To me a lay pharisee is the person who pretends to believe that Christianity is an easy thing and asks of the Christian, on the basis of an external view of Christianity, more than he asks of himself. I believe indeed that the Christian has many obligations but that it is not up to the man who rejects them himself to recall their existence to anyone who has already accepted them.
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To me a lay pharisee is the person who pretends to believe that Christianity is an easy thing and asks of the Christian, on the basis of an external view of Christianity, more than he asks of himself. I believe indeed that the Christian has many obligations but that it is not up to the man who rejects them himself to recall their existence to anyone who has already accepted them.
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(noun) the doctrines or practices of the Pharisees / (noun) pharisaical character, spirit, or attitude; hypocrisy
there is a lay pharisaism in which I shall strive not to indulge
there is a lay pharisaism in which I shall strive not to indulge
(noun) an encyclical letter / (noun) a papal letter to the bishops of the church as a whole or to those in one country