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Not necessarily. Churches have struggled to retain members for various reasons. A Christian may feel disaffected of his local denominational institution, while maintaining absolute loyalty to God. The two rates are loosely related for sure, but it's a Venn diagram.
I suppose it depends on how you define "Christian", but the standard definition is equivalent to "one who has been saved", so the multiplier is 1. But religious affiliation is a separate issue.
I'm not stating that they should be directly tied to one another, but surely it would be related enough to see an effect on drug rates, but we do not.
Even with your definition of "Christian" the same math should apply.
(0) = (0)
(n) "christians" = (n * x) true christians
I'm sure X would vary from country to country, but you simply cannot have many "true christians", whatever they may be that fit your definition, without lots of other "superficial" christians.
I would reply to the other two messages you sent to my lemmy.world account, but that instance is down at the moment due to the ddos attacks, so I'll respond to those at another time.
Maybe, but I'm not sure why that matters. The essence of our dispute here is over whether salvation works reliably for kicking a drug addiction.
It matters because if "true christian" population is correlated with self reported christian population, which it should be, then self reported christian population should also be inversely correlated with drug addicition.
To break it down a little further:
(n) "christians" = (n * x) true christians
(n) "christians" = inverse (drug addicition)
Therefore:
Does that make sense?
Yes, that does make sense. If the two are really uncorrelated, then it would appear some people are lying about their faith.