Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news today. We bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. Two things. I need more of. There's new headlines every single day, but Ecclesiasties says there's nothing new one in the sun. So thanks to being here to get the true story. And the story of the day, political anger turned violent. What do we do about this?

Before we get to that main story of the day, quick sidebar story,

the host of the White House correspondent's dinner the other day that was supposed to happen

was this guy, he's a mentalist.

Oz Perlman.

He got a lot of attention a couple months ago because he was on the Joe Rogan podcast and he guessed Joe Rogan's pin number. Now, I just want to be very clear, that's not a real thing. He can't read people's minds. He's an entertainer. It's a good one. He's good at it. But it's all just a trick. As Penantella used to say, there's no magic here. We're not like making things appear out of nothing. It's not, it's just an illusion. And your job is to figure out how we tricked you. And I appreciate Penantella for having that approach to their show. But Osprel is very good at mentalist stuff,

so make sure you don't get sucked into that

thinking that he can actually read minds.

And I just read this the other day.

This is from T.S. Eliot in his poem, Dry Salwages.

He said, to communicate with Mars, converse with spirits,

to report the behavior of the sea monster,

describe the horoscope, horoscubate or scry,

observe disease in signatures, evoke biography from the wrinkles of the palm, and tragedy

from fingers, release omens by sortilage or tea leaves, riddle the inevitable with playing cards,

fiddle and with pentagrams or barbituric

acids or dissect the recurrent image with pre-conscious terrors to explore the womb or tomb or dreams

all these are usual pastimes and drugs and features of the press and always will be, some of them especially

when there is distress of nations and perplexity, whether on the shores of Asia or down

the street, Edgeware Road. Men's curiosity searches past and future and clings to that dimension.

This is the beginning of him going into a longer essay

about how you should not engage with any of that stuff.

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