The history of Christianity is disgusting. There are still Christians today. Why? Because they're stupid fucking assholes. This is a comment for a Wall Street Journal book review.

In the process of becoming the official religion, Christianity destroyed the Greco-Roman culture and civilization. The pagan philosophers resisted Christianity for centuries; these intellectuals could not explain the attraction of this "unreasonable" oriental sect, that believed blindly and emotionally in something they did not see, that despised pleasures, flogged and gathered in meaningless ceremonies. I remember the episode in Alexandria of the philosopher Hypatia (370-415), a Neoplatonic teacher, an educator, the first known female mathematician, and astronomer who was lynched by a mob of Christians. In Lent in Alexandria, a group of Christians trapped her, dragged her through the city to a pagan temple turned into a Christian cathedral, stripped her naked, stoned her and burned her. We had to wait until the Renaissance to recover part of what was lost in those centuries.

Hypatia

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hypatia