The divide in American Christianity over right wing politics is deep.

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8. The article uses the word "liberal" when referring to both religion and politics.

without making any distinction between them. But liberal theology is not the same as liberal politics.

In liberal Christian theology, the Bible is not taken with absolute literalism as it is in Evangelical and Fundamentalist churches. Depending on the denomination, interpretation of the Bible and of the tenets of Christianity can be quite broad and metaphorical.

Quite often, churches that are theologically liberal are also socially liberal. They try to live up to the teaching about looking after fellow human beings as a moral value.

But, a theologically liberal church can have both liberal and conservative political members. Conservative members of such churches agree on the Christian teaching to care about fellow human beings. They think that social action should be done by churches and NGOs, not government.