Today, in contrast, government bureaucrats write rule after rule after rule hoping to achieve a uniform, fault-free society. Following the tradition of Pharisees, they exponentially out-do their biblical-counterpart busybodies. Rather than a mere 613 rules (so many steps allowed on the Sabbath, and so forth), today the administrative state has smothered Americans with hundreds of thousands of regulations. Hundreds of thousands. And the list of do’s and don’ts in our rule-giddy society grows by the hour.