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

A wonderful archbishop of Canterbury once said that it is a mistake to believe that God is chiefly, or even mainly, concerned with religion.

That is the essence of ChristianityLite. Its standard for what to take literally from a putatively inerrant Bible boils down to this: Anything that doesn’t seem too difficult is to be taken literally. The rest of it? Give me a break! All that stuff about turning the other cheek and loving our enemies and being nonviolent and helping the poor—some damned liberal subversive must have sort of, like, infiltrated that stuff into the Bible, you know?

It would be easy to argue on the basis of the teachings of Jesus that “Christian capitalist” is an oxymoron.