The Two Wings of a Bird Called Love
Maybe you’ve heard about it. But empathy is a sin. That is according to some so-called conservative Christians. Empathy as a sin is a thing. A couple books have been written about it, one called the Sin of Empathy by a professor at a Christian college and seminary. The other is called Toxic Empathy by Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative columnist. Elon Musk recently quoted the ideas of another thinker, Gad Saad, who claims empathy is a weakness in Western civilization. Saad, now finishing a book titled Suicidal Empathy, describes himself as culturally Jewish, but otherwise an atheist. As for his academic background, his expertise and PhD is in marketing. Nonetheless, the two Christians I mentioned above agree with Saad, an atheist, that empathy is a sin. When you delve deeper into their words, however, you quickly find out their critique of empathy is mostly bluster and, well, marketing. Their critique is really of empathy taken too far which they of course exaggerate. Empathy, if taken...