TEN COMMANDMENTS IN SCHOOLS: POWERFUL WITNESS OR EMPTY SYMBOL?

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1:

• Debate in Texas and Oklahoma over posting the Ten Commandments in schools.

• Glenn Beck supports it—but reframes them in a way that misses their true biblical intent.

• The Ten Commandments point to the one true God, not just generic morality.

Segment 2:

• Glenn Beck’s defense of the Ten Commandments feels shallow and unclear.

• His reasoning veers off into emotional and cultural appeals, not theological accuracy.

• Todd challenges: What’s the point if the Gospel isn’t connected to the Law?

Segment 3:

• Posting the Law without the Gospel misses its purpose—law convicts, Gospel saves.

• Global updates: Divorce gift registries, marijuana health risks, etiquette coaches for Gen Z.

• Which states best (and worst) protect religious liberty?

Segment 4:

• Children’s National Hospital halts puberty blockers for minors.

• UK: Bereavement pay for miscarriage and abortion legalized up to birth.

• Uber launches female-only pickup feature; Wretched store sale announced.

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0:00.0	Wretched Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:07.0	Now I am not reintroducing the idea of purgatory, but on the other hand, I do believe the baby was thrown out with a bathwater.
0:15.0	With that came a belief, when you die, you're instantaneously and magically made perfect.
0:19.0	The soul of someone who dies immediately
0:21.9	goes into eternity. There is no place where you make up for your sins. There is no purgatory
0:27.0	in the twinkling of an eye. We shall be changed. It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Friel.
0:34.1	I hope that we could come here in recent together.
0:44.8	And as a reasonable man, I'm willing to do whatever's necessary to find a peaceful solution and his problem.
0:46.0	Me too.
0:46.9	This is Rretched Radio.
0:49.3	What is the problem?
0:50.5	Well, there's a difference of opinion when it comes to Ray Comfort. I mean, the Ten Commandments in Texas and Oklahoma, there is now
0:59.1	legislation that insists mandated by the government that every public school posts
1:03.5	the two tablets of the law. And that is precisely why some of us, perhaps the minority in evangelical Christianity,
1:14.2	let's just say, aren't nuts about putting up our religious documents on public school walls.
1:20.5	It's not that I don't believe in the 10-com, of course I do.
1:24.3	But it's that there are two tables, one horizontal, one vertical. I got no problem with
1:31.2	the horizontal stuff if you want to come up with a list of rules that you think are important
1:35.9	for kids like don't murder each other, don't steal stuff. That's fine. But when they are put in a
1:43.0	religious context and when they're accompanied by
1:46.1	vertical laws that you should honor God first, that you should love him the most, you should
1:52.8	worship him a certain way, you need to use his name rightly. I think that those are laws that while
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