I am a Marxist. I believe that people should retain their private property. Land ownership should be completely legal and unrestricted. The economy should be ruled only by the free market. There should be no taxes. This is exactly what Karl Marx would have wanted me to believe.
If somebody said this they'd obviously be completely retarded or grossly misinformed. Is that person actually a Marxist, simply because they confessed the name "Marx?"
When people say they're Christian and but their beliefs are antithetical to what Jesus preached are they actually Christian?
You can ONLY be Christian if you *don't need things to make sense*. (Same thing for Marxists.) For example, there are about as many passages saying "people have free will" as there are "everything is predestined". There is no coherent resolution here. Christians seeking coherence in their worldview must ignore large parts of the text. Most Christians would rather hold contradictory ideas (doublethink) and switch between free will and predestination models at their convenience.
The Bible wasn't edited for clarity. There is no Christian version of the Talmud, which seeks to clarify and codify an imprecise holy book.
Jahshua the Anointed rabbi (and Saul the first cryptojew) left too much room for interpretation, and now ALL Christians project their own ideas into the text like a Rorschach test.
It doesn't matter if you can conclusively show a Christian that their beliefs are anti-Biblical. They will still refuse to see it. Because this is a trait nearly universal to Christians, yes, I consider all self-declared Christians representative of "real Christians".
*The purpose of a thing is what it does.* In the same way, all members of a voluntary association group reflect on that group.
If there are too many free market marxists, then we mock marxism for being incoherent.
Yes and this is the exact problem with "established" Christianity. It is simply incoherent. However, there is no such thing as a "free market Marxist." Marx's manifesto perfectly outlines the basis of Marxism. There is no such thing as a "worldly Christian." Christ's gospel perfectly outlines the basis of Christendom.
If a majority of Marxists are merely deluded Libertarians... Does that make Marxism a libertarian movement?
If a majority of Atheists are self pleasing pleasure addicted degenerates, does that make Atheism a hare-brained philosophy for deviant neurotics?
>there are about as many passages saying "people have free will" as there are "everything is predestined"
Yes, you have free will. Yes, you will act exactly how God knows you will act. This is a power that freely navigates outside of space time.
>now ALL Christians project their own ideas
Correct but also incorrect. The book clearly states that a true Christian will be endowed with certain powers. The Gospel is a manual on how to obtain what is essentially OT prophethood. Therefore, find me a prophet who has projected his own worldly ideas onto Christ and I will fully agree.