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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I was raised Methodist but we spent time in a Baptist church too. I had to go through confirmation, but I wasn't exposed to any other belief system in a meaningful way until junior high school, which is when I started questioning things. I just ended up being friends with weird, nice people who knew it was all bullshit and I found myself deeply uncomfortable with the concepts of Hell, eternal damnation, and the notion that God is the good guy in the story after doing so many horrible things.

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