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You are correct. So I guess what I really meant was ....
self-proclaimed true Christians -vs- wannabe Christians I myself don't have a certain viewpoint but this translation I am doing needs to be done as accurate as possible.
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Hmm. I wouldn't use the word "wannabe" in that context. Most people who are not "true Christians" don't really want to be a Christian, they just call themselves something that they don't practice.
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Well I wouldn't either but this is what the book says and I am translating it. Translation is so much easier when the original language is written as it should. But alas, that would be in a perfect world.
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Come to think to it, it looks like those wannabe Christian are "gente que se las da de cristianos", people who want to be regarded as Flanders-like when in fact they are pretty much the Homer type. This "dárselas de" is pretty colloquial -maybe in some countries is more colloquial than in others-.
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