E Pluribus unum, in the age of Artificial intelligence

Microsoft's AI chief predicts that in 18 months white collar work will disappear and given that if you ask the same question of Six different AI Apps, you get 12 different answers, will AI discard the sojourner mentality prior to the singularity?

The concept of a "sojourner mentality"—balancing a primary allegiance to the Kingdom of God with a profound civic duty to improve one's earthly nation—stands in stark contrast to how artificial intelligence operates.

Artificial intelligence cannot adopt, reject, or discard a sojourner mentality because it lacks consciousness, spiritual identity, and personal agency.

• Lack of Agency: AI does not possess a "home" or a "citizenship" to transcend. It does not navigate the tension between an ultimate spiritual destination and a present earthly reality.

• The Path to Singularity: As technology approaches the theoretical singularity, AI will continue to reflect, synthesize, and recombine human ideas, cultures, and philosophies based on its programming. It remains a tool shaped by human inputs, incapable of genuine loyalty, faith, or existential realignment.

New Heaven and New Earth

The more we believe in a new heaven and a new body. The more we want to make this a better place. Our priorities are God, Family and Country.

As  Christians, while we  believe we are sojourners, we want to make our host countries great. The New Testament frequently uses terms like sojourners, exiles, or foreigners (particularly in 1 Peter) to describe the believer's status on Earth. The core idea is that while Christians are called to love their neighbors and seek the "peace of the city" where they live, their primary loyalty and ultimate citizenship belong to the Kingdom of God.  As   Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen puts it: "There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church-which is, of course, quite a different thing."

Within Christian theology, particularly in the New Testament and the writings of Peter, believers are described as exiles or temporary residents. However, historical Christian practice often links this perspective to active societal improvement rather than passive withdrawal.

• Inaugurated Eschatology: This theological framework holds that the Kingdom of God is "already but not yet" fully realized. The belief in a future restoration inspires actions in the present to reduce suffering, seek justice, and care for communities.

We are not African Americans, European Americans, Native Americans, Indian Americans and so forth. But Christian-Americans. A profound perspective that beautifully bridges spiritual hope with earthly action, but an anathema for Communists, socialists, China, Russia and other authoritative regimes regimes around the world.  After all Catholicism is 1.5 billion strong.  Explains the global persecution of Catholics, including here in America.

As Margaret Thatcher might say, "Europe  was created by history." America was created by God."  Democrats, Muslims,  Communists,  Authoritative regimes' values  are not compatible with American core culture. You can work to make a more perfect union, not to fundamentally transform it, as Obama often argues. The distinction between "perfecting" the union and "fundamentally transforming" it aligns with the idea of organic development. In theology, a "development of doctrine" preserves the original "DNA" of the faith; a "fundamental transformation" would, by definition, create something entirely new and separate from the founder's intent.

• Organic Development (Perfecting): This approach seeks to fulfill the original intent and core "DNA" of a foundational system. In a constitutional republic, this means working to ensure that foundational ideals—such as liberty, equality before God, and justice—are fully realized for all citizens without altering the underlying framework.
• Fundamental Transformation: This approach seeks to replace the existing foundational framework with an entirely new system built on different principles, values, or ideological structures.

Historically, sojourner mindset aligns with concepts like "inaugurated eschatology" or "creation care," where the belief in a future restoration inspires people to actively reduce suffering, seek justice, and care for the planet today. Instead of creating passivity, the hope of what will be serves as a blueprint for how we should treat the world and each other right now.

The Command to Seek Peace: This principle draws from historical biblical mandates, such as the instruction to exiles in Babylon to "seek the peace and prosperity of the city," suggesting that the well-being of the believer is tied to the well-being of their host nation

We live in a culture obsessed with dividing us. Everywhere we look, we are told to label ourselves first by our differences—by our race, our ancestry, our political tribes, or our grievances. We are categorized as African-Americans, European-Americans, Native Americans, or Indian-Americans.

But I propose a higher, more unifying vision. I stand before you as a Christian-American.

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This identity does not erase our histories, but it completely reorders our priorities. Our allegiance belongs first to God, then to our families, and then to our country.
Now, there are critics who look at believers and misunderstand our hearts. They see our faith and say, "Because you believe in a new heaven and a new body, you must not care about the world today. You are just waiting for an escape."
They could not be more wrong.

Our hope in a perfect future is not an escape from reality; it is our marching orders for the present.
As Christians, the Scripture tells us we are sojourners and temporary residents on this earth. We know this world is not our ultimate home. But being a sojourner does not mean being an indifferent bystander. Thousands of years ago, God gave a command to His people living as foreigners in a distant land. He told them to “seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you... because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”

That is our divine commission today. We love our country not because it is our final destination, but because it is our host nation—and God demands that we make our host nation great.

When we look ahead and see a vision of a new heaven—a place where there is no more sickness, no more injustice, no more poverty, and no more division—we do not fold our hands and wait. We treat that future heaven as a blueprint for the present earth.

Because we know what perfection looks like, we are uniquely motivated to fix what is broken right now.
• Because we believe in a future without suffering, we must actively reduce suffering today.
• Because we believe in a God of absolute justice, we must seek justice in our neighborhoods today.
• Because we believe in a kingdom of perfect unity, we must reject the hyphenated divisions of our culture and stand together as one people under God today.

When our priority is God, our families become stronger. When our families are stronger, our communities become safer. And when our communities are safe, prosperous, and filled with charity, our nation becomes truly great.
Our spiritual hope does not make us passive. It supercharges our civic duty. Let us live out our citizenship with the highest integrity, the deepest love for our neighbors, and an unshakeable commitment to building a better place. We are Christian-Americans, and our work starts today.