Everyone teaches the story of the Good Samaritan wrong The point is not to encourage you to help other people The point is that the dying dude felt more kinship with rich fucks stepping over his body on the way to work than the guy who saved his lifehttps://twitter.com/BootlegGirl/status/1288265731658915841?s=19 …
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It was a story directly addressing the Republican base Jesus had already told the rich lawyer the basic message of "help other people" and the lawyer keeps pressing him "WHICH other people, what does that even MEAN" So he gets blunt with it
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There are plenty of American Christians who would rather be fired, evicted, cheated and generally fucked over by a fellow Christian than picked up off the side of the road and have their hospital bills paid by a Muslim Identity completely fucks your sense of solidarity
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It's not about explaining that the Samaritan was a really good guy and the other two guys were assholes We all know that It's that even in the face of this *the fact that he's a Samaritan* makes the audience refuse to accept that he's "your neighbor" and the rich guy isn't
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Unwillingly dragging the answer to "Which one was the dying man's neighbor" from the lawyer's lips "...The Samaritan" "Was that so hard?"
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It's the old white men who celebrate the fact that an old white man is President again even as said President gleefully leaves them to die of COVID-19, and who get deeply pissed off at seeing someone like AOC trying to get them healthcare
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