What do you have against the fundamentalist Christians of modern-day America? I'd say they're worlds better than the fundamentalist Muslims halfway across the globe who spread hate, violence, and destruction.
Yeah, thing is the fact you can find an item B worse than item A doesn't mean A is no longer bad. That's like if I complained about a pizza having anchovies and you saying "hey Malphas, what's wrong with anchovies? It's worlds better than dog feces".
i.e. The fact that the Arab world and fundamental Muslims are more ****ed up than the USA and Fundamental Christians doesn't negate the fact the latter are still ****ed up. Also, "spreading hate, violence, and destruction" (you could also add ignorant to the list) is something fundamental Christians do pretty well with their anti-Abortion violence, pro-death penalty stance, anti-teaching of evolution/science in general, pro-War stance, etc. etc.
To be honest, who gives a damn if somebody wants to believe in evolution of not? I personally do, but it's not like it hurts other people or their property if I choose not to.
And what's so wrong with being for the death penalty? The death penalty is in place to punish those who commit the most heinous of crimes. It's not like people want it to be used on shoplifters or pot dealers, or things like that. If the Newtown shooter had survived, don't you think he would deserve the death penalty? It's not like they use the death penalty on people for acts like listening to "Western" music and wearing white socks, like the Taliban, a large and organized group of Islamic extremists, did.
And with abortion...well, that's a very deeply personal matter with people. But after you say that fundamentalist Christains in the US are just as messed up as Muslim extremists in the Middle East, let me think for a second...are you saying that opposition to giving women the right to abort is on the same par as shooting women who dare walk out without being covered in a burka and accompanied by a man, or giving the death penalty to women who dare go out and drive? That's the stuff that really goes on in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, and places ruled by the Taliban and other such terrorist groups.
As a resident of the US, I see churches and evangelical Christians going out and helping others, for the most part. One big church in the town next to where I work is working right now to set up free temporary housing to help out those who lost their homes on Staten Island during Hurricane Sandy. Other churches have collections to help the poor and deliver services such as health care for them. There may be a few wackjobs out there like the one guy who shot the abortion doctor in court, or the crazy guy in Florida who was going to have a big "Burn a Quran Day", or the 30-member Westboro Baptist church who pickets at military funerals for some distorted homophobic vision, but that is not the norm at all. Most Christians, probably 99.999% I see out there try to help others, not hurt others. Remember, there's over 3 billion Christians in the world, but maybe only a few hundred who are wacked-out nut jobs like the ones I just mentioned. But then there's whole states and nations and governments controlled by radical Muslim extremists, and numerous terrorist incidents such as 9/11/01, 9/11/12, the Fort Hood mass shooting. And you say that fundamentalist Christians are just as bad by being opposed to abortion and evolution?
