Christians today unaware of this who use "Samaritan" just to mean "charitable person" are on a prettt high Irony level
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Like the whole point of the parable wasn't genetically pro-charity it was in response to the question "Who is my neighbor?"
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"The two guys who kept walking were fellow Jews, the guy who stopped was not, which one was the dying man's REAL countryman"
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This always got to me as a kid, that the interpretation of the story as just "The Good Samaritan is a good guy, be like him" is so shallow
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I mean of course he is, it's a made up story, Jesus stacks the deck with the dying man's suffering and the Samaritan's generosity
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The punchline is in fact that he is a Samaritan. Jesus was spinning a yarn to make you hate the first two guys and love the third
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And hits the listeners with "Ok, well, the third guy who did all those things was a dirty unbeliever foreigner - does that change anything"
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The point was to shake ppl up over how affinities of blood and faith dont matter in the face of genuine callousness, or compassion
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And of course the two first guys weren't just fellow Judeans they were "a Pharisee and a teacher of the law"
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The message also being "how can you cling to exclusion and xenophobia when your leaders stoking that clearly DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU"
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This flip side of the brotherhood shit gets lost - anything that matters more than how ppl treat each other is an excuse to treat ppl badly
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If you give ppl unearned loyalty based purely on race or religion or whatever then they exploit it and fuck you over
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That's conservatism in this country in a nutshell - "I'm white and I hate abortion so you owe me your vote"
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