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?
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.