Ancient Greece?! We're discussing the Holy bill, HANDWRITTEN by Jesus HIMSELF (PRAISE!) to allow good Christians of conscience (the only people WITH consciences, of course, since everyone else is a Satan-piloted puppet of evil) to allow people we don't like to have the blessing of dying alone in pain and misery as God intended. This is SACROSANCT, and you bring up a nation of homosexual gay queers that the Baby Jesus destroyed by letting the not-at-all-gay Roman's to conquer them!? Jesus wept, just like He does whenever someone claiming to be Christian tries to bring up the parable of the Good Samaritan - which they clearly have only heard from other liberals, rather than reading the original, unexpurgated, ONE TRUE FAITH (TM) BIBLE. And you liberals don't even GET what that story was about, always thinking it means that Christians shouldnt judge people for being different or whatever Satanic hippie yoga nonsense!
Look, everyone knows that Samaritans were evil for worshipping Satan in the form of false gods, right? That's why Jesus told all those Jews the story about a Jewish man being robbed and beaten and left for dead, only to have a filthy Samaritan come up and try to steal his clothes. But of course, God is Good (tm) and He strengthened the Jewish man against the sins of Samaritanity, and he pulled out his Glock - a gift from God, who believes we have a 2nd amendment right to defend ourselves - and shot that disgusting, sinful Samaritan dead where he stood. As the Samaritan died, the man converted from immature Judaism to full, washed-in-the-Blood Christianity on the spot (which is the point Jesus was making to all those poor, hellbound Jews, of course!) and said the famous line, "The only good Samaritan is a DEAD Samaritan."
Best.
Bible quote.
EVAR!
Man, I love the Bible! But where was I? Oh right! Queers! Queers are the new Samaritans, you see. In accordance to The One True Christian Faith (tm) that is American Evangelism, it is our Christian duty to shun them, deny them housing and educations and medical care, beat them to death in the streets, and generally treat them like the Hellbound garbage they are, because they chose to worship Satin with their genitals.
And because Jesus said so.
So there. Pray about THAT, why don't you!?
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I write posts like this from time to time and sometimes people think I am being serious and they believe the nonsense I write. Oh well!
For those who don't know the real story, the Hebrew people split into two different nations. The Jews had their capital city to be Jerusalem and the Israelites (ten northern tribes) had their capital city in ancient Samaria. There may still be a city on that site, but it goes by another name now. The Jews had their capital city in ancient Jerusalem on the site that occupies the Old City of Jerusalem.
The Samaritans had their mountain top experience with the Ten Commandments on a mountain "up north" and the Jews had their mountain top experience with the Ten Commandments "down south"
The Samaritans only used the first five books called the Tora with the changes in geography to make the history all take place "up north" from the Jews who used geographical sites "down south." The ancient Samaritans were in the northern part of what is now modern Israel and the ancient Jews were from the area around the modern city of Jerusalem.
Jacob, Abraham's grandson had 12 sons. The ancient tribes trace back to ten of Jacob's off-spring. One tribe was very small and was woven into the large tribe of Judah. One tribe had certain responsibilities to all the other tribes leaving ten political organizations representing ten tribes of Israel.
For a while all ten tribes of the Israelites were part of the same nation and then the ten northern tribes revolted and formed a new nation only to be defeated in war and its many of its peoples have been lost in history on what happened to them.
From that time on there was little love between the two nations of Jacob, the grandson of Abraham.
The Persian King allowed the Jews to reeturn too Jerusalem preserving their heritage and religion.
Jew is a form of the word Judah the name of the southern nation.
I've wondered why the Jews did not pick the name Judah instead of Israel when the modern nation of Israel was proclaimed.
There are still 5000 Samaritans in Israel. They are now allies of Israel. They still sacrifice lambs as part of their worship. The Jews stopped this practice when Jerusalem and the second Temple was destroyed in 70 AD.
Judaism took a radical change after this as the all the relics in the Temple were destroyed and the priests killed.
The Samaritans still have priests, the religion of Judaism now has rabbis.
The Jews hated the Samaritans for intermarrying with gentiles. Well, so did the Jews from time to time.
It is now the Samarians who want the pure blood line to continue.
It always fascinates me how political persecutions jump across the middle ground to take the same position that they once said was scandalous!
Religions sometimes do this as well!
Ezra. one of the Jewish prophets is the prophet that declared that the Samaritans could not worship at the Temple and split the two Abrahamic religions into two different religions solely on political grounds.
This is not quite the version told by the Evangelicals. Evangelicals believe that the Samaritans were really bad people while the Jews are good people because the Jews will according to them play a role in bringing Jesus back to earth in a blaze of glory killing all the folks that the right wing Evangelistic Christians don't like.
Politics and religion should keep a safe distance from each other.
Note:
There is another wing of Evangelism that goes back to Europe in some Protestant churches that predate the colonization of North America. It is nothing like the right wing political Evangelism being spun by Trump's Christian friends.
Trump, the Chosen One!
Yeah right! The United Kingdom is massing an army to occupy the continent of Antarctica. The EU is massing an army to defend Antarctica.
The people of Antarctica need European protection from the UK so says Brussels.
You know this is so. Freddie wrote it!
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I did love reading your post, dripping with sarcasm and other elements of literature!
It is tragic that today's Evangelism proponents don't recognize that the Samaritan women back then is the LGBTQ people of today!
Perhaps Jesus will straighten them out later when they apply to get into heaven after they have died!
Then again!