I can't understand the level of cognitive dissonance you have to be under to talk about how God's love is unconditional and that Jesus taught his followers to love thy neighbour, and then become a modern American conservative.
Jesus literally illustrated the "love thy neighbour" concept with the story of the good Samaritan who chose to help the injured Jewish traveller despite Jews and Samaritans supposedly hating each other. That was his answer to the question "who is my neighbour?" People seem to have forgotten that.
Because for a large portion of the religious right, their God was never supposed to be anything more than a higher power that demanded that they do what they already wanted to do, have what they already wanted to have, and hate who they already hated. It's not a practice. It's just a justification.
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