This is a textbook case of appropriating the name, aka not walking the talk. Jesus taught quite a few things, and one of them was that what he taught would upset those who followed the laws of the Old Testament.
These so called Christian have a few hallmarks:
They cherry pick verses from the old testament to support their prejudices.
They are all about fearing "God", condemnation of the non believers, the superiority of their religion, and seeing their religion as some sort of army. ("Onward Christian soldiers" is a good example.
They will eject any church member who dares to ask too many questions. ("uh, about that flood thing.. What about the fishes? Did they also die or were fish on the ark, too?"
They make much noise about worshiping God and Jesus, but talk very little about the teachings of Jesus. They will go one about "God says" and "it's in the Bible" but when you read what they refer to it will be passages from the old testament and by Paul - the con man who took over the faith some 100 years after the death of Jesus, and bent it into what became the foundation for modern Christianity.
They are all about forgiving their own "sins" but not so much about forgiving other people's sins. And Jesus flatly says the opposite when he taught "Judge not".
The defining text that is Matthew 25:31-46. This is Jesus saying what will happen to those who refuse his teachings and he clearly says what those teachings are.
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’
If you want to get an idea of who Jesus really was and what he taught, go look up the "Gospel of St. Thomas" on line. This was left out of the Bible because it paints a very different picture of him than what the church wanted to portray him as.
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