Yes, and what is your point here?
Because the Pharisees would not preach godliness but were selfish self-glorifying people, does not make our modern worshipers of Christ selfish self-glorifying people (except that they are now on the mend from having been so).
[our modern worshipers of Christ]
Our? LOL.
There you go “assuming dominion” again.
>>Because the Pharisees would not preach godliness
Au Contraire, they preached a godliness: a state-established one.
Just like the other plethora of religious fraudsters enumerated in...
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/masonry/Albert_Pike_-_Morals_and_Dogma.pdf