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[Effete Snob]

1. "that was once based on compassion, peace and love"

When?

Christianity has had no issues aligning itself with authoritarian politics as, indeed, the appearance of democracy of any sort within "Christendom" generally, is pretty much a very recent blip on the radar of two millenia of history.

For the vast majority of its history, Christianity, in any given jurisdiction of Western civilization, has supported whatever despot graced the local throne.

The "be a nice person and maybe you go to heaven" version of Christianity is a pretty recent invention, relative to the "kill the unfaithful over in the next kingdom" version, which lasted a lot, lot longer.

There are Christian organizations which have a far longer history and reach than 20th Century American liberal protestantism...