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Dumb and Christendumber - Part III: The Attack on Empathy
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In part three of the Dumb and Christendumber trilogy we look at the Christian Nationalist attack on empathy. We had this crazy idea that the concept of empathy would mesh well with Jesus teaching in the gospels that we should treat people how we want to be treated. Who could have imagined how right we were?
We take a deep dive into some critiques of empathy, explore some notoriously bad takes on the parable of the Good Samaritan, and in the end, establish that empathy is both a baseline Christian practice and a unifying value held across many belief systems (which is probably why Christendumber hates it so much).
Chapters
1. Dumb and Christendumber - Part III: The Attack on Empathy (00:00:00)
2. Recap of Parts I and II (00:00:44)
3. Already a tangent: Israel and the Christian Right (00:03:48)
4. What is empathy? (00:08:59)
5. Joe Rigney and the "sin" of empathy (00:14:34)
6. A tangent on "woke" (00:21:41)
7. Back to Rigney (00:26:03)
8. Revisiting the parable of the Good Samaritan (00:34:05)
9. Bad takes on the Good Samaritan (00:40:28)
10. The late John MacArthur's bad take on the good Samaritan (00:44:14)
11. Dostoyevsky and empathy (00:51:23)
12. Christianity isn't complicated, it's just difficult (00:58:24)
13. Part IV of the trilogy (00:59:54)
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