Call wingnuts "Pharisees" and see what happens.

Delarage

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Fri Dec-17-04 08:37 PM
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Call wingnuts "Pharisees" and see what happens.

Edited on Fri Dec-17-04 08:38 PM by Delarage

I've been doing it recently, and those that claim to be morally superior are temporarily stunned. Then you can take their office supplies.

Here's a def. I got from some site on the net:

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/pharisee.htm

an excerpt:

The lesson from the Pharisees' example is that self-righteousness is not righteousness, and that God's true people are to live according to all of God's Word, not just certain parts that are most convenient or to one's own liking

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HawkerHurricane

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Fri Dec-17-04 08:45 PM
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1. There is a difference...

between the Church of Law (Pharasees) and the Church of Love (Jesus). Fundementalists believe in the Dogma, not in the Savior (Jesus). The Protastant Reformation was the triumph of Paul over Peter; modern Fundementalism is the triumph of the Pharasees over Jesus.

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Ian David

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Fri Dec-17-04 08:48 PM
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2. Haughty and "puffed-up"

(Note: Just as yeast causes bread to rise, yeast was sometimes used as a symbol of sinful pride which made people haughty and "puffed up.")

"How is it that you fail to perceive that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees." (Matthew 16:11-12 RSV)
http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/pharisee.htm

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Delarage

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Fri Dec-17-04 08:52 PM
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3. I'm cutting that picture and printing that quote and

putting it in a wingnut's box at work. That's an awesome illustration of the point--thanks!!!!!!!!!

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LevelB

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Fri Dec-17-04 09:15 PM
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5. hmmm...

Looks like someone has a little too much dioxin in their diet.

B.

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DougieZero

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Fri Dec-17-04 08:54 PM
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4. "what's a pharisees?"

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Hotler

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Fri Dec-17-04 09:16 PM
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6. Way cool website! n/t

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Radical Activist

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Fri Dec-17-04 09:18 PM
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7. I've been comparing Bush to the pharisees for a while

It was the Pharisees who made a big public show of praying and fasting in public to gain favor with people. Bush is exactly like them.

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illflem

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Fri Dec-17-04 09:23 PM
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8. I call them "inch whippers"

irks them to no end.
Up to you to come up with a meaning for it.

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