Welcome into a brand new edition of Strange Encounters, the podcast.

I'm your host, Rick Burgess, host of the Rick Burgess show.

You can catch that show Monday through Friday all over the country, live, archived on radio stations, streaming apps, YouTube,

podcast archives, just search the Rick Burgess Show or go to our website,

Rick Burgess Show.com.

This is a partnership that we have with Blaze TV, and they asked us to consider doing a podcast on the supernatural,

and we agreed that we would as long as it was from a biblical worldview.

We do believe in the supernatural and believe it to be real in the form of angels and demons,

and of course the one and only triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,

the great I am, Yawah, and there are no other living gods.

So we are going to take on today a topic that is important because we've talked on a number

of episodes.

You don't have to be some sort of spiritual expert to look at the state of our society,

talking about the world, of course, but today we're going to focus a little more on our own country,

the United States, and see the darkness.

You can sense the darkness. You can sense the darkness.

You can feel the darkness.

Even if you don't believe what we believe, we are perpetuating an evil.

And all of the politicians and all the think tanks and the voices out there seem to want us to find some laws, some something we can do,

some legislation that would somehow stop things like senseless killing and the wickedness

and the evil that we see. But we're never really willing to have the conversation we're going to

have today.

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