It’s a provocative concept: that empathy — that’s, placing your self in one other individual’s proverbial sneakers, and feeling what they really feel — is a sin.
The Bible incorporates repeated invocations from Jesus to indicate deep empathy and compassion for others, together with full strangers. He’s very clear on this level. Furthermore, Christianity is constructed round a elementary act of empathy so radical — Jesus dying for our sins — that it’s tough to spin as dangerous.
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