If history is any guide Christians can be pretty much anything they want to be. All they need do is pick a choose which parts of the bible they want to focus on or, if no passage "fits" just right, how they want to interpret words to mean what they want them to mean. Christians help start the anti-slavery, women's rights, and civil rights movements. And other Christians opposed them. Christians called for the US to enter WWII on the side of England, on the side of Germany, or to stay out of it altogether. Christians were for and against Vietnam. Today it seems Christians are most vocally for Conservative politics and Republicans, and being a Christian (so far as I and tell) is almost a requirement for claiming to support the T-party. But there are Christians who voted for Obama, and who are likely to vote for the Democrat on the ballot.
My suspicion is that it is slightly harder for Christians to be either moral or humanists, basic Christian ideology is counterproductive to either. But when you get right down to it, it is only religion after all. Except for the very few living on the fringes of religious fundamentalism, and those political types who need religion to cling to power, most people, even believers, don't allow their religion to screw up their lives too bad.
My suspicion is that it is slightly harder for Christians to be either moral or humanists, basic Christian ideology is counterproductive to either. But when you get right down to it, it is only religion after all. Except for the very few living on the fringes of religious fundamentalism, and those political types who need religion to cling to power, most people, even believers, don't allow their religion to screw up their lives too bad.
