[ SECRET POST #3035 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3035 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Since it's Sunday

[sarillia]

I think it doesn't matter if someone calls themselves a Christian but somehow "isn't really". I don't see what I get out of calling someone fake or whatever. I think it's up to Jesus to decide who is a Christian and who isn't.

To answer your particular example, I actually know people who call themselves Christian but see the whole thing as a metaphor and don't believe a single bit of it is literal truth. I have no problem calling them Christians since they feel that colors their actions and world view enough for them to take on that label.

I think the holy book has to not be mandatory since people couldn't read it for so long. I doubt people before the invention of the printing press and widespread education were hearing every single rule from their local priests or ministers.

Total outsider perspective here . . .

[feotakahari]

But the way I see it is that it comes down to how good a person you are. People who try to follow everything in the Bible often make a really bad impression on me--it seems like they care more about the letter of the rules than the spirit. People who just try to follow general Christian values like mercy and charity often seem a lot nicer to me.

(I have the same attitude towards strict and lax Wiccans, but that's another shitstorm.)

Re: Total outsider perspective here . . .

[(Anonymous)]

My personal judgment of a person would depend entirely on how good of a person they were regardless of religiosity, I agree.

I don't think "how good a person you are" is in any way related to "how religious a person you are" or "how true of a Christian/Muslim/Wiccan/other" you are, though.

Re: Total outsider perspective here . . .

[sarillia]

I definitely think that's the more important thing. I keep wondering why people even care if someone fits their definition of a religion they don't follow. But then that's pretty hypocritical of me since I think about all kinds of things that people could say don't really matter.