Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ut-emx!bill@emx.utexas.edu (Bill Jefferys) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Question about the Good Samaritan Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 91 06:35:29 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas Lines: 18 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article catfood@ncoast.org (Mark W. Schumann) writes: #I recall having read or heard a commentary on the parable of the #Good Samaritan which claimed that the real point of the story #was that the Samaritan helped the man who was mugged even though #Jews and Samaritans were mortal enemies at the time. My father, who is a clergyman, points out that the Samaritans were considered a despised and outcast group by the Jews. He would recast the story by putting a contemporary outcast group in the place of a Samaritan (in the 1950s, that could have been a Black). To understand the parable this way today, try substituting the word "Homosexual" for "Samaritan." Bill Jefferys -- If you meet the Buddha on the net, put him in your kill file --Robert Firth