historical christianity, n.All

Historical Christianity (n.) played ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the Old Testament for the Gentiles: a sacrificial schoolmaster readying them, over centuries, for a truth they could not yet bear.

Historical Christianity (n.) became ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠persecutory because of the sacrificial reading: put violence back into God, and you shrink mankind's equal guilt and go looking for the guilty — the Jews.