So, despite much popular practice, saying “you’re a Pharisee!” does not mean that the person you’re talking to actually is a Pharisee. More often than not, it means something closer to, “I don’t know who the Pharisees were, what they believed, or why Jesus rebuked them, but I know lots of people hate wearing that label, so I’ll throw it at you.”
Andrew Wilson
Website: http://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/in_defence_of_the_ea