I don't think so Stringsinger.

Just because a section of Christianity goes off at a tangent and develops hardline fundamentalist notions of an inerrant tome expressing the word of God, it doesn't detract from the millions of others who believe in living a Christian lifestyle.

All that is needed is to recognise that the term "Christian" can no longer rationally apply to the former, since their views and their actions are completely at odds with what we understand of the message of Jesus and of the gospels.

Their brand of Christianity is an Old Testament viewpoint, unaffected by Jesus and the New Testament, both of which, for them, need never have existed.

Don T.