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... But by this point it is really clear that behaviour I consider to be petulant, irrational, whiny, self-pitying, and contemptible are by them viewed to be expressions of peak masculinity. I genuinely can't tell what is happening here, I am really not sure where the disconnect has arisen or why.

Needs banana for scale

Per our Lord, without empathy, we cannot love.

If we lack empathy, we are one with the world. If ever we find ourselves wary of empathy, it is the world, not the Word, influencing us. If we disdain empathy, we lack Christian love, and neither Christ nor his Spirit are in us.

Later Christ adds that to love God and love our neighbor are the commandments on which all the Law and Prophets depend.

Taken together, our Lord places empathy as the backbone of Christian love.

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