"The Sin of Empathy" Part II: You Are Not God

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 800-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ In this episode of Straight White American Jesus, we explore the troubling idea—promoted in some evangelical circles—that empathy is a sin. The conversation centers around Joe Rigney’s book The Sin of Empathy, unpacking its flawed biblical and theological claims. We examine how this perspective targets women in particular, framing empathy as a weakness that leads believers astray. The episode also connects this mindset to broader cultural issues such as feminism, emotional intelligence, and traditional gender roles within Christian communities. Finally, we discuss the implications of this view on topics like transgender rights and abortion—and point out the striking absence of New Testament support in Rigney’s arguments. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Moondy
0:08.3	Mental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.
0:19.5	Empathy almost needs to be struck from the Christian vocabulary. Empathy is dangerous. Empathy is empathy. Empathy almost needs to be struck from the Christian vocabulary.
0:22.7	Empathy is dangerous. Empathy is toxic. Empathy will align you with hell. Absolutely.
0:27.8	Sympathy, compassion. Yes. Empathy, deadly and dangerous. And this will be controversial.
0:34.2	Women are especially vulnerable to this. Absolutely. In our churches, women will have empathy
0:39.7	for the sinner. They'll have empathy for the rebel. They'll have empathy for the toxic six
0:45.2	person who's gossiping and slandering and being bullied by the spiritual authority of the church.
0:50.0	And in their empathy, they'll align with those who are misaligned with God.
0:56.4	One of the patterns that we've seen in 25 years of church ministry, the most divisive households
1:02.0	are those households where there is a loud, aggressive, Jezebel's Spirit wife paired with a weak,
1:10.7	passive Ahab beta male.
1:14.4	Not ungodly for a man to speak into who his wife is friends with.
1:18.9	Absolutely.
1:19.9	Who she can hang out with.
1:20.9	Who she's following.
1:21.9	Who she listens to.
1:22.9	Yeah.
1:23.9	Because a husband and wife has to be united.
1:25.9	Now, I'm not chasing and sharing around policing her friends because my wife is godly,
1:29.7	and she wants nothing to do with the ungodly.
1:31.5	But I'm telling you, women can be vulnerable. Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
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