To a narcissist empathy is a sin. It prevents them from running over their victim of the moment because the people around them can see how shitty they are.
I think that to a narcissist empathy is also chaos and terrifying - it drives ‘irrational’ behavior in others that is not intuitive for them and works against their goals. It has to be absolutely infuriating to them.
Untethered free market – just fine I bet. Religion is an organized mental illness catering to the basest human frailties and impulses.
Holy Bible - Bootstraps Edition
The guy he’s attributing the concept of “untethered empathy” to is a hardcore fascist that believes that having “too much” empathy is a sin because it allows people to be swayed by emotion as opposed to holding strong in their values. Their values, in this case, also include forcing them onto society for “their own good”.
These people are “Christians” in name only. They do not follow any of the teachings of Jesus, Moses, Abraham or any of the prophets. They are grifters who use people’s belief to profit off hate.
There’s no true “christians” y’all hypocrites and just use religion for your own gain and moral superiority
I would say there’s nore of them than “true” christians, and as such this is the real Christianity
…christians are f*cking evil and any good folks still riding that train need to debark and rebrand lest the be dragged into a hell of their own making…
If lying is a sin… why are the biggest liars to find where some imaginary entity allegedly told them not to lie?
I think there’s an argument here, but it’s incoherent. Could you come back and rephrase this when you’re sober?
Reply in my language…
Seeing all the hate going on right now, wars in Ukraine the Middle east and Africa, kinda makes me wanna sacrifice myself too
This reddit thread from a couple years ago is enlightening
https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/13whnob/because_maga_and_evangelical_christianity_are/
Words don’t matter to fascists. They want reactions. And they want violence because it is all that they have going on: Violence and lies.
Next we shall have “the sin of love.”
Let us not collectively forget that when you ask yourself “what would Jesus do?” Flipping over tables and whipping money changers is a totally valid option.
And killing fig trees
Fuck figs
All my homies hate wasp factories
No, there might be a wasp in there
I refuse to believe a person can actually reason themselves to the position that empathy is a sin based on the text of the Bible.
Which means he’s a bastard willfully misrepresenting something to directly preach hate. Unconscionable.
Christians can reason themselves into all sorts of bizarre shit based on a text from the Bible.
But the bible is not really consistent, not even the New Testament, so it is equally shared blame on the bible and the Christian for this.
The point is that you should probably not base your way of life and thinking on a 2000 year old nonsensical book about a magical wizard doing fictitious stuff.
I’ve read the Bible, m8, multiple times. Except for the parts in the Old Testament where it might tell ancient Israelites to harden their hearts while they genocide a really incompatible neighbor, nothing bends toward “feeling empathy is bad”. In fact, the need to tell ancient Israelites to “harden their heart” shows the expected reaction was for them to be empathetic and feel pity for their enemies, and the exception had to be noted.
Keep it pushing, if you’re just going to trot out “14-yo atheist” talking points.
I’ve read the Lord of the rings at least 6 times (all of them)… still I don’t speak elfish nor am I a miner by height.
Incompatible neighbors… this means “those assholes didn’t succumb to our demands” in religious speak.
I’ve read the Lord of the rings at least 6 times (all of them)… still I don’t speak elfish nor am I a miner by height.
What?
Both grammatically, and also towards its content as a response.
I assume this is supposed to mirror the start of my message. But my comment said “I’m certain the text doesn’t say that because I’ve read it.” You’re saying “LotR (stories about a war) didn’t teach me a new language nor did it transform me into a dwarf/child/some third thing generically good at mining because of their height”. If we have to call that a mirror, it’s a funhouse mirror at best.
I’m glad you picked up on the wordplay I used when talking about ancient Israelites genociding their neighbors tho. I was lowkey proud of that /s
Both are fiction!
No clue why sane people are still checking twitter. The devil is no longer at the gates, the gates lay in cinders beside a city encircled by wings of terrible scale. The temples have been sacked, burned, rebuilt, and burned once again in mockery of their long dead parishioners. There’s nothing of value remaining on twitter.
This works because Christians don’t read the Bible.
evangelical Christianity is more of a vibes-based excuse to judge other people than it is a system for framing your own worldly existence.
wut
