Over on another web site, I was discussing the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and how modern audiences often miss a key point of the story: The 1st Century Jewish target audience of the Parable loathed Samaritans, and the feeling was mutual. So, charity was not the sole point of the story; the point was also that someone who would have been expected to be least likely to help was the one who helped.
I decided to come up with a modern version of it.
continued...
A good, right thinking American conservative was visiting Washington, DC to attend CPAC. The conservative did not have his gun with him, since he followed the city's unjust gun laws. He was set upon by robbers and left for dead.
An NRA member drove by in a Lincoln Navigator and noticed his plight, but thought, "well, if he had been carrying a gun, he would have been able to defend himself. He deserves his fate." He sped away to the NRA headquarters off I-66 to have dinner at the restaurant there.
Then, a pro-life activist walked by, but she said to herself, "he's an adult and can take care of himself. I have to go save defenseless little babies." She picked up her picket sign and headed to that day's protest at Planned Parenthood.
But, a gay liberal drove by in his Prius, and saw the conservative, and took pity on him. He folded down the back seat, to allow plenty of room for the wounded conservative to lie down. He then drove him to the hospital, where he was admitted to the emergency room.
The admissions nurse told the liberal that the conservative didn't have health insurance. The liberal pulled out his Greenpeace logo MasterCard and said "let him stay till he's fully recovered; don't kick him out as soon as you legally can." He then called some of his other liberal friends, and they held a bake sale at the organically-grown locally-raised food co-op to to raise money to pay the conservative's bills.
When the conservative left the hospital, he learned the man who saved him was gay, so he went to get an AIDS test because he thought all gays carried AIDS and it was spread by casual contact. He then started calling all of his favorite talk radio shows, blaming liberal social values for his mugging.
|
|
Discussing:
- Oil company benefits from Middle East war? (1 reply)
- Senate Homeland Security Meeting - Harassment of Anthony Fauci (1 reply)
- What's going on with Chattanooga? (2 replies)
- Open AI escapes, hacks competitor (1 reply)
- Tennessee paying $637 million over 5 years for voucher software program (3 replies)
- Confusion at the Alcoa South Plant (3 replies)
- The Odyssey (1 reply)
- Tennessee: great for business, not so great place to live (1 reply)
- Marsha & China (4 replies)
- AI bubble burst? (2 replies)
- UT paying $2 million to fired professor? (2 replies)
- A bear in Alcoa (1 reply)
TN Progressive
- Alcoa property taxes will probably not go up (BlountViews)
- Smith & Wesson not a good fit for Blount County (BlountViews)
- Pellissippi Parkway extension delayed again (BlountViews)
- Blount County early voting record turnout (BlountViews)
- WATCH THIS SPACE. (Left Wing Cracker)
- America As It Is Right Now (RoaneViews)
- A friend sent this: From Captain McElwee's Tall Tales of Roane County (RoaneViews)
- The Meidas Touch (RoaneViews)
- Massive Security Breach Analysis (RoaneViews)
- (Whitescreek Journal)
- My choices in the August election (Left Wing Cracker)
- July 4, 2024 - aka The Twilight Zone (Joe Powell)
TN Politics
- ICE separated nursing mom from infant, toddler, against its own rules, advocates say (TN Lookout)
- Trump administration rules out mass ICE enforcement at the polls in midterms (TN Lookout)
- Stockard on the Stump: Dark-money complaint headed to Tennessee Election Finance Registry (TN Lookout)
- Trump says he might pull Blanche nomination for AG until GOP holdouts leave office (TN Lookout)
- Democratic senator asks TN governor for details about potential federal nuclear partnership (TN Lookout)
- US Senate panel backs Trump’s CDC nominee after tense hearing (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Lady Vols Boost Her Club hosts volleyball dinner (Knox TN Today)
- Inside Tennessee Basketball: A Walk Through History (Part 3) (Knox TN Today)
- Karns Landing + Travis Wegener Car Show + Powell disc golf tourney ++ (Knox TN Today)
- Daily Connections: Your East Tennessee Guide | July 31 – August 2 (Knox TN Today)
- Close to Home, Far from Ordinary: National Gingerbread House Competition returns with holiday magic (Knox TN Today)
- Dining Duo discovers Hammocks (Knox TN Today)
- Hiking with Harrington: Fog, wildflowers and a peaceful walk on Lumber Ridge (Knox TN Today)
- More than a day at the Zoo: How Zoo Knoxville is inspiring the next generation (Knox TN Today)
- Weekend Scene: Arsenic & Old Lace to Kitten Yoga and more (Knox TN Today)
- Food City donation supports Pat Summitt Foundation (Knox TN Today)
- Inside Tennessee Basketball: A Walk Through History (Part 2) (Knox TN Today)
- Orange Pop (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- World champ leads watersports clinic for young women on Tellico Lake (WATE)
- Tech founder explains how data centers can be cooled with and without water (WATE)
- Local partnership giving Knox County teachers free classroom supplies (WATE)
- Parents raise data privacy concerns ahead of Knox County screen rule vote (WATE)
- New law makes it easier to own a pet raccoon in Tennessee (WATE)
- Knoxville crime rates fall as neighborhood crime reduction initiative shows success (WATE)
News Sentinel
State News
- City asks for Neighborhood Association applications - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Bradley Central, Cleveland look to dethrone Maryville - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- 7 things to know after Fuller family buys Chattanooga Times Free Press - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- WEHCO sells Chattanooga Times Free Press to Craig and Max Fuller - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Nasdaq futures rise as tech stocks lead sharp Wall Street rebound: Live updates - CNBC (Business)
- Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations - BBC (Business)
- Tech rebound fuels record-breaking rally in South Korean stocks - Yahoo Finance (Business)
- July 30, 2026 - heathercoxrichardson.substack.com (US News)
- Sources detail concerns about Mandela Barnes' behavior toward women - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (US News)
- Tesla Weighs China Unit Sale Ahead of SpaceX Deal, WSJ Says - Bloomberg.com (Business)
- Oil companies are expected to reap big profits because of US-Iran conflict - AP News (Business)
- Georgia school shooter’s father, who bought son a gun, sentenced to 15 years - The Washington Post (US News)
- U.S. investigating whether Iran was behind cyberattack on Minnesota water systems - CBS News (US News)
- Tim Cook signed off on his final Apple earnings call with a warning about a ‘hundred year flood’ in memory chip pricing - fortune.com (Business)
- Seattle police chief resigns under pressure from mayor over response to festival shooting - AP News (US News)
- Defying Trump, Cornyn Uses His Lame-Duck Power - The New York Times (US News)
- Attorney for Nolan Wells' family says experts will review a July 4 boat distress call - PBS (US News)
- AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares - TechCrunch (Business)
- Could Fauci face criminal charges for refusing Senate COVID questions? - Reuters (US News)
Local Media
Lost Medicaid Funding
Search and Archives
TN Progressive
Nearby:
- Blount Dems
- Herston TN Family Law
- Inside of Knoxville
- Instapundit
- Jack Lail
- Jim Stovall
- Knox Dems
- MoxCarm Blue Streak
- Outdoor Knoxville
- Pittman Properties
- Reality Me
- Stop Alcoa Parkway
Beyond:
- Nashville Scene
- Nashville Post
- Smart City Memphis
- TN Dems
- TN Journal
- TN Lookout
- Bob Stepno
- Facing South

Interestingly, you've loaded
Interestingly, you've loaded up your modern version with some loathing missing from Jesus' version. Reading the parable in Luke, the man from Jericho was neither likable nor loathesome. He was simply a victim.
In your version, you paint the modern Samaritan as a saint, and the modern victim as a villain himself. The original parable may have been loaded with a cultural pretext that the two were not natural friends, but Jesus didn't find it necessary to infuse his own ethnic or political preferences into the parable. Perhaps he had none to infuse.
In the end, the original version has served as a teaching tool for the ages. Your version, I think, falls short.
Its called "humor". Voting
Its called "humor".
Voting is like driving. If you want to go backwards, select R. If you want to go forward, select D.
Ah, see, your intro was all
Ah, see, your intro was all serious, so I went and read it as vitriol instead of humor.
To be fair, I started it
To be fair, I started it seriously, but it ended up snarky.
Voting is like driving. If you want to go backwards, select R. If you want to go forward, select D.
I think it's great
i'm doing research on it in my religous education classes and I was planning on doing a doctor and a police man but I got stuck on the samaritan so when I turned on to this page It really inspired me.
thank-you so much.
From
Hello=)
I like MDB's version better.
I like MDB's version better.