hasmat181/religious-debate-ai

Religious Debate AI

Ask any question about religion and get an answer backed by precise citations from the actual scripture — not summaries, not opinions.

[→ Try it live](https://hasmat181-religious-debate-ai.hf.space/)

What it does

Type a question. Get an answer that:

• —Quotes the exact verse from the relevant scripture
• —Labels every citation with [SOURCE N] linked to the source
• —Covers both sides of contested questions (e.g. "Does the Quran command killing non-believers?")
• —Chooses from Scholar, Debate, or Interfaith framing

You can Follow up to ask clarifying questions and Try mode to reframe the same answer in a different style.

Database — 196,481 texts across 7 traditions

Response modes

Example questions

• —"Does the Quran say to kill non-believers?"
• —"What does the Bible say about divorce?"
• —"Does Genesis contradict evolution?"
• —"What is anatta (non-self) in Buddhism?"
• —"Why was Rama exiled in the Ramayana?"
• —"What does Advaita Vedanta teach about the soul?"
• —"What is the Passover Seder according to the Mishnah?"

Tech stack

• —Vector search: ChromaDB + all-MiniLM-L6-v2 embeddings
• —Retrieval: Hybrid semantic + keyword with Reciprocal Rank Fusion
• —LLM: Llama 3.3 70B via LiteLLM (Groq → Cerebras → NVIDIA → SambaNova failover)
• —UI: FastAPI + HTMX — zero JS frameworks
• —Hosting: HuggingFace Spaces (free tier)

Limitations

• —Answers are for learning and debate, not authoritative religious rulings
• —Laws of Manu (Manusmriti) not yet in corpus — clean machine-readable source unavailable
• —No original-language text (Arabic, Sanskrit, Hebrew) — English translations only