Why Do We Hate The Samaritans?

Love the people you hate the most. God’s chosen people were called to love unconditionally, yet they absolutely hated the Samaritans. “Love your neighbor as yourself. For there is no commandment greater than these”(Mark 12:31). The Samaritans were viewed as a disgrace in the eyes of the Jews. “A person’s a person, no matter how small”(Dr. Seuss). What gives us the right to hate someone because of the way they look, what they believe, or how they live? Israel was split into the Northern and Southern Kingdoms. The Northern Kingdom was Israel and the Southern Kingdom was Judah. However, the Assyrians rocked the Israelites’ world when they conquered their nation and drove out most of them. The Israelites were sent to numerous other countries. After Assyria conquered Israel, they sent five tribes into Northern Kingdom of Israel to introduce their religion and customs. The people of the tribes of Assyria and the Israelites still living in Israel intermarried and became known as the Samaritans. The Samaritans were a racially mixed society of Jewish and pagan ancestry. They lived in
The story begins with Jewish man was walking down the road when suddenly;

robbers attacked him, beat him, stole every possession he had, and left him there half dead. Later that day, a Jewish priest and a Levite walked by and ignored the Jew as if they had not seen him. However a Samaritan, a race hated by Jews, bandaged the man’s wounds, put him on his donkey, took him to an inn, and since the Jew was robbed of all his money, the Samaritan paid the innkeeper to care for him until he was well. Jesus tells this story because of how compelling the meaning is. The implication is this; God calls us to love our neighbor as ourselves. Who is our neighbor? Everyone is our neighbor and we must not discriminate because of his or her