Yours is a better analogy than mine. Good. But I think my point still stands. Christianity today bears no resemblance to the early church - in any Christian denomination (read Acts). It’s funny to see some church message boards say “Founded AD32” After the death of the Apostles anybody with an idea came up with their own interpretations of Christianity... and those that disagreed were apostates and heretics and subsequently killed ....
No resemblance?As I see it, neither does Judaism bear much resemblance to the Temple-worshiping Jews of the first century.
and those that disagreed were apostates and heretics and subsequently killed ....
I don't remember a lot of heretic killing by the Church until after the Roman emperor Constantine supposedly became a Christian. IIRC, I think that it was Christians being killed as apostates and heretics by both Jews and Romans. In the first century AD, it was a lot easier not to be a Christian than to be one.
After the death of the apostles (about 60 CE to 80 CE) it was about 250 years before Christianity became legal (about 313 CE). That is longer than the existence of the USA. So, pray tell how did these Christians exercise any legal authority to kill “Apostates” when it was illegal for anyone to be Christian. Disabuse yourself of these fictional nonsensical ideas and read history written by objective sources. The early church fathers wrote histories most of which are accepted by secular sources.