@kolev What I’ve heard from progressive, educated Christians is that Pharisees AS A GROUP weren’t bad people. Only the specific INDIVIDUAL Pharisees who butted heads with Jesus behaved badly.

Unfortunately, the writers of the New Testament were sloppy, and they often just wrote “a Pharisee” instead of using the individual’s name. I believe that this is a major factor in the rampant antisemitism in some churches, especially the so-called “Bible churches”. It would have been so much better if Jesus’s enemies had been identified as named individuals. As a comparison, it would be okay for someone today to say “Pierre Poilievre and Bonnie Henry are bad people”, but it would be sloppy and harmful to say “Canadians are bad people”. Using actual names makes it clear that the individuals, not the entire group, are at fault.

I’m really lucky in that I live in a neighborhood where most of the churches are progressive, and there are good relationships between Jews and Christians. How are things where you live?