"Do not commit the sin of empathy"

It's mind-boggling how Christians can be so hateful and judgemental when Jesus preached universal love and forgiveness.
- Evangelicals Are Now Rejecting 'Liberal' Teachings of Jesus
- It’s one of the main reasons I despise most organized religions, well mainly Christianity. Jesus was about as liberal as they come but the mental gymnastics modern Christians jump through to justify their own racism and hate is overwhelming.
  
  Jesus was much more of a socialist than a liberal really.
- This shit goes all the way back to Constantine.
  
  Leave my boy Constantine alone. He was a Roman statesman, trying to keep an empire from disintegrating, not a theologian. And his plan worked, for 1000 years and a bit more. If Christians are being assholes, that's their fault, not some guy's from 17 centuries ago, solving a problem for his own time.
  
  Who was force babtised on his death bed!
- It follows from the philosophy of Eric Voegelin whose thesis is that modern totalitarian movements such as Stalinism and Nazism can be traced to Gnosticism. It’s a reaction against the perceived hubris of attempting to build utopian societies which solve all of people’s problems for them.
- Pretty simple when you read the bible. All that "love" and "forgiveness" come with pretty strong terms and conditions attached.
  
  [...] for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.
  The Ten Commandments, stating explicitly that his love is conditional (and that punishing children for their parents' sins is A-okay).
- You simply do not understand jesus!

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

Fun fact, "sin" can be directly translated as a failure as in a personal failure or a moral failure.
- Yep!
  The verb forms of chat·taʼthʹ (Hebrew) and ha·mar·tiʹa (Koine Greek) literally mean "to miss" in the sense of missing or not reaching a goal, way, mark, or correct point

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.

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.

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.
  
  Holy shit I've never seen Evangelicalism described so accurately.

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.
- I would say there's nore of them than "true" christians, and as such this is the real Christianity
  
  ...christians are fcking 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...

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."

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".
- Must be great to have your feelings acknowledged by acting like a dick rather than understanding anything remotely in an empathetic way. Not a believer but thought Jesus preached helping not acting like an asshole. Oddly went to a few religious schools but probably ones they didnt consider correct. Jesus had good ideas, but maybe you needed some leeway is all (okay that's sort of my Dogma movie take but I don't think it works). For the record not directed at who I'm replying to just adding to commentary.
  Like whenever did Jesus say act like a complete asshole to someone? I'd like one of those types to answer that once and say how their beliefs aren't acting like a complete asshole to. It's infuriating. Have some freaking compassion.
  Sorry this whole religious bit makes me rant because it's awful. Love thy neighbor is not hard to understand.

Seeing all the hate going on right now, wars in Ukraine the Middle east and Africa, kinda makes me wanna sacrifice myself too

Untethered free market -- just fine I bet. Religion is an organized mental illness catering to the basest human frailties and impulses.

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.
  
  Empathy is the enemy. They don't understand it. Can't recognize it unless its something they are going through. They hate it because it interferes with getting their supply.

Holy Bible - Bootstraps Edition

This reddit thread from a couple years ago is enlightening
https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/13whnob/because_maga_and_evangelical_christianity_are/

wut

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...