I have never recovered from learning that "Killing Me Softly With His Song" was written about the experience of seeing Don McLean in concert.

This didn't wind up working out for Thanksgiving dessert. I think I picked the wrong packets and added the crust ingredients to the filling packet and the filling ingredients to the crust packet.
Wound up bringing some lime-shortbread cookies from a box lying around

Gosh it must be this Big City Company that came to town that caused this, now excuse me while I drown my crops in fertilizer

Once learning more of the Jewish perspectives of covenant, I saw that Christian perspectives tended to treat it as a contest to be won. "Once some man succeeds at these 613 tasks, I will open up Heaven. (oh, they're not good at this, let me send in a ringer)" Where Jewishly its a perpetual agreement

Connection to the users and their desire paths is the most important path of working in security and nobody goddamn does it. You are gonna make compromises. And they're all gonna be worth it. Because you understand what they want and you're gonna deliver it and they're gonna stop doing stupid shit.

"If this is a diplomatic mission, where is your ambassador." "Hold your fire. There are no life forms" "If there is a bright center of the universe, you are on the planet farthest from" "help me Obi-wan Kenobi. You're my only hope" "That's a name I haven't heard in a long time", ...

Besides the other comments talking about your misuse of Pharisees (and that taking entire groups and assigning them with a behavior is inherently a problem), for your bringing up the Pharisee and the Publican parable, maybe consider this additional context www.betterparables.com/two-men-in-t...

Then around the time of Roman (and previous) occupations people were thinking "a G-d looking out for us would send someone to Save us"

There isn't any Messiah in the Torah. it is a tiny part that appears in later writings. The Torah has the covenant (like a two-way binding contract where Jews are bound collectively and individually) at Sinai where Jews agreed to "in exchange for being our G-d, we will do these rules."

So it could be that someone who learned the bible says "Pharisees are the bad guys" isn't thinking they are learning to hate a caricature of Judaism, but it could be that the teacher had it in mind (or their teacher, or their teacher), but the unexamined belief is still carrying that message

A lot of Christian teachings conflate all of the groups Jesus argues with, and ignore the good interactions and turn Pharisees into some sort of BigBad for Action Hero Jesus to defeat. For early church teachings, this was when the Jesus movement was trying to separate from Judaism.