| Empathy Deficit Disorder?? |
Now I have heard everything.
It used to be that being socially clueless, more than a tad self absorbed, and emotionally distant - these were things that explained why it is that you come across as such a cold person. Really, the truth is, you are just so utterly into yourself, you don't really care about others unless doing so will benefit you in some way, or unless failing to do so will impact you negatively.
When the veneer of our sin is rather thin, we tend to act and react in a way that looks (more or less) more like the real state of our heart than those who have learned that better social skills means a higher quality return on self investment.
Yeah, I have rose coloured glasses, baby, rose coloured glasses.
Anyway, now it seems there is yet another label with which to paint over our sinfulness; a new label to re-cast ourselves into the tired old role of victim yet again - we are callous, yes, we suffer from a "disorder" - as if normally people are empathetic, and our lack of empathy were some sort of chemical problem.
Apparently, unlike the rest of nature, humans are generous and selfless at heart, and those who aren't are broken in some way.
Anyway, clearly I suffer from this disorder, as I lack empathy on a daily basis. Yet I find that understanding who I am in Christ and who I am without Him makes my sinfulness something I am not inclined to excuse as a malady, but rather something I am inclined to seek deliverance from under its dominion - not through group therapy or medicine, but through a right understanding of all that Christ did for me (sin sick as I am), and through the love that springs out of that understanding - the love that springs from faith, has overcome, is overcoming, and will overcome all that the flesh, the world, and the enemy throw at me, or you, if indeed we are in Christ; we overcome, period.Labels: bunk, EDD, psychology |
posted by Daniel @
1:19 PM
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