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The common factor found in all Nazis was a lack of empathy. Without empathy, we are capable of unimaginable cruelty.

If Christ lived today, these people would be in line, with hammers in their hands, to nail him to a cross.

"Conservative christian" is an oxymoron

It’s worth pointing out that empathy is different from sympathy and compassion.

Empathy is basically just understanding someone else. It doesn’t mean agreement or acceptance. Empathy is usually necessary in order to manipulate someone effectively.

That being said there is a component to empathy—sometimes called affective or emotional empathy—that reflects the phenomenon of emotional contagion, or how empathizing with someone else’s feelings can sometimes cause you to feel the same emotion on a lesser level.

Sympathy is understanding another person through shared or similar experiences.

Compassion is caring about someone.

What these Christians are talking about is the way there’s a trail from simple empathy to compassion that can cause some people to get over the bigotry and intolerance they have worked so hard to instill in them.

I have some of these Christians in my family. They are good people who have been taught rotten beliefs, and to avoid any critical thinking about said beliefs. I avoid associating with them as much as possible. Religion is a mind virus and these folks have one of the worst strains.

"Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

I can't understand how these people can still look at themselves in the mirror. I guess I'm not very empathetic.

Disgusting

For fucks sake, can ya all stop calling these heathens Christians? Sorry but to be called a Christian you need to follow teacheings of Christ, I know, not obvious at all! -.-'

And no, no jew-like bending rules around till they fit what you want either (wierd line hanged around...NYC IIRC...to allow them to "work" when their religion forbids?). You have the ten tenets, follow them dammit. These dumb fucks break them DAILY.

And that's before we even go into teachings of, you know, being empathetic towards your brethern. You can even replace Jesus with Superman and...ah, sorry, forgot USA conservatists hate him too.

FFS USA.

It is plain and simple in the Bible: empathy is a function of skin color. The whiter the skin, the more empathy is a virtue; the darker, the more it is a sin. I don't understand what's so difficult about it.

Religion is the absolute seed of all that's wrong here.

Of course they prefer the term sympathy. That let's them feel like they are looking down in pity at a lesser.

I think the root of this is a misunderstanding of Subsidiarity. Problems should be solved by the nearest, most local competent party available. That means I don't barge in and try to solve another family's problems when they are capable of solving them theirselves. The federal government shouldn't regulate signs in my residential neighborhood. Neither should the state. It should be the local government, my neighborhood association, of me making a decision for myself.

Nowhere in subsidiarity are we understood to be relieved from the moral obligation to be charitable. Yes, if your funds are limited, you direct them to the area of your greatest competence & the greatest need. Give a coat to your neighbor next door before you give a coat to someone across town ... but if you have the funds for two coats, give them both.

I think the bottom line is if your heart is in loving your neighbor, you are going to get it right. If it isn't, you'll find something in the above as an excuse to not give a care about someone else.

Jesus wept!

Stuckey, host of the popular podcast “Relatable,” is one of two evangelicals who published books within the past year making Christian arguments against some forms of empathy.

Naming podcasts sarcastically has officially gone too far.

I don’t think we can tolerate these ass hats anymore. I no longer have empathy for them.