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The Far Right world you’ll discover [...] is one of counterintuitive contradictions, where virginity is upheld as a standard by people also secretly ogling porn and brooding over the “fact” that the Federal Reserve is harboring the anti-Christ and/or, at the very least, is in the Grip of Socialists out to take our country away from Us Real Americans. These are the same folks against all legal abortions and also against distributing contraceptives. These are the people who defend legalized torture but think health care for all is demonic and communist. And they do it all in the Name of Jesus. Go figure. Overt racism will play a part but its the sex scandals that will (no pun) keep coming. Sexual frustration and dysfunction seems to me to be the heart of the culture wars. Conservative Christians are reeling from damaging family experiences — ranging from being beaten (in the interest of “godly discipline”) to being indoctrinated about science, sexuality and politics. And they’re in for disillusionment: finding out that their leaders (in the various personality cults they join that pass for “churches”) aren’t just fallen sinners in some general theological sense, but are actually cynical manipulators and willful liars, not to mention total hypocrites.

– Frank Schaeffer, Huffington Post.

This basically summarizes my experience and frustrations with Western Christian culture, if not Christianity in general.