Reply #75: Christian does NOT include a belief in literal resurrection.

[JackRiddler]

You are a Christian if you make the teachings of the Christ as given in the Gospels your philosophy and moral guide in life. You do not have to believe that Christ existed, or that there was an immaculate conception, resurrection, transubstantiation or an afterlife. You do not have to be born again.

You are a Christian if you love your neighbor as yourself and share what you have with those in need. It's not about your imagined personal relationship with the deity, it is about your daily behavior. Also, it's probably not enough to believe in the rightness of the teachings, you have to actually live by them.

You can be a Christian and an atheist. You can be a Christian without ever going to church.

Furthermore, you can believe in all the magic stuff and yet not be a Christian, because you are hoarding and hating.

In the Bible, for example, the devil believes in Christ (and even attempts to recruit him), and yet the devil is NOT a Christian.

A Christian follows the teachings of Christ, even if Christ is a fictional character.

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(Compare to: Marxist; you might be one if you accept his case that there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall in the long run; even if you think Karl Marx was fictional!)