Christianity is not a Religion

I was reading, once again, an editorial that lead out with the incorrect assumption that something was Christian because a priest said or did it. This is an idea that television and movies, for the most part, have glamorized as the truth. However, it could not be more untrue, in that, Christianity is actually not a religion. So I decided this needed clarifying and I wrote the following response:

I am disheartened by an incorrect assumption your article depicts by interchanging Catholics with Christians. I have noticed, during the history of movies and news platforms, when religion is to be represented, in walks a Catholic priest. The assumption that the Catholic Church represents religion is a correct one. However, Christianity is not a religion and is certainly not represented by the Catholic Church. Instead, Christianity is a faith. This faith is founded and represented in love. This love sees no distinction in Jew or gentile. In Catholicism, the "saint" is someone who is chosen by the Catholic Church to be canonized for their good deeds and more. For the Christian, a "saint" is any person who professes the Lord Jesus as his/her savior. This person has renounced the sin in his/her life, has been baptized into the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, has received the Holy Spirit into his/her heart, and is going through a process of sanctification as a purification of their soul and a growing personal relationship with Christ. The Christian knows that sainthood, associated with the setting apart (sanctification) of the person by God as an adopted child, is only possible through the grace of God. There is nothing he/she can do to deserve it. There is already "a mutual understanding between Christians and Jews" named Jesus. The Apostle Paul, who was an orthodox Jew, explained that "a man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man's praise is not from men, but from God." In other words, the person who has accepted Christ allows an inward change and becomes, by God's standard, a true child of Abraham.