Morning guys, welcome back to another episode of preaching the choir.

I hope you're having a good week, a good day so far.

I started preaching the choir about a year ago, if you're tuning in for the first time.

It's the Sunday edition of the Mike Force podcast, my typical podcast that I do every week.

And the intent is and was to talk about things that are going on in my personal life.

Be a little bit more vulnerable.

But also talk about the connection with my faith.

Tomorrow's podcast with Andy Stumpf on the cleared hot podcast.

I haven't done his podcast in about a year.

I talk about this. I don't think I've done a very good job at including my faith in my life.

Many people, for example, are seeing the nature of politics in our lives.

People's entire personas,

all their messaging to their friends and family is their political position.

They're outcasting friends and family

who don't agree with them politically.

And they're being captured,

being captured by the propaganda.

They buy into it because often what I've seen is it gives them purpose.

I have political friends.

And some of those friends are pretty hardcore,

but it doesn't change the nature of who they are.

What I'm concerned about is when politics become religion. Friends who once talked about faith and family and their work and what was going on in their life exclusively now talk about politics

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