>>Because the Pharisees would not preach godliness
Au Contraire, they preached a godliness: a state-established one.
Just like the other plethora of religious fraudsters enumerated in...
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/masonry/Albert_Pike_-_Morals_and_Dogma.pdf
If you are looking for completed perfection in earthly Christian churches, you will look in vain.
If you are looking for a perfecting Spirit and you hold back on the blasphemies, you will find that Spirit working in earthly Christian churches who give bona fide worship to Jesus. Bona fide means addressed to Him personally. There could be screwy doctrines in some of these congregations; that does not prevail in the situation if the worship is addressed personally to the living Christ. (It is a sin which will be cleaned up before arrival completed in eternity.)
Anyhow, are you just trying to shoot Christ down?
Oh, and I do agree that the state is one idol. It’s not the only idol. Just because you truly loathe one idol doesn’t excuse you from seeking God’s light to deal with other idols.