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“Make Orwell Fiction Again”

They've never been exactly fictitious.

Or maybe just X-tian, given their association with Musk.

I recall some time ago passages from Sermon on the Mount were read to MAGA xians, and they derided it as socialism.

Friedrich Nietzsche: “Beyond Good and Evil”

Before Christ, civilizations organized along lines of power: Strong was Good. Weak was Evil.

Christianity upended the natural order: Peace (Weak) became Good. Strong (War) became Evil.

……I ‘m going to have to think more about it on a global scale. East vs West and throw in Islam and see what I can come up with. Thanks.

unvirtuous. Undesirable traits that are also associated with crime and sin.

Poor people must be bad people gives rise to poor people must be sinners or thugs.

If that's true, then not being poor means all things good. All things virtuous. All things "godly".

Poor people are beyond redemption. They are poor because they are bad people who don't want to work or save or be good.

Why should you feel for people like that?

Why should they get "your" money?

Why should your taxes go to people like that?

Why should you even feel for sorry for them?

Why should you concern yourself with them?

(Conservatives have said that free school lunches only encourage the poor to be poor (same with any aid) - can't pay, children can't eat. Blame your parents for being poor/bad/lazy/criminals, not the school, not the community, not the "good" people. We gave them a cheese sandwich! Pay your lunch bill poor people! Or we will shame your children.)

Prosperity Gospel.

God wants you to be rich.

If God wants you to be rich, then he wants the poor to be poor because they are not Godly people.

There's also Ayn Rand and her philosophy that conservatives and libertarians embraced all mingled throughout.

Empathy as an evil is not a new concept even if not said so directly before.

Claimed to be a quote from the bible, so said a Goldwater Republican in 1958.

Strange how that works....

….something about a new airplane for the TV preacher.

Then God will bless you in some way.

No one ever demands their (investments) donations to God back. Ka-Ching!

Of them. Oh wait they were NEVER Christians. They said they were to get votes. Their actions and words say otherwise!

Thought of this:


The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy
Matthew D. Taylor

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203893153-the-violent-take-it-by-force

Many go to church for political reasons.

Not party politics but office politics.

I worked at a hospital.

A good portion of the people in my department went to the local 1st Baptist Church.

But during the work week, some of them bullied others and acted in the most non-Christlike behavior.

...I have worked in churches all my life, from age 14 to now (77). The fewest Christians per square inch can be found among the clergy.

wtf

Neither does Darwin.

Empathy is part of human nature. It's not a luxury only for good times. It is who we are.

This is pure evil.

Perverting its very meaning.

We can't survive as individuals, or even in family groups. Tribes can survive, but it requires a degree of empathy just to reach that point.
Without empathy, there's nothing to hold us together; humanity would never rise above small groups of hunter/gatherers.

It's evident that a lack of empathy has resulted in the whole of human history being just one big war for dominance.
Empathy is simply a way that love is expressed. A loveless society is doomed to fail; to tear itself apart in endless conflict, and I see less and less love in the interactions between people around the world every day.
It's not hard to see where we're headed as a species, and it doesn't look good.

...for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."

– Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms, 2nd series (1848), Ch. 1 "Physiology of Plunder."

Oh, yeah...Ayn Rand

Doc Martin's

This apparently comes from people at the Nurenburg Nazi Trials studying how they could behave that way.

https://gadfly.igc.org/eds/ethics/evil.htm

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I think the most important thing when dealing with empathy is to make sure you're doing the dance right. The empathy dance isn't The Hustle. It's not easy, something you can do with a bunch of people when you're drunk, and kind of dumb. If you find empathy easy, are proud you have a lot of it, and hate the evil people who don't have it, you're probably not doing the empathy dance right.

These are people who believe traditional christianity's self-sacrificial love of neighbor is incompatible with the libertine ideal of radical individualism and the prosperity doctrine.

and do mental gymnastics to prove he’s right, that he’s moral. They have twisted true Christian doctrine into something unrecognizable to accommodate their greed and worship of their antichrist. Some actually Christians need to speak to their followers.

they can call themselves either christian OR conservative.

but I don't think it can ever be *evil*

empathy is part of Christ's teachings