When did being a Christian equal being right wing?

[raging moderate]

77. In the old days, right wing churches were called Fundamentalist.

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In my childhood, I attended many different kinds of churches. The church members who called themselves Evangelical were more mellow and less rigid than the church members who called themselves Fundamentalists (a few called themselves Fundamental Christians). And it was generally the Fundamentalist churches that had more racist tendencies. But even in the Fundamentalist Bible church I attended for several years, politics did not dominate their preaching as it does today. (Although they were mad when a Catholic was elected President, because they feared that the Pope would start running our government.) And people who got an operation to change sex were not the focus of belligerent hatred that they are today - there was more of an "oh, well, not my business" attitude. And they did not hate Christ's orders that we must take care of sick, unclothed, unfed, unhoused people (which is echoed by several other New Testament authors).