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Luke said he wasn’t consciously seeking God during COVID but was “going crazy” absorbing political/conspiracy content and seeing evil with “no solution”; what does his story suggest about how God uses cultural chaos and fear to expose the emptiness of political hope?

Another way to ask: Luke wasn’t trying to find God during COVID, but fear and political/conspiracy content made him feel like evil had no answer. How might God use chaos and fear to show that politics can’t save us?

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Direct Answer
The transcript suggests that cultural chaos can function like a spotlight: it exposes how powerless political obsession is to fix the human problem, and that emptiness can become a doorway for God to seek and draw someone to Jesus.

Support from Transcript:

Luke says that during COVID he was “super plugged into politics” and “right-wing conspiracy stuff.”
He describes his inner state as “kind of going crazy just looking at all the evil in the world and not having a solution for it.”
He admits he wasn’t “consciously seeking God,” yet he believes “God definitely sought after me during that time.”
He describes life without Jesus as seeing evil and feeling “there’s nothing you can really do about it… and it’s just depressing.”
Earlier he notes he started attending Catholic Mass “randomly” before his conversion and interprets that as part of the Father drawing him.

Discussion Follow-ups In what ways can constant political media form our emotions and imagination? How do we tell the difference between being “informed” and being discipled by fear?

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