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  • Your link has a very shallow definition of the “No true Scotsman” fallacy.

    A better definition is on Wikipedia:

    No true Scotsman, or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their generalized statement from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly. Rather than abandoning the falsified universal generalization or providing evidence that would disqualify the falsifying counterexample, a slightly modified generalization is constructed ad-hoc to definitionally exclude the undesirable specific case and similar counterexamples by appeal to rhetoric.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

    But I can argue that the definition of Cristian comes from the behavior and teaching of Jesus and the new testament and thus excludes bigotry hate and racism.

    Also, telling people that they will be tortured for etwrnity (hell) […] is ultimately bigoted and hateful.

    Unless that is really true. Then it would be unloving to not warn people.