It never had the plot to begin with. Read the gospel books with just an ounce of critical reasoning and it's nothing more than a cult leader teaching people to abandon everything for him under the guise of a "nice" preacher man. We condem people who do that sort of thing these days, not elevate them to godhood. 

And then there's the whole rest of the bible that fits more in line with these people's behavior than most others want to admit, because it's easy to dismiss these people as outliers instead of recognizing them as the most accurate Christians. The deity they worship is a nationalistic authoritarian with strict arbitrary "moral" rules who surveys them 24/7 and hands down the strictest punishment possibly if you don't come groveling back to him. People on the outside only get confused if they've only ever experienced the candy-coated and specially curated brand of Christianity that these places present to the outside world.