Episode 816: Are we the modern day Samaritans

Samaritan tradition states their descent from the northern Israelite tribes who were not deported by the Neo-Assyrian Empire after the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel. They believe that Samaritanism is the true religion of the ancient Israelites, preserved by those who remained in the Land of Israel during the Babylonian captivity; this belief is held in opposition to Judaism, the ethnic religion of the Jewish people, which Samaritans see as a closely related but altered and amended religion brought back by Judeans returning from Babylonian captivity. Samaritans consider Mount Gerizim near Nablus (biblical Shechem), and not the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, to be the holiest place on Earth. So as we know Christ himself affirmed that they were a false religion and upheld Judaism. After his resurrection he instituted the Catholic Church as his mystical body and the faith of Judaism became as false as the Samaritans.