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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That's the inverse message of the Good Samaritan - the Bad Pharisee can leave you to die in a ditch and you'll still follow his leadership
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"They let the guy die but they follow the correct scriptures, and the guy who saved his life had incorrect scriptures. So I just don't know"
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It's not like we live in a country now where we expect ppl to reject lifesaving medical care if it comes from a possible Muslim
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please work this thread into an article or editorial.
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