A shocking number of Americans believe God personally anointed Trump to rule the country

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53. There are some pretty bad things even in the Gospels.

Jesus saying that he has come to turn men against each other and family against family. Jesus telling people to "pluck out your eye" rather than look lustfully at a woman (not harass, not touch, just look) or you will burn in fire.

When we think of the Gospels, we tend to think about the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes where Jesus tells people "blessed are the meek..." but there are some pretty hardcore things in the rest of the tales.

Also, Fundamentalists basically means "literalist". Fundamentalists typically believe that the Bible was written in the "hand of God", that it is historically and morally accurate, both Old Testament and New. Many mainline Christians will discount the Old Testament saying that Jesus' coming closed that book, but Jesus himself (according to the Bible) said that he was not there to erase the old covenant but to fulfill it, which typically means that both the Old and New Testament teachings still stand.

I know in Catholic Mass, we read from both Old and New Testament every week and the priest would integrate the teachings of both into the homily. However, in Catholicism we saw the Bible as more allegorical and moral teaching, not literal and historical.