I really believe that the great majority of Christian fundamentalists simply filter their beliefs through their own intelligence and human decency, without realizing the degree to which they do it. The implications of much of what God supposedly literally did in the Biblical narratives just never really "click in" in their thinking. At the very raggedest fringes, despised by even most fundamentalists,
you will find the Fred Phelps types, who are quite willing to accept a conception of God as a hateful, pitiless sadist and to serve "him" as such.
                         Dean