"...but I say unto you, love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you."
It's one thing to make a case for 6 "days" not being days in the 24-hour sense, but rather in the epochal sense.
It's another to ignore something that even the Jesus Seminar (which is widely disliked by more conservative Christian groups as revisionist) agrees that the historical Jesus said.
Can one love one's enemy and do good to him while killing him at the same time? Sounds a lot like the Martian concept of "cherishing" in Stranger in a Strange Land. Surely we are not Martians.
You're correct: many theological references justify this. You're also correct: if the Church hadn't sold out the carpenter's son for the Emperor and become an instrument of statecraft, the world would be a very different place.