Megan Basham

That's the empathy steering mechanism.

It's a steering wheel on your back, as my friend, the writer Joe Rigney has said.

So now we are starting to see the right and Christian conservatives catching on to this.

And so you have seen books like The Sin of Empathy or Allie Beth Stuckey's Toxic Empathy saying, no, this is actually sinful because what it's asking you to do is to identify with false or

or immoral feelings, like say the transgender movement.

So that's what it's asking you to do.

And just in this last week, we saw an appalling example of this.

So we talked also last time about the National Association of Evangelicals.

It's the largest association of evangelical churches in the world.

Their immigration arm is world relief.

They have taken something like $330 million from the federal government since 2021 to resettle

quote unquote, refugees.

In 2021, they took 56 million to resettle refugees, including those from Afghanistan, including the shooter of those two National Guards people.

So the day before that shooting, President Trump announced that there would be additional vetting.

So he announced a while ago there would be additional vetting of the Afghani refugees.

The day before that,

World Relief issued a statement condemning that decision.

And in fact, their VP, Matthew Sorens, who is heavily active in evangelical churches, you will see him often on the weekends giving presentations.

They send materials out to churches saying you must welcome the stranger.

He called it a needless re-traumatizing of the Afghani refugees.