If your god is yourself, then yes, empathy will lead you away from god.

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fellas, is it gay to care about other people?

As someone who lives with her adoptive """"mom"""" these people have full fledged personality disorders or something going on.

The only possible option is intense therapy, but even then that might not work.

These people are stubborn and selfish. They're narcissists who don't think they have issues.

I wonder if Catholicism being overrun by Evangelicalism in the New World (particularly in Latin America) is due to people’s blood lust driving them towards a more demonic religious denomination

I agree with Jordan from Knowledge Fight. At some point you gotta look these people in the face and say "bro I think you got tricked by the devil to worship him instead"

I remember growing up around a church and just not getting it. I don't understand the prayer, knowing that God is watching, and only getting your morality from the bible.

You know what I felt? Nothing. Bored. The blood pooling in my head as I draped myself off the bed in contemplation.

There is plenty that only makes sense in retrospect if you add a coefficient of hate and cynicism for others. I accept God's love because I cannot accept that I am like these "people". I love God because I hate the "sin" that surrounds them. If everything else about me is good, then maybe I could be accepted among the good people despite my skin color.

Framed with the proper context of contempt, I would have had a much easier time with the whole thing rather than trying to make a true believer out of me.

As someone that works with these evangelical nuts, this is 100% accurate. Its genuinely wild to hear them do a reading from the bible about some moral lesson from Jesus and then talk about how the military needs to massacre all the muslims and immigrants. They'll look down on other christians because they arent eager to murder minorities, prisoners, and trans people.

The absurd hipocracy has always irked me. Even as a kid i knew something was seriously off.

I wonder what the poll would look like if you removed the "because" clause about leading away from God.

Not surprising. Empathy is an obstacle to a lot of things the Christian God commands.

Unaffiliated gang stay winning.

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but only if thy neighbor goes to your church and isn't something icky, like brown or gay.

Why would someone even ask such a bizarre question? Who came up with this notion?

Empathy is the prophet killer.

Almost like they know that their cult is evil and revel in the fact.

American Evangelicals actually worship Mammon

anti-biblical but not surprising