Why Trump is the Good Samaritan

superbeets · Mar 30, 2017

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David Sanderson, Arts Correspondent
March 31 2017, 12:01am, The Times

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Donald Trump can be identified as the Good Samaritan, according to a former Archbishop of Canterbury who also says that the American president’s hypocrisy and hedonism are “irrelevant”.
Lord Carey of Clifton said that, as in the parable of the Good Samaritan, Mr Trump had promised to offer support to the “wounded and helpless left behind by the elite”, and was “giving a voice to the silent”.
“Many will recoil at the identification of Donald Trump as the Good Samaritan but why not, why not?” Lord Carey said at the Oxford Literary Festival.
“Is it not true that we have wounded and left-behind communities passed by by the elite, who are too distracted and busy with their own agendas, too busy to look over to…

superbeets · Mar 30, 2017

[h=1]Why Trump is the Good Samaritan, by Lord Carey: Former Archbishop of Canterbury says the President has offered the country 'a voice'[/h]

Former Archbishop of Canterbury said President Trump is a 'Good Samaritan'
He gave his verdict on the president at this year's Oxford literary festival
Lord Carey said Trump’s ‘hedonistic lifestyle’ were irrelevant

superbeets · Mar 30, 2017

The former Archbishop of Canterbury has described Donald Trump as a ‘Good Samaritan’ for the American people.
Lord Carey said the US President had offered the country ‘a voice’ and said he had ‘deep sympathies’ with the forces that propelled him to victory last year.
His comments put him at odds with the current Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who said Mr Trump was part of a ‘fascist tradition of politics’.
At the Oxford literary festival Lord Carey said: ‘Many will recoil at the identification of Donald Trump as the Good Samaritan but why not?
'Is it not true that we have wounded and left-behind communities passed by by the elite who are too distracted and busy with their own agendas, too busy to look over to see someone in distress?
‘And intervention that makes a difference is from a totally unexpected source, the Samaritan, the Outsider.’

superbeets · Mar 30, 2017

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Support: Former archbishop Lord Carey, pictured, said Mr Trump, just like the Samaritan, was offering Americans more than just words

superbeets · Mar 30, 2017

The Good Samaritan is a Parable in which a man is beaten by robbers and then ignored by a priest and a Levite until being helped by a Samaritan.
Lord Carey said Mr Trump, just like the Samaritan, was offering Americans more than just words.
He said: ‘Help is not merely kind words. It is the promise of ongoing support.’

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Good Samaritan? The former Archbishop of Canterbury offers his verdict on President Trump at this year's Oxford literary festival

Speaking about the comparison between Brexit and Trump Lord Carey said: ‘We can see in Britain [through Brexit] we are also a divided country.
‘There are deep divisions. It is shallow thinking to decry what is called populism as if populism helps us to understand what the problem is.
‘Because what the American election and our Brexit revealed was the same distrust of political leadership, the same desire for a New Deal and a deep desire to recover our country.’
Lord Carey, leader of the Anglican church from 1991 to 2002, said he would not have voted for Mr Trump but that he would have ‘found it quite difficult to vote for Hillary Clinton’.
He insisted that Mr Trump’s ‘indifference’ to ‘conservative sexual guidelines’ and ‘hedonistic lifestyle’ were irrelevant.
He added: ‘His wealth is beyond the imagination of all of us. His hedonist lifestyle, his hypocrisy, the things that make him such a flawed character may also be the very thing that people today find deeply seductive.’