Reply #57: In my world, if they call themselves Christians, they are.

[Zhade]

Since every single Christian cherry-picks scripture to fit their worldview (not even fundie literalists follow every single bit of the bible - IIRC, its contradictory nature makes it impossible to do so), those here who "go to some extent for syncretism and other forms of heterodoxy" are no different than any other Christian.

But yes, I've seen differences between a few self-professed liberal Christians here (who are somewhat bigoted against, say, blacks, don't allow me to define myself, and don't support GLBT rights) and ones I know offline, who do support both my rights and my right to define my atheism (which is to say, allow me to use the correct definition and don't try to call me a liar who believes the way they insist I must in order to beg the question that there is a god I'm just rejecting).

Maybe the difference is that those bigots here really aren't liberal at all? :shrug: Anonymous message boards make it hard to determine.