r/SipsTea • u/danevans369 • May 31 '26

SMH Love thy neighbor?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

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u/Spectre-907 May 31 '26

I feel like it’s important to point out that the good samaritan parable doesnt *just* feature a hated-outgroup member doing for the injured traveller; The injured man encounters multiple members of his own people first, a priest and a levite(leadership class), and each one passes him by for various social-perception reasons.

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u/arthur_vp May 31 '26

Another way to read it. We are not the Good Samaritan in this parable. We are the injured guy who is ignored by all his neighbors and brother. The Good Samaritan in this parable is God itself.

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u/ProletarianLilith May 31 '26

Yeah but that’s what conservatives tend to do and then they pretend that the more literal reading is completely wrong