(February 11, 2014 at 10:35 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: You can't really use a Christian who happens to be an asshole (everyone is to some degree) as the template for what Christianity is all about. Use Jesus as the template.
You have a point about not cherry-picking bad Christians, but a religion IS its followers, what they are, not what their ideal is. What I find about Christians is not that they're particularly bad, but that they're not particularly good.
If you get down to particulars though, it's hard to find better human beings than liberal Quakers. A goodly percentage of American Christians don't even consider them fellow Christians, though.