ARE YOU BEING TAUGHT TO DESTROY RELATIONSHIPS USING THIS NEW TREND?

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1:

• YouTube gurus are misusing the term "narcissist" to manipulate relationships, especially targeting men.

• Their advice? “Torture” narcissists by reducing their significance—an approach not backed by scripture.

• Does the Bible support this trend, or is it just trendy manipulation disguised as wisdom?

Segment 2:

• Are parents being ghosted by their kids due to the narcissism trend?

• Terms like "cutting out toxic people" and "chosen family" are replacing biblical commands.

• The Bible warns against abandoning your family—this culture of detachment is dangerous and unbiblical.

Segment 3:

• We’ve coddled people’s feelings for too long, but this narcissism trend takes it too far.

• The idea that you should "torture" or "hold onto your truth" against a narcissist is against biblical teaching.

• True Christian love and engagement with others doesn’t involve playing games—it involves walking alongside them in truth and grace.

Segment 4:

• Influencers encourage you to ignore or punish those who don’t align with your truth.

• This “narcissism” culture isn’t biblical; we don’t torture people or cast them aside.

• Personal preferences aren’t narcissism; kindness and understanding are key in relationships.

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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 a 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 in the twinkling of an eye.
0:28.5	We shall be changed.
0:30.7	It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Friel.
0:34.2	Ruh, there's a new trend, and it is a pernicious one.
0:39.5	This is Rretched Radio.
0:41.8	There is a word that is being bandied about.
0:44.2	The semantic range, it is being expanded to the breaking point, and it is being used by YouTube gurus to encourage you to torture people. I'm not kidding. There are a number of videos on the YouTube
0:57.8	machine that talk about narcissists. And they define a narcissist as anybody from somebody who is
1:06.9	like totally completely self-obsessed, which I think the word narcissist, when you think
1:12.2	about some of those extreme cases where it is nothing but me, no acts of kindness, they're just
1:19.9	consumed with self, okay, fine, you want to use the term narcissist to describe some perhaps extreme behavior that is manifested
1:31.1	for people to see. But I would argue we're all narcissists. Because narcissism has the root of
1:38.4	pride. And is there anybody who doesn't have that? Here's the trend on the YouTuber machine. They use the term narcissist
1:46.4	in a very stretched, with a stretch definition to include anybody who kind of focuses on themselves
1:55.3	ever, or anybody who disagrees with you, or anybody who says, I don't think I want to go to that restaurant.
2:05.0	That person is immediately labeled a narcissist. And what then should you do? I'm not kidding.
2:12.3	Torture them. I'm looking at my files. Here's four ways to torture the narcissist. That's been seen by over
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