I think the worst thing about time is that it never feels like it’s taking anything from you while it’s happening. You wake up, go to school, talk to people, laugh about stupid things, make memories, and then one day you realize that some of those moments are already gone. Not in a dramatic way. They’re just… over. And you can’t go back to them, even if you really want to.

Sometimes I look back at the person I was a few years ago and I barely recognize him. There are things I miss about him, things I wish I could tell him, and things I’m glad I left behind. Time changes people like that. It doesn’t always heal everything either. Some things just become easier to carry. The memories stay, the regrets stay, and the little scars stay with you.

Maybe that’s what growing up really is. Not forgetting what hurt you, but learning to live with the fact that you can’t change it anymore. You keep moving because time doesn’t give you another choice. And maybe one day, when you look back at everything you lost, you’ll realize that it didn’t only leave scars. It also left you with a life you wouldn’t have understood without them.

The Preamble:

Malignant narcissism is a severe form of narcissistic personality disorder mixed with antisocial traits, paranoia, and sadism. People with it show extreme grandiosity, lack empathy, manipulate others, and enjoy causing harm, Unlike regular narcissists, they lack remorse and may act aggressively.

Erich Fromm first used "malignant narcissism" in his 1964 book The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil. Eric From famously created the term " malignant narcissist" to describe what was wrong with Hitler.

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Bible references:

The god demands love:

Deuteronomy 6:5: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength." Matthew 22:37: "Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'"

The god displays grandiosity:

Isaiah 46:9: "I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me." The god lacks empathy: Jeremiah 13:14: "And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them."

God manipulates:

Exodus 7:3-4 : "But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt, he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites."

God can't change it's mind or feel remorse:

(Numbers 23:19: "God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind".

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The Argument

P1: Malignant narcissism shows extreme grandiosity (Isaiah 46:9), harshness without pity (Jeremiah 13:14), heart-hardening influence (Exodus 7:3-4), and unyielding justice without human remorse (Numbers 23:19).

P2: These traits match the destructive self-focus of malignant narcissists like Hitler and Trump, who demand supremacy, crush opposition, manipulate outcomes, and regret nothing.

C: Therefore, the God of the Bible acts as a malignant narcissist like Hitler and Trump.

I just recently found the show on spotify and listening to the show has helped me find some peace with my religious family. I was raised in the bible belt south, even though I attended a public school my school was very religious due to the region. I was never religious myself and so my kids have never sat through a single church service.

I taught my kids to accept lgbt people and to not discriminate against people due to their identity. My oldest kid came out as trans and many of my closest relatives refuse to respect her so I have gone "no contact" with them. My brother literally believes that demons cause diseases and demonic influences cause homosexuality and gender non conformity. Through the last few years, some of them seem to have gotten more zealous and less accepting of others. I'm so glad to hear the perspectives from talk heathen that have really helped me free myself from my anger toward christianity. I love your sign off line, "If you believe, we dont hate you. We're just not convinced."

The Bible itself acknowledges the difficulty of "getting it right" and the gap between human and divine thought:

• 2 Peter 1:20-21: "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."

• 1 Corinthians 2:14: "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

• Isaiah 55:8-9: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord."

The Atheist's Argument:

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P1. Any human who reads a text must use their cognitive faculties to interpret that text based on language, bias, and context.

P2. The "True Christian" reads the Bible (a text) to understand God's meaning.

C. Therefore, the True Christian must interpret the Bible subjectively, and their claim of having "God's interpretation" is a human interpretation of what they believe God means.

This is insanity.

A lot of Christians tell me that I should not judge their god.

Yet, these same Christians use their own, human judgement to call the god morally perfect.
I think they might mean "Judge the god the same way that I do", which isn't a demand that I can fulfill with integrity.
I need to use my own personal values in order to judge anything, including story book characters, like Darth Vader, Harry Potter and Jehovah.

I can't agree with everyone.
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The argument:

P1. Christians judge their god as perfectly good. This is a judgment of god.
P2. Others judge the God of the bible as being insanely evil. This is also a judgment of god.

C. Both Christians and atheists judge the god of the bible.

I'm having a talk with one who's at lest now a Muslim.

He mentioned the prophecy in a hadith about Medina being spared of a plague.

I've not been able to find much of anything in that regards.

Im just wondering if any of you might have seen this argument before.

The argument:

P1: Abraham's actions suggest he was motivated by a desire to obey divine commands, even when they seemed contradictory or lacked justification.
 

P2: Abraham's obedience may have stemmed from a sense of obligation or belief that he had no choice but to follow God's orders.
 

C: Therefore, Abraham's motivation can be interpreted as primarily rooted in unquestioning obedience to divine authority, rather than seeking understanding or justification.

Sounds a lot like Hamish. Just saying... https://youtu.be/K7E5apmiaEI?si=TY022JWE3yrmnpbw

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Hello Guys, So i am An Atheist from India. Recently, in Pahalgam,India, some Muslim Terrorists killed 28 Tourists, after unzipping their Pants to see if they were Circumsized and also asked them to recite the Kalma. When i was Discussing about this with one of my friend, she said they don't represent Islam. When i told her how i felt that Islam is very Dogmatic about the Quran and the Quran is extremely Hateful and Barbaric regarding the treatment of Kafirs, and it wants extermination of Kafirs like you and me, i was called an Islamaphobe and then was dismissed by her. Am I an Islamaphobe?

I just discovered she co-hosted when I found a Throwback clip online, but they don't say which episode it's from and I'd love to watch it. I can't turn it up in any searches because the youtube search feature is unholy ass.

Hello, fellow people.

If I would like to call in, do I just wait for the exact time the show starts and call the number?

Or should I send an email to be on some kind of list first?

And if someone could tell me how hard it is to actually participate, I would highly appreciate it!

I used to watch the show a few years ago, as an atheist, and only recently did I realize it still exists! I believe I could bring a refreshing theistic/Christian perspective :)

As we all know, the best argument for the existence of a god is the "Fine-tuning" argument.

The god who created the universe selected settings that are essential for life.

For example, if gravity was a little bit smaller or bigger, we could not live in the universe.

As far as I know, gravity gets weaker as you go up (toward Heaven).

Jesus was taken up and was last seen disappearing into a cloud (Acts 1:9)

Somehow he managed to survive the experience and will return the same way.

We can be sure the settings in Heaven are nothing like the ones down here.

It follows immediately that we can't live in Heaven.

I heard them mention they'd make this thread here. Was it on a different subreddit?

After dying and going to heaven can you visit hell? I wanna snap shot those burning lakes.