Love Without Religion

Love without religion. The right way is not in the religious norms, but in love. Jesus said that to have eternal life we must love the Lord our God with all our heart, all our soul, all our strength, and all our mind, and love our neighbor as ourselves. If we ask: Who is our neighbor and how we love him? Jesus replies with a story in which some bandits attacked a man and left him half dead in the road. Two religious persons saw the man lying there and passed him by. Then a despised Samaritan saw the man, he felt compassion for him.  Going over to him, he helped him and took him to an inn, where he took care of him. The Samaritans were despised by the Jews because they mixed their race and religious norms with the pagans. At the end of the story, Jesus asks: who loved his neighbor, the two religious persons or the despised Samaritan? The answer is obvious: The Samaritan. Jesus concludes: Now you go and do the same. What God cares about is how you treat your brother who is close to you, whoever he is and not how you practice a religion. Luke 10:25-37