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Breakpoint

What is Blasphemy?, the Pope and Just War, Do Muslims Love Jesus, Does It Matter if Adam and Jonah Existed, and How to Think about Pain

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Trump's social media post portraying himself as Jesus is widely condemned Pope Leo XIV and the administration spar over the war with Iran. Tucker Carlson claims Muslims love Jesus. Is that true? And John and Maria discuss pain. 

Recommendations 

Segment 1  Trump's Truth Social Post and the Pope Condemns the Iran War 

Segment 2 – Do Muslims Love Jesus? And N.T. Wright Questions Bible Stories 

Segment 3 – How to Think about Pain 

  • Tell Me Where It Hurts by Rachel Zoffness 

  • The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis 

 

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.9

Today we're going to talk about that post from President Trump on Truth Social.

0:12.4

We're also going to talk about the tension between the Pope and the Trump administration as it relates to Iran.

0:18.2

We're so glad you're with us for this conversation this week. Please stick around.

0:23.4

Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. I'm Maria

0:27.4

Bear alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. John, we're going to start today

0:33.6

with the post on truth social by President Trump. Now, you and I had talked earlier this

0:38.3

week about talking about this. And I had a rather optimistic theory that most people were

0:45.6

unaware of this. I know you and I live a lot online. And that's just how I felt. And then I went to

0:51.8

my girls' school today. I'm there every Tuesday and

0:54.3

Thursday. And I decided to just ask around, have you heard about this? Have you heard about this?

0:58.8

And John, everybody had heard about it. So I suppose it is worth mentioning. I'm going to toss it to you.

1:05.7

Tell us how we should think about this. Do you want me to describe the post? I'm going to assume

1:09.3

most people know about it at this point. Well, I think first you should just acknowledge that I was right. I refuse to, I will not say that.

1:17.3

I feel like you just didn't acknowledge what is so obvious, which it really was a big deal. And that

1:22.3

in and of itself is part of the story. That's something on social media could draw so much kind of gravity.

1:29.9

But that's the president, right?

1:31.7

He is a larger-than-life personality.

1:33.9

But earlier this week, he posted a image of himself, or he reposted, I guess.

1:39.3

He shared an image of himself as Jesus, healing.

1:44.1

And later on in the week, he articulated that he thought

1:48.2

he was portraying himself as a doctor that was healing, not as Jesus. So that's the reasoning.

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