sin against God's commands.You can't love God and tell people he made white that they must repent from their whiteness.You can't love God and call teaching his word to children deeply immoral.You can't love God and tell people things that if they believe, it will send them to an eternity apart from God in hell.Romans 1:22, claiming to be wise, they became fools.But if you look at this, and this is where my logical brain kind of kicks in, this could very easily be a numbers game.And I'm not sure what the solution is.I know before I was born there was a communist issue and we were just basically sending them out of the country.But communism wasn't a religion.And I'm not sure how we're going to pull back the curtain and go I know you say your religion, but you're not assimilating.You came here not to become an American, but to actually plot.And again, so many people out in the open, they're like, yeah, we're here to demolish the West.Like, they're not shy about it.And I guess we think that all the nonviolent Muslims are going to get these people in check.Well, that's not working.So it makes me sound like I am Islamophobic.But a phobia is a fear of something that isn't really like arachnophobia.It's a fear of spiders.Okay, well that's, that's a mental thing.It's not really true.You don't have to be afraid of a spider.But if you see people who escaped Hamas and they talk about what really happens, you'll be amazed.I'm always amazed when it's lesbians for Palestine.And I'm like, you do realize if you lived in Gaza, you'd be dead.Because again, they are under educated and over sensitized and they are just trying to fit in with everybody else saying the nonsense.It is crazy.So I say this not to be Islamophobe.I am a little worried about again, radical Islam, but we have to be careful with our country and we've got an election coming up, so make sure you're not voting for a communist.Look into it.And this is, it's sad, I hate this, but we have to be our own journalists now and look into who we're voting for, what are their beliefs, etc.Etc.Which I realize if I am a Muslim, I'm like, wait a minute, you just said the Muslims are going to vote for the Muslims and now you're advocating that the Christians vote for Christians.Nope, I'm just saying because Muslims don't want to assimilate.Make sure you have someone who, I don't know, doesn't hate America as your congressperson.It's a novel idea.I know.Maybe have somebody who doesn't wipe their hands on the flag.The other thing that I found interesting in Michigan, because they did that plan, the local government went in and it's now as soon as the majority of the council or whatever it was, and they were ushered in by people that are progressive and we're going to coexist and everyone come in.And as soon as, as the city in Michigan had a majority Muslim, the first thing they did was get rid of the gay flag on the building.Which as you might imagine, the progressive people were not happy with.But again, there was a quote from the president of Turkey, and I am going to paraphrase it, but he said, democracy is like a train, a public train that you ride long enough to get you where you want to go and then you get off.And that's kind of what they're doing.And so my goal is to say, hey, you might want to do some research on what's going on in your local government, your state government and your national government and really get to know who is representing you in your government.Thanks so much for listening.I'm Dave Jackson.This has been feeding my faith.Take care.

AI Sinnger

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