Posted on 10/21/2024 11:55:31 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
In Toxic Empathy, Allie Beth Stuckey argues that empathy has become a tool of manipulation by left-wing activists who bully people into believing that they must adopt progressive positions to be loving. She explores the five most heated issues through which toxic empathy is deployed: abortion, gender, sexuality, immigration, and social justice. Progressives use catchy mantras to present their perspective as empathetic, like "abortion is healthcare," "love is love," or "no human being is illegal," but in each case, they ignore the other side of the moral equation. For example, abortion is presented as compassionate for the woman, but what about the human life the procedure kills?
This book isn’t about killing empathy; it’s about submitting our empathy to God’s definitions of love, goodness, and justice. Stuckey exposes the logical pitfalls and moral consequences of toxic empathy, equipping Christians with research-backed, Biblical truths to dismantle the progressive lies that have permeated our culture—and our church.
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I know a very kind, intelligent Christian who cannot vote for Trump because of Trump’s past “character”...I look at it as I would any other transaction with any other person...we’re not voting for a pastor of our church.....
Compared to the other candidates...there is no other choice...
He is saintly compared to a) other presidents we’ve had whose many vices and verbiages were not publicized. And b) even compared to Biblical figures God appointed and set His favor on.
But that’s beside the point. Jesus will never be on the ballot. Trump at least gives the people who follow Jesus a seat at the table and wants to protect our freedom to worship, to evangelize, and to speak.
The policy contrast this election, in this era we are in, leave ZERO grey area. Period.
Ask your friend if she’d vote for King Moses the murderer, Abraham who fathered a son with his wife’s maid, Judah the son of Israel who slept with prostitutes, King David who has multiple wives and was a murderer, Solomon who defines the term womanizer.
Most of the Biblical patriarchs were immoral men, worse than Trump. Would she refused to vote for guys that wrote about 1/2 the Old Testament?
The left and the “compassionate” christians(lower case purposely) will not get much from me since they are playing into satan’s plan.
God is interested in us as individuals, not in government, Jesus preached to individuals about where their heart needs to be, he did not go to Rome to implement a government policy, it is the internal conversion and worship of God from us individually that matters, not government programs.
As a Christian living in 21st Century America, I refuse to take the blessing and privilege of voting for granted. Trump and Vance are no Herod or Caesar.
Out of love for God, and love for neighbor, to the glory of God, may the body of Christ see that it is our duty to vote. It is an act of our witness.
First of all we need to remember...quit calling it empathy...the bible calls for Compassion...not “empathy”!
Empathy might have you feel sorry for a wounded robbed man...it’s compassion that leads one to bind his wounds and pay for his upkeep while he heals!
“a very kind, intelligent Christian who cannot vote for Trump because of Trump’s past “character” “
Does this person know that Trump did not get where he is today by ‘servicing’ Willie Brown?
I’m sympathetic to be people who are reluctant to vote for individuals with flawed characters - I’ve done it myself - but fundamentally we’re all flawed characters, so voting for the “lesser of two evils” is *always* our situation. There’s only one person I know of who made it through this vale of tears without sin, and He ain’t running.
What does that have to do with my post?
I disagree that God is not interested in government — or nations. He is God of the individual and of the nations.
“argues that empathy has become a tool of manipulation b”
It’s about damn time!!!
” intelligent Christian who cannot vote for Trump”
Nope, he’s lying. You know how I know? Because he almost certainly voted for grandpa bad-finger.
If he didn’t vote, he voted for grandpa bad-finger.
Evil prevails on his watch. Good job bright boy.
Christians are sometimes taught to believe that the main cause of poverty is victimhood or lack of compassion. That can be a cause of of poverty, as in slavery, monopoly or feudslism.
But here in the USA, poor people are all too often their own worst enemies. Things like substance abuse, gambling, lack of education, lack of respect for authority, won’t save even small amounts, divorce, illegitimate kids, won’t plan for the future, and many unhealthy personal habits. (Any others?)
My point was that liberals are wrong when they pretend that your and mine Christian duty can be replaced by government programs.
American history has revealed that government pushes Christians and God out of the role of charity and good works when it steals the role, and the Christian participation in that role shrinks the more who adopt the view that “well, government is doing that now and I pay them the taxes, therefore I am fulfilling my Christian role”.
Yes but socialists wouldn’t have gained such a foothold if Christians had done a better job of stewarding politics.
The left exploits Christians period.
And Christians let them because too many are too concerned with someone thinking they are not nice. Ands if the left thinks we’re *nice*, then maybe they can be receptive to hearing the gospel.
Except it doesn’t work that way with bullies. They despise those they perceive as being weak.
Ann Barnhardt on *niceness*. (Poor quality video but excellent content. Eleven minutes long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ugh_DuYMM
How does he feel about reading the Psalms or the first 5 books of the OT?
Counter with Moses and David.
And Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon by a serial polygamist.
Immigration led to the protestant voters being outvoted by the Catholic immigrants in California, it is why JFK was trying to pass what is now called the 1965 Immigration Act and passed upon his death.
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