"I Found God Through His WRATH!" R3alism Shares POWERFUL Testimony
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
The First Digital Inc.
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this interview, Mike Slater and Colin Elliott discuss Colin’s personal testimony of faith and transformation. He shares how a difficult season in his life led him to wrestle with suffering, judgment, and grace, ultimately shaping his understanding of God. The conversation explores how hardship can become a turning point toward meaning and belief.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is part two of our episode on suicidal empathy, inspired by Dr. |
| 0:07.4 | Gad Sad. That was in our part one. But part two, there's this guy on YouTube that I just discovered |
| 0:12.4 | his name's realism. I think you'll enjoy his story. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome back to Politics by Faith, our special today, compassion collapse, America's empathy crisis. |
| 0:28.7 | I want to go to Colin Elliott. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm new to Colin Elliott's work. |
| 0:33.1 | He is a, you'll see him on social media. |
| 0:35.2 | You're probably one of the millions of followers who have. Realism is his name on everything. The E and Realism is a three realism on social media. Colin, how you doing, brother? I'm doing great, dude. It's great. Thanks for having me on. But yeah, just so you know the three and the realism is for the Godhead, |
| 0:54.9 | the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. That's why I did that. Love it. Before I ask you about |
| 0:59.7 | empathy and compassion, I want to talk about you. Like what's your story and how did you get |
| 1:04.4 | six million followers on all the social media? What's your mission? What are you doing? |
| 1:09.3 | Oh, well, my call is similar to Paul's call in the |
| 1:12.5 | Bible, which is to be an apostle and spread the good news. So I definitely feel called to be |
| 1:17.0 | an evangelical. And I'm called to talk about what God specifically did in my life, which was |
| 1:23.3 | insane. I never thought that I would ever be where I'm at and not like with my career or anything |
| 1:28.8 | like that, but with my heart and my mind. And I was in such a dark spot. I was an alcoholic for |
| 1:34.0 | almost 10 years, was on my deathbed at age 27, was in a mental hospital when I was about two years |
| 1:41.4 | ago, I was in a mental hospital because of depression and tried to do things to |
| 1:45.7 | myself and when i got out of there i found a new new testament book started reading and gave my life |
| 1:50.6 | to christ and i had followed him my whole life and went to church did all that but i'd never given |
| 1:55.2 | my life to him i never had any transformation and then when i finally did this i had the knowledge |
| 1:59.6 | that god had provided me my whole life and now I was translating that into teaching. So it's just been an absolute blessing. |
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