"Good" & "Bad" Christians?

[Acrobat]

@Acrobat

Dude, it's not hard to comprehend. I'm not letting you drag me into the weeds. Most Christians used to take the Bible quite literally. Now, most Christians treat the Bible as a metaphor, as well as a crutch, whenever it's convenient for them.

Burning people at the stake is no longer a common practice for a reason.

Today's Christians are hardly Christian at all. Not much else to say.

I'm not dragging you into the weeds, I just wanted to understand what distinction you were trying to make. The above is false, for a variety of reasons. The early Christians didn't advocate burning witches, or etc... In fact if you can recall they even included a story admonishing the idea of stoning an adulterer. In fact early Christianity abandon any real political interests, and focused primarily on the tightly nit community of believers. 

Secondly the high value placed on literalism, is a more product of our scientific and modern age, than anything else. Hence why religious writings predominantly involve narrative, poetry, stories, etc.. rather than resembling the style of a text book. Ancients cultures made little distinction between historical and metaphors, smilies, etc..., just like early cultures made little distinction between religion and culture. The fundie literalist isn't some return to some early era of Christianity, he is a product of the modern age, whose views are quite distinct for those of the early church fathers, leaders, and thinkers. 

I mean ancient Christians and Jews had such disregard for literalism, that they included two competing accounts of creation side by side, anthologized in their sacred text four different gospels, that each took a variety of competing liberties, like John's Jesus, or the competing depictions of his lasts moments on the cross, or the incorporating of non-historical elements into their stories, such as the stoning of the adulterer etc...

Usually when atheists such as yourself attempt to lay some claim about the original authentic believers, and others, what they tend to peddle is something shallow and credulous, and far from the truth.