857: AI and the Coming Spiritual Deception | Vicki Joy Anderson
The Confessionals
Merkel Media
4.6 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
What if AI isn’t just advancing… but quietly pulling you toward a point where you have to decide when to walk away?
Tony sits down with Vicki Joy Anderson to unpack the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence and the deeply personal reality of finding your “off ramp” before it’s too late. As AI moves from simple tools into AGI and eventually ASI, the conversation explores how technology could shift from convenience into something far more influential, even spiritual in nature. Vicki warns that the real danger isn’t just intelligence, but dependence, where AI begins to shape thoughts, relationships, and even replace prayer, devotion, and human connection. They discuss how each person’s threshold will be different, and why discernment matters more than ever as society speeds forward with no way to stop. From eerie real-world cases to the subtle ways AI is already integrating into daily life, the question becomes unavoidable: will you recognize your exit when you pass it, and will you have the strength to take it?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, before we get to this week's show, this is just your weekly reminder to please continue |
| 0:03.6 | to pray for my wife, Lindsay. She is battling breast cancer right now, and we're praying for |
| 0:08.0 | complete healing in Jesus' name. Thank you. Hey, guys, before we get to this week's episode, I want to let |
| 0:12.5 | you know we have a new movie, not a documentary, an actual movie streaming on Merkelfilms.com. |
| 0:19.5 | It is called the Sasquologist. So after today's |
| 0:22.5 | episode, go to Merkelfilms.com and check out the Sasquologist today. |
| 0:29.1 | This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill, but no one was supposed to |
| 0:34.2 | talk about it. I saw three long, boning fingers, |
| 0:39.3 | reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. |
| 0:46.3 | When he came over to me, |
| 0:49.3 | dude, he slithered over to me. |
| 0:58.9 | And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen and he starts running and firing up this giant with a giant move he's got a spear in one hand |
| 1:06.7 | and he's running really fast and spears Dan holds him up like this. |
| 1:12.4 | Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face, they basically decapitated. |
| 1:18.4 | Got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, when he got about 15 yards away from me, |
| 1:23.7 | I raised that 12 days and I blow this head on. |
| 1:27.0 | I feel something pulling at my leg, and I look over and there are two small gray entities pulling it. |
| 1:36.3 | And they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed. |
| 1:38.3 | I reached my hand into this bush, and I touch air. |
| 1:42.3 | Couldn't breathe, and it couldn't move |
| 1:44.2 | because I know I'm seeing |
| 1:45.7 | a monster. |
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