When Christ is asked what the greatest commandment is, he offers two:

37 …“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Matthew 22:37-40

All the laws and all the prophets hang on these two commandments. If a Christian can follow these two commandments, they wouldn’t need to worry about anything else, assuming the Christian doesn’t hate themselves, which creates a whole new problem.

Luke also has a similar passage, but in this one, the person who asks the questions seeks clarification about his “neighbor.” Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan:

A man is beaten by thieves and left for dead. He is passed by members of the church, including a priest. However, it is the Samaritan, a person who should’ve had nothing to do with the man, who stops to help the man. The Samaritans hated the Jews and vice versa, and yet, this Samaritan took care of the man’s wounds. He then took the man to an inn, further administered to his injuries, and the next day, he paid the innkeeper to take care of the man while guaranteeing additional money to pay for any expenses that weren’t covered.

In short, the Samaritan took a victim of violence, a person he would’ve otherwise despised, and took care of his health while giving him food and shelter, not just for the moment’s he was with him, but for as long as the innkeeper deemed necessary.

Christ has asked people to take care of their neighbors. He made it the second commandment like unto the first. There is very little separation between the commandments. Even if he ranked one over the other, it sounds like it was a tough call.

Then, he made it clear that our neighbors aren’t just those who we love, or those who are near us geographically. Our neighbors include those we despise. They include those who are hurting. They include those caravans that are coming from the south, who are being unceremoniously shipped under false pretenses by the very same people who call themselves Christian.

Those people have certainly not learned the lessons of the Good Samaritan, and many have not learned the lessons from Christ’s own life. Instead, they use their religion as a bludgeon to hurt others and to remain ensconced in their powerful positions while feeding the emotions of their followers the stones and snakes that a father would not give a son when he asked for bread or fish.