The domestication of religion.

[Jehanne]

Christianity seems to be evolving towards deism or at least a universal theism, one in which there is no judgment, retribution, hell, etc.  No (or at least very few) Christian sects even represent their so-called counterparts from four or five hundred years ago on some "fundamental" points of doctrine.  Take the fate of infants who die without Baptism -- the Catholic Church, Luther and Calvin all taught that at least some infants would die in infancy and not end-up in Heaven, in the presence of god.