McGrath - that may be a nice perspective, but conservative Christians in the U.S. take the words in the Bible literally. They don't mess with the Hebrew (or other languages). They don't care. They have their apporved translations (King James version is still one of the biggest sellers), they read it, they interpret it (or have it interpreted for them, and follow it. They ignore the parts that don't interest them and xpalin away the parts that miost people would consider to be contradictory.

And by the way - most of them don't like Jews. Remember? The Jews killed Jesus.