Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion

by Allie Beth Stuckey

Christians are called to love, not just empathy. While empathy may help us love, it is not love itself. Empathy feels pain, but love always “rejoices with the truth” (1 Cor. 13:6). We must seek and speak the truth in love (Eph. 4:15).

To love means to want what is best for a person, as God defines “best.” God’s definition of what is good and loving will almost always contradict the world’s definition, which will inevitably put us at odds with mainstream culture. While this is uncomfortable, the sacrifice is worth it. The truth can change lives.

My goal is to equip you with commonsense, biblical truths that dismantle toxic empathy from its foundations.

Putting yourself in someone’s shoes may help you feel their pain, but their pain isn’t determinative of what’s true or false, right or wrong. A

But empathy that affirms sin or lies is always misguided.

When calling for empathy, inclusivity, and love, are they talking about how we treat these people as individuals, or are they actually speaking of achieving certain political ends?

An uncomfortable, often ignored truth is that, whether via abortion or birth, a baby is still delivered. If Samantha had been able to access an abortion at twenty weeks, she would have had to endure an extremely involved, painful procedure to end Halo’s life—and she would still have had to deliver her child.

At this point in the pregnancy, the baby is so big, and her movements have become so strong, that without the numbing medication that is used for women during this procedure, the mother would be able to feel her punch and kick as she dies.

Those who profess to follow Jesus yet sit on the side of those who advocate for the legal killing of defenseless image bearers don’t just need their minds changed by people like you and me, they need their hearts changed by the Holy Spirit.

those studies are bunk. Many are paid for by pro-trans groups[41] and have sample sizes that are too small to be statistically significant. Some studies cited by the trans movement actually show the opposite, such as that those on puberty blockers can be more likely to commit suicide than those not on blockers.[42]

First, most of the kids aren’t born with innate gender dysphoria. They adopted a transgender identity much later. Second, gender confusion is largely spreading among friend groups through something called social contagion. Dr. Littman’s research showed how kids wanted to be socially accepted, so large portions of groups of mostly teen and preteen girls start “coming out” at the same time.

The market for sex reassignment surgery in the United States was estimated to be $1.9 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach $5 billion by 2030.[48] The cost of phalloplasty ranges from $20,000 to $40,000, and the entire “bottom surgery” package can generate up to $100,000 for hospitals.[49] “Chest reconstruction” can cost $40,000 per patient, and vaginoplasty generates at least $20,000,[50] not including the hospital stay, anesthesia, and post-op visits. Increasingly, health insurance is required to cover it all.[51]

They enable the chemical castration of young boys, the mutilation of teen girls, the manipulation of autistic youth, the sexualization of children, the violation of women, the mockery of science, the demolition of proper medicine, and the destruction of cohesive society. They sow confusion and induce chaos by perpetuating the lie that it is possible to become the opposite sex.