{"id":43962,"date":"2025-01-28T17:59:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=43962"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:12:08","slug":"is-empathy-a-sin-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=43962","title":{"rendered":"Is Empathy a Sin? (part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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For MAGA, the Line Between God and Trump Has Blurred<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegseth is a conservative Christian, and during his Senate confirmation hearing he said often that he had been redeemed by Jesus Christ. For Hegseth, who cheated on his wives and faces accusations of alcohol abuse and rape, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump offered another, parallel form of salvation. Before Jesus elevates his soul to heaven, Trump will elevate him on Earth.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Like any good apostle, Hegseth carries out his savior\u2019s mission. Now that he is Defense secretary, he has said that he will end diversity programs at the Pentagon and promised a renewed focus on \u201clethality and readiness and warfighting.\u201d Trump is poised to strike a similar bargain with candidates for other, lesser positions: a soul in exchange for a role in his regime. To enter heaven on Earth, jobseekers must first believe.
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The conflation of Trump and God was apparent last week, when conservatives erupted with outrage over a sermon by Bishop Mariann Budde, the clerical leader of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Budde, who is the first woman to lead the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, urged Trump to show mercy and compassion to immigrants and anyone else who might fear his power. \u201cI ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away,\u201d she preached, a message that repulsed Trump and his supporters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis is not a church and she is not a pastor,\u201d tweeted Sean Feucht, a popular preacher and worship leader. \u201cDo not commit the sin of empathy<\/strong>,\u201d urged a far-right Christian podcaster on X. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis snake is God\u2019s enemy and yours too. She hates God and His people. You need to properly hate in response. She is not merely deceived but is a deceiver. Your eye shall not pity.\u201d On Truth Social, Trump attacked Budde for bringing \u201cher church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way\u201d and added, \u201cShe and her church owe the public an apology!\u201d<\/p>\nNew York Magazine<\/a> \/ Images by Elder G<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Honoring Bishop Mariann Budde<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As is the WLBOTT Way<\/em><\/strong>, we like to honor our heroes by publishing the current lunch menu at their high school alma mater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She grew up in the Flanders section of Mount Olive Township, New Jersey, attending West Morris Mount Olive High School.<\/em> – Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mount Olive High School<\/strong> is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Mount Olive Township, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Mount Olive Township School District. The school is located in the Flanders section of the township.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of the 2023\u201324 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,511 students and 117.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student\u2013teacher ratio of 12.9:1.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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BLOTT-Related Vocabulary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Still one of our favorites….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gustave Gilbert<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Gustave Mark Gilbert (September 30, 1911 \u2013 February 6, 1977) was an American psychologist best known for his writings containing observations of high-ranking Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His 1950 book The Psychology of Dictatorship<\/strong> was an attempt to profile the Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler using as reference the testimonials of Hitler’s closest generals and commanders. Gilbert’s published work is still a subject of study in many universities and colleges, especially in the field of psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During World War II, Gilbert was commissioned with the rank of First Lieutenant. Because of his knowledge of German, he was sent overseas as a translator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1945, after the end of the war, Gilbert was sent to Nuremberg, Germany, as a translator for the International Military Tribunal for the trials of the World War II German prisoners. Gilbert was appointed the prison psychologist of the German prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The Lighter Side of Empathy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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No. Honoring Bishop Mariann Budde As is the WLBOTT Way, we like to honor our heroes by publishing the current lunch menu at their high school alma mater. She grew up in the Flanders section of Mount Olive Township, New Jersey, attending West Morris Mount Olive High School. – Wikipedia Mount Olive High School is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[137,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brotherhood-sisterhood-of-man-woman","category-heros"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44009,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43962\/revisions\/44009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}