John Einstein

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.

It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.

For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.

Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.

As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.

To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”

As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.

When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.

When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.

Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.

In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”

It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

[John Einstein V @QBV2028]

Thank you @IUPSwimDive and Coach Villa for inviting me to the performance camp! Loved the campus, appreciated the coaching and the program, can’t wait to be back up at IUP for Junior Day. @HartleySwim #talonsup

[John Einstein V @QBV2028]

285 pound bench press! Working hard and stacking days. @HartleyFootball #work #football #swimming

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

@BrianStewartOH @darreldrowland Mr. Stewart, how did you get such a big target on your back for all the poo fling monkeys I see responding to your posts?

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

@BrianStewartOH Yeah... at one point I was ready to give up and just asked Scooter "What if we just bubble wrap V really well and cut a hole so he can breathe?"

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

@BrianStewartOH I just thought it was boring with the lamest of plots. The AT-ATa were cool and the last battle was cool but the writing was sooooo bad.

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

@FrontlinesTPUSA @TPUSA Wow.... a lot of Subaru drivers have cleaned out their night stands to make a point #PowerfulMessage

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

@atensnut Jonathon winters

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

@Captainmetanaut @LozzaFox @grok I get your xeno nerd humor!

[John Einstein V @QBV2028]

Representing Bishop Hartley at State Champs this weekend. Hoping to swim to the best of my abilities, and then looking forward too turning my focus to offseason prep for @HartleyFootball #gohawks #hardwork #stackingdays

[John Einstein V @QBV2028]

Red and dark blue cap, state qualified as a sophomore, 50 free #Grind #swim

[John Einstein V @QBV2028]

145 days until kick off, including Sundays. Not taking mine off... On field success is paid for with off season sweat.

#StackingDays @HartleyFootball

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

@the_jefferymead @tedlieu Exactly

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

https://t.co/g9SWflP7iv

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

My kid living his best life #Veastmode

[John Einstein V @QBV2028]

Representing Bishop Hartley at State Champs this weekend. Hoping to swim to the best of my abilities, and then looking forward too turning my focus to offseason prep for @HartleyFootball #gohawks #hardwork #stackingdays

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

@the_jefferymead [2/2] But if you look at percentages of adult women who are married by race, the category defined by Schumer, it would actually diminish (assuming his premise true) white women voting (50%+) disproportionately to black women (22%) according to research https://t.co/cj2MnCcyHV.

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

@the_jefferymead Let me throw this out. Schumer, when confronted in the clip with Democratic support for voter ID, states -as you note- it's Jim Crow 2.0 . In support of this he spins the yarn of how married women may find it nearly impossible to vote because they changed their last name. [1/2]

[MAZE @mazemoore]

The Story of Alex Pretti.

Read by Elizabeth Warren.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Wow. @AlphaNews got the bodycam footage of the Minnesota ICE shooting. Could not be clearer that she accelerated into the agent and that he had every reason to fear being run over and killed. Democrats look insane if they try to defend this.

[John Einstein @EinsteinBluChek]

@DataRepublican @nicksortor Amen sister... amen