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In all my life … Christianity has never been a source of good morals, love or peace.
I’m indigenous Canadian and from my point of view, Christianity has always been the most vial creations of man I’ve ever known
Tribalism and dogma are the most dangerous and worst of human traits that kill billions of humans.
This movement feels like a coordinated effort to corrupt Christians. AFAI can tell, many aren’t reading their Bibles because the clips online of pastors stoking this, and the “Biblical” knowledge & quotes they use are ridiculous. People twisting Matthew 25:32 to say, “That’s really about persecuted Christians!” while slamming empathy looks like a first class ticket to hell (which I don’t believe in, to be clear). It specifically asks, “Did you feed & clothe me? Did you help me as the foreigner? Did you visit me in jail?” There’s nothing in that passage about “Did you visit the Christian in jail?” Stories like the Good Samaritan, the parable of the rich person visiting vs the poor person, and the sermon on the mound have been completely lost by evangelicals in favor of the Old Testament, which is overridden (by Christ’s own words) by Matthew 7:12 or Galatians 5:14. Love others & treat them with respect.
I’m a Unitarian Universalist who considers Jesus a very important holy prophet among many. His most important teachings are being lost. This version of “faith” is corrupting people. You got pastors basically saying, “We shouldn’t empathize and take people at their word. Not everything reported to HR is true.” I’m not going to link Ryan Visconti, but come on now… doesn’t take much to put 2 & 2 together to see someone who sinned but doesn’t want to acknowledge the hurt caused.
When you want civil war, erasing empathy for your fellow man is necessary.
Satan’s down with this.
Tell them, not us.
Allie Stuckey wrote a book titled, Toxic Empathy to confront how liberals weaponize emotional manipulation. At the same time, Joe Rigney’s The Sin of Empathy debuted appearing to argue that empathy is a counterfeit of compassion. The debate over empathy is on in Evangelicalism and for good reason. The term empathy has been popularized in the church over the last several decades despite having next to zero usage in the Christian tradition.
