Original Christianity was a conduit to becoming your own savior, your own priest. It was very strict in behavior, what should be eaten, and in its concept of communal property. Unfortunately, the movement was hijacked early on after an awesome run of 250 or so years, longer than the USA has existed, by ruthless power-mongers. They used it as a social/economic vehicle to create some of the most enduring, wealthy, dastardly, and diabolical families on earth; the “royals”. European blue-bloods are relative newcomers on the christian scene; it is in the near east and Asia where the real bloodlines arose, and except for a few minor victories and brief respites, its been hell-on-earth ever since. Strange how the advocates of an eternal afterlife hell seem to be the driving force in creating hell for their neighbors in the here-and-now. Of course this “hell” is not the work of god or gods, but men. It was a place outside most major metropolis of the day similar to our dumps, only you could drop of carcasses and corpses of those unable to afford “proper burial” (ie: the poor) for unceremonious burning on the pyre of public sanitation. To “burn-in-hell” was a great fear of all biblical Jews, for to be cremated like a gentile without proper burial rights all but excluded you from Jewish heaven. Luckily, modern-day Christians have very little work to do compared to Jews or early Christians; a simple mimicry of Jewish baptism/conversion, swear allegiance to a name that most certainly was not any, let alone THE biblical savior’s name, and remember your place in society and complain not. Great. Your good intentions supposedly make up for your complacency, hence it is the religion of choice for vassals everywhere.