As usual you have missed the point.
Something about vain repetitions.
History has also shown us that those sects which have the most rigid ritualistic practices are also the same sects which were the quickest to persecute Christians who refused to follow their ritualistic practices, or submit to their authority. Also, it seems that the more rigid and ritualistic the sects practices are the less Scriptural knowledge the congregation possess.
Such as Calvin, Luther, the English "reformers", and the Puritans in America? How many thousands of priests, nuns and ordinary Catholics were killed in Protestant lands during the "Protestant Reformation" by mobs or by the will of the prince? Persecution in England was PARTICULARLY harsh. Ever hear of being "drawn and quartered"? English protesters were especially "fond" of that. Only recently have Catholics been allowed to worship freely there. In ENGLAND, for heaven's sake!
Oh, those loving Protestants...
Be careful of your accusations, brother.
Regards
Apparently, by this formula, the Quakers and the Salvation Army possess the most "Scriptural knowledge" and the Jews knew very little about the Old Testament...
Wow.
Incessant prayer qualifies as "vain repetitions?"
So repeating the Lord’s Prayer is vain repetition? Nice. Does Jesus know anything about that?
The rigid ritualists also kept the heretics at bay and out of the mainstream until Henry, Luther, Calvin and Zwingli ran free and started their own rigid ritualistic sects. With their examples in mind, men have founded increasingly absurd and abhorrent versions of Christianity that have led to such happy occasions as the Jonestown massacre, or the mass burnings in Waco.
History is normally omitted from these modern sects or twisted in such a fashion as to seemingly bring justification to yet another church of men. The Campbellites that I have talked to normally know little of the Campbells (certainly not their history), nothing of Stone, and less of the history of the splits in their denomination. The CofC folks I have talked to have no idea whatsoever that their denomination actually is only about 100 years old.