Scribes and Pharisees

      I wanted to simply label this commentary on today's Scripture as "thy name is Trump' and let it be at that. However, in all honesty, there are so many people, mostly pseudo Christian Trumpites that proclaim their Christianity in self righteousness that I cannot label him alone. They are, by any other name, all 'scribes and Pharisees'. Truly, how can anyone who claims to have a mustard seeds worth of faith in Jesus Christ promulgate policies such as we have seen? How can anyone causally or otherwise, glance over and dismiss the life of a man who is all about regal golden toilets and a life of intense materiality, sexuality and sin ?  The man himself is a walking abomination.This will become a theocracy based on utter hypocrisy.

      Had enough?  If we are to be faithful people, this is a call to act as our consciences and 

faith call us to.  So practice your Christian faiths but not as it is being displayed.  We know 

the right road and ironically it is not the road of the conservative, arrogant religious right.

Vote, volunteer, be political, love with reckless abandon but do not allow this travesty 

against our nation and against God to continue.  We do not need more scribes and 

Pharisees.

Matthew 23:1-12

Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice. They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men. But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ. He who is greatest among you shall be your servant; whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.