Yep...could be! The "church"...especially around the time people were leaving England to come to the "New World"... was NOT a pretty picture. From what I've read in Fox's Book of Martyrs, I think the correct term to describe it around that time would be "apostacy", or something close to it.
The people who edited put together our Bible in the early 300's were apostate christians pagans and the Jews. It was a one world type thing to bring the many factions together
What other largely-fabricated propaganda screeds have you read?