Atheists & Agnostics

NeoGreen

(4,031 posts) Fri Jul 10, 2015, 08:05 AM Jul 2015

Insert standard safe haven disclaimer statement here: ___________...

....I was going to post this in the "other" place, but thought better of it, but I still want to share, so I am posting it here, where I am "safe":

The real interesting question in my mind...

...is: "are there any True Christians™"

Meaning: is there any single person that all other self proclaimed True Christians™ would unanimously agree is also a True Christian™

For clarity I would limit my inquiry to only be applicable to Real People, i.e., no fictional characters in literature, poetry, movies, songs or other human derived constructs.

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Insert standard safe haven disclaimer statement here: ___________... (Original Post) NeoGreen Jul 2015 OP

Jesus doesn't count, mr blur Jul 2015 #1

And even if he was real, he wouldn't count. trotsky Jul 2015 #2

Siddhartha Gautama? AlbertCat Jul 2015 #3

Jimmy Carter, the one and only.. mountain grammy Jul 2015 #4

Close Lordquinton Jul 2015 #5

Gandhi? Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #6

Probably not, because some self-proclaimed TCs say no Catholic can be a TC muriel_volestrangler Jul 2015 #7

mr blur

(7,753 posts)

1. Jesus doesn't count,

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 08:18 AM

Jul 2015

as he wasn't a real person.

My guess would be "No".

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

2. And even if he was real, he wouldn't count.

Reply to mr blur (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:20 AM

Jul 2015

Because he was a Jew.

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

3. Siddhartha Gautama?

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 10:34 AM

Jul 2015

and of course John Hagee.....

mountain grammy

(26,622 posts)

4. Jimmy Carter, the one and only..

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 03:56 PM

Jul 2015

if there were more like him, I think I could like Christians.

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)

5. Close

Reply to mountain grammy (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 04:59 PM

Jul 2015

But he wasn't all together with marriage equality.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

6. Gandhi?

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 07:06 PM

Jul 2015

When I think of the way Christian are instructed to live their lives, that is the closest I can come.

I do know that all the self-proclaimed Christians that I know don't really try very hard to walk the walk---probably because they can do whatever they want as long as they have accepted Jesus as their personal savior. I don't know how that escape clause even got into the Bible.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)

7. Probably not, because some self-proclaimed TCs say no Catholic can be a TC

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Sat Jul 11, 2015, 06:05 AM

Jul 2015

while some say only a Catholic can be a TC.

If you accept the existence of Peter, Paul and other early Christians, they might agree on them. But schism has been the name of the game for Christianity pretty much from the start.

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