Faz wrote: Religious practice and adherence without love (compassion in action) is barren and, often as not, fuelled by anger and arrogance.
Delightfully warm and fuzzy, Faz, but I don’t know of anyone here who has ever advocated that.
On the other hand ”love (compassion in action)” that is not underpinned by sincere religious practice and adherence is virtue-signalling and, often as not, fuelled by hypocrisy.
Not to mention selfism.
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: Rather like the priest, and levite who
: passed by, and ignored an injured victim of
: robbery...for fear that they would break the
: Sabbath laws by assisting another human
: being, covered in blood...crying loudly, for
: help...that did not stop a passing
: Samaritan, intervening by transporting the
: victim to an inn, and paying for his
: expenses.
:
: A few years ago I was lucky enough to do a
: study tour in Israel and one of our first
: ports of call was Mount Gerizim where a
: Samaritan community (one of the few left)
: lived.
:
: In this context we learned how challenging
: this story Jesus told was to his
: contemporary audience. Not only would they
: have thought the Priest's actions (or lack
: of) were reasonable, they would have been
: taken back by a Samaritan being depicted in
: such a positive way.
:
: Religious practice and adherence without
: love (compassion in action) is barren and,
: often as not, fuelled by anger and
: arrogance.
:
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