I do a little side hustling with Uber and had a Bob Jones Student in the car the other day. Biblical studies major who basically confirmed the below in as much that practicing the teaching of Christ is secondary to just having faith in his death, salvation and resurrection. My argument was that this allows people to commit whatever sins yo atrocities they want with the promise of salvation if they ask for forgiveness before death. Basically be as sinful as you want, until the fear of death makes you want forgiveness.  Then I ran across this below that confirms some of this. What is your take on this? 

Christianity and Authoritarianism

Christianity was co-opted by imperial power at the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE.  Since then it has functioned less as a path of empathy and more as a tool of obedience.

When Jesus was made a deity instead of an exemplar, believers were released from the expectation to become Christ-like.  His empathy-the quality that made him a worthy sacrifice was replaced by worship of authority.

The doctrine of substitutionary atonement comes from ancient sympathetic-magic thinking: we become what we worship, sacrifice, or consume.  By externalizing sin and salvation, the church taught people to fear self-knowledge.  Evil became something to project outward rather than confront within.

The result is moral inversion.  Conscience is outsourced, the shadow is demonized, and violence done “for God” feels righteous.  From crusades and colonization to modern nationalism, the pattern has repeated again and again.  What we are witnessing now isn’t a corruption of Christianity - it’s the logical consequence of a system built to replace empathy with authority.