This is the typical approach of the Christian cults who deny true, orthodox Christianity. Your date of 1914 may place you among the JWs, at least in sentiment.
The typical approach is to tear down the entire history of Christianity, beginning with State Christianity, which did have its beginning in the Roman Empire. Christianity tends to assume the form of the political government under which it operates. That is, this normally takes place when the government itself converts to Christianity. And I believe that's a good thing.
In the course of Christian movements there is always a tendency to be corrupted and diluted with pagan influences, resulting in a distorted view of State Christianity. But this should in no way cause us to discount all historical examples of Christianity, no more than we should discount all Catholics and all Popes due to the number of times they saw corruption.
The Roman Kingdom "restrained" the rise of Antichrist not because it was pure, but because Daniel predicted it would hold its place until broken up into 10 states. That is what "restrains" the rise of Antichrist, the fact his time is not yet and must follow further devolution of the Roman Empire.
What was written is not your "typical approach of the Christian cults who deny true, orthodoxy Christianity", but that Jesus established with the illustration of the "wheat" (true Christians) and the "weeds" (counterfeit Christians) at Matthew 13:24-30, that true Christianity would be infected with fake Christians especially after the death of the apostles, and that Paul later concurred at Acts 20:29, 30 (wolf-like men from within the Christian congregation speaking twisted things that draws away some) and 2 Corinthians 11:26 ("false brothers"), as well as the apostle John at 1 John 2:18, 19 (antichrists originating from within the Christian congregation), as well as Jude at verses 3, 4, (that "certain men have slipped in among you.....who turned the undeserved kindness of our God into an excuse for brazen conduct and who prove false to our only owner and Lord, Jesus Christ") as well as the apostle Peter at 2 Peter 2:9-22 (whereby they have "abandoned the straight path [or "the truth" about Jehovah God]......led astray.......While they are promising freedom, they themselves are slaves of corruption").
There are no "Christian movements" that remain Christian, but only "the truth" that originates with Jehovah God, for at Psalms 31, David wrote: "Into your hand I entrust my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Jehovah, the God of truth."(Ps 31:5)
At Ephesians 4:5, the apostle Paul clearly noted that "one body there is, and one spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling; one Lord,
one faith (and not the multitude of some 41,000 different denominations and sects of Christendom), one baptism;
one God and Father of all (not "three persons in a Godhead"), who is over all and through all and in all."(Eph 4:4, 5)
The "truth" originates and centers around Jehovah God, for when Jesus gave the "Lord's Prayer" at Matthew 6, first and foremost was this: "You must pray, then, this way: “‘Our Father in the heavens, let your (not Jesus) name be sanctified."(Matt 6:9)
It is these "Christian movements" that came from true Christianity and became the "antichrists", pushing their own Scriptural views, accepting the "Holy Trinity", immortality of the soul, hellfire, purgatory, the cross, clergy-laity class, Christmas, Easter, the "pontif ", clerical garb, veneration of "saints", religious titles, etc, that developed into modern day Christendom.
The apostles fought to stem the tide of the foretold apostasy by Jesus, but once the apostle John died in about 100 C.E., the "Christian movements" began to really take root, so that in about 110 C.E., Ignatius (who is considered one of the Apostolic Fathers) advocated that each congregation be supervised by one bishop, or overseer, who was to be recognized as distinct from, and having greater authority than, the presbyters, or older men, though the Greek terms of
episkopos (meaning "overseer") and
presbyteros (meaning "elder") were the one and the same, as Peter showed at 1 Peter 5:1-4.
The groundwork was thus laid for a clergy class gradually to emerge. About a century later (or 3rd century C.E.), Cyprian (about 200-258 C.E.), “bishop” of Carthage, North Africa, was a strong advocate of authority of the bishops—as a group separate from the presbyters (later known as priests), the deacons (from the Greek word
diakonos that means "attendant"), and the laity (or common people).
Thus, within 150 years or so of the death of the last of the apostles, two significant organizational changes found their way into the congregation of professed Christians: first, the separation between the bishop and the presbyters, with the bishop occupying the top rung of the hierarchical ladder; second, the separation between the clergy and the laity. Instead of all spirit-begotten believers forming “a royal priesthood,” the clergy were now "recognised as the only priesthood".(1 Pet. 2:9)
Such changes marked a defection from the Scriptural method of governing the congregations in apostolic days. Organizational changes, though, were not the only consequences of the apostasy, for Christian doctrine or "the truth" was also altered.
But at Matthew 13:30, Jesus said that he would send the angels to gather up "the weeds" in "bundles to burn them up" at "the war of the great day of God the Almighty" called Armageddon.(Rev 16:14, 16; Note: at Revelation 17:16, 17, it says that the religions of the world called Babylon the Great at Rev 17:5, which includes Christendom as a major contributor, will be "stripped naked........completely burned with fire" by the "ten horns" or member nations of the United Nations as one body in phase one, meaning that they will stripped of everything they possess, down to their last "cent", so that they will cease to function as they previously did, but apparently no one will be put to death, while in phase two, Armageddon, all who reject Jehovah God and his Kingdom will be forever annihilated, see Jer 25:30-33; Rev 19:11-21)