[dkhenry]

Not being able to read this article I can only speculate as to what it actually says, but I imagine it is a direct response to Joe Rigney's book "The Sin of Empathy" https://canonpress.com/products/the-sin-of-empathy

One of the criticism that Joe addresses in that book, is that if he used the term "The sin of anger" no one would critique his claim since we don't hold anger on a pedestal, even though there is righteous and sinful anger, but we have exhalted empathy so much that anything that says we shouldn't adopt "untethered empathy" is looked upon as a attack on all empathy.

It looks like this is one of those attacks that tries to totally discredit the idea that our compassion should have a basis in truth, and when we abandon that basis we are in fact committing a sin.

[sailfast]

The idea of compassion having a means test is the problem. The command is to love all. To love your neighbor as yourself. Etc. pretty straightforward. It doesn’t matter if the person is a murderer or trying to harm you or acting in bad faith. Turn the other cheek.