Stormfront and Neo-Nazies are not taken as representative of Christians. Pat Robertson/Ted Haggart etc are taken as representatives of American Evangelism for sure.
I think Christians have it easier because they have much more firmer divisions that they can insulate themselves into. Protestants are protected from this child abuse scandal right now, but catholics arent. Whats helping there, partially, is oversegmentation, not under. Along with a desire to keep a kinder media narrative.
Great.
Firstly you have a false premise that people ‘tend to’ define themselves in those terms. It is much more common to take the approach you do where what I believe is Islam and everything else is the ‘other’ whatever you want to call it. Dont really have a preference myself between the two approaches.
Not really. There is a religious difference in addition to any political/socio-economic ones. The issue is often debated in religious terms, not merely political ones.
Its a strawman argument to talk about motivations etc. You can have the wrong motivations for making the right distinction. You can have the wrong language to make the right distinction.
It is an important religious distinction to make, not merely for any pragmatic goals, but to preserve your own religion’s nature.