God never commanded us...

God never commanded us to love our spouses, children, grand children, or our BFFs. Loving them comes naturally to most people.

We are, however commanded to love God, our neighbor, and our enemies. Those we have to work at.

Splinters and street corners

If the people who metaphorically stand on street corners praying, "Thank God, I'm not a sinner like that man over there," started a church with the people ignoring the beam in their own eye to point out the splinter in another's, it would be called the Christian Right.

The Religious Right: The "Prophet" if Antichrist

Forward Progressives — Greed and Jesus: The Republican Perversion of Faith

As far as Republicans go, who knows what they worship? If the policies they support are a reflection of their faith, it sure as hell isn’t Christianity and it damn sure isn’t the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Poll shows one third of Americans want Christianity as the official religion of the United States

Poll shows one third of Americans want Christianity as the official religion of the United States | God Discussion

Republicans want America to be a Christian Nation that ignores Christ's teachings, which, by definition, would make it an Antichrist Nation.

Is Hell For The Rich?

Is Hell for the Rich? - Shawn Casselberry - Red Letter Christians

Being a Christian has always been more than just believing the right things. It was about following a revolutionary Jesus who keeps overturning our social and economic assumptions and system: in order to make more room for the very ones we (religious and non-religious) try to distance ourselves from. If we continue to distance ourselves from the ones Jesus says are blessed (the poor) then we will be distanced from God's Kingdom because the kingdom is theirs.

The kind of prayer Jesus taught has never been banned from schools, only the kind the Pharasees practiced. (Matt 6:5-6)

Hard to tell a church today from a political action committee.