This post in Democratic Underground speaks to the empathy deficit our American society faces today.
I've noticed over the last three decades, that there seems to be a gradual decline in the awareness of the plight of our neighbors, whether within our borders or outside of the same. Perhaps the concept of us being our "brother's keeper", of seeing the problems of others as our own, is considered passe, "namby-pamby", or quaint, to our current, Ayn Rand-influenced society. So much for the pulpit speeches referring to America as a "Christian Nation". If you have no empathy within you, then you don't have Christ within you - and I include myself in that equation.
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