Does their behavior make you cynical about church? Research from Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows that one out of five Americans claims no religious identity. Could one reason be too many modern Pharisees? Peter Haas, author of Pharisectomy, says the decline could have something to do with fake, flashy, big-talking, modern-day Pharisees – that Jesus would have denounced just as soundly as the originals?