Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "The Most Misunderstood Parable of Jesus" video.

@Exiled.New.Yorker Nothing about ritual cleanliness, everything about prejustice. Modern version: a guy lays injured on the way to a church. A Pastor, a Monk, and a Muslim pass by. Only the Muslim helps. Who is his neighbor? Obviously the Muslim. Yes, it talks about religious/social, not ethnic division... Because nationalism wasn't a thing back then, nation states didn't exist (it's an early modern invention), people identified by their culture or religion. That's it! That's the common interpretation and whoever described Samaritans as separate ethnicity just simplified it but didn't change the meaning. Hell, you can find modern Americans who think Islam is a race, so the point still stands.
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1:50 That's literally explained in NT where Jesus talks to Samaritan woman: they're considered to be of the people, but with theological differences, you can compare with Arianiats, Protestants or Muslims seeing Jews & Christians as "people of the book". The chief difference, on which mount to worship, was effectively dismissed as nonsense by Jesus. And the parable is how your brother/father/neighbour is the one who is good to you not someone who happens to share the same ancestry and goes to the same church. That's the common interpretation, loosely alluded in Narnia or all things.
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