There was a philosopher, Jesus of Nazareth.

He said, in general, the right and progressive things for his time: about universal social equality, about the meaninglessness of violence in response to violence, about the priority of a healthy inner peace over the pursuit of wealth.

Well, of course, and about the afterlife a little fantasized - without that in those times people would probably not understand it very much. But all this can be perceived simply as a wrap around a purely practical doctrine of a rational social structure. Why not, if otherwise the idea could not have been communicated to the broad masses?

He was a good guy, apparently. not stupid.

And everything went well until the Roman Empire decided to make Christianity a state ideology. She took and cut off 80% of Christianity with rugged scissors (these 80% were declared inappropriate apocryphs and, if possible, destroyed), and the remaining 20% were "processed with a spark" so that a state ideology could be produced that could justify any cruelty of any ruler. If this paragraph raises doubts, read the historical facts about the so-called "universal councils."

And from this moment on Christianity you can, forgive the calambur, put a cross. Because there was the burning of scientists and the imprisonment of young girls for rock’n’roll in the temple.

Such things.