Eh, not really. If you don’t worship Christ and (at least attempt to) understand the Bible and it’s teachings you aren’t Christian. That applies to all abrahamic religions as well, they are all pretty strictly defined. That said, this fits in perfectly for the abrahamic god and anyone that would legitimately worship it, so i see no reason to doubt their belonging.
1 - some murderers are practicing christians/jews/muslims. ISIS do pray.
2 - if they’ve followed initiation rites (baptism, circumcision, what-have-you) congregate regularly with fellow religion members and do what the religion tells them to, they can be considered to be members of that religion. Being evil does not exclude them, and, more importantly, not following every rule does not exclude them. If it did, there wouldn’t be a lot of actual true believers.
Heck, even popes sometimes engaged in depraved criminal activity.
You don’t get to define who is of a certain religion or not. They do.
Religion isn’t inherently good. And believers don’t get automatically disqualified from being true believers when they’re lunatics.
Eh, not really. If you don’t worship Christ and (at least attempt to) understand the Bible and it’s teachings you aren’t Christian. That applies to all abrahamic religions as well, they are all pretty strictly defined. That said, this fits in perfectly for the abrahamic god and anyone that would legitimately worship it, so i see no reason to doubt their belonging.
1 - some murderers are practicing christians/jews/muslims. ISIS do pray.
2 - if they’ve followed initiation rites (baptism, circumcision, what-have-you) congregate regularly with fellow religion members and do what the religion tells them to, they can be considered to be members of that religion. Being evil does not exclude them, and, more importantly, not following every rule does not exclude them. If it did, there wouldn’t be a lot of actual true believers.
Heck, even popes sometimes engaged in depraved criminal activity.