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WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.799 MAGA is waging war on empathy. 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:08.560 The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:16.079 Compassion is great for dealing with infants, but it's not a great doctrine to be building a political system on. 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:30.640 Beware of the empathy mongers, because what you will hear over and over again is the anecdote that is supposed to pull on your heartstrings and make you feel that you are a bad and heartless person if you take the conservative side. 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:37.359 Some people, some very powerful people, have decided empathy is bad. 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:44.079 It's wrong, it's evil, it's toxic, it's un-American, it's un-Christian. 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:52.479 So they go on talk shows to preach the gospel of hatred and they take issue with the actual words of Jesus, such as loving your neighbor. 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:54.799 That's too soft, apparently. 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.359 And they've actually made a lot of money doing this. 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.159 But is empathy actually bad? 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:04.319 No, that's insane because empathy is what makes a society work. 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:08.319 It's how humans live together without killing each other. 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:16.480 Empathy is how we teach our toddlers to share, and it turns out empathy also makes good policy and good religion, too. 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:20.480 So, we on the Christian left are taking empathy back. 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:32.079 Join me, religion journalist Liz Charlotte Grant, and my co-host Jeremy Alder, a comedian and social worker, on our new podcast that we're calling Empathy Revolt. 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:45.519 Every week we're joined by a guest, authors, activists, comedians, journalists, faith leaders, and scholars, basically anyone who's a friend of the Christian left, and we'll be talking about one political story and one religious story from the week's news. 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:54.159 With every conversation, we're raising a middle finger to the Christian nationalists in the White House as we try our damnedest to make empathy great again. 00:01:54.719 --> 00:02:02.400 Listen to Empathy Revolt wherever you get podcasts starting Wednesday, September 30th from the Shifting Culture Network.