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Brown's more the guys who mugged the traveller, then introduced the legislation requiring that Samaratins be licenced before attempting to administer first aid, arrested for using wine on the street and when he finally makes it to the inn discovers it's been closed because the owner madea a negative remark about the Prophet. Brown's Britain.

And still people are talking as if the Pope might have visited northern Ireland if there'd been more time. No way, not if he were on a three week State Visit. The Irish Bishops would never allow it.

Will, you naughty boy! The parable of the Good Samaritan is, as you very well know, not a *religious* story, but a secular humanist one - many would even say an *anti*religious one. The priest and levite walked on by, not because they were necessarily bad people, but because their "religion" was more important to them than humanist concerns. In the religious context of the time, assuming Jesus actually told that parable, his audience would have been affronted, and if he were to try the same thing nowadays, he would have probably been called an aggressive atheist.

:-)

Does anybody like Gordon Brown?

This pre-mod business is stil very, very irritating and disruptive.

GV

The Irish Bishops would never allow it.

Is the big man past it these days, or has he mellowed with age ?

Helio

"Will, you naughty boy!"

I know H that you have said this on your church web site already, but I'm interested.

What are your thoughts on the structure of the parable, the composition, the context, the cultural dimension, the theology, the Christology, the rhetorical devices. At what point in the story does the sting come, what is it, why, what are the assumptions of the listeners, what is the interpretation? Who answers the lawyer's question? How does the parable fit into the wider dialogue? What does the parable tell us about the lawyer, Jesus, the Samaritan, neighbours, me? You?