How does he even take away that guys magic . Cant he just pull the same thing on strange or anyone else sleeping ? <| sep |> yeah , I ' m pretty sure it would work , thank you downeastkid ! !<| sep |> Probably because Republicans have practiced racial politics for decades , in order to appeal to the former Southern Democrats <| sep |> David Thompson is trash for me , I have Steve Francis and he ' s much better . Marion is a beast too <| sep |> The Pharisees weren ' t condemned for following the Law , exactly , but rather for thinking the rules of the Law are what saved . But in passages like this one where Christ closes loopholes or like where He says they ' ve already committed adultery in their hearts , Christ isn ' t trying to create an even stricter Law as if the only problem with the LawasSalvation idea was that it wasn ' t strict enough . but rather trying to show the arrogance and folly of evaluating ones virtue and , what ' s worse , that of other people in terms of following rules . Christ fends off accusations of laxism by showing that , in fact , their own Law could be called lax compared with the perfection of God . But if what you take from this is a reading whereby Christ ' s message to the Pharisees is something like You Pharisees just aren ' t strict enough ! I think you ' re missing the point unless you understand such a formulation as subversive using their own exaltation of rigor against them .