The Samaritan (yeah, you know, the good Samaritan, the one in the parable) was somebody the beaten-up Jew considered an enemy (Luke 10).
But let's think about it: It was not okay for the Samaritans to worship someplace besides Jerusalem. It was wrong for Jereboam (that long-ago king) to have set up a church that wasn't the temple in Jerusalem. So the Jews were right to insist that worship belonged only where God had instituted it.
What was wrong was hating the errant Samaritans for their error. "They screwed up. FINE. Just leave them to their badness. FINE."
Nope. Not fine.
"... Love to the loveless shown
that they might lovely be."
Serendipitously, this same topic
came up on another blog this week.
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