Victor Davis Hanson: The Decline of Religiosity is More Worrisome Than the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

Jennifer Hayne

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler continue their Sour 16 competition with growing irreligiosity squaring off against artificial intelligence. Which does Hanson feel is more worrisome? 👉 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: http://dailysignal.com/donate 👉 My Patriot Supply’s Holiday Special is going on NOW. Go to preparewithvdh.com to for a special promotion:https://www.preparewithvdh.com 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest editions of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iOoN0xoOoSNvDFlpLLYGY?si=5a9f369acc874c6e 👉 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words/id1566731706 👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/VictorDavisHansonInHisOwnWords?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o 👉 Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.6	I am very worried about secularism, atheism. If you don't believe in any transcendence,
0:36.6	then it affects your humanism that says that you're only here and now.
0:43.3	There's no mystery anymore.
0:46.3	I mean, there's no, you're just, you don't know why you're here.
0:50.3	Even the pagans believed that there had to be some transcendence. It's imprinted on our
0:56.0	brain and for people to say there's not, it's just a neolithic creed in my view. I think it's very
1:05.0	important that you have a Judeo-Christian dominant tradition with exceptions that you are tolerant of Buddhists
1:13.3	and Muslims and other people without diluting the main tradition that affected the founders.
1:20.6	I think Christianity's done a wonderful thing and the country will not survive without it.
1:42.5	Well, hello, ladies and hello gentlemen, welcome to Victor Davis Hansen, in his own words.
1:43.5	I'm Jack Fowler.
1:46.1	I'm the host. You are here to listen to the wisdom of Victor Davis Hanson, who is the Martin and Ely Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
1:52.3	And he's also a senior contributor at the Daily Signal, and he's a man with his own website,
1:57.1	The Blade of Perseus, Victor Hanson.com. Check it out and do subscribe. It's only 65 bucks a year, folks.
2:04.0	We are recording on Tuesday, December 23rd for this special episode. This is one of four
2:11.5	special episodes. It's actually the second of the four that are looking at the Sourauer 16, the issues that keep you awake at night.
2:20.1	And we're going to find out, we're going to pit them against each other and find out which one
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