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The Christians Who Believe Empathy Is a Sin
When suffering is irrelevant, anything can be justified.
The late Pope Francis even appeared to contradict Vance in a subsequent letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, writing, “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.” She cites Harvard scholar Roland Fryer, who, as she puts it, found that “black people are no more likely to be shot by the police than white people.” The study she mentions is controversial among academics because its findings were so narrow, as reporter Dara Lind explained at Vox — a fact Stuckey ignores. The flat-Earther was “cherry-picking passages from the Bible and applying a literal reading so that they appeared to reference a flat planet.” Weill adds that this was “the opposite of skeptical inquiry” because it “demanded that readers discard everything they believed in and put their blind trust in Rowbotham’s limited interpretation of one faith’s much-debated holy text.”
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