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Frederick Douglass might have classified many professing Christians with the scribes and Pharisees of whom Jesus said, “Do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach”  (Matthew 23.3)  Douglas recalled that his one-time owner had “attended a Methodist camp meeting and there experienced religion.  If it had any effect on his character, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways.”  How?  Because with…