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Attempted hijacking called a “jihadist terror attack” · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast from Denison Forum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Thursday, October 1, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is an automated reading of today's Daily article authored by Dr. Jim Denison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's article is titled, attempted hijacking, called a Gehottest Territack.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot, according to Israeli officials.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He sent the jet plunging nearly 14,000 feet in less than 30 seconds, but the pilot fought off the attack and opened the cockpit door.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: His bravery managed to prevent a 9-11 disaster, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: passenger identified as Yanev Hayun, said he then grabbed the terrorist, put him in a hold, and first of all pulled him outside.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He called for other passengers to restrain the copilot, then grabbed the controls before another pilot on board took over and landed the plane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The airplane had more than 170 Israelis on board.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Israel's defense minister described the incident as a jihadist terror attack, though Mr. Netanyahu told Fox News Wednesday night that it was too early to say whether there was any indication of Iranian involvement.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But if this was a terrorist attack against Israelis in Israel, it would join a long list of such attacks over the years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Each was motivated by a belief that attacking Jews is a defense of Islam required by the Quran.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Such attacks illustrate John Stone Street's observation that ideas have consequences and bad ideas have victims.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's explore this fact in light of what has been called the single most consequential invention in human history.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In an important recent article for The New York Times, National Religion Correspondent Elizabeth Diaz reports that AI developer Anthropic has been hosting a variety of meetings with religious leaders to seek their help with Claude, their cutting edge AI model.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Christopher Ola, who leads the company's team responsible for understanding why AI systems like Claude act the way they do, wants to persuade the models to abide by a moral code that will protect humanity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Consequently, he has met with a wide range of religious scholars and leaders from Pope Leo 14th and other Catholics to Jewish, Sikh, Mormon, and evangelical thinkers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Halfway through her extensive article, Diaz asks the key question,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even if AI models can be taught to behave morally, whose morals should they reflect?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In response, she quotes Ola, we do think that there's some shared notion of goodness that cuts across society in some very broad way, and it seems like these models understand a lot of virtues.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think there's something there that is a shared thing that we can all engage with.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Without such a shared thing,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Those who control AI will impose their own moral vision, which will become the invisible infrastructure of these systems.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this vision will be as subjective as the people who frame it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here we find the central problem of our secularized society.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By abandoning biblical morality, we are left with the morality of our own choosing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With no true north on our compass, we will go wherever our personal will to power takes us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every day, crimes and tragedies in the headlines show us how that's going for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I played tennis for many years, won some intramural matches in college, and thought I was pretty good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then a friend in the church I was pastoring and invited me to play with him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He had competed professionally years earlier, but he had not played in a long time, and was just starting to get back into the game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As we warmed up, it seemed to me that he was in fact, Rusty, so I resolved to go easy
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  [SPEAKER_00]: than he asked if we wanted to play a few games.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I agreed and graciously suggested that he served first.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When he hit his first serve, I watched him toss the ball in the air, heard his racket hit it, and saw a blur streak passed me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There was no way I could respond quickly enough to get my racket on it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In that moment, I learned the difference between an amateur and a professional, at least in regard to tennis.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I say that to say this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We don't really know how good we are at something until we compare ourselves to someone better than us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of all the people with whom we can make such a comparison, God is obviously at the top of the list.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah was a priest in Israel and a good friend and counselor to King of Zia.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By any human measure, he was a success at what he did.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when he met God on his throne, he cried out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Woe is me for I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For my eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Peter had a similar experience in Luke 5.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He had been a successful fisherman and businessman and a faithful follower of Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when he encountered the full divinity and omnipotence of Christ on the Sea of Galilee, he fell down at Jesus's knees, saying, "'Depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord.'"
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  [SPEAKER_00]: John was Jesus's beloved disciple and best friend.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when he met the risen Christ on the prison island of Patmos, he wrote that I fell at his feet as though dead.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Louis Giglio is right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God is the great I am, and I am the little I am not.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The English novelist, Dorothy Lord.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sayers remarked, hell is the enjoyment of one's way forever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The French Theologian François Fenelon was therefore right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To realize God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How do we realize his presence today?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dwight Moody said of the Bible, this book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is because the Bible is intended to lead us into a personal encounter with its author, and, as John Calvin noted, all God's promises depend upon Christ alone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'll ask, when last did you meet the Living Lord Jesus in a transforming way?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Asked differently.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When last were you awed by God?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to the Daily Article Podcast.
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