Petra van Cronenburg<p>Do you appreciate <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a>? Could you imagine a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cult</span></a> that is glorifying the lack of empathy and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/compassion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compassion</span></a>? Could you imagine a cult casting empathy as a 'parasitic plague'? This cult exists - in an incredible unholy alliance.<br>Julie Carrie Wong investigated it and wrote a scary, important, and reveiling <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/longread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longread</span></a> about the preachers behind: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int</span><span class="invisible">eractive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trump</span></a><br>via @joolia.bsky.social</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TESREAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TESREAL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ChristianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianRight</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/inhumanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inhumanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/investigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investigation</span></a></p>