Danes feel Obama is greater than Jesus

[kandrathe]

Your careful parsing of who does or doesn't count as a Christian seems to me to be at odds with your willingness to make sweeping statements about, let's say, Danes or Muslims.

For Danes, no. Muslims, maybe. Danes are Danes, and you can speak about their majority views, since they cannot help but be Danes no matter what their beliefs. Thus the fallacy of "No True Scotsman" would apply. It is interesting though, that 80% of Danes still belong to the State run Lutheran church. Can we call them Lutheran atheists? Muslims, have the option of renouncing Islam, and face extreme consequences for doing so, but still have the option. I'm talking about a group that spans global geography and counts for 1/6th of the worlds population. There is certainly great variation in belief and practice across that population. I base my opinion on what I read in Islamic press, which probably biases me toward the moderate. If you took a stadium of people in America and began dissecting the population by the following questions, 1) Are you a Christian?, 2) Do you attend church regularly? 3) Can you recite the major tenets of the faith? 4) Have you read the Bible, studied your faith and understand it deeply? By the end of that process, you'd find the population I'd consider to be Christian which undoubtedly still contains 100% who have and will continue to commit offenses to their faith. The same would apply to any philosophy with the stages of identity, practice, cursory knowledge, scholarship.

No truly religious person --- be they Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, or whatever --- would condone flying planes into office buildings full of people at work (nor, for that matter, would any atheist who holds a true regard for human life).

I agree, unless the person is convinced that their philosophy justifies or demands homicidal binges.