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Originally Posted by Rotaerk
I will ignore the logical contradiction resulting from your wording, because there's a more important, less pedantic issue.
While you may call the person "NOT a Christian" because he doesn't follow all the morals of Christianity, he still calls himself "Christian". There have been many religious holy wars in the past, violence done for the sake of religion, even if you might consider them to be against the religion's values.
I do not blame the religion, anyway. No matter what your belief, if you take up a tribalistic, us-versus-them stance with anything, things resembling holy wars can occur. Religion can result in this attitude, but so can patriotism and many other things which are often praised.
While such causes may unite people, they only unite some people, and dehumanize everyone else.
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A very familiar and common example of this is gangs. People group up with the united cause of protecting their turf against "the others"... Pointless violence ensues. United causes strip reason and morality from people.
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I'm not denying the Spanish Inquisition, Pedophilic priest scandals, Preacher scams absconding with donations made in good faith.
Christianity accepts that humans are flawed and will fall to temptations.
Success is measured by how far you bounce after you've hit bottom.
You still seem to want to limit the discussion of Faith to the logical syllogisms of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Western thought is shaped by these also. However logic alone won't give you the courage to stand for your set of beliefs and enter the battlefield, where the only honor and nobility to human existence is truly experienced.
The rest is just going through the motions of day to day pedestrianism.