Friends, for the wokeist philosophy that dominates today,...

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Bishop Robert Barron@BishopBarron
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Friends, for the wokeist philosophy that dominates today, empathy—feeling the feelings of the other and not harming those feelings—is treated as a supreme value. But while empathy is perfectly good and decent, the Bible teaches that love, not empathy, is the supreme value. And love does not mean, primarily, feeling the feelings of the other or not hurting those feelings; it means willing the good of the other—and that can be, as Dostoevsky said, “a harsh and dreadful thing.”
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Watch my full sermon here: account.wordonfire.org/r/GnXVULV
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