Pared To Truth

Short answer: yes.

A noticeable erosion of empathy is one of the clearest by-products of cult thinking. It’s not always innate; it’s trained. Emotional manipulation does the work. Outsiders stop being people. Cruelty becomes explainable. Indifference gets baptized.

Classic markers:

• Us vs. them
• Indifference to cruelty
• Emotional detachment masquerading as “clarity”

If that sounds familiar, it should.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: our two political parties function like rival cults, and their followers increasingly behave exactly as you’d expect.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing and the shooting of Renee Good, the public reactions have been grotesque in different but revealing ways.

On one side, public glee and mockery over a man’s death—children left without a father treated as collateral damage for a “good cause.” On the other, instant moral absolution for lethal violence—evidence in full view, compassion absent, conclusions pre-empted, blame assigned before the body is cold.

Different cases. Same sickness.

This is not about legality. It’s not about technical compliance or who disobeyed what order.

It’s about morality.

Especially among those who publicly profess Christ and yet have no trouble declaring a woman’s death “her own fault,” or blaming some abstract “indoctrination” to spare themselves any moral unease.

Who reduce a human being to a cautionary tale.

Who hide behind legalese while excusing a bullet to the face—followed by verbal contempt—as if that settles the matter.

No self-reflection.
No imagination that it could have been their daughter.
No trembling at the thought of grace being the only difference.

Zero.

We dare call this response rooted in Christian compassion?

What I see instead is a political cult—one that has nothing to do with the Kingdom of Christ. It serves a different lord, fights for a different vision of the world, and demands the sacrifice of empathy as proof of loyalty.

I want no part of it.

And if “self-defense” or “legal right” now mean moral indifference to tragic death—so long as it happens at a safe distance—maybe it’s time to ask whether the driver we’re trying to kill is actually the mirror we refuse to look into.