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"Family Values" as currently promoted by Dobson/Robertson/Falwell/Far RW Republicans:

Sex is wrong except for procreation. Evolution never happened, Creationism is actually science, not mythology. Anything even remotely associated with homosexuality is wrong and anybody practicing it will burn in hell.

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None of that is in the teachings of Jesus as related in the Gospels; therefore, those things are not real Christianity nor even real "fundamental" Christianity.


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Everything in the Bible is the unvarnished truth, and it should be followed to the letter.

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That is not Christianity either, because the two Great Commandments of Jesus supersede all the old law.


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The only exceptions to the last item are: Ignore anything to do with turning the other cheek, caring for the sick and the poor, loving thy neighbor, thou shalt not kill.

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A lot of Christians, even preachers, expand upon the teachings of Jesus in their own way--and unfortunately, often not to good effect If you want to try to understand Christianity, don't listen to Falwell or Robertson or even to the Pope, but rather read the Gospels and dwell on the words and life example of Jesus. That is the true Christianity: the rest is fluff added by others. Sadly for most, and confusingly as well, the fluff is generally preached and thought about as much or more than is the central message. Thus we have so-called "fundamentalists" arguing a Christian basis for things that really have nothing to do with the central principles or message of Christianity.