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Is Empathy a Sin?

Good Faith

CHAPTER

The Insurgency Against Sympathy

In 20 19, a pastor wrote an essay called the enticing sin of pathy. He compared sympathy to a satanic alternative to compassion. Sympathy shifts focus from the sufferer's good to the sufferer’s feelings and makes them a measure of whether a person is truly loved. More than 25 people spoke to christianity to day at length about their experiences navigating conflict at bethlehem baptist.

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