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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
He was a failed christian.
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Failed at what? Life? Yes. Christianity? No. Adherents to the Christian belief system, if it were analyzed logically, should embrace death with open arms...your time on earth is just an annoying period before an eternity of happiness and bliss*. Also, if I recall correctly, all actions are binary Sin or Not Sin, regardless of 'magnitude,' so if lying doesn't make you a failed Christian, or betray your faith, neither should this.
*Catholics saw this, and retconned suicide into a mortal sin, however protestants have no similar centralized bureaucracy to do such on-the-fly edits.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Why should religion be the single fact about him that defines him?
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That's not what I had an issue with (although I agree with you)...it was that the way you phrased it appeared to be, as ratbastid put it, a "natural defensive reaction of a Christian to try to distance themselves from this man by branding him some sort of bogus Christian."