There are plenty of useful, meaningful biblical references that vividly reveal the hypocrisy of the right these days. Quotes that resonate with the Democrats and Obama's message and policies and not McCain and the right. I may not be a churchgoer but remember a bit of the Bible, going to church, singing in the choir and still find value in the core of Christianity. But as Gandhi said I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.
The more destructive of the religious right are trivial-ists not fundamentalists who select, distort, reinterpret and massage scripture to fit whatever they are selling. If there was an evil force somehow at work to subvert believers, making a mockery of the real fundamentals of the Bible would be Job one. I would agree that the 2 great commandments in the new testament, Love God, Love your neighbor as thyself...are the condensed heart of the whole deal. "On these 2 commandments hang all the law and the prophets." This is the money quote. The rest of the entire bible, is full of distractions which all to often are used as excuses by the more egregious Christian leaders to enrich or empower themselves at the expense of others.
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