What's sort of sad is that if you read the New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) Jesus' main criticisms weren't directed at the Romans, Gentiles (non-Jews), or those who didn't worship Yahweh... but instead he targeted the religious "moralists" of the day (The Pharisees). Those that used their own "moral supremacy" to heighten their status.
Matthew 23 is particularly harsh upon those folks.
Some excerpts:
They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.
For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.
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