In Jesus’s parable it’s the Good Samaritan who helps out the Jewish man who’s been beaten and robbed and left for dead, after two supposedly-pious Jews walk on by. So where they weren’t even willing to help their “neighbor,” the Samaritan helps his “enemy.”
I suppose a nitpicking Evangelical could claim it only means they should have helped the person of their own religion, and that particular Samaritan was “one of the good ones” like the few people who are useful to you and semi-exempt from your general racism. They’d be wrong, of course.
The Catholic Church and several of the mainline Christian denominations (Episcopal, UCC, Presbyterian, plus Unitarian which isn’t 100% Christian) have been helpful to immigrants, including undocumented people, in these trying times. Not to say they don’t have their own problems, in history and the present.
and that particular Samaritan was “one of the good ones”
Samaritans were still Israelites (tribes of Ephriam and Manasseh, iirc,) and still part of the Mosaic covenant.
The beef with the Jews at the time comes from having been split off long enough to start developing their own tradition. Like which books are canonical and aren’t and which mountain was special (Mt Gerizim not the one at the Temple Mount,) and which temple (theirs,) was “special”.
The beef is kinda like the beef England and France had against each other. By the end of it, they were basically the same culture and that’s really why they hated each other.
In Jesus’s parable it’s the Good Samaritan who helps out the Jewish man who’s been beaten and robbed and left for dead, after two supposedly-pious Jews walk on by. So where they weren’t even willing to help their “neighbor,” the Samaritan helps his “enemy.”
I suppose a nitpicking Evangelical could claim it only means they should have helped the person of their own religion, and that particular Samaritan was “one of the good ones” like the few people who are useful to you and semi-exempt from your general racism. They’d be wrong, of course.
The Catholic Church and several of the mainline Christian denominations (Episcopal, UCC, Presbyterian, plus Unitarian which isn’t 100% Christian) have been helpful to immigrants, including undocumented people, in these trying times. Not to say they don’t have their own problems, in history and the present.
Samaritans were still Israelites (tribes of Ephriam and Manasseh, iirc,) and still part of the Mosaic covenant.
The beef with the Jews at the time comes from having been split off long enough to start developing their own tradition. Like which books are canonical and aren’t and which mountain was special (Mt Gerizim not the one at the Temple Mount,) and which temple (theirs,) was “special”.
The beef is kinda like the beef England and France had against each other. By the end of it, they were basically the same culture and that’s really why they hated each other.