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Which Anchor?

“For the sake of additional clarity, let’s call this toxic form of empathy ‘untethered empathy.’ But that immediately raises a question. This pathos, this feeling: what is it untethered from? It is untethered from God, from His Word, from His people, and from His world. A person’s feelings are disconnected from absolutely everything else—and your feelings are disconnected from everything but their feelings. This is the logic of the outer darkness.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 32

Anchored or Not

“With sympathy, there is an objective solution outside of and independent from anyone’s feelings. It’s objectively true. But with empathy, feelings are the only reality that may be considered to taken into account. With empathy, feelings are the only game in town—and if you’re not empathizing, then you are judgmental and hateful.”

Keep Your Kids, pp. 31-32

Unnecessary Redundancy

“But Job attributed all of it to God and submitted to God’s will in it. The fact that he recognized the hand of the Lord in all of it, and accepted that loss from the Lord, did not mean that he had acquiesced to a new economic theory as developed by Chaldean raiding parties, or socialists, but I repeat myself.”

Mere Christendom, pp. 32-33