America's Addiction & The Human Condition (Part I)

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

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News, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Mike Slater confronts addiction not as a mere personal failing or isolated crisis, but as a profound expression of our shared human brokenness—our innate cravings for power, escape, approval, and false gods that play out in politics, culture, and the soul. Through a biblical lens, the show explores how these addictive patterns fuel national division, idolatrous ideologies, and spiritual bondage, while offering the redemptive hope of faith as the true path to freedom and sober allegiance to the Kingdom. This is part one of a two part episode. Part one features special guest author Arch Kennedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Politics by Faith.
0:02.1	Thanks for being here.
0:02.7	We just recorded our TV show, and it was great.
0:05.1	It was about addiction.
0:07.0	So I did my monologue about drugs, marijuana, in particular.
0:10.8	Then we went into Arch Kennedy, who talked about alcohol and same-sex attraction.
0:15.0	And then on part two, we talked with the executive director of XXXChurch.com about pornography addiction and then we wrap up with
0:22.6	what I think is maybe a core addiction and that is the addiction to the self. Everything in the
0:29.4	world is telling you to go back to you, into you, always thinking about you all the time. And it's like,
0:33.7	no, no, no, you're going to get out of yourself. Get it, right? Move away from you all the time.
0:38.4	And that's what will help you.
0:39.6	But anyway, we talk more about that in our final segments.
0:41.5	Let's do the monologue and Arch Kennedy in this first segment here.
0:52.6	America is the greatest country in the world.
0:54.5	Welcome to our special American Addiction and the Human Condition.
0:59.3	It's a great title, man.
1:00.7	American Addiction and the Human Condition.
1:03.2	Today's special is about addiction.
1:05.3	Your soul, something no one ever talks about these days,
1:09.3	your soul is either fed by the flesh or by the Holy Spirit.
1:16.0	Addiction is your soul feeding on the flesh and not letting its jaws off of it.
1:23.6	What do you think of when I say the word addiction?
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