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>>And Christians are doing a great job of clearing that one up :). This story about "this is not true Christianity", "those are not true believers who do so" etc etc was the same ten, twenty or two hundred years ago.
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>Interestingly that is the same argument used by all major religions over the centuries - including followers of Islam (Muslims). It appears that over the years almost all religions will have to suffer a large group 'hijacking' their religion. One wonders when such a large group of a religion's followers 'hijack' it which group is actually representing the true beliefs of the religion? Is it the membership who sees things differently? Does the religion morph to accommodate those members if those members form a majority? Is it the leaders of the religion who slowly shape the religion to conform with their ideas?

It becomes quite obvious when founders jump ship, or get pushed aside, or just get assassinated. Happens to all movements - be it a religion, enterprise, political movement, even sports sometimes.