I always find it interesting that early Christians were accused of being Atheists. To some observers, the threat of the early church was not that they had a wrong creed, but that they seemed to have no real creed at all.
The “creeds” the early church recited were more like hymns than philosophies. Their faith could not be reduced to fundamental tenets, but only to a life of love.
Bad religion around the world affects us all, but Christians in the U.S. bear a particular responsibility to renounce the false Christ of capitalism and empire and to come home to the naked love of humankind that Jesus and all great spiritual teachers have called us.