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fschmidt wrote

By the time of Jesus, Judaism had become very legalistic.  The distinction between principles and laws had been lost.  Jesus rebelled against this error and emphasized that religion is about principles.  Because Jesus was not a political leader, he made no laws.  He was free to focus on the core of what religion is really about.  But unfortunately some Christians take this to the extreme and think that this means that they don't have to follow any rules.  This is clearly wrong, one must always make rules based on God's principles but the rules should be appropriate to the circumstances.

Christianity was only ever used to support the divine right of kings who were absolute monarchs with the right to demand that their subjects follow their religion under the principles of cuius regio, eius religio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuius_regio,_eius_religio

Under this system, the subject was required to obey the law of the land and if he suffered any anxiety or distress because of its injustice, he was required to shut up and pray to Jesus. If he questioned the divinity of Jesus, he would be burned at the stake.

This is the burned and bloody history of Christianity until the founding of the American Republic whose First Amendment was  based on http://quran.com/2/256