Friday, January 9, 2026
Lofton Struggles to Understand the Essence of AI
ChatGPT Says the Mark of the Beast Is Coming Soon (NOT Clickbait)
Reason & Theology | 13 Aug. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eklCZZOhIoo
13:32 Have you ever asked how much mathematics an abacus* understands?
An abacus can do mathematics, or better, you can do mathematics on it, but it doesn't understand mathematics.
ChatGPT can understand neither language nor logic.
Interesting test case.
Trent Horn claimed (I think twice even) that Cardinal Baronius (a very holy man, disciple of St. Philip Neri, also pretty crucial in Apologetics contra Lutherans on the terrain of history) had said "the Bible tells us how to go to Heaven, not how the heavens go" ....
The immediate search on google for the phrase was in Galileo quoting it to Duchess Christina. However, Galileo didn't specify either in what context or what Church man he was quoting.
On Quora I posed the question "is there any early source that it was Cardinal Baronius who said etc."
Now, I have got so far no answers. But, there is a Quora bot, pretty similar to ChatGPT. It kept circling back to the Galileo letter which I already knew didn't mentioned Baronius by name. It wouldn't have done so if it understood the terms of the question. However, what such bots are programmed to do is copy text and especially copy probable continuations of any phrase already given (including questions, obviously).
So, ChatGPT is giving you the answers people are giving on the internet.
15:24 The answer pretty obviously means, from someone's side, "given the hypothesis of Christianity, x is likely" ...
And when I say "someone" I don't mean ChatGPT but a programmer.
16:45 The machine is neither confused nor lying.
It's simply not conscious at all.
That you presume to do theology apparently without knowing that is however either confused or facetious in your case, since you are conscious.
21:26 Popularity leads to frequency of an answer being written online.
Frequency of an answer leads to higher likelihood of ChatGPT sharing it.
Or do you believe it's 23:16 simply a sign that AI isn't yet fully 23:18 consistent and reliable and is open to 23:21 manipulation?
23:18 Did you say "isn't yet"?
Will never be, more like it.
* For the illustration, I modified the illustration on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus#/media/File:Abacus_(PSF).png
By Pearson Scott Foresman - This image has been extracted from another file, Public Domain, Link
Are You In A Cult For Being Christian or Close? For Believing Actual Christian Tenets?
One tenet is, you need to go to Church on Sunday (if you can). See this video about the situation in Duisburg:
'It's All Part of God's Plan' - How a German Church is Growing Despite Persecution and Assault
CBN News | 8 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNjHhx31DEM
Since only 2:30 about 5% of Germans attend church, a 2:33 successful church here can raise 2:35 suspicions that it's a cult using 2:38 psychological pressure, forcing people 2:40 to attend.
[This quote is also an excellent descriptor of Sweden. If you say you are Catholic, so far no problem. But if you say "abortion is murder and should be banned and punished," Swedes will take you for a Cultist. If you say "God is real, He is proven by His Creation, Evolution doesn't work, Heliocentrism is counterintuitive and unproven," again, Swedes will take you for a Cultist.]
[The following is for anyone, Germany or Sweden, who pretends it is absurd or due to sectarian undue pressure to consider the Modern Liturgy as having a Masonic origin:]
Was The Modern Catholic Liturgy Created By A Freemason?
Purely Catholic | 5 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t08k5RtbPII
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Focussed Attention, Rosary, Hrushiv
The Rosary Prayer Technique That Terrified Intelligence Agencies
Totus Catholica | 8 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgpaD6U2Twk
[This Kenyan doesn't do his case to the full]
2:52 Jesus never said any word about "repetition" in Matthew 6:7.
Battalogein or battologein literally translates as "stutter-speak" and while the Vulgate translates "wordiness" (nolite multum loqui), other old translations (Coptic and Syriac) translate "don't stutter" (I've asked this of people who know these languages).
What does stuttering, many words, and "like the heathen" have to do with each other?
Well, get into trouble with school rules, imagine you're not best pals with the principal, and you will, before him, stutter and add explanation on explanation. You would only repeat yourself if you weren't very inventive, but you would add lots of explanations. And that is how the heathens approached their gods. It doesn't refer to Hindus or Muslims. It refers to Greco-Roman heathen, and we have real examples, like the very same year, Velleius Paterculus finished his II book of Roman History with, precisely, a prayer. It is not repetitive in words. But it adds trial on trial, hoping not all will be errors. Because principals and pagan gods (i e demons) sometimes take fun in deliberately misunderstanding someone, and well, the point is, God is not like that.
3:35 That man [Wojtyla] was not Pope.
The Rosary has 15 mysteries, not 20.
[See also]
Our Lady's Shocking Prophecy: "Ukraine Will Convert Russia"
Jerome Chong | 8 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGKQWZiIy0o
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Christmas Explained with Apocalypse 12
WHY isn't THIS STORY told each CHRISTMAS?
BLK SHP Bible Talk | 19 Dec. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-PZOAyrm2k
8:46 There is a problem here.
In 2017, people were saying that the Apoc. 12 Constellation, searched by the same software, occurred once, 2017, and before that you needed to go back before Creation.
Was that search too specific about the stars, or what happened?
11:04 Solution. The Blessed Virgin Mary is more than just "one woman" ...
The Holy Family is the household of faith, and it's patriarch is called Joseph (for a reason).
Herself, She is called "blessed among women" because like Jael and Judith, She killed an important enemy of Israel. However, in Her case, that's a snake. And Luke 1:28 comes before Luke 1:31, She was already victorious before She was pregnant with God in the flesh.
12:55 You just called the woman "faithful Israel" ... but Romans 3:23 states no Israelite was without sin ... except the exception.
Mary is, personally, "daughter Zion", and as such faithful. Genesis 3:15 makes both Jesus and Mary an exception.
15:21 "of Rome"?
Herod sent his own soldiers, Hebrews. At the time, Judaea was a Protectorate, not a Province.
He was vassal to Rome, sure, but so was Antiochus Epiphanes. Nevertheless, when Antiochus attacked Hebrews faithful to the law, his soldiers spoke Greek, not Latin. Herod's spoke Hebrew, not Latin or Greek.
If you have data refuting this, bring them on.
And no, Luke 2:4 doesn't mean there was a Roman tax collector in Bethlehem. Joseph was a patriot and got enrolled to pay the Temple tax. He avoided Roman tax collectors by quitting Galilee. That's why the first Roman census in Judaea is not relevant to the historicity of the Gospels. The one in Galilee was earlier, under the governors of Syria, one other (Saturninus, I think) assisted by Quirinius. It was forgotten except by Luke, because it sparked no revolt.
18:01 Note, Calvary changes the deal.
From Calvary, Jesus conquered back the authority that had been formerly given to Satan. On Calvary, Satan was bound for a thousand years. Before Calvary He says:
Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
[John 12:31]
32:45 Commandments and Testimony.
What commandments? "I am the Lord thy God" certainly. Not eating pork ... maybe not so relevant any more.
You spoke of a household. It has been a visible community through history. That should be a clue as to its confessional identity. Or some would say "denominational" ... the same city they were first called Christians is where a bishop first called them Catholic (time of Peter, time of his second successor in Antioch, Ignatius).
32:49 Thank you for the final quote.
It's on the frontispiece of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet, where I last worshipped with others for a longer period, except they accept the wrong Pope.
Monday, January 5, 2026
A Muslim Perhaps Made a Mistake in Quoting St. Thomas Aquinas via a Modern Work, the Summa is However Available (in Translation)
Here is a video involving how he got corrected:
@DailyPursuitOfTruth
He Tried to Misquote Aquinas… Then Got Exposed
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AOEMx53rFRc
Here is the work he was reading from:
Gregory M. Reichberg, Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace, 2017
https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Aquinas-Peace-Gregory-Reichberg/dp/1107019907
I'm not sure if Gregory M. Reichberg makes the mistake or not.
Here is the Summa in English translation:
Summa Theologiae
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/
Here is the article that is being quoted from:
II—II: Question 10. Unbelief in general
Article 8. Whether unbelievers ought to be compelled to the faith?
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3010.htm#article8
Looking up Reichberg, it is probable that the Muslim misread him or oversimplified.
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