Compassion

A Samaritan helping an injured traveler to his feet on a dusty road at dusk while others walk past

Is Empathy Dangerous? The Survey Everyone Is Fighting About

Stop letting a survey tell you what Christians believe about empathy.

A new PRRI survey released Tuesday says 54% of white evangelicals believe empathy can become dangerous when it leads people away from a society guided by God’s truth. Only 42% called empathy a foundational moral value. Every headline writer in America is about to use that to paint evangelicals as cold and heartless. Do not buy it.

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