Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy

Trump's actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

Just over an hour into Elon Musk's last appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, the billionaire brought up the latest existential threat to trouble him.

We've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on," Musk said. And it's like, I believe in empathy. Like, I think you should care about other people, but you need to have empathy for civilization as a whole and not commit to a civilizational suicide."