Still not quite sure I see the difference between believing you're better because you're a christian and or believing that by being a christian, you're better.
"Still not quite sure I see the difference between believing you're better because you're a christian and or believing that by being a christian, you're better."
The fact is your question is a very good one, but illustrates the difference clearly, and it is this:
How you judge yourself, your self-worth, is either based on the evaluation of who you are, that is, what your values are and how you live your life (which is objective and rational) or it is based on how you "feel" about yourself or fwho or what you are associated with or what other's think of you no matter what values you have or how you live your life (which is subjective and irrational).
If you mean by "being a Christian" you hold certain values and live by them and evaluate yourself on that basis, it is objective and rational and not autoracism; but if you mean by "being a Christian" you call yourself one of them, and identify with others who are Christians or belong to a Christain organization and because of those things, regardless of what you believe or how you live, you are a "better" person, that is subjective, irrational, and autoracism.
Hank