LotusFlower TMans Mochina Fix's blog: "Interesting Footnotes"

They are literally the Pharisees Jesus rails against in the Bible that they also claim is the divine word of god. So yea, they're full of shit and just using religion to justify their hate and selfishness.

• "Hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied: 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is false, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men." Matthew 15:7-9

• ”You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God so you can observe your own traditions!” Mark 7:9

• "Why do you call me "Lord! Lord!" when you do not do as I say?" Luke 6:46

• "Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows' fortunes and make a show of reciting prayers. Theirs will be the greater condemnation.” Luke 20: 46-47

• "Not everyone who calls me Lord will enter God’s kingdom, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven. On the Last Day many will call me Lord. They will say, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not testify in your name? And did we not, in your name, exorcise demons and perform many miracles?' Truly I will say to them, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you evildoers.’" Matthew 7:21-23

• “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites! You would cross land and sea to win a single convert, only to make them twice the child of Hell as yourselves.” Matthew 23:15

• “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill, and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You could have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former." Matthew 23:23

• “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but inside contain the bones of the dead and the unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous, but inside, you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." Matthew 23:27-28

The rest of the Bible also wouldn't be too keen on them:

• They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. Titus 1:16

• Day after day they seek me and take delight in knowing my way, as if they were a righteous people who did not forsake the justice of God; they invoke righteous judgments; they boast of their closeness to God. “Why have we fasted, and you did not see us? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you ignore us?” Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, while you oppress the workers. You fast with anger and to quarrel, to strike others harshly with your fists. Fasting like yours these days will not make your voice heard on high. Isaiah 58:2-4

• Woe to you who long for the Day of the Lord! Why do you long for the Day of the Lord? That Day will be darkness, not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion, only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall, only to have a snake bite him. Amos 5:18-19

• “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Though you offer me your grain and burnt offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” Amos 5:21-27

• “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? Jeremiah 7:8-10

• “As for you, Son of Man, your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message of the Lord.’ They come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not practice them. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain. Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear what you say, but will not do it. Ezekiel 33:31-32

• Its leaders give judgment for bribes; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the Lord and say, “Is the Lord not among us? We are under his protection.’” Micah 3:11

• May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! Acts 8:20

• Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. James 1:22-24

• Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. James 1:26

• Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. James 3:1

• Whoever says “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. 1 John 2:3-6

• “If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.” 1 Timothy 6:3-5

• ”For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." 2 Timothy 4: 3-4

• For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. 2 Corinthians 11:13-15