Aw... shucks...
No problem; as I've been called ugly by a toad before.
Rather the man had just asked;
What does question of whether God "absolved" the apparent sin of the Pharisee have to do with this, now?
Should not the other side of the issue, in regards to the tax collector be addressed first -- or at least not passed by, swept under the rug of forum slide comments, to then become forgotten?
What's the problem? Feeling a little worried are you, that you are as son of those who John the Baptist upbraided?
You just called Elsie the devil (more or less, but in Latin) doing so not without there being some degree of plausible deniability come ready-made built-in with the insult. The whole thing reeks of snake-den viper-y.
Whatever you do -- don't bite yourself! That kind of venom you may not be entirely immune towards.
I once knew a snake SO poor...
He was SO poor, that he didn't have a pit to hiss in!