It sounds like you're blaming me for the oddities in your own country. I should try to explain that I don't suffer from the ecclesiology of Jack T,Chick or from the Christology of Jerry Falwell? Why? Incidentally, the book I did not get published (except on the Internet) was about the history of Britain between 407 and 597, and had only tangentially to do with Christianity.

If you can subscribe to every article in the Nicene Creed, you are a Christian. This excludes Arians such as the Latter-Day Saints, Unitarians, and Mormons (because of their belief that the Godhead is a perfected man rather than something superior and unique). That is not to say that you cannot be one of those and be a very fine human being; I have had Mormon friends, and my admiration for Washington and Lincoln is immense. But as a matter of description, a crook and murderer who believes in the Holy Trinity, in the divinity, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, and in final judgment and everlasting life, is a Christian; and a self-denying, constructive, enduring hero who does not, is not. As for how God will deal with them, I believe the hero will get a wonderful surprise - and the murderer will not be surprised at all.