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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
The point I was making is that in order to be Christian you have to follow the teaching of Jesus. A fairly low bar, in my opinion.
However, if you don't follow the teachings of Christ, if you do the opposite an actively work against the teaching of Christ, then you cannot be Christian.
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Have you
read the Bible? There are endorsements of violence from Christ as well as passages imploring people to be kind to each other. A book that endorses all viewpoints ultimately endorses none of them, and it is our own morality that people apply when they ignore the brutal bullsh*t in the Bible.
The problem with applying your criteria of following Christ is that there are people who would say that the way one person follows "the teachings of Christ" are not faithful to scripture. Then there are others who would say that our understanding has evolved so they are still actually following Christ's example, and so on. People conveniently ignore teachings they don't like, whether those teachings are negative or positive, yet they still claim to be Christians.
I know Muslims who drink and have bank loans (alcohol and paying interest are both considered
haram), but you're not going to tell them "Well, you're not a
real Muslim because you don't follow the teachings of the Quran", are you.