I can be as persistently recollective as you can be in denial. Once again, I give you the quote that started it all:
"Pharisees is just another word for jews."--donh post 1133
Why don't you just admit that you erred or changed your mind or something and dispense with it?
Well, because possibly the Catholic encyclopedia says otherwise, your punctilious objections to the contrary notwithstanding, and because it is rather a big point with anti-semitic bigots and apologists to this very day. I give you an example to contemplate:
Here's a lovely tidbit from
a particularly ugly anti-semitic website
It is absolutely essential to remember that these Pharisaic people were what later became known as Sephardic Jews. Their blood was that of Israel, they were the killers, the conspirators with Judas who after the Crucifixion hanged himself.
Nice, eh. Are you thrilled to be helping to burying attention to this point in doubtful pedogogical minutia?