Finish This Sentence

A Samaritan Is . . .



. . . Good, right?



Wrong. In the eyes of his contemporaries, a samaritan was the mongrel half-breed of jews and non-jews. They were perceived as uneducated, ill-mannered, irreligious and just a tad unholy. They were what happened when God's Chosen people went bad.



But after two thousand years of repeating the same story over and over, you say "Samaritan" and I say "Good." It's all we know. The only samaritan you ever hear about was good, ergo all samaritans are good.



Be careful what stories you carry - they might be the only truth that gets heard.