Silliest Stories Of The Day: When Political Power Becomes God
Wretched Radio with Todd Friel
Fortis Institute
4.9 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
• Today’s question: which story makes your eyes roll hardest… and your heart ache most?
• A university in the UK slaps a “sexual violence” warning on the Bible.
• George Clooney’s new movie romanticizes assisted suicide — culture calling evil “good.” The painful stories continue…
Segment 2
• King Charles dedicates a UK memorial to the LGBT movement.
• Parents in Britain are taking self-defense classes to defend against their own children.
• A Pennsylvania pastor points a gun at his congregation as a sermon illustration.
Segment 3
• Sebastian Gorka calls Trump’s shooting a “Christ-like moment.”
• Todd and Josh Williamson warn: when politics becomes religion, biblical theology withers.
• Comparing any political leader to Christ cheapens the cross and confuses the gospel.
Segment 4
• Jesus volunteered His life like no one else or could.
• Politicians invoking the cross for clout rob Jesus of His glory.
• The takeaway: when the world mocks truth, Christians must guard the gospel’s weight and clarity.
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| 0:00.0 | Ritchard Radio begins in three, two, one. Now, I am not reintroducing the idea of purgatory, |
| 0:11.2 | but on the other hand, I do believe the baby was thrown out with the bathwater. With that came |
| 0:15.7 | a belief, when you die, you're instantaneously and magically made perfect. The soul of someone |
| 0:20.5 | who dies immediately goes into eternity. |
| 0:23.8 | There is no place where you make up for your sins. |
| 0:26.1 | There is no purgatory. |
| 0:27.2 | In the twinkling of an eye, we shall be changed. |
| 0:30.8 | It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Friel. |
| 0:34.4 | Let's play. |
| 0:35.9 | Come on now. |
| 0:37.1 | This is Wretched Radio. Oh, wow, it's a ratings bonanza by popular demand. |
| 0:46.4 | What do we call in this thing? Jimmy, I got any idea what? Come on down. Come on down. You, sir, |
| 0:52.0 | are going to act as the federal head of the tens and tens of people listening to this here, Rretched Radio program. Are you prepared for your most earnest responsibility, sir? Yes. We are going to play, oh, a perennial favorite. Which story makes your eyes roll more violently? That's what, that's what, oh, I'm telling you, |
| 1:15.1 | what's the name of the people, the Nielsen ratings on this. Oh, massive. Which one of these |
| 1:21.6 | stories will make them roll most violently because they're going to roll. That is not in question. |
| 1:29.2 | It is merely a manner of degrees. |
| 1:31.8 | So Jimmy, here we go. |
| 1:33.0 | Are you ready for story number one? |
| 1:35.6 | I am. |
| 1:38.1 | There's a university in the Uck, that would be England, |
| 1:42.3 | that has slapped a sexual violence warning on the Bible. |
| 1:47.1 | That's right. |
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