One worships the Bible when they place it's words above the source. In other words; the word of Jesus or the words of God become more important than God. As crazy as that sounds; it's what happens in fundamentalist/literalist circles. And it is the root of the issue. Reading Christ's words to know Christ isn't the goal; reading Christ's words to interpret a literal and legalistic viewpoint is. Otherwise the irony of literalism and legalism being something Jesus vehemently fought against with the Pharisees wouldn't be missed.
As to the right/left comment; I remember a history textbook with a 'chart' that placed the worlds political parties on a 'spectrum'. The U.S. Democratic party was halfway-ish on the left and the U.S. GOP was half-wayish on the right. Each "side" was bookeneded by National Socialism on the extreme right, and Communism on the extreme left. I'm sure there are dissenters for almost anything; but I've always operated on that notion. I think the issue comes down to the idea that "socialism" is somehow a liberal ideology. It might be in American politics; since post-1980's Conservative american politics has kind of focused upon a marriage of fundamentalist Christian theology and free-market capitalism. Thus, if Free Market Capitalism and a small government with few services or regulations is the 'crux' of Conservativism; it makes sense to assume Socialism is the antithesis. And it is, to be fair. But elsewhere in the world socialism can be right OR left; it's an ideology separate from those traditional understandings. Some of my conservative friends have called Adolf Hitler a "liberal" or a "progressive", of which he was neither. Any reputable historian will decry Hitler as an extreme right-wing demagogue. He was also a socialist. However socialism and indeed big government were still being implemented in a 'right wing' fashion. For example, even though American conservatives want a small government; they still want the government to regulate moral issues, they still want a very large military, and they want strong police. Hitler was certainly right-wing. His message was that of scapegoating other groups (mainly Jews; but also Communists, Americans, gypsies, gays, etc.) as being the 'root' of the countries problems. (We're seeing this now with Donald Trump for example; who consistently tells us that Mexicans, Muslims, Journalists, and the poor cause Americans problems. He very frequently uses "See, that's what's wrong with this country today" as an insult to anyone who disagrees with them. If you disagree with Trump, you're "what's wrong" with America. His whole platform, for example, is the notion that America is 'broken'. On the last point, he pretty much is in common with most of the current candidates for President. Perhaps Clinton, Kasich and maybe Bush would be the only ones who don't appear to use the same 'Let's fix America' language that Sanders, Trump, Cruz, Rubio, etc. do). On the flip side, Karl Marx was definitely left-wing, with a different brand of socialism that was certainly on the far-left (Communism).
I see Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Naziism, etc., all being used interchangeably, but that's not quite how it works. We tend to be America-centric when we talk about politics and tend to assume the rest of the world works like ours. And it doesn't necessarily. The ideological differences in America aren't necessarily the same as the differences in Europe or the Middle East.
