Reply #18: For myself, I was a literal Christian as a kid and I married into a RW evangelical family [View All]

[GreenPartyVoter]

My concept of spirituality has changed greatly since then, and I would say I am a nominal Christian at best. I'm a universalist in both senses of the word. There are many paths to enlightenment/paradise and everyone gets there eventually.

But I still feel tied to Christianity for two reasons and so still apply the label to myself.

1) There is plenty to be admired and learned from in the faith, and 2) it is the faith language of my family by which they speak to and of God. I could change faiths and faith languages, but it would cause conflict in my family and confusion as well since they don't understand other faith languages and only see the True Christian TM one as being valid.

I understand that you would like some sort of basic definition so that you can speak of all of us at once. For myself followers of the teachings of Christ might do it, but the RW evangelicals would be very unhappy if you didn't include more requirements. (And I would be rather unhappy if you did. :) )

Are you sure you cannot be satisfied with the fact that we are cats that just cannot be herded all in one direction? LOL