Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke

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The Pope vs. the MAGA Billionaire Who Wants to Outlive Humanity (with Mark Ramm)
20/06/2026 | 34 mins.
Peter Thiel and JD Vance are building a future that doesn't need God — and Pope Leo XIV is the one man with the standing to call it what it is. In this episode of the Culture, Faith, and Politics Podcast, Pat Kahnke sits down with Mark Ramm to unpack the collision between Silicon Valley's most powerful MAGA billionaire and the Vatican's vision of what it means to be human. Peter Thiel has openly framed anyone who wants to restrain technology — including the Pope — as a "Luddite," and in his own lectures, a force of the Antichrist. When a New York Times interviewer asked Thiel whether the human race should even survive, he hesitated. That pause tells you everything about the worldview now funding the MAGA movement through his protégé, Vice President JD Vance.
MAGA's "Golden Age" Requires Torching the Gospel (with Adam Swenson)
19/06/2026 | 1h 24 mins.
The MAGA project promises to restore a nation built on Christ's teachings — by systematically breaking every one of them. ICE raids. Alligator Alcatraz. Gutted USAID. Slashed Medicare. Banned Pentagon plaques honoring women and minorities. That's not a Christian program. That's heresy with a flag on it. We examine the 1950s nostalgia at the heart of Christian nationalism, who that era was actually great for, and why the evangelical church's wholesale embrace of Donald Trump may be the most self-defeating theological mistake in American history.
MAGA's War on Science has a Body Count - and it's Growing! (with Rebecca Watson from Skepchick)
18/06/2026 | 55 mins.
MAGA declared war on science. People died. And the body count is still growing. In this conversation, Pat Kahnke sits down with Rebecca Watson — science communicator, founder of Skepchick, and one of the most recognizable voices in the skeptic community — to follow the evidence wherever it leads. What they find is damning.
LIVE, Episode 29: Why is MAGA Obsessed with Proving their Manhood?
17/06/2026 | 1h 23 mins.
The Freedom 250 UFC event, recent comments from Stephen Miller, and the general actions of Donald Trump's MAGA movement are examples of performative masculinity -- and that quest for power is failing. Pat Kahnke discusses all this and more on Culture, Faith, and Politics live!
ESSAY: Trump and Josh Hokit Just Showed Us What MAGA Christianity Is!
16/06/2026 | 13 mins.
When the UFC came to the White House lawn, fighter Josh Hokit stepped up to a microphone and gave America a perfect picture of what MAGA Christianity has become — a religion of power, dominance, and spectacle that bears no resemblance to the Jesus of the Gospels.

In this episode I break down the Josh Hokit White House UFC moment and what it reveals about Christian nationalism in the Trump era: a faith that worships the strong, mocks the weak, and mistakes brutality for blessing. We'll trace the "bread and circuses" parallel back to Rome — the empire that fed Christians to the lions in arenas just like this one — and ask how the followers of a crucified Savior ended up cheering for the coliseum.

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About Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke

Pat Kahnke has written two books, from a pastoral perspective, to reject Donald Trump and his MAGA movement: A Christian Case Against Donald Trump (2024) MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience (2020) He was an evangelical church planter and pastor for twenty years before retiring from church ministry in 2016. Planted a church in the inner city of St. Paul, MN - part of the Baptist General Conference (Converge) and Alliance for Renewal Churches. A lifelong conservative Republican until the party left him in 2016. Now a political independent, he has written off the Republican party until it completes 40 years in the wilderness for its capitulation to the MAGA movement.This podcast contains political and social commentary related to issues at the intersection of culture, faith, and politics.

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