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Modern Day Pharisees: Spiritual Materialism, Narcissism and Hypocrisy

on July 2, 2022March 1, 2023 By Sam Weston

About 2000 years ago, the religious leaders in a minor corner of the Roman Empire noticed a strange and disturbing development. A certain precocious young man was going about the country trash-talking them. He claimed they were hypocrites who didn't practice what they preached. He said they just painted their faces white to pretend they [...]

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