Anti-LGBTQ+ Christian activist Sean Feucht said in a video published on September 29 that the entire state of Minnesota has been “hijacked with toxic empathy towards … the LGTBQ community,” Muslims, and “so many other groups” that have allegedly “hijacked the niceness or the empathy of the church.

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    “And they’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love”

    But only the correct kind of love that we condone and pre-approve.

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    The concept of “toxic empathy” should be purged from Christianity like one of the highest forms of heresy. I’m talking Deus Vult levels of purging.

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    Empathy of the church. Like the empathy for all the raped children? Or for the abused women?

    Can’t hijack something that doesn’t exist.

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    Ahhhh yes my favorite part of the Bible is how the religion was created from lack of empathy. These people are creating their own demise.

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    wasn’t there a whole parable about empathy re: dives and lazarus or something like that? idk i’m not a bible expert like these pastors, obviously.

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      If it’s for the “wrong” recipients.

      That’s sonservatives in a nut shell. Their whole world view is based on the conviction, that their ways are the correct ones which everyone has to live by. No exceptions.
      “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

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      What he wants people to hear is “empathy misapplied to those who do not deserve it”. What he’s really trying to do is normalize psychopathy and Machiavellianism.

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      Yes, I recall the passage clearly. “Love thy neighbor,” he said, “Unless the fucker is brown or queer. Then fuck 'em up!”

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    Conservatives are biologically unable to experience empathy. That’s why conservatives refer to empathy as fake or evil. They really do believe that because they cannot experience it.

    A lack of empathy is why conservative relationships are so shallow. Conservatives love their families as property, not as humans with whom they can empathize. A conservative man loves his wife the way a teenager loves a sportscar. It’s a strong emotion, but it is not a deep emotional bond. A deep emotional bond is impossible without some amount of empathy.

    This biological inability to experience empathy is also why bigotry comes so easily for conservatives. It’s why genocide comes so easily to them. It’s why war comes so easily to them. It’s how they are able to genuinely delight in the suffering of the vulnerable.

    Understand that a conservative will never see a normal person as a human, because they cannot humanize others.

    It is not only immoral to keep a relationship with a conservative, it is deadly dangerous. They do not value your life and never will. Because they simply can’t.