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Originally Posted by Og  I have a deep appreciation of christ's teachings and I don't have the typical blind faith which i see associate with people living in the bubble of western culture. I see the elementary ideas in christ's message across the world in mythologies far older and in mythologies far younger than christianity's. Christianity is, however, my culture, and my folk expression of these elementary ideas, so I consider myself a christian.
It's not your typical idea of a christian, but I definitely have the love of god in me  |
Being cultural Christian and showing some appreciation for the culture doesn't make you a Christian in the least degree as well as me. You deny central claims of Christianity :
- God exists and created the world
- torment and death of Jesus - actual event in which God shows the distance we've wandered from him - the basis of transformation of human situation
You seem to twist the idea of Christianity so that you could call yourself a Christian
Cherry picking fragments of Jesus teachings out of the Bible doesn't make a Christian either, well unless you want to follow characteristic obscurantism of theological reasoning