"Good" & "Bad" Christians?

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Inquisition was some 1200 years after Christianity originated. To call it representative  of original or authentic Christianity  is just stupid. We know what the early christian movement looked like, from both it’s critics and supporters and it wasn’t for that.

In so far as the adult long accustomed to having free reign to act act out his proclivities is less authentic than the fetus stuck in the womb able to do nothing, perhaps the inquisition is not authentically Christian. 

But how about the Adolescent was just beginning to explore his power when barely out of the house in which he was born.  Is that more authentic?

Or is it your view that Christianity is only authentic when utterly powerless like a fetus in a womb?

If so, I would be happy with any arrangement required to keep Christianity as authentic as possible.

Is atheism authentic when it becomes entwined with political powers? Clearly that didn’t work out well.

What you’d likely point out is that atheism isn’t a political ideology, nor is Christianity, as evident by its founder, and the NT writings. Jesus had almost nothing all to say about the political situation or issues of his time, devoted himself to his conception of kingdom of God, an otherworldly kingdom.

So if you claimed that authentic Christianity is some state sanctioned or enforced religion, that would be as false as suggesting atheism, or materialism or naturalism etc are political ideologies.