(January 12, 2015 at 1:39 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: We can't look inside someone's heart to see what they honestly believe, combined with the fact that Christians have been telling other Christians that they aren't really Christians for thousands of years. If someone claims to be a Christian, I don't really have any reason to disbelieve them, especially considering the fact that it's not our job to evaluate each claimant to see if he/she is a True Christian™. I'll still ask the same questions about their specific beliefs in order to discuss what they actually believe, but it's not my problem what label they want to use. If there's a sect of Christianity that has a fixation on the divinity of a Jesus-based scat fetish that somehow brings them closer to God, that might (and would) seem crazy as shit to me (hehe), but there's no rubric for evaluating who is a 'real' Christian, so the Jesus Scatologists can join the other 40,000 sects.
This is how new religions start, someone looks at the old ones and or current competing ones and adapts motifs and even characters and creates a new on. Mormonism was started by a con artist and Rastafarian is really simply Jewish/Christian mythology coming from the African continent where the new prophet Jamaicans took sympathy for.
