Then it seems that the whole 'christian' tradition is up for questioning, but it seems that persecution of the Catholics was a Christian act....unless we are going to add the rose tinted specs to the whole perspective.  People attended church...partly because they wanted to...partly because there was nothing else to do...partly because its where their boss went to show off his best clothes and demanded an audience, and sometimes because you'd be fined for not going.

I'd love to be  able to closely define the question...but the concept is out there, and you may have hit a certain nail on the head, in that you can't easily define a concept like christianity, and then apply it on a nation that wouldn't know where to start