What religious people do does not necessarily define the religious belief they say they subscribe to. For example, the Biblical passage I quote above (Matthew 25:35-41) is central to the message that Jesus was striving to convey. In short, a clear instruction to His followers.

But—when self-styled "Christians" say that matters of social and economic justice are merely "trendy social agenda" and have nothing to do with what's in the Gospel are clearly wrong, and are not following the precepts set down by the Jesus, the founder of Christianity.

The fact that they don't understand the religion they claim to subscribe to is not a reflection on the religion itself. It is a reflection on them, and points up their own failure.

This is usually called "hypocrisy," but I think that more often than not, it reflects sheer ignorance.

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"Atheism is not the absence of belief.

"It is the belief that there is no God."

Contradictory. It either is a belief or it isn't.

Don Firth