The distance between Jerusalem and Samaria was 35 miles. I travel that far to Walmart. That's where my "neighbors" shop.
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So, 35 miles are… over fifty-six kilometres ? Okay, so let’s look up a radius on a map to contextualise it..as a routine shopping trip !
…anyways…
PS:
What part of the gospel makes you think Jesus wanted selfish idiots to decide who was ‘close enough’ to deserve empathy, sympathy, generosity?
I mean, really, you’re going to stand in front of Jesus on The day, and when he asks, ‘Why did you not welcome Amir?’ you’ll look him in the eye and say, ‘He was from pretty far away. Like, thousands of miles away.’
TO Jesus.
Yeah, good luck with that.
How often do you walk to Walmart?
More than 1,000 years after Jesus, almost everyone but aristocrats and a few adventurous merchants still lived and died within 100 miles of their birthplace. Many never left their hometowns. So yes, it was normal for people even a few miles away to seem quite foreign.
@Bastethotep #217224
This dude likely lives somewhere rural and very far from anything OR dude lives in an area where Walmarts aren’t allowed (there are some) and so they go to the closest one because they’re trying to prove they’re cooler than the liberals they live around. But 35 miles is not what most of us travel to go to the store. The store I go to is 1.5 miles away, for instance.
@Bastethotep #217224
No, it's not a disproportionate distance, unless you're east coast. Major shopping centers can be 50-60 miles away from a small town, and traveling 100 miles for a once or twice a year shopping trip isn't unheard of, even in these days of online shopping.
Even your J-boy was in Egypt.
With that attitude of yours, if you think there was nothing wrong with him crossing borders you’re in a certain river in that country.
Did Elvis’s manager Col. Tom Parker have the right to live in the US…?!
Yes, and 35 miles (ie 56 km) is a short drive up some of our highways and freeways, I've done 10 times that in one day. But I would consider people in Far North Queensland my neighbours, especially if they suffer from a cyclone or bushfire. Also some refugees fleeing disaster, overseas.
Which is basically what the whole story is about: minority groups and our common humanity.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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