re: #269 William Lewis

Which is exactly what Jesus was saying. Or more bluntly today, the Samaritan is a member in good standing of MS-13 ;) But I think folks here get that.

The thing about the Good Samaritan is that it’s easy for right-wing assholes to abstract the parable away if they keep portraying the erstwhile hero as a Samaritan, because to a modern layperson, “Samaritan” is a historical construct that has no contextual value. If you rephrase the parable in modern terms that they understand, suddenly it gets a whole lot more uncomfortable.