Meh, there's always been a peaceful hippy side to Christianity (looking at you, Franciscans). It just didn't make for as many juicy stories in the history books as the witch burners and "convert or die" types.
Idunno, I think the story of the Cathars is pretty juicy. If short-lived.
Cathars were great. Reincarnation if you fuck up is exactly the sort of elegant "fuck you" to the Adversary I would expect from a omnipotent omniscient deity. Devil creates the Earth to damn souls, captures a bunch of angels in bodies and makes them horny, turns to God to gloat only to find God's smugging so hard it should be illegal because He put one of
these at the gates to Hell, turning the entire universe into a machine for teaching Angels exactly why sinning is bad and they shouldn't do it even if it feels good.
If more people believed in smug troll God than believed in wrathful Punisher God, the world would be a better, zanier place.
@Karnewarrior: most liberal comic book geeks I know would be just fine with getting rid of The Punisher. He's a shit character who exists primarily as a teenage power/revenge fantasy, and his imagery has been appropriated by the alt-right.
You know, I've noticed that. It kind of says something about the whole movement that so much of their idolatry comes from hyper-edgy comic book shoot-em-up vigilantes. I'm convinced that everyone in the alt-right is, to some extent, either a manchild or a psychopath manipulating the manchildren.