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I'm sure everyone remembers the story of the blind men who were asked to describe an elephant, and each came up with a much different description depending on what part of the animal they touched. Thing is, despite their wildly different descriptions, at the base of it all it was just an elephant.
This is why as a non-christian I view so many christians as rather a blot on their religion. So many of you argue and squabble and call each other names and claim your version of christianity is the One True Elephant and that every other christian is wrong. Do you know how bad that makes all of you look from where I stand?
The truth of the matter is that one simple thing alone defines christianity: the belief that your jesus was divine, and an attempt to follow the teachings ascribed to him. That's it! The rest is all just different flavors of the same thing.
The fact that there is so much infighting over what a "true christian" is just makes the whole lot of you look foolish. Face it people, it's an elephant. Whether you prefer the leg or the trunk or the tail doesn't make it any less of an elephant or any one of you more or less "true christian".
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