Today's gospel is the Good Samaritan. A priest and a
Levite pass by the damaged man and an outcast stops and saves him.
Christ is delivering this story with, certainly, a wry smile.
Established religion and infrastructure ignore the needy man; only the
outsider helps. And he does not stay.
In many respects, it is astonishing that a story that ends in such a political crisis on Calvary is so rarely political. Who is your neighbor?
The ever-practical Margaret Thacher put an interesting spin on this religious proposition. She said:
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well." This is an astonishingly revealing secular misreading of the parable. Results, indeed, do not matter. The end justifies nothing. Salve is applied, coins exchanged but the physical is nothing more than the three dimensions where the spiritual, like Christ and the Good Samaritan, are passing through.
In many respects, it is astonishing that a story that ends in such a political crisis on Calvary is so rarely political. Who is your neighbor?
The ever-practical Margaret Thacher put an interesting spin on this religious proposition. She said:
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well." This is an astonishingly revealing secular misreading of the parable. Results, indeed, do not matter. The end justifies nothing. Salve is applied, coins exchanged but the physical is nothing more than the three dimensions where the spiritual, like Christ and the Good Samaritan, are passing through.
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