Tired of getting the words "bleeding heart", "soft on crime" and "appeaser" thrown in your face? It's time to plaster a nasty label all over the fundies foreheads!
I find "wingnut" is too obscure and dismissive. "Nazi" is too inflammatory and will give the other side ammo in a mud-slinging match that will obfuscate your point. "Fundies" isn't derogatory enough.
A recent post reminded me of what I was looking for. We want to expose the hypocrisy of religious conservatives who invoke their own narrow rigid interpretation of scripture and ignore the larger messages about loving thy neighbor, caring for the poor, etc. The Pharisees who persecuted Christ fit this label admirably. Now, the word "Pharisees" may be unfamiliar to many, especially non-Jews and non-Christians. But that shouldn't matter too much because we're targeting people who invoke the Bible all the time.
Show your support by referring to wingnuts as Rick Santorum (P-Judea)! Then let's see them whine about us comparing them to Pharisees.
The name Pharisee in its Hebrew form means separatists, or the separated ones. They were also known as chasidim, which means loyal to God, or loved of God - extremely ironic in view of the fact that by His time, they made themselves the most bitter, and deadly, opponents of Jesus Christ and His message.
The Pharisees perhaps meant to obey God, but eventually they became so devoted and extremist in very limited parts of The Law (plus all that they themselves added to it), that they became blind to The Messiah when He was in their very midst. They saw His miracles, they heard His Words, but instead of receiving it with joy, they did all that they could to stop Him - eventually to the point of getting Him killed because He truthfully claimed to be the Son of God.
Jesus Christ had strong words about the Pharisees, and what awaits some of them:
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in." (Matthew 23:13 RSV).
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!" (Matthew 23:23-24)
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 (see I Did It My Way...).
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