Ctlawyer, good – and it worked for them… some do understand. A priest I knew once got caught helping at the same time a Jewish organization and a group of proselytizers, all out of goodness of his heart. When he noticed a contradition, he asked a shaila from Catholic Chacham (who knew at least Mishna), he got the answer “whoever helps a Jew, get olam haba”, so he ditched the proselytizers. I am thinking he could have interpreted it as “saving Jewish soul” more important, but given that his own olam haba was at stake, he went for peshat.
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