"Economic conservatives," Kevin Phillips notes, "often warm to sects in which a preoccupation with personal salvation turns lower-income persons away… - Robert S. McElvaine

Much as the Nazis created an “Aryan Jesus” because the real Semitic Jesus was not to their liking, the Lite Christians have created an American Jesus or a Muscular Jesus or a Consumerist Jesus because they don’t like the real nonviolent/turn-the-other-cheek/love-your-enemy/meek-shall-inherit-the-earth/easier-for-a-camel-to-go-through-the-eye-of-a-needle-than-for-a-rich-man-to-enter-heaven/drive-the-moneychangers-from-the-temple Jesus. They simply re-create Jesus in their own image.

America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior.

News Flash: Self-indulgence is not what Jesus taught.