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"Christian" is not an adjective

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I ’m not going to lie. I hated English class. Being home-schooled  by a grammar Nazi pretty much instilled this disdain  in me from an early age. I mean really, who cares about verb-tense, or prepositional phrases? Well, all this changed around 10 th grade for me. I began to gain an appreciation for the things I had been taught and the way I had been taught them. English became enjoyable (except diagramming , ugh) to study and understand. Grammatically speaking every sentence should have a noun and a verb. For example, the word Christian is a noun. A Christian is a person who follows Jesus. Follow is a verb. Jesus used verbs all the time. Verbs like love, come, rest, learn, hear, etc. But somewhere along the line, we tried to make Christian an adjective instead of being about verbs. “There is no such thing a Christian Democrat” “I love Christian comedy!” “There is no such thing as Christian *Insert Noun*” These are all phases that we have heard at some point, and if we