AI Is A Gateway To The Welfare State
October 6, 2026 |
Keith Giles
When did the fruits of the Spirit become optional? Or worse—when did Christians start actively rejecting them? Because let’s be honest: if modern American Christianity had a spiritual produce section, everything would be rotten, bruised, and covered in nationalist bumper stickers.
You know the list—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5. Classic Paul. But in today’s culture-war Christianity, these are seen as signs of weakness. You can’t win elections or school board seats with gentleness, after all.
Instead, we’ve been handed the anti-fruits: fear, rage, cruelty, control, outrage, dominance, conspiracy, and a pathological obsession with what’s on other people’s bookshelves, bodies, and bedroom walls.
So what are we even doing here?
Nothing screams “spiritual maturity” like threats, tantrums, and state-mandated morality. We’ve entered the era of performance-based piety—where faith is less about formation and more about spectacle. It’s American Idol meets Inquisition, and everyone’s auditioning with the same song: “Jesus Hates the Same People I Do.”
Exhibit A: the sudden fetish for putting the Ten Commandments in public schools. Because nothing says “we trust kids” like slapping up an ancient list of dos and don’ts and pretending that’s a substitute for, you know, empathy or ethics.
Spoiler alert: it’s not about God. It’s about control. They’re not trying to form hearts—they’re trying to program minds.
Let’s be clear—this isn’t about teaching morality. It’s about teaching allegiance.
Posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms isn’t a faith move. It’s a flag plant. It’s Christian nationalism cosplaying as virtue. And the people pushing it? They don’t even believe in the list.
They’ll covet their neighbor’s wife, lie about the election, and still slap a “Jesus is my Savior, Trump is my President” bumper sticker on the back of their oversized truck.
The commandments aren’t being treated as sacred—they’re being used as signage for an ideological gated community.
Let’s talk about grooming. Since they love that word so much.
What do you call it when you mandate religion in schools, strip history from textbooks, and condition kids to believe that questioning is rebellion and obedience is holiness?
You call that grooming. It’s grooming into a worldview where faith and state are fused, and God looks suspiciously like your governor.
This isn’t spiritual formation. It’s indoctrination by way of moral panic.
If these folks had their way, we’d bring back prayer in schools, paddles in classrooms, and public shaming as a spiritual gift. And while we’re at it, let’s just go full dystopia and hand out little red-letter Bibles with a loyalty oath tucked inside. Bonus points if it’s got gold trim and a Gadsden flag.
These aren’t people following Jesus. These are people building Jesus-themed control mechanisms. Spirituality as surveillance. Religion as regime.
It’s not about worship. It’s about obedience.
Because at the end of the day, if the “spirit” you’re following doesn’t produce love, joy, peace, and all the rest—then I don’t care how many Ten Commandments you plaster on the wall. That ain’t Jesus.
That’s fear marketing. That’s empire theology. That’s religious trauma repackaged as public policy.
And the people pushing it? They know exactly what they’re doing.
It’s not about making America moral again.
It’s about making America theirs.
The next time someone screams about morality while showing none of it, ask them:
“What spirit are you bearing fruit from?”
Because it sure as hell doesn’t look holy.
