I appreciate you putting your expectations of morality on politicians, but until we have major political finance reform and stop letting these people trade stocks I just can’t imagine them doing things for any other reason than to further their own financial and career goals.
I agree on the “real Christian” vs. the people who think going to church makes them a Christian. (see: the tired old knee slapper about going to your garage for an hour and a half every week doesn’t make you a car). I think the majority of Americans who claim to be Christians don’t lead Christ like lives, or even attempt to. That is certainly my experience with 20 years in that community, but more importantly if 67% of the US population took the teachings of Christ literally and tried to live their lives in honor of those teachings then our society would look wildly different. Arguably better, and that’s coming from a heathen like myself.