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D<\/span>uring my television training years, we learned many lighting techniques, including the use of “God’s hour” \u2014 that period before sunset when golden light floods the earth with a captivating glow. The film industry frequently takes advantage of this time frame to shoot scenes that otherwise are more difficult to reproduce with artificial lights.<\/p>\n

As we careen toward the end of this era, the nightfall of our times, we have entered into what I call “Satan’s Golden Hour.” It is the hour of false light, false information, false peace, false security. This light of lies<\/em> is seen reflected, \"\"literally, in all our faces as we gaze into our computer screens and devices. But now we have entered that hour when Satan’s false light is most captivating and enticing, most alluring and tempting, but also most deceptive and destructive. Jesus prophesied this hour 2000 years ago by describing the character\u00a0<\/em>of Satan \u2014 and those who follow him:<\/p>\n

You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father\u2019s desires. He was a murderer<\/em> from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies<\/em>.<\/strong> (John 8:44)<\/span><\/p>\n

The devil is far more intelligent than any human being; he has studied mankind for millennia. Little by little, over the course of the past 4-5 centuries in particular, he has lured humanity from a firm belief in God into a practical atheism whereby man himself\u00a0<\/em>has become the center of the universe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Even today, there are many settings in which the Christian faith is considered absurd, meant for the weak and unintelligent. Settings where other securities are preferred, like technology, money, success, power, or pleasure… A lack of faith is often tragically accompanied by the loss of meaning in life, the neglect of mercy, appalling violations of human dignity, the crisis of the family and so many other wounds that afflict our society.<\/strong> \u2014POPE LEO XIV, Homily, May 9, 2025, Rome, Italy; CNA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As such, the devil knows two things: this is his moment \u2014 and his time is short. So, just as the world is being flooded literally with the false light of LED streetlamps, bulbs, and screens that mimic <\/em>the inimitable warm light of a candle, fire, or even incandescent bulbs \u2014 so too, Satan the father of lies\u00a0<\/em>is boldly flooding the world with outright falsehoods and lies that seemingly mimic the good.\u00a0 Here’s but a few of the most glaring examples in this emerging hour of satanic light:<\/p>\n

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Satan’s Golden Hour<\/h5>\n

I. Artificial Intelligence<\/span><\/p>\n

In one of his first speeches, Pope Leo XIV zoned in on “developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor.”[1]<\/sup><\/a>May 10, 2025, apnews.com<\/a><\/span><\/span>