It has nothing to do with what I'd be happy to see. I'm just a messenger reminding Christians what kind of person the historical Jesus was, according to the gospels (not the epistles, which are irrelevant in this regard). What would Jesus have said about an organized religion that uses him as a mascot to sell all manner of imperial and economic compromises and corruptions? I don't think Jesus would have approved.

It's easy for you to say that the Bible miraculously predicts all of this, and to blame the later Christian failures on demonic temptations. Theology is like playing tennis without a net. It's easy to do because the fictions are unfalsifiable, and you can add interpretations to them at will.

You can say Jesus would be pleased that Christians at least try to be Christ-like. But the question is whether their heart is in it. As you know from the gospels, Jesus was more interested in the thought behind actions, in the spirit rather than the letter of the law. If modern Christians' heart is with secular idols, Jesus wouldn't approve.

And the problem I raised in the article is that an organized religion will inevitably fail in these ways, in compromising its principles by joining forces with secular powers. So again, it's just the conflict between a cult or authentic, inspired counterculture, and its sell-out, mainstream, organized form.

In essence, Christians had to struggle to understand both why a charismatic person like Jesus died in such a humiliating fashion, and why the second coming and divine judgment have been delayed for so long that the Church inevitably corrupted itself as secularists learned how to do what was supposed to be impossible, to progress without theistic faith. It's only because two thousand years have passed and a modern secular world has arisen, that Christians have to keep disgracing themselves and selling out their principles--because God is still absent and secular ("demonic") powers make for the only shows in town.