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You deny the core ideas of Christianity. Whatever differentiates for example catholics and protestants that is not denial of core ideas of Christianity as religion.
One of consequences of streching definition of any term to the point that it becomes flexible as a bubble gum is that it starts to mean almost everything so in fact it means nothing
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I follow christ's religion, not the religion of christ. If you boil it down to being literally believing in god, then you MUST literally believe in the literal garden of eden. Without the garden of eden being literal, the act of jesus on the cross doesn't make any sense as anything but metaphorical as well.
You have to be a young earth creationist to be a true christian if it's about "believing that jesus is the literal son of some deity named yaweh"... Without the literal original sin, the literal redemption on the cross doesn't make any sense.
The idea that I'm stretching the teachings of christ is absurd. What I do is to reject the supernatural crap associated with the religion that is clearly false. What remains is the religion of christ. It is a ethnic idea of the western world based around the same elementary idea of buddhism and other faiths. The notions are of connectedness of all things and the notion of transcendence of categories of thought (i.e. the metaphorical meaning of redemption of original sin which was attainment of categories of thought - fruit of knowledge of good and evil).
Not only do I consider myself christian, I consider myself to be christ. This is a scholarly and historic and world view driven christian approach. It is not some provincial idiotic santa claus like belief in some guy with a white beard.
People who think that christ's message is all about something elsewhere (i.e. heaven or 2000 years ago) miss the point entirely. Christianity is a philosophy of life. It is a religion that links us to the human experience.
The notion that it requires literal belief in a deity is idiotic. What are labeled "core ideas" in the above posts are really just provincial peripheral ideas to the religion. The elementary ideas of christianity can be found in cultures all over the world.
My christianity is based on a tradition of individuals like thomas jefferson and joseph campbell (amongst others)