Sure they are...Babies are not Christians...
You get wetted with the 'holy' water by a 'holy' man and your are a Christian...
I work with a fella that had to become a Catholic to marry a woman he fell in love with...He got the 'holy water treatment' and now he's a Catholic Crhistian...What an insult to Jesus Christ...He's no more a Christian than Osama Bin Laden...
There are thousands of former Arab muzlims who have accepted the free gift of Salvation offered by Jesus Christ (for real)...
The ones who come to faith in Christ in adulthood take their faith serously. Even those who were baptized as babies, can as they get older be called to accept Christ as personal Savior. A Blessed Easter.
you wrote:
“I work with a fella that had to become a Catholic to marry a woman he fell in love with...”
No, you don’t work with such a man. No one according to the Church has to become Catholic to marry a Catholic. He CHOSE to become Catholic and God help him if he did it merely to have a Catholic wedding.
“He got the ‘holy water treatment’ and now he’s a Catholic Crhistian...What an insult to Jesus Christ...He’s no more a Christian than Osama Bin Laden...”
Maybe he isn’t, but others are. And, in fact, you do not know the heart of Magdi Allam and are in no position to judge his faith. You never even heard of him until you saw this article or one like it, right?
“There are thousands of former Arab muzlims who have accepted the free gift of Salvation offered by Jesus Christ (for real)...”
And we all have reason to believe Magdi Allam is one of them. Present your evidence to the contrary. Oh, what’s that? You have none at all? Nothing? Yeah, that’s pretty much what we all knew already.