“Quite so. People rarely advertise their sins as such. Envy hides behind a mask of ‘equality and justice,’ greed behind a facade of ‘blessing and prosperity,’ laziness behind the desire to respect other people’s space, busybody-ness behind the call to love and sacrifice for others, pride and superiority behind gratitude (‘I thank you, God, that I’m not like that man . . .’).” The Devil loves to hide real sins inside innocent phrases, and especially inside virtues. And like Lewis on the shift from Charity to Unselfishness, I believe that the shift from Compassion to Empathy is “of more than
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