Sure. But it's just as fallacious to assume an author is contradictory because “Christianity” was redefined in another country after he already died.

Words can have different meanings depending on context, that's normal, but just like when we're writing software, we have to establish the context before we'll get anywhere.

Religion isn't really relevant to the quote as far as I can tell. While various religions can have many and various authority structures, not all do, and of those do, many if not most aren't theocratic. Both tyranny and political imposition by busybodies constantly seeking protect us from ourselves exist in purely secular forms. Bringing religion into the discussion just distracts from the point.