I'm going to read the New Testament as literature. It's so important to understand references to the bible in literature, so really there is no escaping it. I live in the USA, and while the people who say they are Christians, their actions say otherwise. That's an ethnic Christian. Someone who is raised up in the tradition but hasn't really committed to the spiritual life. They can go to church and give money to the church, they can even be a priest. But if you're not trying to live the spiritual life, then you're only just an ethnic Christian, you were raised in the tradition and you follow along enough to seem to be spiritual but underneath you're just a regular person without spirituality. And that's OK. I'm coming to see the spiritual life as a rare option. I like the God of love, though it's speculated that that was a later insert, and there is a quote where Jesus rebukes the person who rebukes the woman for giving him expensive oil, sayin...