Atheists & Agnostics

Yes, he or she is a Christian and a good person.

Or, if the person says they are a Christian and they are not a good person, they have a word for that: hypocrite.

However, the idea of "Christian ideals" if you take it literally is meaningless, because the Bible contains many hundreds of nonsensical rules and contradictions that are quite easy to find. I have yet to find a Christian that will explain to me the hateful and cruel stuff that Jesus allegedly said. They just say "It's a metaphor or a simile." They refuse to deal with the contradictions. They ignore them.

I am waiting for a church that will have the guts to say: "We don't take the whole Bible seriously. The only parts we subscribe to are The Sermon on the Mount, "As you did it to the least of them, so also you did it unto Me" and whatever other parts teach about kindness and decency.

Even among the liberal Protestants, like the denom I was raised in, I have yet to see any denomination do that.

If you want to read something very unsettling, read "The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, by David I. Kertzer.