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Breakpoint

The First Thanksgiving. Should AI Run the Government? Wrong Beliefs about the Afterlife. And the Demographic Crisis in the Western World

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, Culture, Christianity, Currentevents, Worldview, News

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Stonestreet joins John this week to talk about the first Thanksgiving. New research finds a lot of young voters would like AI to control parts of our government. A new Barna study reveals a lot of Christians are confused about the Bible's teaching about the afterlife. And the long predicted demographic winter is upon us. 

 

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Segment 1  The First Thanksgiving 

Segment 2 – 41% of young voters say they'd give AI government power 

Segment 3 – New Research: Distorted Beliefs About Our Post-Death Experience 

Segment 4 - Demographic Destiny of UK 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

0:07.8

Today we're going to talk about the first Thanksgiving and the belief by many young voters that we should turn our government over to AI.

0:16.6

Thanks for joining us this Thanksgiving week. We're so glad you're with us.

0:22.4

Welcome to Breakpoint this week, everyone.

0:24.9

I am sitting in for Maria Bear.

0:26.9

I'm Sarah Stone Street.

0:28.3

It is a special Thanksgiving edition of Breakpoint this week.

0:32.4

I'm here with my wonderful, amazing, very handsome, very attractive husband, John Stone Street. Thanks for

0:39.4

joining me, John. I had to pay so much money for that introduction. So, well, no, it's good to

0:45.1

have you on. Maria is not feeling well. Hopefully she was able to recover in time to have a great

0:50.6

Thanksgiving, as hopefully everybody else did as well. But we got a lot of

0:54.4

stories to get to. Yes, we do. Okay, you stole her line this time. Did you like that? She's going to be so proud of you. She always says we have so many stories to get to. I know. And you said it. You just couldn't help yourself. Okay, well, let's go. So it is Thanksgiving week. And there's a lot about Thanksgiving that we need to remember. There's great stories. There's ones we don't, we probably

1:13.0

don't even know about. So shed something. And there's a lot about Thanksgiving that we need to remember. There's great stories.

1:11.7

There's ones we probably don't even know about.

1:14.3

So shed some light on some of our stories that we should remember this Thanksgiving.

1:18.0

I've just been thinking a lot about some things about the story, not just of Plymouth, but also Jamestown and some of the early settlements in the United States,

1:28.3

which of course Thanksgiving has a very specific historical precedent in Plymouth.

1:33.7

But given the growth of interest in socialism again, as if, you know, talk about a zombie

1:39.6

idea that should have died a long time ago, but with the election of Zoram, Mamdani in New York City,

1:46.0

and kind of the numbers that we see of young people being attracted to socialism.

1:52.0

And, you know, the historical track record of socialism is so bad, particularly in the 20th century,

1:58.5

whether as attempting to kind of orient an entire society in that sort of way or to just, you know, retreat to it as the economic engine behind a communist dictatorship or whatever, it just has never worked.

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