(LifeSiteNews) — Steve Bannon is calling on faithful Christians to actively defend their families and communities from the pernicious evils afflicting the West, saying he thinks we’ll be “weighed and measured at the end” based on how we responded.
The former Trump adviser and current War Room host was gracious enough to join me for this episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, filmed in Washington, D.C. Bannon is the first of a series of special guests from D.C. this week, so stay tuned for more in the coming days!
The occasion for our interview came after a dinner hosted by Steve Bannon in honor of Bishop Athanasius Schneider. Bannon envisioned it as a sort of “spiritual war council” where there would be “give and take” between Bp. Schneider and attendees about the current spiritual war and how we should engage it.
Bannon, raised in a deeply Catholic environment himself, said “people of faith have got to get involved” politically.
“Politics is not pleasant. It’s oftentimes not fun. It’s very nitty-gritty and grubby,” he said. “And you’re going to have a lot of grease underneath your fingernails. And there’s a lot of things in politics that are going to offend you as a Christian and as a Catholic. But I think you have to make that sacrifice in order for us to, in a democratic society, come to grips with what’s going on.”
Donald Trump has suggested a 6-week abortion ban is ''too harsh'', attacking Gov. Ron DeSantis for his bill protecting innocent human life after 6 weeks.
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The former president said he is ''looking at all alternatives'' when asked if he would support such a 6-week ban, making this a crucial opportunity for pro-life voters to make their views known to him in no uncertain terms.
"He has to do what he has to do," Trump said about Gov. DeSantis' abortion bill. "If you look at what DeSantis did, a lot of people don't even know if he knew what he was doing. But he signed six weeks, and many people within the pro-life movement feel that that was too harsh."
Anyone truly in the pro-life movement thinking the ban is too harsh must mean it's too harsh on those babies less than 6-weeks who can still be murdered.
Mr. Trump's outlandish claim about anyone in the pro-life movement opposing the ban is doubtful to say the least, but there was more to follow in the interview.
When pressed on whether he thought the bill was ''too harsh'', Trump would not answer directly, instead saying: ''I'm looking at all alternatives. I'm looking at many alternatives. But I was able to get us to the table by terminating Roe v. Wade. That's the most important thing that's ever happened for the pro-life movement.''
The former president is correct in saying the overturning of Roe v. Wade was a monumental step for the pro-life movement, but it should only be the beginning of banning the killing of babies in the womb entirely.
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Bannon said he believes the United States is in the midst of a “unique time” in its history, where “we’re going to determine whether what was bequeathed to us is what we passed down, or [whether] it can be something radically different.”
Namely, he cites the possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) and transhumanism could upend human experience in a fundamental way through the “singularity,” that is, the self-awareness of AI.
“[I]n Switzerland they ran a test to see if [AI could recombine proteins to make biological weapons]. … In a matter of minutes, it created 47,000 new combinations of potential biological weapons,” Bannon said. “My point, and what these guys know, is that artificial intelligence, and artificial general intelligence, can start to actually program itself.”
“We’re living in times people could say, ‘Hey, these are the end times.’ I don’t know. Nobody knows. But what I know is that man has created, by his own hand, weapons of science and technology that could make nuclear weapons which could destroy the world easily,” he continued. “Between the biological weapons, artificial intelligence, chemical weapons, things have been created, we have the instrumentality to destroy life many times over. And so what is your calling to stop that?”
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