{"id":25423,"date":"2020-10-13T04:42:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T09:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=25423"},"modified":"2020-10-13T05:03:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T10:03:07","slug":"a-la-carte-october-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=25423","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (October 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s Amazon&#8217;s Prime Day today and, while that makes it a good day to buy a discounted Kindle device, I was hoping that it would bring us some special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle book deals<\/a>. However, I was able to dig up only a few.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/personal-reflections\/a-thanksgiving-family-update\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">A Thanksgiving Family Update<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/termsofservice.substack.com\/p\/the-evaporation-of-empathy\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Evaporation of Empathy<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Chris Martin is concerned that we&#8217;ve been witnessing the evaporation of empathy. &#8220;A major consequence of the fact that the majority of us live on the internet is ever-increasing polarization. All kinds of ingredients have melded together to create the white-hot polarization so many of us feel, and one of the most prominent of those ingredients is the evaporation of empathy. But why has empathy evaporated?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/trevin-wax\/theres-more-to-the-person-behind-the-profile-pic\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">There\u2019s More to the Person Behind The Profile Pic<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Trevin Wax&#8217;s article is somewhat thematically similar to Chris&#8217;s. &#8220;Maybe you\u2019ve experienced this: you come across a post from an acquaintance at church or a distant family member, and the person\u2019s opinion is either uninformed or inflammatory, and their responses to comments get heated. You cringe at the leaps of logic, the &#8216;what-about-ism,&#8217; the tendency toward conspiracy thinking, the articles shared, or the <em>ad hominem<\/em> attacks. 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