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While I generally don't care about religion, I do care when it is taking over my country. To deny them their Christianity by defining them out of it? That's a pretty no true scottsman style argument I cannot get behind. Also, weren't Paul's epsistles written before any of the gospels? Some of them by like... An additional 40 years after the first gospel was written, which itself was written 40 years after the death of the purported Christ?
Jesus "says" some interesting shit, but so do a lot of religious leaders. There's also a bunch of magic lumped in there (did you know Jesus used to be depicted with a wand in early Christian artwork?) We don't know who wrote any of the gospels, only their attributions. What we do have are the practical correspondences between early Christians. And by your standards, even those people might not have been Christians.
And unconditional love is all well and good, until you have to live in the real world. If your fucking with people that did nothing wrong, your gonna get fucked up, I'm not waiting for some imaginary god to let you roast for eternity, I'm going to do what I can now to stand up for those around me.