a comment on yesterday\u2019s post depicting a \u201cBad Samaritan,\u201d<\/a> it was suggested that there were ways of depicting a conservative American outlook that might be more accurate. It inspired the above image. What do you think? If the \u201cGood Samaritan\u201d in the story in Luke\u2019s Gospel reflected conservative American values, rather than those of Jesus and early Christianity, do you think the character would have set off on a quest of retribution against those who left a man for dead alongside the Jericho road?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a comment on yesterday\u2019s post depicting a \u201cBad Samaritan,\u201d it was suggested that there were ways of depicting a conservative American outlook that might be more accurate. It inspired the above image. What do you think? If the \u201cGood Samaritan\u201d in the story in Luke\u2019s Gospel reflected conservative American values, rather than those of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,32,42,61],"tags":[551,2148,4054,9939,10295,10721,13328],"class_list":["post-11898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-gospel-of-luke","category-humor","category-morality","tag-american","tag-conservative","tag-good","tag-rambo","tag-revenge","tag-samaritan","tag-vengeance"],"yoast_head":"\n
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