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An ‘empathy gap' divides Americans ahead of the midterms, says PRRI report (religionnews.com)
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Results of a survey, split out by religion (10 groups), where Americans answer how strongly they agreed with two statements:

  1. "Empathy is a foundational moral value that helps build a healthy society", and
  2. "Empathy can become dangerous when it leads people away from building a society guided by God's truth".

The top 4 groups most likely to agree with (1) and least likely to agree with (2) were, in order (1 vs. 2): Unaffiliated (83% vs. 13%), Other non-Christian religion (80% vs. 18%), Jewish (77% vs. 23%), and White mainline non-evangelical Protestant (73% vs. 25%).

The least likely to agree with (1) and most likely to agree with (2), by far, was White evangelical Protestant (42% vs. 44%).

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[–] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

Yeah, as someone who has a branch of the family that I consider lost to Nationalist Christianity (aka White Evangelical Protestantism), I’ve seen them as a cancer upon this country for a long damn time. It is a genuinely hateful and distorted form of religion, and the fact that the vast majority of American society can’t fathom that they need to be treated in the same way Wahabbists or Zionists are (the latter of which are also handled with kid gloves) is both depressing and distressing.

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