MEGA: Make Empathy Great Again

“Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice. For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice.” Is empathy a sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can be. (Maybe they have a point because I have zero empathy for this perspective.)