I've often viewed in early life's bright dream, Thy arch tergeminous which spanned the stream; Upon the rocks greywacke oft I've stood, And upward scanned thy classic pulchritude.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:imperfect subjunctive.

You seem to be implying that before those dastardly Dawkinites and their ilk showed up, Christianity presided over two millennia of cooperation and religious harmony, and never pressed for its own views to be placed above those of other faiths, or no faiths.

This latter possibility seems particularly plausible from the perspective of the nonassociative model of water fear described previously.