text: If a person were going to do an accurate assessment of what "Christian" means (I gave the definition from the Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms), you would need to determine what Christ himself said, which obviously could not be argued in 1000 characters, and not what human governments and/or institutions have stated it means. I refuse to accept that any institution who killed in the name of Christ could be considered a genuine example of Christian virtue as is is contrary to everything Christ himself taught. Given you are a student of history, you know full well earthy institutions will many times use whatever means possible to manipulate the masses. Jesus said himself, "My Kingdom is NOT of this Earth". There is no such thing as a Biblical Holy War, which I believe echos your statement, in spite of what even George Bush said.