If you haven't kept up with recent genetic research, I can't help you. It appears, indeed, that empathy/sympathy may have a genetic component, as does alcoholism, blue-eyes, or intelligence.
I don't know as one can blame Eugenics on Oregon--- I hope you can provide some sort of connection? Eugene=Eugene-ics?
I myself am atheist (an agnostic is a pathetic creature, is he not--- one who cannot simply demand proof and make a decision based on that elementary question) but find both the Old and New Testaments have some very profound things to say. That is one of them that I agree with. If one wishes to be charitable, it seems to me that one should do so in private. 
To depend on the largesse of the 1% to solve societies' greatest problems is to place oneself into a debt to individuals to which I am unwilling to do so.
It is the responsibility of governments to fund scientific research, properly fund higher education, etc.
Europe has done quite well with that system, as has Scandinavia.