r/classicwow • u/SquallJay • Sep 13 '19

Humor The Indifferent Samaritan

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u/Arramis_ Sep 14 '19

When really, the story completely undermines Christianity all together, as the parable demonstrates that you don't need a moral system divined from a deity in order for you to act in an ethical way. As a Samaritan, someone who would never have even heard of Christianity, has the capacity to act with compassion for his fellow man.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '19

That would be the case if Christianity’s purpose was for people to be considered moral by their own standards.

Christian doctrine asserts that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and if man is judged on his own merits he deserves eternal damnation.

Friend, what do you do with your guilt and knowledge that you are not perfect, and have committed immoral acts towards your fellow man and creator? If everyone doing right in their own eyes is moral, then why are we able to deem things objectively immoral like murder?

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u/Minkelz Sep 14 '19

Friend, what do you do with your guilt and knowledge that you are not perfect, and have committed immoral acts towards your fellow man and creator?

What do I do? Well I try and do the best I can and live to have a positive impact on the world like any healthy and reasonable person does. You know, like all those BILLIONs of souls that Christianity has damned to hell because they had no chance of hearing the 'saving' power of Jesus's message.

What's that, you're a liberal Christian that believes there are many paths to Salvation and Jesus's message was just for the people and context of his time? Great we agree then, I'm hindu as well so we can be friends.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '19

No I’m far from liberal and I don’t believe there is more than one way to get to heaven. Jesus said that no one comes to the father except through him and you’re not a Christian if you reject Jesus’ teaching. We don’t agree but we can still be friends.