I was just reading John Ortberg's book "Soul Keeping" and he writes about a study (Neural Consequences of Religious Belief on Self-Referential Processing) done by neurologists:
"Non-religious subjects used one part of the brain to evaluate themselves, but another part to evaluate others. Christians used the same part of the brain to evaluate themselves that they used to evaluate others."
I interpreted that data to mean that Christians see others just as they see themselves: broken and hurting people in need of love and compassion. It is the essence of being a follower of Jesus.
