Great observations!
: Those Jewish leaders did not promote love. Their traditions produced a religion obsessed with externals, with mechanical obedience for the sake of appearances—a fertile breeding ground for hypocrisy. Their regulations produced countless reasons for judging others.
Good grief! Can they not see their fingers are pointing back directly at
themselves? Are they THAT blind, or are they just a lying pack of self-serving evil hypocrites? Perhaps that is a false dilemma, but what other possibilities could there be?
Farkel
"When in doubt, duck!"