French Friday: Jeremiads & Drones

The Holy Post

Phil Vischer

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🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In a recent editorial, Kevin DeYoung took aim at Christian commentators, including David French, for criticizing the social and political hypocrisies within white evangelicalism. DeYoung says these necessary corrections are better left to pastors rather than “professional writers, academics, and full-time commentators.” David and Skye respond to DeYoung’s editorial by explaining the good, and bad, reasons so few pastors are speaking prophetically in America today. Then, they turn their attention to the remarkable NY Times report about the U.S. military underreporting civilian casualties from drone attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. French explains why legally the terrorists, not the U.S. military, carry responsibility for these deaths, which leads to a wider discussion about the ethics of war in general, the way drones may change Americans’ view of war in the future, and whether the invasion of Iraq was justifiable to begin with.

0:00 - Intro

2:40 - Kevin DeYoung editorial on Christian commentators https://wng.org/opinions/deyoung-on-white-evangelicalism-1639659990

29:54 - Drone attacks, civilian casualties, and ethics of war https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/18/us/airstrikes-pentagon-records-civilian-deaths.html

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0:00.0	David French, welcome back. Good to be with you.
0:02.4	Well, thanks so much for having me back. I appreciate it.
0:04.9	Yeah. So I don't know if this is for public consumption,
0:07.5	but you told me you're just a few hours past your positive COVID test.
0:11.0	Yes. I'm two hours into at least a known case of COVID.
0:15.2	So we need to record this before you're flat on your back
0:18.1	or your vaccine is. So I don't know if you're going to convert to a woman all of a sudden.
0:22.8	So we have to figure this out.
0:25.1	The testosterone levels are dropping by the second.
0:27.8	No, I feel, you know, I feel like a bad cold and, you know, Lord willing,
0:33.6	it won't get any worse than that. But I'm vaccinated and boosted.
0:36.7	And the funny thing is I went on a long run yesterday.
0:40.8	I woke up yesterday. I felt fatigued, but we just opened up a new road
0:45.5	near our house and I ran the whole length of the road.
0:47.2	I ran around eight miles. Wow. And then when I got done,
0:51.6	I felt unusually tired. And I thought, huh.
0:54.2	And so I'm just going to go ahead and say, Sky, I had an eight mile COVID run.
0:59.0	I don't know if that's true. I only tested, I only tested myself today
1:02.8	when I woke up feeling bad. But, you know, so we'll see Lord willing.
1:06.2	Hopefully it will stay, you know, this will be as bad as it gets.
1:10.0	But, you know, we'll see.
1:11.2	Well, like I said, I think 100% of people right now have COVID.
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