the only way to follow Jesus is post-Christian

Look, I know there's a brand of spiritual-but-not-religious anti-institutional naive youthful rebelliousness out there, the kind that commits to an unexamined universalizing implicit assumption that "Religion" is to blame for ruining pure spirituality and therefore the only thing to do is to be bravely, individually, uniquely and eclectically spiritual. Build your own system of spiritual beliefs that work for you from the bits of your World Religions class that you happened to pay attention to, yadayada. Crystals, a bit of Stoicism, a favorite Hindu deity, meditation, Jesus is Just All Right, I don't pray but I believe in manifesting. 

That's not what I mean. I mean something like the Tillichian death of religious symbols is happening with the word "Christian." And this isn't a slow death of meaning from lack of use--the kind of thing (if I remember right) Tillich was originally positing. If anything, it's a death of meaning from semantic abuse and overuse. I think the label "Christian" is dead because it's been actively crucified by people who would, had they been there, happily crucified Jesus--that upstart subversive bleeding heart do-gooder with as much interest in upholding the reigning power structure as he had in directly politically disrupting it--and what these folks mean when they embrace the word "Christian" is a shambling zombie corpse of the religion they are daily crucifying.

So I don't think we need to take on the task of rehabilitating this word. Let it die. What do we need it for? Jesus wasn't a Christian. If what you're after is following that guy, what's this word got to do with it?

I am aware that this is complicated, that there are institutions affiliated with the word "Christian" in various ways that are engaging in active resistance to the criminal injustices of the Christotechnofascists who are currently murdering and kidnapping people in the streets, who are illegally perpetrating wars around the globe, who are plotting in plain sight to remain in power in ways that are "democratic" in the same sense that these guys are "Christian." And we need those institutions to resist, and to resist as institutions, not just collections of individuals. 

Even so: the project is not rehabbing the label. Let "Christianity" become a term of contempt. Let it be radioactively unusable for the next century, for perpetuity. Let's stop worrying about whether or not we can be "Christians" or whether we have to be content to continually post-pend it with "-but-not-that-kind-of-Christian." Let's accept the death of this symbol and move on because we've got better things to do than defend this word. Let the fascists have it. Let's bury them with it.