“. . . not unreasonable to see John Brown as being in line with Christian tradition, if not Christ’s teaching.”
You are very wise to draw a distinction between “tradition” and Christ’s teaching.
Still, your post comes across to me as a smear of Christianity; but maybe you intended something else.
Christian practice pretty much from Constantine’s adoption of it for the Roman Empire to Martin Luther’s nailing of the 95 Theses on the Wittenberg Cathedral was truly horrible. It was ISIS Taliban level awful. Even afterward, much of Europe was still bathed in violent ignorance. Tsarist Russia and the Iberian Peninsula come to mind.
Agreed