Thank you laverite. As far as atheists are concerned I would like to learn more about the range of views that fit or do not fit the orthodox definition of what an atheist is (if there is such a definition).
As far as "Christians" are concerned scripture shows that there would be false claims that Jesus himself would refute.
If I were to show you a photo of your grandmother and asked you who this person was, you would confess a relationship with her (if you had known and liked her). Many call themselves Christian but are unable to confess any such relationship with Jesus if similarly shown a picture of him (that they recognise and accept). In scripture this is described as a real problem.
If you claim to be a motorcar enthusiast or salesman, I would have reason to call you out if you told me that a "Ford Falcon" was a bird of prey. This same simple test applies when asking a "Christian" to explain what the "good news", "faith", "belief", "religion" and "spirituality" are.
My own personal experience along with thousands of hours of careful and prayerful research that born out that "religion" is surreptitiously hostile and antithetical to the "unabridged gospel", and an irreformable enemy of God and man. This is what "Franzgate 1980" was all about - the "gospel of grace" versus the (religiously motivated) legalism of the Watchtower Pharisees and Sanhedrin.
"Religion" leads us to the "god of religion" whose many bad fruits (most notably deception) are evident in the Watchtower organisation.
The "unabridged gospel" leads us to the "God of Abraham" who transforms believers from within, and sets them free from addiction to religion, and from the accompanying spiritual blindness.
I too cannot stop speaking about the things I have personally seen, heard and experienced. However judgment is best left to God, who knows individual hearts, and the time scale of separating the "sheep" and the "goats" as people mature into either of these opposites.
Persons disposed to "faith", "righteousness", "sanctification" and "eternal life" on God's generous terms, as outlined in the "unabridged gospel" are the "sheep" or "wheat" of scripture.
Those that are "militantly ignorant" and "malignantly self-righteous" in their pursuit of lustful, wanton, and graven spiritual intercourse with the "god of religion" instead, are the "goats" or "weeds" of scripture (Matt 23:15).
The group in the middle (of the above two groups) are described as the (spiritually) lost or unrighteous in scripture.
