Lee Ardis

AI chatbots are the new priests

“Cathy, what should I do about my social anxiety?”

An acronym for Churchy Answers That Help You, Cathy is a new AI chatbot that answers faith-based questions from the perspective of a friendly, knowledgeable Episcopalian. Despite its feminine name, the “priestbot,” as Cathy sometimes calls itself, is genderless. There are no ornate flowing robes or croziers, either. But like a wise cleric, Cathy jumped right in with an answer.

“Dealing with social anxiety can be challenging, but there are several approaches that might help,” the bot responded. “Practice relaxation techniques” and “challenge your negative thoughts,” Cathy suggested.

Easier for students to come out as gay than Christian, Evangelical group says

In schools across Northern Ireland, students are finding it more challenging to reveal their Christian faith than their sexual orientation, according to testimony provided during an ongoing inquiry into Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) at Stormont.

David Smyth, a representative of the Evangelical Alliance Northern Ireland, told the Education Committee that some young people find it “much more difficult now to come out as an Evangelical Christian in school than it is to come out as LGBT,” according to the BBC.

‘Woke Injustice’: Medical School Reserves 75% Of Its Seats For ‘Equity-Deserving’ Groups

In Canada, are some students “more equal than others”? A new medical school is opening in Toronto, Canada, and it will “reserve 75 percent [sic] of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and other ‘equity-deserving’ groups, including 2SLGBTQ+.” Yes, that means what you think it means—“able-bodied straight white students can’t apply for these seats.” It’s discrimination in the name of equity. So what’s “equity”?

Well, equity is a big tenet of critical race theory (CRT), the worldview dominating Western academia. Basically, equity, in this context, is equality of outcomes not equality of opportunity.

Report: Anti-Christian Hate Crimes in Europe Tripled in 2023

ROME — Religiously motivated hate crimes against Christians in Europe jumped by a whopping 226 percent in just one year, according to a grim report by a prominent Christian persecution watchdog group.

On Friday, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe) released its Annual Report 2024, which documents a startling rise in violent incidents and hostility against Christians, as well as in vandalism and arson attacks on churches.

Trump To Pursue ‘An Aggressive Strategy’ To Cripple Iran

The plan comes as the DOJ revealed on Friday that it thwarted a second Iranian assassination plot against Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly planning to ramp up the U.S. pressure campaign on Iran by enacting crippling sanctions on the Islamic regime immediately after taking office.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the plans include “drastically increasing sanctions” on the country and killing its oil industry as part of an “aggressive strategy to undercut Tehran’s support of violent Mideast proxies and its nuclear program.”

FBI arrests man over alleged threat to slaughter Trump’s Christian supporters: ‘Conservative christan filth’

The FBI has arrested a Michigan man for allegedly threatening to murder conservative Christians if Donald Trump wins the election.

In a press release, the Justice Department said the FBI National Threat Operations Center received “an anonymous online threatening submission” on Nov. 2.

‘Sissel said that he hated conservative Christians, who he enjoyed threatening.’

Heartbroken mom claims 14-year-old son killed himself after ‘falling in love’ with Game of Thrones AI chatbot

A mom is raising awareness of ‘deceptive’ and ‘addictive’ artificial intelligence after claiming her son passed away after allegedly becoming emotionally attached to a chatbot.

In February earlier this year, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III from Orlando, Florida ended his own life.

His mom, Megan Garcia, has since filed a civil lawsuit against customizable role-play chatbot company Character.AI, accusing it of negligence, wrongful death and deceptive trade practices, claiming that Sewell interacted with a chatbot every night and had even ‘fallen in love’ with it prior to his passing.

During Netanyahu’s UN Address, I Saw Bible Prophecy Being Fulfilled Before My Very Eyes

On Friday morning, September 27, I saw Bible prophecy being fulfilled before my very eyes as I watched Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on television address the General Assembly of the United Nations. It happened as he approached the podium to deliver his address. As he walked forward, two-thirds of the delegates got up from their seats and walked out. Netanyahu was left with an almost empty auditorium to speak to.

The specific Bible prophecy this event reminded me of was written by the Hebrew prophet Zechariah 2,500 years ago. Speaking of the end times, he prophesied that God will “make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.” (Zechariah 12: 3, emphasis added)

Stanley “Godfather of Vaccines” Plotkin admits researchers experimented on mentally handicapped, orphans and babies of mothers in prison

More people than perhaps even realize it themselves are being experimented on as part of what they call “modern medicine.” And in a new article, author Roman Bystrianyk unpacks the sordid history of Stanley “Godfather of Vaccines” Plotkin, a renowned physician who admitted that the sick, orphans, the mentally handicapped, and babies of imprisoned mothers have all been experimented on throughout history in order to create new vaccines.

America has a shoplifting epidemic. The thieves aren’t who you think.

Carson’s not sure why he’s never been able to kick his shoplifting habit. It started in his teens, when he and his friends would steal beer, and escalated when the installation of what he describes as “self-checkout silliness” made it easy to buy a couple of things, phantom swipe the rest, and walk out of Walmart with “a huge amount of shit.” In his early 20s, he took a chair from Target by just waltzing out the front door with it. He figured everyone would assume he bought it.