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

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

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News, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 22 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 two of a two part episode. Part two features special guest Carl Thomas of XXX Church. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	by Faith. This is part two of our TV show episode that we did about addiction. Let's go to
0:36.9	Carl Thomas. He is from
0:38.3	triple Xchurch.com and then we'll go into my final segment, which is the addiction that
0:43.5	people have to the self. Welcome back to our special American addiction and the human condition.
0:55.4	It's an honor to talk to Carl Thomas.
0:57.5	He's the executive director of LiveFree Ministries and triplexchurch.com and author of the book
1:03.5	When Shame Gets Real.
1:05.8	Carl, good to talk to you, brother.
1:06.9	How are you?
1:08.1	I'm doing pretty good.
1:09.3	How are you?
1:13.4	Good, ma'am. Really good. So I used to be addicted to pornography broke that since I got married so how many years
1:18.3	I'm 13 years and then our kids are young they're off all under the age of nine
1:23.7	so I'm kind of in this gap here where I don't have my finger on the pulse of the
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