One of their better sketches!
It almost seems a pity to de-construct it. Actually, when the parable was told, you would have heard the intake of breath in Egypt. The parable is regularly read as meaning “Be nice to everybody, even those you don't like”. That is a non-negotiable certainly part of it, but it isn't primarily about a good Jew helping a Samaritan (as his audience would expect). It's the other way round to make a point.
The lawyer who asked the question (Luke 10) was asking, “Who are God's people? What are the boundary markers?”.
Jesus reply was along the lines of, “It's no longer about Judaism or keeping Torah. The definitions are to do with helping others”.
In doing that, he was being the opposite of racist, in a way that would have surprised, shocked and angered his audience.
Mitchell and Webb, not Monty Python. Although it is Brianesque. Also, Jews weren't written as 'better', they just had a unique responsibility.
It almost seems a pity to de-construct it. Actually, when the parable was told, you would have heard the intake of breath in Egypt. The parable is regularly read as meaning “Be nice to everybody, even those you don't like”. That is a non-negotiable certainly part of it, but it isn't primarily about a good Jew helping a Samaritan (as his audience would expect). It's the other way round to make a point.
The lawyer who asked the question (Luke 10) was asking, “Who are God's people? What are the boundary markers?”.
Jesus reply was along the lines of, “It's no longer about Judaism or keeping Torah. The definitions are to do with helping others”.
In doing that, he was being the opposite of racist, in a way that would have surprised, shocked and angered his audience.
(August 17, 2014 at 10:34 am)Chad32 Wrote: Gotta love Monty Python. Yes Jesus was racist. Everyone was. The whole bible is about how jews are better than other people.
Mitchell and Webb, not Monty Python. Although it is Brianesque. Also, Jews weren't written as 'better', they just had a unique responsibility.
