Lee Ardis

Top Law Professor Calls Gov’t Education An Unconstitutional Establishment of Religion

Government education of children funded by taxes represents an unconstitutional establishment of religion and as such, it violates the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment and protections for religious liberty, warns Liberty University Law Professor Jeffrey Tuomala in a powerful new paper.

Tuomala’s unequivocal conclusion that state “education” must go joins a growing chorus of legal arguments seeking to fundamentally re-think American education. Indeed, more and more prominent legal minds are now openly arguing that government schools violate the Constitution and must be shut down.

Report: Pope Francis Is Preparing for Death

The Vatican announced Tuesday that Pope Francis, hospitalized with a respiratory tract infection, has developed pneumonia in both lungs. The pontiff was initially hospitalized with bronchitis, but pneumonia is a “deeper and far more serious infection,” especially when both lungs are impacted, the AP reports. Even so, the Vatican says the pope remains in good spirits and has eaten breakfast, read the newspapers, and done a little work every day. It’s not yet clear how long his hospitalization might last. The Vatican did not comment on an earlier report claiming the pope believes death is imminent.

Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them

The smartphone app Replika lets users create chatbots, powered by machine learning, that can carry on almost-coherent text conversations. Technically, the chatbots can serve as something approximating a friend or mentor, but the app’s breakout success has resulted from letting users create on-demand romantic and sexual partners — a vaguely dystopian feature that’s inspired an endless series of provocative headlines.

Replika has also picked up a significant following on Reddit, where members post interactions with chatbots created on the app. A grisly trend has emerged there: users who create AI partners, act abusively toward them, and post the toxic interactions online.

Horror: Woman Allegedly Burned Alive, Tortured Amid Persecution Terror in India

A watchdog is sounding the alarm about increasing anti-Christian persecution in India, the world’s most populous nation.

Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at Christian Solidarity International, told CBN News that the intensifying situation comes as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to the U.S. this week to meet with President Donald Trump.

The Imago Mundi: Babylonian Directions to Noah’s Ark

Most are familiar with the biblical account of Noah’s ark—the vessel that saved Noah, his family and pairs of all land-dwelling animals from the Great Flood. Fewer are familiar with the parallel ark/Flood accounts from the ancient world. Accounts such as the more than 4,000-year-old Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, relaying the story of Utnapishtim and his ark, with parallels to the biblical account right down to the species of birds released upon landing. Another example is the Babylonian Epic of Atra-hasis, with parallels including the entrance of animals into the boat two-by-two.

First trailer for biblical series ‘House of David’ brings David vs. Goliath battle to life (watch)

Amazon Prime Video has released the first trailer for the highly-anticipated biblical epic series “House of David,” featuring the iconic battle between David the shepherd boy and the giant Goliath.

“Can one stone change the course of history?” the narrator asks in the trailer, released Thursday from Prime Video and Wonder Project.

The trailer highlights Goliath’s massive stature and the sheer courage of David (Michael Iskander) as he steps forward to confront the formidable giant (Martyn Ford).

Meet The Shadowy Group That Intends To Use Boycotts To Hurt The U.S. Economy And Make President Trump Look Bad

You have got to be pretty sick to want to damage the U.S. economy just so that you can make President Trump look bad. Whether you agree with President Trump’s policies or not, we should all want things to start moving in a positive direction. For the past several years, economic conditions have steadily deteriorated, and now we are at a real crisis point. It is literally going to take a miracle to turn our economic momentum around, and there are those that want to make this task even more difficult by purposely sabotaging the system.

Read more at: theeconomiccollapseblog.com

11 Signs That A Recession In The U.S. May Have Already Started

The Biden administration has given us an economy in which homelessness is at an all-time high, demand at food banks is at an all-time high, and poverty is growing all around us. The rising cost of living is absolutely crushing households throughout the nation, and now delinquencies are rising, businesses are going bankrupt at a staggering pace, and mass layoffs are happening from coast to coast. We won’t officially know whether we are in a “recession” at this moment or not until months from now, but I guarantee you that it certainly feels like a “recession” to millions upon millions of us.

Read more at: theeconomiccollapseblog.com

Judge STUNS mom with orders that she can’t take daughter to church

A judge in Maine stunningly has ruled that a mother is forbidden from taking her daughter to church.

Any church that her ex-boyfriend does not approve.

And the legal team at Liberty Counsel has confirmed it launched an immediate effort to overturn the decision that actually violates multiple court precedents.

1,500 Displaced As Terrorists Raid, Burn Christian Communities In Nigeria

Boko Haram militants raided Christian communities in the northeastern part of Nigeria last week, displacing more than 1,500 people.

During the early morning raid in the villages of Shikarkir and Yirmirmug, the militants, aspiring to institute an Islamic caliphate, threatened Christians that if they refused to convert to Islam, they would face death. The militants killed eight Christians and destroyed 57 homes. A church known as Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa was ravaged, as well as food supplies, livelihood and livestock, International Christian Concern (ICC) reported.