This is one of the most bastardized phrases used by churchians and one of the most egregiously stupid. Every time they use the phrase it’s not for its actual meaning it’s to pretend you must enable sin because people do it. To churchians false kindness and kumbayah singing is “love”, this modern insane definition is the equivalent of helping a junky OD and calling it “love”.
Love is not cruel or kind, love is doing what’s best for someone. If you love someone they might scorn you for it, but that’s the cost of it. Enabling the sinner is not love, it is sin.
Empathy is not a fake moralization of emotional states. Empathy is to understand a persons plight, to acknowledge it, and to have the wisdom to help them overcome their issue. That does not exclude harshness nor strength.
That is far removed from common use or even dictionary definition
So is "woman" and "Liberalism". Truth still matters.