Then it was co-opted by people who used it as cover for systematic sexual abuse and murder of entire groups of people and is currently being used to attempt to convert entire countries into dystopian theocracies?
2000 years will do that. It’s a sad fact that any prestigious positions of power, especially those implicitly ordained by God™, attract narcissistic sociopaths.
Then it was co-opted by people who used it as cover for systematic sexual abuse and murder of entire groups of people and is currently being used to attempt to convert entire countries into dystopian theocracies?
That’s one hell of a game of telephone, then.
2000 years will do that. It’s a sad fact that any prestigious positions of power, especially those implicitly ordained by God™, attract narcissistic sociopaths.