Bullshit ! Of course the German media is allowed to show someone doing the Hitler salute when reporting about it . It ' s about context . Do you really think the Germans would arrest Stephen Spielberg because of the Hitler salutes in Schindler ' s List ? <| sep |> keep refreshing magazine just came back <| sep |> Floridian here . I agree . Don ' t go near lakes . It ' s fucking simple . <| sep |> My point was never directly about strictness . The fact , so often missed by those who use the Pharisees as a theological Godwin ' s Law , is that His rebukes towards them weren ' t about strictness in either direction , but about their lack of true faith . A man can follow ecclesial law perfectly and have the outward appearance of piety without being a saint . So when they are used as an insult against a moral , theological , or liturgical rule of the Church , the Lord ' s rebukes are missed entirely . But the reason I brought it up at all is because you threw it out as an insult in an area where you ' re closer to the Pharisees than those you criticize . No matter how much you want to see an accusation towards the Lord of being too lax , it ' s just not here in this passage . The Pharisees believed a divorced couple could remarry while the other spouse lived , and the Lord corrected them . And this whole debate is based on a serious error . one that was strongly supported by Martin Luther and the other protestant heresiarchs . And that is the belief that moral law is on the same level as the Mosaic Law and therefore , that following the moral law is equally as unimportant as the Mosaic Law when it comes to salvation . This is not the case at all . we cannot be saved if we are in a state of mortal sin at our death . Even if the culture sees a particular moral teaching of the Lord as too strict , we cannot just ignore that He taught it . We cannot ignore that the Church has universally handed this teaching on , from one member to the next , since that first Christian Pentecost . Pax .