Brady D. Friedkin

Nicene Christian, husband, girl dad, Anglican, seminary grad. Lex orandi, lex credendi. Proud mouth breather. For my sports fandom page, follow @QueenCityPhils

[Brady D. Friedkin @bdfriedkin]

Swords into plowshares

[Brady D. Friedkin @bdfriedkin]

Listen, I don't like the Weather Channel either (making people pay to see radar past six hours and for other important features and clogging up the app with ads is wild)

But this is crazy from an official account representing the White House, they were reporting the weather lol

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

This event is about celebrating America’s unmatched greatness after 250 years — which apparently doesn’t sit well with the friendless loser who wrote this bullshit clickbait headline.

Rain or shine, we’re celebrating our great country no matter what. GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🇺🇸

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

It is the official position of the Catholic Church that the sport is called Soccer. Total cultural victory achieved. 🇺🇸

[Brady D. Friedkin @bdfriedkin]

Well the AI chat bot I use thinks I’m a genius, so I’ll always have that going for me

[Brady D. Friedkin @bdfriedkin]

It just seems to me like during a rain storm isn't the best time to test the tornado sirens...

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

My conviction remains:

God did not ordain Donald Trump to rescue the American church, or revive the American church, or redeem the American church.

God ordained Donald Trump to test the American church. And the American church has failed.

[Russell Moore @drmoore]

That one can excuse or ignore this while claiming to be “pro-life” is a sign of a seared conscience. God have mercy on us all.

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

It's scandalous and wicked that anyone, especially a Christian, would care more about their tribal narrative than about the truth.

[Brady D. Friedkin @bdfriedkin]

The people in government who claim to be committed Christians sure seem comfortable with openly and brazenly breaking the ninth commandment all the time

At a certain point more Christians should start wondering if these people even know Jesus or why they don’t take Him seriously

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Kill and slander. We saw it with Renee Good. We're seeing it now. It's vile. Absolutely vile.

[Brady D. Friedkin @bdfriedkin]

Jesus was always talking about people like this

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This lesbian agitator gave her life to protect 68 IQ Somali scammers who couldn’t give less of a shit about her.

The most disgraceful and humiliating end a person could possibly meet.

[Mike Cosper @MikeCosper]

I've been thinking about this a bit.

We have this "vulnerability" culture in which people go online every five minutes and complain about what's bothering them in life. And a post about the frustrations of parenthood, especially when kids are young — blowout diapers, public tantrums, etc. — is going to get more attention than a simple post with a photo of a child, or a video of a person reading to their child. (Read to your kids, btw.)

So what we get is this weird recency bias, kind of like negative polarization in politics, around parenting. And it's unfortunate.

The other element I think of CONSTANTLY is that we've convinced ourselves, because of one-click Amazon orders and Door Dash and so on and so forth, that life is supposed to be easy. But nothing worth doing is easy. Being an athlete is hard. Writing is hard. Learning to play an instrument is hard.

Parenting is hard too. And what Roan doesn't say — and I guarantee in every case except maybe one or two psychopaths — is that every parent who complains about parenting would tell you they don't regret having kids.

Parenting is hard. But then some nights (as happened this week) you get to turn on a favorite movie and your teenage kid lays on your shoulder and laughs at the same joke you laugh at and talks about the film's cinematography because it's one of your obsessions you've passed along and no drug on the earth could levitate you more.

[𝐎. 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 @TheAlanNoble]

“Justice removed, then, what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers?” Augustine, City of God

[David French @DavidAFrench]

If true, this is heinous and illegal. You do not kill helpless survivors of a sinking boat. (It enraged us when, for example, the Japanese would machine-gun American survivors in the water.)
You do not kill someone who is hors de combat, and no quarter orders are flatly illegal.

[Mike Cosper @MikeCosper]

Joel , I am writing this with genuine concern for your soul, and the soul of the American church.

The correct question for a Christian is not "How many died in the Holocaust," but "How do I not bear false witness and break the ninth commandment?"

The 9th commandment is not just an admonition to tell the truth about the present; we're to tell the truth about the past. While I'm tempted to go scorched earth and point out every single stupid, ignorant, and irresponsible thing you and your cohosts said on that podcast about the Holocaust, I'm hoping it's so obvious that people stop taking you seriously, any more than they take Fuentes seriously, which is as a provocateur and troll, and not a pastor or a Christian. You foolishly pretend that the Holocaust is not one of the most thoroughly researched, documented, affirmed, and accounted for calamities in human history.

You hate modernity? You should hate the Holocaust more than anything — it's the culmination of everything one might critique about modernity: industrialization enabled mass extermination of humanity and mass cremation. The modern nation-state allowed for the statelessness of European Jews. Mass transportation allowed for the deportation of Jews in enormous numbers. Maybe lean into that instead of the garbage spewed by people like Daryll Cooper and Candace Owens.

I'm not saying you're not a Christian; so don't pretend I'm making some religious claim around this. I'm saying you're being some combination of evil, stupid, and irresponsible, and the result won't just be that you look like an evil person; it will be contributing to the overall permission structure of violence worldwide against Jews.

But hear this — There are multiple ways to break the ninth commandment. One is to simply lie. Another is to be a worm-tongued grifter who is 'just asking questions'. Another is to be profoundly stupid and authoritative on topics about which you clearly know nothing.

You have managed to do all three at once in that fecal festival of an episode on the Holocaust, and honestly, if anyone takes you seriously after that, that is a judgment on them as much as it is judgment on you. You embody the definition of a know-nothing, from you and your hosts misconstrued understanding of the term "Shoah" to your utterly idiotic comments about lack of evidence of gas chambers and crematoria.

You don't know what you are talking about. Period.

Furthermore, antisemitism persists not because Jews are unique authors of a particular evil; it is because — as the Apostle Paul said, "Salvation comes from the Jews." Jesus was and is will always be a Jew from Judea who took away the sins of the world. Even as the church has formed, extended, expanded that salvation, that root remains, and Satan hates it. Don't do his work.

One need not assign specific theological significance to the shock of the Holocaust, or the crematoria, the idea of sacrifice as you insisted. That's a straw man.

In fact many Jews rejected "Holocaust" for "Shoah" because the former was a greek term that invoked burnt sacrifice and the latter means "catastrophe" or "calamity" — in direct contrast to the nonsense your colleague spewed after his cursory misreading of a wikipedia page.

Likewise, one need not attribute the beauty of Jewish resilience in the aftermath of the second world war — the surprises of 1948... 1967... 1973... in order to say "The Jewish people have a right to return to their ancestral homeland, and they certainly have a right not to be swallowed up by Islamists on all sides who salivate for Jewish blood and a restoration of Islamic glory."

I mean this sincerely — I do not get what you're up to dabbling in a truly demonic evil. I suspect nothing I say will break through. But what you are doing is indulging a profound, ancient, demonic evil. The evil of the Amalekites. The evil of Haman. Have you not noticed that at the hands of providence, the fate of those who conspire in these ways turns badly for them... eventually.

Go read Esther, and see what happens when people indulge conspiracy theories about the Jewish people. Haman and Xerxes and the entire Persian empire disappear from history. Go to Auschwitz, where the gallows that hang Hoess still stand. By some mysterious fact of providence, as Walker Percy once put it, you can walk down the streets of every major city in the world, and you're not gonna meet an Assyrian or a Babylonian. Those civilizations collapsed and were assimilated into others. But you might meet a Jew, whose origins go back to Judea, and who is linked by both blood and providence to the word made flesh, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

What do you think is more likely... that the Nazis were the good guys, that conspiracist and revisionist history takes are right, that we need more Fuentes in our world and less @tedcruz ? Or maybe that an ancient, demonic hatred that began with a promise in the garden extends to this day... and you are fostering it?

I genuinely hope you'll think on this. For the sake of your soul, and any fools who would follow you into this profound evil.

[𝐎. 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 @TheAlanNoble]

Ban this trash now.

[Brady D. Friedkin @bdfriedkin]

I've created a video using clips from every day for the years 2017, 2021, and 2024. This time, I did the same thing, but for the month of September. Give it a watch!

https://t.co/iewjFH8FBG

[Christopher Yuan @christopheryuan]

This is Angela, Christopher’s mom. Please pray for Christopher. He was admitted in the hospital yesterday morning at the trauma center after a severe injury. Now, he is paralyzed from the neck down. After a long wait for the MRI, surgery is scheduled for today. Pray for God’s mercy on His servant, that the surgery will be successful and Christopher will not be paralyzed permanently.

[Brady D. Friedkin @bdfriedkin]

A Christianity that is infused and confused with partisan politics becomes no Christianity at all

[Brady D. Friedkin @bdfriedkin]

@DoulosDon @j_bambrick None of them are theologically progressive

[Brady D. Friedkin @bdfriedkin]

Job applications that make you do it through a chatbot and don't let you attach a resumé before you input all previous job information is the number one thing wrong with this country