(November 6, 2022 at 6:16 am)rlp21858 Wrote: anyone can call himself a Christian, but this doesnt mean he is one and any message can come in the name of Christianity but that doesnt mean it's part of it.
There is no objective way to determine if someone is a Christian. Usually, if someone says that they are a Christian, I consider them to be one.
(November 6, 2022 at 6:16 am)rlp21858 Wrote: too many try to legitimize varying impotent intensities of action under the name of Christianity by creating additional names for them ("Angry Christian", "Lazy Christian", "Compromising Christian, etc") and this just creates confusion and gives Christianity a bad name. but Jesus made it easier to identify his followers: "Ye shall know them by their fruits." not by a title but by their actions.
Jesus was also frequently angry if not maniacal and hardly rational, so does this mean he was also not a Christian?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
