Modern-day Pharisees

Modern-day scribes and Pharisees

read the gospels and cheer–

how odd.

Maybe they don’t realize

they traded their crosses for robes

when they claimed salvation as their exclusive property,

when they wrote down their legalistic reasons why,

and labeled all who dissent

blasphemers.

Someone should warn them

before they seize the Second Coming

and yell, “Crucify him!”