Religion Comparison

The First Parable I have chosen is the Good Samaritan: This story is about when a Jewish man gets beat up and robbed and when multiple figures of people who are supposed to worship God in Church like Priests. But when a Samaritan sees the Jewish Man dying in the middle of the road, while being sworn enemies decides he helps him out anyways. The theme is to love thy neighbor and always act in the way of God.

The Second story I choose to cover was The Tale of the Snake and the Monk: The story is a tale of how a Snake terrorizes everyone in a town until a Monk comes and teaches him that he can improve himself. After the Snake becomes a pacifist people take advantage and began to antagonize him which he later tells the Monk who tells them to set their boundaries a common theme in Buddhist Parables.

Similarities

• Both focus on how people you least expect can help better your life.
• Both have characters get assaulted then get seek help from others.
• Both stories originate from Holy Books with the "Good Samaritan" coming from the Bible and the "Snake and the Monk" comes from the Pali Canon.

Differences

• Each story is a different Religion with "Good Samaritan" being Christian and "The Snake and Monkey" being Buddhist
• The Buddhist Parable has talking animals while The Christian Parable is more grounded in reality.
• The theme in each is diffenrt with the Christian Parables theme being "Love Thy Neighbor and the Buddhist Parables them being to set boundaries