1) “A Prophetic Shift Of Gears: Young Adults Express Willingness To Hand Over Government Power, Freedoms To AI” (Mark Hitchcock, Harbinger’s Daily)
From the article -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing more quickly than any of us could have imagined. For many, it is the realization of a technological dream, but for others, it is a nightmare, leading to unthinkable abuses of power over our lives. No matter which way you view AI, everybody will agree that the ramifications are both alarming and world-changing.
It is no exaggeration to say that AI represents a prophetic shift of gears. It could be called an “end-times accelerant.”
Seemingly daily, we hear about new advances in AI, with these surprising surges emerging closer and closer together. AI is changing everything, and the headlines declaring this reality continue to roll out week after week with no end in sight.
Related articles: “Little By Little, Mankind Is Being Discipled By The Tech Industry” (Dean Dwyer, Harbinger’s Daily)...”Majority of pastors now using AI to prepare sermons amid rapid embrace of technology” (Leonardo Blair, Christian Post)
2) “Abortion Is Everything,’ the Children's Book You’ll Want to Buy for Christmas” (David Strom, Hot Air)
From the article -- I keep coming back to a term I never thought I would seriously use in everyday conversation: demonic. But I gave up on thinking in purely temporal terms. Whether you believe that literal demons walk the earth or just that something akin to Satanism has become normalized, evil is afoot.
The latest example comes from the founder of "Shout Your Abortion," who has written a children's book for children ages 5-8, teaching them that abortion is a "superpower" that only humans possess. The book is steeped in transhumanist ideology—the same ideology that underlies alphabet ideology, and is informed by Marxist Critical Theory. The basic idea is that the only way to liberate our minds is to overcome biological reality itself.
Of course, children in this age range are not about to get abortions. However, as you see from alphabet ideology, children are already encouraged to dispense with biological reality in other ways. Still, the propaganda campaign is aims to "liberate" children from the idea that we are grounded in a fundamental reality.
This is not about pro-abortion advocates softening kids up with arguments for why women might want or need an abortion in some circumstances; by characterizing abortion as a "superpower," the goal is to inculcate the belief that the ultimate good is pure realization of our desires.
3) “Confirming Covid Jabs Killed Kids Reinforces Gen Z’s Distrust Of Government” (Brooke Brandtjen, Federalist)
From the article -- Now that we know that the vaccine had deadly effects on children, young people will respond to this in one of two ways. For those who are caught in the legacy media bubble, they will never be exposed to this truth. Fifty-one percent of American teenagers primarily get their news from social media, putting it ahead of both television and news sites. Eighty-six percent of Gen Z go to social media for news updates. Social media platforms, like the China-sponsored TikTok, will downplay the FDA’s admission of guilt if they acknowledge it at all.
Social media intentionally isolates teenagers from the truth, so that they are never exposed to data that challenges their leftist ideology. Instead, these teens will continue to mock “anti-vaxxers” and berate the Trump administration. Their political values have been ruined by hypnotic liberalism...
The other response from teenagers will be outrage...
Covid was the dividing moment for members of Gen Z. It destroyed their childhoods and fractured their friend groups into those who were and weren’t vaccinated. In June of 2020, I spent my 18th birthday alone because my friends’ parents were too afraid for their kids to be around other kids. One of my friends was graciously allowed to sit on the porch with me for an hour — but had to sit five feet away.
The young people who experienced this gross misuse of power will never trust institutions again. Their skepticism about Covid was justified, and they now know that their childhoods were stifled without cause. As more conservative conspiracies turn out to be true, this trend will only continue. From Russiagate to the mental decline of Joe Biden to election fraud, the institutional lies have become standard.
4) “We Must Not Be Silent in the Face of Evil” (Eric Metaxas, Decision)
From the article -- When believers do not understand or ignore what they know is God’s will, they’re inclined to make pious-sounding excuses, even quoting Scripture, to do what is actually the opposite of God’s will.
For instance, they say, “God has not called us to politics.” The idea that we’re supposed to divorce our faith from the political or cultural realm is a complete misreading of Scripture, and it’s exactly what happened during German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s time. The German church used spiritual-sounding excuses to avoid standing up against the Nazis, and they allowed evil to be unleashed because they thought they were being good Christians by refusing to get involved politically. They were deadly mistaken.
If the churches had understood God’s call to live out their faith in the culture, as Bonhoeffer did, the Nazis would never have been able to take power. But most Christians didn’t want to cause trouble, and they believed that they were theologically correct in that. So they abdicated the vital job that God gave them to put their faith into action and to take their faith into the political sphere against the Nazis.
It’s as important as anything can be for Christians to know that we are not called simply to give intellectual assent to theological ideas. We’re called to live out our faith in Christ, whether it’s in politics, in our communities or any other realm. We live out what we believe by taking action.
5) “UN COP30 Climate Summit Unites World Religions Under The Cult Of ‘Earth Worship’” (Alex Newman, Harbinger’s Daily)
From the article -- Two crucial spiritual elements long documented by The New American about this environmental holy war were on full display in Belém. First, COP30 showed unprecedented religious convergence — a “spiritual coalition” bringing all the major religions and religious movements of the world together behind the UN climate program. The unity revolves around an emerging new moral framework that replaces historic biblical understandings of sin with a new vision, where CO2 emissions and other alleged offenses against “Mother Earth” are the real moral evil. COP30 culminated with a virtual interfaith climate liturgy.
Second, COP30 and the broader climate movement are now increasingly and openly integrating pagan and pantheistic spirituality into everything — all while marginalizing the biblical worldview. This was on full display throughout the summit. At official events throughout COP30, Indigenous rituals and pagan earth-worship symbolism were not only present — they were center stage in discussions about the damage humans are supposedly doing to “Mother Earth.”
Supposed man-made climate change has for years served as the perfect pretext for uniting the religions of the world behind a common cause. As The New American reported in 2022 from the COP27 in Egypt, a global interfaith coalition worked with the UN to unveil a new “Ten Commandments” on Mount Sinai. Meanwhile, the George Soros and UN-funded group Religions for Peace, an outfit described by its leader as the “UN of religions,” brings together virtually all major religious organizations and traditions behind the UN and its agenda.
Other recommended articles:
* “America’s stunning lack of academic freedom” (Richard D. Land, Christian Post)
* “Anna Lee Stangl: The Global South and Religious Freedom” (Yoe Suarez, Washington Stand)
* “He Put Her Into the Hospital; She Was Arrested for Using a Slur to Criticize Him for Doing So” (David Strom, Hot Air)
* “Raking In Hundreds Of Millions For Trafficking Kids Destroys U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Credibility On Immigration” (Maureen Mullarkey, Federalist)
* “The bishop who became Santa Claus” (Obianuju Mbah, Christian Today)
