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In fairness to him, I think he meant Falsani to assume that he holds values that represent the right thing to do and when he does wrong/sins, he is violating his values. We’d say the same thing about a rightly formed conscience—any sin involves going against what one knows to be right.

I think he probably was “converted” to liberal Protestant “Christianity” in Jeremiah Wright’s church. That means he is uncomfortable talking about personal sin, much more at home with “social sin” of the Other Guy/Group. And he probably does sincerely believe that one can be a Christian and also believe roads to heaven outside Christ exist.

He’s both a Muslim in some sense and a liberal Christian.

I would say that liberal Christians of the sort he and Wright represent are no longer Christian in any meaningful way. I think he joined Wright’s church largely as a way to solidify his standing in the “communities” he was “organizing.” I think in some sense he probably really thinks he really did “get saved”—in the liberal/activist manner. He knows enough about more traditionally evangelical Black Christians to know the altar call language and personal savior language and to know he needs to mouth it. I think his political activism and Wright’s liberation theology transferral of sin to “social injustic” gave him a way to transfer that evangelical language to a different register.

I think he’s one confused kid with regard to religion (and with regard to his own identity), as a result of his messed-up upbringing. We see incompatibility between his Alinskyism and his Muslimism and his “Christianity.”

I’m not sure he even sees that there’s a problem.

But no, he’s not Christian in any sense I recognize as valid. But there are a lot of people out there in liberal mainline churches whose understanding of Christianity is about the same as his. FOr them, he can be a Muslim and a Christian at the same time.