7. The Scandal of Evangelical Empathy: How Did We Even Get Here?
Amid the turmoil of 2020, psychologists Dr. Judith Hall and Dr. Mark Leary argued that the U.S. was suffering from an “empathy deficit.”
Empathy, which Merriam-Webster defines as the ability to be “sensitive to and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another,” seemed to be lacking on a societal scale.
In 2025, the nation apparently continues to suffer from a lack of empathy, a deficit exemplified by, among other things, fresh waves of antisemitism and anti-immigrant sentiments.
But not everyone sees it this way. In fact, a growing movement of evangelicals has a different take. To them, the nation suffers, not from a deficit of empathy, but an excess of it.
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