Christianity is also a global religion. If American evangelicals radically depart from what Christians in the rest of the world believe it's fair to say that they're no longer Christian.
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The history of Christianity is defined by radical departures lol, this is nothing new
sep 2, 2025, 12:41 am • 7 0 • view
Most of those radical departures were heresies that died out in a generation or two.
sep 2, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
And others were Protestantism
sep 2, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
Coptic Christians split off nearly 2 millennia ago, Mormons are only a hundred years old but look like they’re going strong. Lots of other offshoots out there, a MAGA church that has Trump as God’s final prophet would not surprise me.
sep 2, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
Actually it's been defined by remarkably stable institutions. And this coming from guy in one of those radical departures. Keeping transnational institutions coherent across centuries is amazing and is what defined Christianity for most of its history.
sep 2, 2025, 12:47 am • 6 0 • view
Evangelicals are still Christians.
sep 2, 2025, 1:16 am • 5 0 • view
Look, I think there are two separate conversations being had here. Do I admit that there are genuinely evil people who believe in Christian orthodoxy? Unfortunately, yes. Do I think literally rejecting the infallible nature of Christ means you aren’t a real Christian? Yes, definitionally.
sep 2, 2025, 1:35 am • 17 0 • view
It’s like how there are good and bad people who are Muslims but if you eat pork chops for breakfast while denying the prophet’s word, you are not a Muslim no matter how great or terrible a person you are.
sep 2, 2025, 1:36 am • 13 0 • view
The difference between heresy and orthodoxy is just political power, nothing more or less. If a bunch of people who think "turn the other cheek" is pussy beta shit call themselves Christians and amass in numbers sufficient to elect a President then there is no point in calling them different.
sep 2, 2025, 2:21 am • 9 0 • view
Cite the church fathers all you want, that's just what Christianity is in that case.
sep 2, 2025, 2:22 am • 3 0 • view
eh, Mormons also have local political power and they call themselves Christian, but everyone kinda knows they're their own weird thing in a way that like, Methodism or Episcopalianism isn't
sep 2, 2025, 3:11 am • 4 0 • view
Worth noting the LDS is 100 and 200 years the junior of Methodism and Episcopalianism, respectively. Give it time
sep 2, 2025, 3:48 am • 2 0 • view
Ah, I was kind of hoping we'd go more the Sikh route.
sep 2, 2025, 3:50 am • 1 0 • view
lol what is the Catholic Church? \s
sep 2, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view