saying it is a 'professed status' is ponderous reasoning their beliefs are verifiably christian if they said 'we are christian' but were really worshipping the flying spaghetti monster then the article should not say they are christian because they believe that jesus was the messiah the son of god and they follow his teachings as they understand them they are indisputably a christian religion regardless of extraneous definitions imposed by other groups or whether their beliefs are wrong as previously stated if other religious groups contend that jws are not christiain that belongs in the controversy section where it already is