pop morality

[Pat Mustard]

Actually the reverse was true. Jesus Pointed out to the Pharisees that their 'pop morality' had changed them so much they were no longer able too identify God in their mist. It what got Jesus Killed.

The Pharissees were the conservative Jews of their time, who were unhappy with Jesus because he preached a radically different interpretation of Jewish Law than that which had been observed for centuries by that point (at least, that's how they saw it). In other words, they thought he was preaching 'pop morality' and had him killed in an attempt to stop it. 

Of course, both sides thought they were right. Because, y'know, morality is a subjective thing.

Actually, the pharissees were the radical group in judaism at the time, looking to open full temple worship to all jews. The conservative groups were the saducees and the essenes, who controlled the higher echelons of jewish religion and society.

The likelihood is that if there was a historical Jesus his thought ran very closely with the pharisees, if he wasn't a pharisee himself, and over the years his legend was morphed to have the pharisees as his enemys as they gained power over the other jewish factions. This can be most clearly seen by the fsct that it is the last written gospel, John (the anti-semitic one), which does the most talking about the pharisees being against Jesus.