re: #132 Decatur Deb

Just fulfilling their gospel role—Pharisees.

No, not really. HE usually looked at them as trying to live up to the Torah but not succeeding by His standards. He then, in certain ways, set even harder standards that 99% of us Christians fail to meet. But that is what we are to live up to even when we know we’ll fail.

So while I get what you’re trying to say, I won’t besmirch the Pharisees with a comparison to the modern religious right