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A lot of people on American Idol think they can sing, but the entirety of America is of a far different opinion.
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ROFL...I couldn't think of a better example.
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If over 200 million Americans call themselves Christians, they must believe that they meet the minimum standards...
...Give me a break. American is overwhelmingly Christian, even if some Christians choose to deny the obvious.
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Give ME a break. You couldn't find 200 million people in this country that would even call themselves AMERICANS, much less Christian. For one, the "speaking" population of the US isn't probably even that high and, if it is, the populace really isn't all that patriotic. And I could almost guarantee you that the love of country far exceeds any love for Christ.
Try this test. Go to any prison and ask the inmates if they were guilty of the crime that imprisoned them. Now, take those results (% of innocent prisoners) and tell me how much faith that you have in those statistics.
Do people ever really see themselves as they are?
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You seem more interested in excluding those who consider themselves to be Christians but do not meet your exalted vision of the faith. As I have noted before, I guess you missed the "accept one another" part of Romans l5:7.
I guess this explains, at least in part, why Christians throughout history have been so willing to slaughter each other in the name of the "Prince of Peace".
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Actually,no, it confirms (explains) what we just said: Not everyone who calls himself a Christian
is a Christian. You just proved our point. Christians don't slaughter Christians, or anybody else (including Muslims or atheists), for that matter. It's a case, once again, of misapplied labels.
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If you lack even a basic tolerence of your co-religionists, no wonder so many churches are hostile to gays and other minorities.
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There you go proving our point again. Those who lack tolerance and/or show hostility towards ANYONE (blacks, whites, gays, Jews, Nazis, Muslims) aren't (by God's definition) really Christian.
We can't debate with you if you keep agreeing with us now can we?