Regarding the "sin of empathy."

I've kept quiet about it for a while. I initially brushed it off as just being some idiot on Twitter. Then it went viral, and kept going viral. Now I'm seeing another video where some moron is saying "Progressives will use weaponized empathy to emotionally manipulate Christians and confuse us." (and the person in the video was supposedly a PASTOR.)

And to start off, I have to say WHAT THE ACTUAL F???!!!

I grew up in church. You know who got condemned in the bible? People who didn't show empathy. Take for example all of Job's family and friends who abandoned him.

And on the flip side of that we have the Good Samaritan, a parable lauded through the ages and pointed to on many occasions as a WAY CHRISTIANS SHOULD LIVE THEIR LIVES. And what was that Samaritan doing? SHOWING EMPATHY. Jesus showed empathy when he fed the 5,000 with loaves and fishes. When he healed the ear of the soldier after Peter cut it off. Rahab showed empathy when she helped the Israelite spies in Jericho. (And many many more examples I could list off.)

And then when Jesus is asked what the greatest commandments are, he replies to love your lord god and to love your neighbor AS YOURSELF. You know what that "as yourself" part is? It's EMPATHY. Empathy is required to be able to follow that commandment. So the bible is essentially telling us that the largest thing we should do other than loving god is to show empathy to our fellow man.

Christianity needs to stop and stand up against these people who want to turn it into a cult of hate. I've been watching it happen for years, and if it doesn't start fighting against and calling it out soon, it's going to be too late.