Furthermore, what "was" is not the same as what "is". Even if you could make the case that some time back in history, Christianity ordered the death of heretics, that is a very long time ago and has no bearing on the present.

You don't say that doctors use leaches. You say that doctors used to use leaches. If there was no difference between the two phrases, I doubt that you would be going to a doctor.

Physicist used to thing that gravity was a magnetic force. They don't now. I don't fault the physicist who used to think it magnetism. I wouldn't believe one now who said that it was magnetism.

Yet, to everyone on this thread, "used to" or "was" is exactly the same thing as "is".

Funky world you occupy.