My perspective is that you must be fully committed to your religion; otherwise, you're just a pretender. It's one thing to dance around the fringe and cherry pick what you like, discarding what you dislike; it's quite another thing to completely immerse yourself in its tenets, such as absolute faith.
I think that Christianity in America suffers from its lack of absolute conviction and is more quasi-religious than it is actually religious. I think a good comparison would be the practice of western Christianity in relation to the practice of Islamic faith elsewhere. The Muslim, it seems, takes his/her religion more seriously than does the average Christian.
I think that Christianity in America suffers from its lack of absolute conviction and is more quasi-religious than it is actually religious. I think a good comparison would be the practice of western Christianity in relation to the practice of Islamic faith elsewhere. The Muslim, it seems, takes his/her religion more seriously than does the average Christian.