The concept of "toxic empathy" should be purged from Christianity like one of the highest forms of heresy. I'm talking Deus Vult levels of purging.
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Ok so "Toxic Empathy" means "others having empathy for people you hate".
"And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love"
But only the correct kind of love that we condone and pre-approve.
Empathy of the church. Like the empathy for all the raped children? Or for the abused women?
Can't hijack something that doesn't exist.
Christians don’t actually believe in the Bible. It’s all a scam. If they did, they would eat him alive in the name of Jesus for ever referring to empathy as “toxic.”
Ahhhh yes my favorite part of the Bible is how the religion was created from lack of empathy. These people are creating their own demise.
They claim Jesus as their savior and greatest teacher but look everywhere but Jesus’s sermons for justifications for their beliefs. It’s so blatantly hypocritical.
If Jesus came back to America he'd be shot within one minute of opening his mouth for being a "Communist".
Whether he gets shot by the CIA or some random Magat is up to chance.
I'm an atheist, but in cases like these I hope that they are right and get re-routed to hell for being a hypocrite and asshole.
How hard can it be not to throw stones on other people?
I’m an atheist too. I grew up in religion, but that hypocrisy is not something I could ignore.
I think one of the quickest ways to atheism is to read the Bible. Granted you have to be able to critically think though.
Some churches have actually been asked to stop giving Jesus' sermons, for fear that they are woke.
I bet a few of them could get onboard with stoning unruly children. (Mark 7. The law Jesus cited and accused the Pharisees of not following is about stoning children who talk back to their parents.)
If you wondered why conservative Christians come up with awful shit in the Bible… it’s because the Bible has awful shit to come up with.
"Toxic Empathy," just what Jesus always warned about🤣
Love thy neighbor unless they’re fucking queer or brown.
Conservatives are biologically unable to experience empathy. That's why conservatives refer to empathy as fake or evil. They really do believe that because they cannot experience it.
A lack of empathy is why conservative relationships are so shallow. Conservatives love their families as property, not as humans with whom they can empathize. A conservative man loves his wife the way a teenager loves a sportscar. It's a strong emotion, but it is not a deep emotional bond. A deep emotional bond is impossible without some amount of empathy.
This biological inability to experience empathy is also why bigotry comes so easily for conservatives. It's why genocide comes so easily to them. It's why war comes so easily to them. It's how they are able to genuinely delight in the suffering of the vulnerable.
Understand that a conservative will never see a normal person as a human, because they cannot humanize others.
It is not only immoral to keep a relationship with a conservative, it is deadly dangerous. They do not value your life and never will. Because they simply can't.
What makes empathy toxic?
If it's for the "wrong" recipients.
That's sonservatives in a nut shell. Their whole world view is based on the conviction, that their ways are the correct ones which everyone has to live by. No exceptions.
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
What he wants people to hear is "empathy misapplied to those who do not deserve it". What he's really trying to do is normalize psychopathy and Machiavellianism.
Right, on the same day it's come out that Trump is making it harder for US citizens abroad to vote, and Hegseth has announced a 'Department of Religious Affairs' in the military which appears to exclusively be for Cristian Pastors/soldiers.
...and the claim is LGBTQIA+ people are hijacking the US?
Skeletons in closet in 3. 2. 1....
Empathy is cumulative, you can't have enough of it or hijack it. What a fucking caveman.
Ah yes, as Jesus famously said “Love thy neighbor… unless theyre like gay or muslim or something”
wasn't there a whole parable about empathy re: dives and lazarus or something like that? idk i'm not a bible expert like these pastors, obviously.
Those Conservative Christian, right wing Republican, straight, white, American male pastors have never heard of lepers? Love them all, motherfuckers!
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