“Dorothy Lee: “Religion itself is no proof against sin and evil. On the contrary, there are no more culpable sinners, for [John] the evangelist, than those religious leaders who lack self-knowledge and are filled with self-delusion; who harm those entrusted to their care; 1/3″ Aaron Hann @aaronjhamm on X (X.com) May 30, 2024 Pt.1
Examples of religious leaders doing harm: Matt. 23: 4, 14-15 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger…. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.… you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves…
John 8:3-5 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”
