Does the power struggle at the beginning of christianity show anything else than politic sewage?

Question

The Emperor Julian (half brother of Constantine I, and succesor to Constantius on the Byzantine throne) was a scholar that reversed the Constantine movement of christianity as the official Roman religion to freedom of religion in 362 (for that he was called Julian the Apostate by the christians).
He died of an infected lance wound in 363, too soon to make a difference. He did not feel friendly to christians, recalling the role of the Bishop of Nicomedia in the murder of his family.
As a philosopher more than a statesman, he understood that Constantine had made a mistake in raising christianity to its position. The proof was that the christians were still denouncing one another as heretics and assassinating one another when the opportunity arose.
Power had proved as dangerous to the christians as it had to the Caesars. The gentle, neighbor-loving apostles of the "man-god" were becoming rather worse than the Jewish Zealots who had caused so much trouble to the Caesars.

During one squabble about rival popes in 366 AD, their supporters fought in church and left behind a HUNDRED and SEVENTY CORPSES. The historian Amnianus remarks mildly that " wild beasts are not such enemies to mankind as are most christians in their deadly hatred to one another". That was the reason for Juian´s decision about the freedom of religion. Gregory of Nazianz, among other incensed fanatics accused him of failing to persecute the christians in order to deny them the glory of martyrdom. Does that seem sane to you? Can a religion find dignity after having had a pschopathic youth? Could we make a parallel with a pardoned young serial killer (like one who would have killed his classmates on campus) so he would have ended up as president or prime minister of a nation? Doesn´t all that seem outrageous to you? Do you want to be part of a group with such a sordid history?

(texts from Colin Wilson´s "the criminal history of mankind" and Wikipedia).

Answer 1

Christianity had it's hand in politics from the outset and has continued to ever since....