Following up on my previous posts:

• New York Times, Is ‘Toxic Empathy’ Pulling Christians To The Left?
• Dispatch Faith, Is Empathy a Sin?

Axios, America’s Deep Religious Divide Over Empathy:

White evangelical Protestants are the only major religious group in which a majority says empathy can become dangerous when it leads people away from a society guided by God’s truth, according to a new survey. …

The annual American Values Survey from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) released Tuesday found that 42% of white evangelical Protestants agreed that empathy is a foundational moral value that helps build a healthy society.

• The Atlantic, Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’
• The Christian Century, An ‘Empathy Gap’ Divides U.S. Ahead of Midterms
• Christian Scholar’s Review, The Empathy Wars: A Further Christian Analysis
• Public Notice, In Defense of Empathy

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