Saturday, October 1, 2011

Pharisees

The other day I was driving to Dallas and listened to podcasts from Fred, the pastor from our old Church in Raleigh.  Listening I was struck (again) how so many in the so called "Christian Right" resemble the Pharisees of the New Testament.  This certainly was not the theme, but, it certainly spoke to me that way.

A religious hypocrite
In Biblical times
A Pharisee, 
Or Sadducee?
Following the rules 
To the letter
Impossible to be perfect
Yet stoning the fallen
Where in true judgement
They would all stand together.

A religious hypocrite
In the twenty-first century
A right wing Conservative,
Or fundamentalist?
Ignoring the new Gospel
Condemning those who disagree
With hate not love.
Ignoring their failings
The modern day Pharisee
They claim to abhor.

-Richard



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