I personally have a lot of respect for the earliest Christians. I believe they were sincere and honest enough in their efforts. But gee whizz, they didn't expect their "religion" to go on living for the next 2K years either or they might have been more careful in how they crafted and preserved it.
It was the later embezzlers who remolded it as needed to keep on using it for their own ambitions. And boy, all that "hellfire" stuff sure paid off handsomely too! I bet the competing religions looked on with envy for not having thought of it first.
-Vince
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