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Whatever is credible should be sourced, and what is not should be removed. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Balthasar_van_Cortbemde_-_The_Good_Samaritan.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Balthasar_van_Cortbemde_-_The_Good_Samaritan.jpg/165px-Balthasar_van_Cortbemde_-_The_Good_Samaritan.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="134" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Balthasar_van_Cortbemde_-_The_Good_Samaritan.jpg/248px-Balthasar_van_Cortbemde_-_The_Good_Samaritan.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Balthasar_van_Cortbemde_-_The_Good_Samaritan.jpg/330px-Balthasar_van_Cortbemde_-_The_Good_Samaritan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="976" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Balthasar_van_Cortbemde_-_The_Good_Samaritan.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>"The Good Samaritan" by Balthasar van Cortbemde (1647)</div></div></div> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #0a150c; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:white; background-color:#0a150c"><b>Christ died for<br /> our articles about</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity"><font size="5" color="white"><b>Christianity</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#f5eaf3;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Christianity" title="Category:Christianity"><img alt="Icon christianity.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/3/3c/Icon_christianity.svg/100px-Icon_christianity.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/3/3c/Icon_christianity.svg/150px-Icon_christianity.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/3/3c/Icon_christianity.svg/200px-Icon_christianity.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:white; background-color:#0a150c; text-align:center;"><b>Schismatics</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#f5eaf3;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" title="Roman Catholic Church">Western (Latin) Catholicism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern (Greek) Orthodoxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protestantism" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestantism">Protestantism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Restorationism" title="Restorationism">Restorationism</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:white; background-color:#0a150c; text-align:center;"><b>Devil's in the details</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#f5eaf3;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/GodTube" title="GodTube">GodTube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TheocracyWatch" title="TheocracyWatch">TheocracyWatch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_economics" title="Christian economics">Christian economics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulpit_Freedom_Sunday" title="Pulpit Freedom Sunday">Pulpit Freedom Sunday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pensacola_Christian_College" title="Pensacola Christian College">Pensacola Christian College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indulgence" title="Indulgence">Indulgence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jot" title="Jot">Jot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Society_of_St._Pius_X" title="Society of St. Pius X">Society of St. Pius X</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Christianity" title="Template:Christianity">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Christianity" title="Template talk:Christianity">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Christianity&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Good Samaritan</b> was the subject of a parable told by <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> of Nazareth, whose message was one of many of Jesus' variations on the theme "don't be a dick." He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Samaritans" title="Samaritans">Samaritans</a>, an ethno-religious group in Israel and Palestine. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Modern_version"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Modern version</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#The_original_story"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">The original story</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#The_point_of_the_story"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">The point of the story</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Modern_version">Modern version</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Good_Samaritan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Modern version">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Some of the subtleties of the story may be lost on the modern reader. In modern western terms, it might be framed thus: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>There was this dude with some business to do, that got mugged on the way there. There he was all bleeding and stuff on the sidewalk, and they even took his clothes. <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Falwell" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerry Falwell">Jerry Falwell</a> saw him and crossed the street to avoid him, and so did all the <a href="/wiki/Yuppie" title="Yuppie">yuppie</a> <a href="/wiki/Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoconservative">neoconservative</a> twats walking by. But a <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Pakistani</a> taxi driver saw him, pulled over and helped him crawl into the back seat. With his frequent flier miles he paid to check the dude into a Holiday Inn. There he cleaned him up and put some ointment on the worst scrapes, and left a breakfast coupon on the nightstand. Now who would you call the righteous dude here? </p> </blockquote> <p>In other words, the <i>Samaritan</i> part was as important to the story as the <i>good</i> part. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_original_story">The original story</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Good_Samaritan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The original story">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Here is the original story as told in <a href="/wiki/Luke" title="Luke">Luke</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/King_James_Version" class="mw-redirect" title="King James Version">King James Version</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>: </p><p><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Annotated_Bible/Luke#Luke_10:29">Luke 10:29-37</a><br />But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?<br />And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.<br />And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.<br />And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.<br />But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,<br />And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.<br />And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.<br />Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?<br />And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.<br /> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_point_of_the_story">The point of the story</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Good_Samaritan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The point of the story">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The story is in itself an interesting tale about helping those who are in trouble. The part of the parable that should stand out to the reader is, and hence the "retranslation", that important people from their society walked past the man who was injured, but it was a detested outsider that stopped to help him. In the <a href="/wiki/Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish">Jewish</a> tradition, the priests and the Levites were the two highest castes, and held a position in society above that of the injured man. It was, however, someone from outside Jewish society — the man from Samaria — that stopped to help him. This was done to show how far reaching the concept of neighbor was in Jesus' parable. </p><p>The whole conversation of Luke 10:25-37 deals with Jesus discussing with a lawyer what one should do to achieve eternal life. His response to this was to love everyone as you would yourself. The lawyer, being your <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Schlafly" title="Andrew Schlafly">typical nitpicking lawyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conservapedia:The_Conservative_Bible_Project" title="Conservapedia:The Conservative Bible Project">argued over the definition of "everyone"</a>, and Jesus told the Parable of the Good Samaritan to illustrate how far the term "everyone" stretches and how one should go about loving them. </p><p>This doctrine, of how good deeds bring eternal life, runs contrary to the <a href="/wiki/American" class="mw-redirect" title="American">American</a> (and not just there) <a href="/wiki/Protestant" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> view that eternal life is achieved only through accepting Jesus as your savior, preached by the likes of Jerry Falwell and <a href="/wiki/Jack_Chick" title="Jack Chick">Jack Chick</a>, and that good deeds are inconsequential. 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