Chapters 6 and 7 - Caring for the Needy

It can be tough to be told what we have done, what we are doing, is wrong. 
Each of us (excepting sociopaths) know what it feels like to called to account for wrong we have done. There can be an accompanying feeling of being upset at ourselves. This can lead us at times to lash out at those who are reminding us of our misdeeds, our coldness, our failure to do right. 
As I read through Jeremiah I get a bit weary of God over and over again reminding people of their sin, the wrong that they have done. Chapters 6 and 7 are more of this. Chapter 6 is basically a description of the total collapse and loss that will occur because of the wrongdoing of the people. A nation will defeat them and lay waste to everything and everyone. There is a note through the chapter that will be a repeated refrain in the book. God tells the people that he hates their religion. He reminds them that they have taken advantage of the poor, that they have acted unjustly, but that they have then taken up practices of religion and worship as if they are blessed by God. 
This is one of the most sickening aspects of what we read in Jeremiah. The people who had been delivered and blessed by God were now oppressing other people, but they were at the same time claiming that God was with them, that they somehow mattered God more than others mattered to God. This is part of what is meant by “Royal Temple Theology”. In chapter 7 God actually says through Jeremiah that the people keep saying, “Temple Temple Temple” as if their religion, allowed them to practice injustice without consequence. 
We mentioned, as be began this summer in Jeremiah, that we ought to consider how we submit our life, our current circumstance to scripture. We said that this is more important than the question of “application”.  
The twofold indictment of God against the people is that they have become idolatrous and that they have not treated the poor and the needy and the refugee with justice. 
Chapter 7 verse 5 and following; 

“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, if you do not oppress the sojourner (refugee), the fatherless or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers.” 

No doubt the voices of leadership at the time were saying that God was with them and that the people to be feared were the foreigners. Their own wealth, false gods and national ideology had become idols but they still claimed that God was with them more than God was with others. They still claimed to have moral authority. They did not. And God was saying so through Jeremiah. 
Is it possible that as God hated the religious gatherings of the people back then, he might just hate some of the religious gatherings of today?