On the contrary. I rather suspect the rebuttals of the early Fathers would be better than my own, if only (unlikely !) for the reason you cite : people who claim to be Christian yet actually seek to denounce those who would follow the emphatic, quite unequivocal teachings of Jesus himself, the Evangelists and the Fathers, fill me with fury. And someone much greater than any of us didn't hold back in his denunciations of the selfish rich ; in the parable of Lazarus, actually comparing the rich man unfavourably with the street-dogs, considered the lowest form of life - when stating that those dogs, dumb beasts though they were, sought to console Lazarus in their stumbling, hapless way, the only way they knew how - by licking his sores.
The historic materialism of the US has given rise to a weirdly distorted perspective of too many American Christians. Funny, too, that the only references I've come across even in our perjurious media to people in Russia, the former Eastern Bloc and China, were after the wicked West sought to plunder them and impose their 'devil take the hindmost,', dog eat dog' capitalism.
Oh, apart from during WWII, for which ultimately the blame must placed on Britain and the US - the proximate cause, of course being the Nazis based on Hitler's declamation that barbarism was nothing to be ashamed of. It purified a nation ! Our rogue and vagabond rulers have never forgiven the Russians for the crazy fix they had brought upon themselves : fighting with the Russians against their fellow-fascists.
