I feel like a lot of the revelation stuff happened at the turn of the 20th century great awakening when the church was sort of co-opted by the wealthy to prevent the spread of socialism, though you could probably make a good argument about the great awakening and the downfall of the divine right of kings.

The Jesus arc was a problem from the beginning. That's why everyone was sort of fine with, or onboard, the original arthors killing him off so early in the storyline.

A lot of modern fanfiction authors would make the same choice.