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(July 2, 2018 at 4:34 am)Khemikal Wrote: IDK, he called some random lady a mutt bitch for having been born of the wrong tribe. She ended up debasing herself sufficiently, in the end, so that he could snap his fingers and cure whatever ailment he;d inflicted on her daughter.
Swell guy, that jesus fella.
The samaritan parable was implicitly bigoted- people we;re supposed to be ashamed that some piece of shit samaritan trash had one upped a levite and a priest at the piety game. I;m legitimately surprised that you;d pick that specific narrative.
I haven't really done that deep of a word study on that particular incident with that woman so I'll have to get back to you on that later. However I will contest on your 'inflicted' comment. There is absolutely nothing in that passage, nor in any of the four gospels for that matter, that suggest that Jesus ever inflicted diseases on anybody. He was only ever depicted healing. (In fact I'm almost certain the only curse He ever cast was on a fig tree, and that was just to teach His disciples a lesson.)
As for the whole Samaritan parable, He used examples like that all the time. He was living in a very bigoted society so He would use examples from the society to teach, and challenge people's faith in spite of society. He was actually making the Samaritan man look good, while talking to a people who hated Samaritans. That was a bold move.
Another example is one of the accounts of His healing a blind man. In that society if someone was born blind, it was believed they were under a generational curse, so people though them to be unclean. So people would spit at them. And what does Jesus do when He runs into a man born blind? He spits on the ground. Then stirs up the dirt to make clay and puts it over the mans eyes then instructs the man to go wash it off. He tested people's faith like this all the time. The scripture goes on to say that the blind man had faith and followed through with what he was told and then he could see.
I don't see this as bigotry at all. Rather, Jesus was challenging and in fact spiting the culture around Him all while healing and challenging people's faith. The Pharisees absolutely despised this. There was no such Jewish law as to spit on the ground and put wet mud on a persons eyes to heal. They associated that type of stuff with witch doctors back in those days, and therefore probably added it to a list of reasons to call Him a heretic. And that of course would parallel the accusation against Him 'using the power of beelzebub' in another setting.
Quote:Jesus was very bold and peculiar. But a bigot? Again, that is speculative.
The Jesus character was a bigot through and through. He called Gentiles swine and dogs. He spoke in parables so that outsiders wouldn't know what he was talking about. He told his dummies to stay away from the Samaritans and Gentiles. He said that he was only concerned with the Israelites. He told his Apostles that they would sit on thrones and each one would judge one of the twelve tribes of Israel. He never said one word about Gentiles getting into his delusion.
