Catholic vandal on trial: punishment would be an "attack on Christians."

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Except my position has always been that you determine a christian based on actions(evidence) not words(claims). You should be familiar with that concept....

I don't care what your position on christianity is. Who are you? You're just person number eight million with an opinion on true christianity, but that doesn't mean anything. Why should I privilege yours over anyone else's? Over the opinion of the person we're talking about? There are christians in this subforum right now arguing both the action-based position you have, and a faith based alternative where actions don't enter into things at all; how do either side intend to demonstrate that their views match the actual intent of the god you claim is behind the religion? Don't use bible verses, though: Mr. Faith-Alone-Is-Salvation in the other thread has his own set, since the bible is such a very mutable book.

Personally, I'm willing to take people at their word regarding the things they believe, rather than being so absurdly presumptuous as to pretend to know more about what they believe than they do. Besides, even if you're right and actions are important, those actions dictate the quality of one's religious conviction, not whether it exists or not. Someone who believes in the christian religion but doesn't execute on that consistently would be bad at being a christian, not not a christian at all. The world's worst soccer player is still a soccer player, he doesn't suddenly become not a soccer player just because he doesn't match up to some random guy's arbitrary and vaguely defined required level of skill to be a "true soccer player."