• trebuchet
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    10 months ago

    Who even uses that definition outside of super niche communities?

    So a good person who behaves like Christ but grows up in a rural village and has never heard of Christianity or read the Bible would be a Christian under this definition?

    • BB69@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      No, they’re a good person. It’s the same as living by Buddhist tenets.

      Religion is a template for living in a certain way. Most of the time, it’s for developing a society into a way that they don’t rip each other apart