(October 16, 2013 at 9:46 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:(October 16, 2013 at 9:44 am)Kayenneh Wrote: Nah, stabbing is more the Finnish MO
awww Kayenneh, you spoil ALL my fun!
Can I at least do a dissection?
Me too. I already killed everyone I need to. :p
Actually the story, (as explained by my Ivy League religion scholar instructors), was not about the *question* "who is my neighbor ?", but knowing the despised status of Samaritans in Galilean society, it was about acceptance of those seen as "other". The closest thing our culture used to have, similar to that, would have been ethnic minorities, and sexual minorities. The Christian cult failed abysmally to actually learn that lesson, and (just exactly like the Bible), the religious norms changed when the cultural norms changed. Religion sanctions culture. Culture does not sanction religion.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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