What Andrew says shows the difference between someone who is able to get the real meaning of Christianity (or any of the world's great religions for that matter) and someone who isn't even able to scratch surface of it. If you only see the words and accept them literally at the expense of what your (God-given) five senses are telling you, then of course you're going to be stuck in the 1st century AD.

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Buttrumpet, people have always abused religion. I forget the name of the serial killer they just caught - the family man - but he said he considered himself a Christian. Obviously, what the Nazis did and what he did are 100% the opposite of what the religion advocates. And while Karl Rove isn't a Nazi or serial killer even from my anti-war perspective, his shrewd manipulation of unsophisticated people with a vote was also quite ironic.

The point is that none of that is even remotely related to spirituality or the teachings in the religion. It's simply sanctimonious nonsense, thrown up so that anyone who calls it what it is appears to be against religion - as you saw happening to me here, which is frustrating and infuriating.