Three of the most-deadly sins abound today. All sin is deadly, but three particular sins stand out as possibly more dangerous because of the type of strongholds they produce. Often when we think of the most terrible sins, the most disgusting sins, the most-deadly sins that someone can have, we usually think of somebody else's sins, other than our own sins. The Pharisees in their self-righteousness viewed the tax collectors and the prostitutes as being the most disgusting of all sinners while they viewed themselves as righteous because they didn't do what those “sinners” did. But the truth is that Jesus said that the tax-collectors and the harlots would get into the Kingdom of God before they would. The reason is that the pharisees refused to believe that anything was wrong with them, they refused to believe the Word of God but held to their own views of themselves and their traditions and they refused to believe that they needed to repent of anything. After all, they believed that what was wrong with society was all those sinners in Israel, not themselves. Yet Jesus condemned the pharisees because of their self-righteousness and hypocrisy, and Jesus reached out to the tax collectors and prostitutes simply because the pharisees believed they were faultless, and yet the sinners knew they were sinners and needed God. www.christianmyths.org