In 2000, the TNT television...
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In 2000, the TNT television network produced a mini-series called Nuremburg, about the war-crime trials in Germany following World War II. It was a dramatization of a real event, the trial of 24 Nazis for the murder of millions of civilians, mostly Jews, in the prison camps. The drama focused on Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, the ranking Nazi defendant. As the trial moved along, a psychologist from the U.S. watched the proceedings and talked to the defendants, trying to understand what mechanism would enable one group of humans to commit such evil against fellow human beings. In one scene, he tells the lead prosecutor that he'd concluded. "Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." The inability on the part of the evildoers to put themselves in the place of those they were murdering.
When Jesus saw the leper, he was "moved with pity." He had empathy, and it drove him to help the man.
When Jesus saw the leper, he was "moved with pity." He had empathy, and it drove him to help the man.
