American Christianity allows you to be:
Empowering of white supremacy Supportive of the death penalty
Addicted to consumerism
OK with children in cages
Comfortable with sexism
Irresponsible with creation
An evangelist of homophobia
... and still be called a follower of Christ.
Americans who have lived overseas immersed a foreign culture for a lengthy period of time - say, minimum of three years - generally have a VERY different perspective on US politics and religion than those who have not. That's especially true for those of us who served churches.
Sometimes it sounds more enjoyable to pluck out all of my eyelashes then to try and explain why something is racist to a white republican over the age of 50.