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I mean they've always been subversive, and the upper echelons of organized religion have, largely, been hypocritical since the year dot.
I think that's the whole point of Jesus coming and dying- Because He knew that men cannot be righteous in men. He became righteousness because we cannot.
It's the same pattern in the old testament - you see man committing real atrocities against man in there.