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My current working hypothesis, as an ex-Christian, is that Christianity is two things:
A) Whatever a given community's norms on a given matter are;
B) A set of aesthetic signifiers which can be applied to A.
A is intensely localised. If a given community feel that feeding the hungry is good, then it becomes part of Christianity to them. If they feel that oppressing LGBTQIA+ people is good, then that becomes part of Christianity to them. As such, it may be more accurate to talk of "christianities" rather than "Christianity."
The same is true for Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Satanism and every other religion of course.
B, on the other hand, creates ambiguity and disguises this. One community's christianity tells them to murder Muslims; another community's christianity tells them to reject violence. Both communities make depictions of Jesus endorsing their actions, and thus both believe that they have some ideological common ground.
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