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  • Yes it certainly morphs after Constantine makes it the state religion, rather than a cult.

    I am reading a book on the Baltic Crusades and it was talking about the diametrically opposed ideas of state violence and a pacifist religion. Essentially, pacifism doesn’t work as a state policy. The Christian church struggled to decide what violence the state should be able to commit.

    Augustine, thought war could be justified in certain circumstances, one of which was if the following peace created more good than the evil if the war wasn’t fought.

    Nowadays, I don’t think people even know that Christianity was/is a pacifist movement.