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All right, welcome to a new week of the Daily Blade. So there seems to be a new crisis every day, right? So if you open up your Instagram or if you open up Twitter or you go to the news or something like that, there's some sort of environmental crisis or maybe the newest crisis is gas prices or, oh my gosh, immigration. And oh, we have wars and rumors of wars so there are plenty of

crises to go around but since the latter part of last year i've spent a lot of time thinking about

one of the worst crises plaguing humanity right now and it's this a crisis of discernment

a crisis of discernment and what i mean by that is we are existing in a time

with so much information and so much confusion with that information. A lot of it driven by

algorithms and all the way up to intervention by foreign actors. And it's actually wreaking havoc

on the minds of people in modernity. And with the coming ubiquity of things like

artificial intelligence, coupled with quantum computing, I only see this issue getting worse,

way worse, actually. And look, Christians aren't immune to this at all. In fact, my contention is

that the crisis of discernment is affecting Christians in a much deeper way than it is everybody

else. And that's because we live

in a time in history, thank God, where access to the Word of God has never been easier. We have

free and cheap Bibles all over the place. We've got free Bible apps. We got Bible websites. We got

auto-translate programs and apps so we can even read the word of God in our own native language,

even if we have an obscure language that we speak. And yet, even though Christians around the

globe, and especially in the West, have more access to the Bible than ever before, we're reading

it less and less. And there are a lot of reasons for this. There are people that think, hey, we don't

need to read the Bible for ourselves because we go to church occasionally. We don't need to read the Bible for

ourselves because our pastor does, right? We don't need to read the Bible for ourselves because

we listen to Christian podcasts, because we've read it before, right? You know, we know what it says,

and because we at least sometimes read it and try to

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