The Sun Herald | 10/27/2006 | Keeping EMPATHY alive: "Have people of faith forgotten the story of the Good Samaritan? If memory serves, he rescued an injured traveler (love your neighbor as yourself) without knowing or caring about the man's name, his country, his beliefs.
It would seem a simple enough question to answer in light of recent experience. Any South Mississippi neighborhood can confirm the goodness of volunteers who swarmed over the area after Katrina.
On the other hand, read or watch the news and count the reports of angry confrontations - between people of different faiths, different ethnicities, different political persuasions.
Every perspective seems to be distorted by an inflexibility that leads not only to disagreement but to outright hatred.
As one acquaintance observed, 'If you don't believe what they do, they want to kill you.'
We asked a few people whose professions require of them extra helpings of empathy and understanding and found they are mostly hopeful, not despairing, of finding more similarities than differences among us."
Friday, October 27, 2006
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