Can Christianity be viewed as a group of product features that can be deliberately emphasized and de-emphasized and still remain the same religion? I guess that goes to the question of what exactly is a religion.
What delineates a false religion from a true religion? If the content of the teaching is a distortion of the truth, shouldn't it at some point cease to be considered a true religion? (How important is it that the message be "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth"?)
Is it important that leadership and laymen believe the same thing? Is a church orthodox if the leadership's beliefs are orthodox, yet their teaching is a filtered version of orthodoxy? Are the converts being converted to orthodoxy, or to a counterfeit?
What if features are actually added to the religion? The Protestant Reformation was partly a rejection of new cars the Catholic church had added to the train. Is anyone concerned about Protestant additions?
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