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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Remember the parable of the man who was beaten on the road to Damascus? In the New Republican Version, it ends with the Samaritan gunning him down from 100yds, just in case.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Scene: The road to Damascus

Samaritan: laying on the ground, beaten and bloody

Repub: GET ON THE GROUND GET ON THE GROUND!!!!

Samaritan: lifts head slightly to see who is yelling

Repub: HE'S COMING RIGHT AT ME!! pew pew pew

Samaritan: dies

Repub: you guys all saw that right? He was coming right at me, I had to stand my ground! (from 100 yards away)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

what's hilarious about that (OG) parable was... it's original purpose.

some cultural context is important there; not rendering aid if it could be rendered was viewed every bit as much as stabbing a dude would have been. It was the only commandant that could have been broken by inaction.

now the merchant and the pharisee were both seen as righteous men. So as jesus was telling the story; everybody expected him to stop. When the merchant kept going by, everyone thought (more or less,) "oh, the pharisee had it."

When the Pharisee kept going... he was literally calling the rich fucks and their puppets (the pharisees) murderers. The point of the parable was that those two were worse than the "unclean" and broadly despised Samaritans. (which were viewed in very similar manner to how Trumpian broke-dicks view migrants seeking asylum, in point of fact.)