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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
My particular issue with Christianity and many religions in general is that there is no final authority but one's own discretion. How can so few people all claim they are right and the majority of other groups and peoples in the world to be wrong? I think that's human nature at work and a great deal of short-sightedness or egoism.
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I think that's an interesting observation.. because it's not even just other groups and peoples of the world that are "wrong", it's groups and people's within Christianity itself. Many times on this forum (and even in this thread!) people have said "I don't consider them Christian" whereas if you asked those people they WOULD consider themselves Christian.
That's one of the issues I see, when visible Christian leaders or groups do things that are obviously over the line, the first line is "they weren't real Christians". There seems to be no real standard of what is and isn't a real Christian beyond everyone's individual opinion.