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That is WAY above your pay grade and you don’t get a vote on that Day. You worry about your own soul you effin Pharisee, and I’ll worry about mine.
mkjessup,
Pharisees were people who said one thing and did the other.
Your analogy is flawed.

Not at all, Pharisees were your spiritual ancestors, parading their 'superior' morality while simultaneously looking down their noses at the rest of society, and giving 'thanks' to God that they were so much better than those filthy sinners, that is exactly how you and your ilk are coming across here.

"Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus to himself ‘God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are: extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.’ And the Publican standing far off would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, ‘God be merciful upon me, a sinner.’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbled himself shall be exalted."
~ Luke 18: 10-14

Now get those robes of yours dry cleaned, don't want to have a wrinkle in them 'cause Sunday's comin', ok?

Meanwhile, pardon me while I beat my chest and ask for mercy.

Actually, mkj, you and socon are both right about the pharisees. They were, as you point out, arrogantly self-righteous, but as socon said, they were hypocrites.

However, to extend your illustration regarding the tax collector, it is important that we see in that text what made him acceptable in God's sight. It was his admission that he was a sinner.

Now, when a sinful woman came to Jesus, she was rejected by the pharisees. Jesus, however, forgave her.

Note, though, that Jesus did not leave it there. He said, “Go and sin no more.”

Is there sin in Christians? Of course there is. The Apostle John says “if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves...” Yet, he also points out the remedy: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all our unrighteousness.”

It is a constant struggle that doesn't leave us. Paul says that “the things I want to do, I don't do, and the things I don't want to do, I do.”

He goes on: “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord!”

So, MKJ, we all must deal with the things that enter our lives that we understand to be wrong. It is best that we do it humbly, as did the tax collector, but that doesn't absolve us from the responsibility to deal with it wherever it is that we discover it.