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Empathy

April 3, 2022 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

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Empathy is a word that only came into use during the 20th century and means to join yourself to the identity, feeling, problem, trauma or ideology of others. In an amoral culture such as ours, empathy means getting drunk with the drunkard, comforting the sodomite in his … [Read more...] about Empathy

Filed Under: Words that Matter Tagged With: Courage, Empathy, Sympathy

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.