Are You a Christian?

Every time someone asks me this question I feel threatened. Not because I live in a society where bad things may happen to me if I answer in the non-affirmative (at least not yet) but because I know what answer I am expected to spew forth, and I know what they think will happen to me if they do not receive the response that pleases them. Recently my response has been "look at how I live and arrive at your own conclusion," but even then the questioner may conclude that I am not a Christian because I go on the Strip to party on Friday nights, or because I drink the occasional alcoholic beverage, or because I am not a member of a Pentecostal movement assembly where I place ten percent of my salary into an envelope which I deposit obediently into a collection bucket, convinced that good happens to be because I do so.
Every single person who asks me if I am a Christian has his own concept of what a Christian is, and I don't know why it is any of their business anyway. They may conclude that it is the duty of a Christian to enquire out of concern for my soul, because they think that I do have an invisible thing inside me that will remain alive billions and billions of years after I am dead, and that invisible thing is able to feel, and see, and suffer, and that if I am not a Christian, the invisible thing that will come out of me after I die, is going to suffer imaginable torture for an incalculable billions of years, and they love me and do not want my invisible thing to suffer. And why would my invisible thing suffer? Because I did not believe exactly as they did before I died. How thoughtful, loving and caring  I lived my life would not matter in the least. It's what I believed that mattered more than all my kindness, generosity and care for others. Their single most important question is "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and only Savior?"  If your answer is no, your invisible thing is going to roast in invisible fire, over billions of years in a place located---- nobody knows where----. The only thing they know is that they read it in an old book they have been taught came from God and it must be true. It is impossible to imagine anything else.
I am aware that I may be hated quite readily for writing things like this, it's the type of society in which I live. This type of thinking is sacrilege and absolutely forbidden, even frightening, but I think there is something wrong with the thinking processes of any individual who is convinced that what I believe about God or Jesus, is more important than the benefits gained by humanity through the quality of life I lived.