Caleb James DeLisle on Nostr: You can do that, and I fully understand why you might want to - after all, who wants ...

You can do that, and I fully understand why you might want to - after all, who wants the holy name to be taken by a heretic...

BUT, if you're trying to have a useful conversation with people, and your definition of "Christianity" excludes the pope, this is not going to work.

Words have consensus meanings.

I mean, you can also use "China" to mean The Republic of China (a.k.a. Taiwan), and that's also correct, that is the original pre-communist Chinese state. And you may feel that it's important not to cede the name China to the communist revolutionaries... But if you do that, nobody is going to have a clue what you're talking about.

Like it or not, you can't exclude self-identifying Christians from the classification of Christians. Even the pope can't do that, with his billion followers and jesuit mafia behind him...