re: #53 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i would classify trump’s religious denomination as “pharisee”

Ah, no. The Pharisee’s were a specific Jewish movement in Jesus’ time that emphasized a holiness based on following all of the 613 commandments of the Torah as understood using the Mishnah. There were arguments as to how well they full-fulled that task, but the real problems were with those who were hypocritical about their holiness - like Trump - rather than with the Pharisee’s in general. In Matthew, Jesus says that the Pharisee’s are holy, it’s just that he expects his disciples to be even more holy than them.

Call him a hypocrite, which is certainly is. But he is not a Jew of one of the Pharisee schools.