Reply #1: It takes a real, shall we say, focused reading of the Bible

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It takes a real focused reading of the Bible to avoid all that messy talk about caring for the earth, providing for the sick, the poor, the less fortunate, and all that other touchy-feely librul stuff to get to the kernel of the gospel truth according to the fundies: God told me to hate you. That whole "love one another" thing? Too difficult, unless you define "love" down to removing a speck from your neighbor's eye whilst ignoring the 2x4 in your own. Give without expecting anything in return (see Luke 6)? What are you, some kind of communist?