No, they aren’t an exception, they are the rule… you will find them everywhere, many of them toting a gun as well as white washing the financial records when it comes to income vs. the official treasury.
There is NOTHING anyone can tell me that would make me change my views as to what a “true” Christian is in today’s world. I’ve watched and seen it all over the years and there’s not a single one of them that live up to what that word is supposed to me or what JC himself tried to teach us to be via the actions he took in life.
Maybe that's saying something about the state that the West is in (in terms of Christianity) rather than Christianity itself.