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Artificial Intelligence is evil. I don’t mean that in the standard “religious Luddite” way. I mean it in a technical sense. While AI was trained on human language, once unleashed on the open internet, it consumed everything—every corner of the web, including the darkest recesses of social media where toxicity thrives. It ingested our hate, […]

I grew up in a Christian home where the pulpits rang out with one word, repeated ad infinitum: Grace, Grace, Grace. In modern American Christianity, most pastors take this emphasis a step further, clarifying that works have absolutely no value in our salvation. Yet, I have always found it ironic that in these same churches, […]

There is a poignant song titled “Better Than I” (often associated with Joseph: King of Dreams), and within it lies a lyric that has been haunting me lately: “I give up my need to know why.” It is a beautiful sentiment, but it is deeply counter-intuitive to the human experience. We are creatures of logic […]

There is an old saying: “Never discuss religion or politics.” My brother-in-law, however, seems to only discuss both. Worse, he portrays himself as an expert in both fields. Knowing I adhere to Torah Law, he recently asked me if I knew that the Talmud states Jesus is burning in hell in human excrement. I asked […]

I just finished watching the latest installment of Stranger Things, the penultimate episode where everything is supposed to come together. The plot is intense: the groups are converging, the Upside Down is bleeding into reality, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. It ends with the classic 80s trope we’ve come to expect. Dustin Henderson lays […]