1 Peter 3:8. Is Compassion Disappearing?

Associated Content ^ | March 10-2010 | Sherry Tomfeld

[stillafreemind]

You can teach compassion, as Peter tried to do in 1 Peter 3:8. But you cannot demand compassion. You cannot force people to be compassionate. You cannot write a law. People either are or they are not.

[SaraJohnson]

Good article. Compassion is still within many Americans and for some, the bullying of the mob is attractive. I can have compassion for a person sentenced to jail and at the same time not want him on the street for the danger he presents to fellow citizens.

Liberals, in the 70’s played on the compassion and empathy of our Christian culture's impulse. They would hold up a “victim” of sexism, racism, poverty, etc. and present a false story. They used the compassion of our culture for manipulation - as a weapon for the enslavement of Americans to socialism and humanistic injustice.

In time, they went a long way to killing off the impulse of compassion in our society because it was a political game of radicals to create injustice and end constitutional freedom. Like Huckster, they played on compassion for criminals in order to release them on the pubic to create more innocent victims. So Americans cynically rejected these false calls for compassion and many lost their impulse of compassion along the way. But not all.