(March 15, 2019 at 9:07 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(March 14, 2019 at 10:38 am)Catharsis Wrote: Love your neighbour.
The parable of the Good Samaritan is the most ethically wise lesson in the NT, IMHO.
Really? How do you feel about antisemitism? I have never read the NT, but I know that the good samaritan is regarded as the most antisemitic trope in it. The Samaritans and Jews had an adversarial history. The point of the story is to disparage Jews as cruel uncaring people. It's a violation of Jewish law to leave a man to die by the side of the road. We are required to help him. The story of the good samitan is antisemitic slander. Not only are the Jews depicted as being cruel and uncaring, but it is a traditional adversary of the Jewish people who is depicted as the righteous guy.
A guy was hurt and dying by the side of the road. Jews went by and pretended to not see him. Then David Duke saw the man and helped him when those nasty Jewish people wouldn't. That's how the story of the good samaritan sounds.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
