Our Cultural Moment: Why New Laws Will Not Save Our Nation’s Soul

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1

• Everyone sees it: the West is in the midst of social, moral, and spiritual collapse

• But darkened hearts can’t be fixed by legislature or cultural movements.

• Real change starts “at the bottom” - with hearts transformed by Christ’s gospel.

Segment 2

• The Reformation rebuilt a crumbling civilization through faith, not force.

• Oz Guinness calls this our “civilizational moment”—we’re losing the foundation that built the modern world.

• We won’t be saved by “making America great again”— but by preaching Christ again.

Segment 3

• Dr. Greg Gifford exposes the truth about SSRIs and the “chemical imbalance” myth.

• Pills can mute pain but can’t renew your mind or restore your soul.

• Real transformation comes from God’s work in us, not sedation.

Segment 4

• New studies link antidepressants to alarming risks—violence, mania, even suicide.

• SSRIs offer comfort without cure, masking spiritual problems with medical language.

• True healing happens when the soul is renewed, not when the mind is medicated.

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0:00.0	Wretched Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:07.0	At our church, we have people repeat a prayer
0:09.0	who want to place their faith in Christ.
0:11.0	Jesus did all the hard part.
0:12.0	He did everything, but pray your prayer.
0:14.0	I'm gonna ask you just to pray with me right now.
0:16.0	Just say these words with me.
0:18.0	You can say those words every day for the rest of your life and die and be
0:21.8	separated from God. The scripture does not say that Jesus Christ came to the nation of Israel and
0:27.2	said that the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Now who would like to ask me into
0:31.2	their hearts? It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Friel. Top down or bottom up.
0:38.5	That is the question.
0:40.8	This is Rretched Radio.
0:42.9	Have you noticed Western civilization is different than the world you and I grew up in?
0:49.2	And I think the conclusion of most would be, it ain't for the better.
0:58.7	Morality has changed. Unity unity almost non-existent safety common sense what happened here and we all lament the changing of the guard in a western
1:07.1	civilization and we ask the question how do you get back? How do we return?
1:13.8	How does a nation that was once so good, and by good, I don't mean having a strong GDP,
1:21.1	by good, I don't mean that we are generating tons of money from tariffs, which we are,
1:26.8	actually, those aren't the things that make a nation great.
1:29.4	What does morality values, treatment of neighbors, are good for the entire globe, the morality.
1:40.1	These are the things that make a nation truly great.
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