If empathy is a sin, your god is not the God of the Hebrew Bible, who heard the cry of his people in oppression in Egypt, and because he “knew their sufferings” (Exodus 3:7), delivered them through the wilderness into the Promised Land.
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If empathy is a sin, your god is the god of Pharaoh, who oppressed God’s people and, because he saw them only as a commodity to be exploited, only added an even more impossible burden for them when they cried for mercy.
If empathy is a sin, your god is not the triune God of the New Testament, who, out of love, compassion, and yes—empathy—for those downtrodden, abandoned, despised, or anyone (and everyone) destroying themselves through actual sin, chose to become one of us:
born into poverty, spending part of his childhood as a refugee on foreign soil, growing up an oppressed minority under Roman rule, and dying the death of a criminal in order to defeat sin, destroy death, and reconcile us to himself.
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