keep Christ in Christmas? How about Jesus in Christianity?

Am I the only one to notice that the most fervent "Christians" of today are far more comfortable quoting some sexist command from Paul or barbaric punishment from Leviticus than the words of the man himself?
It seems to me that there's good reason for this: when one removes the rules according to Paul, who never met Jesus in the flesh, and the beautiful but self-serving, anti-semitic and ethereal gospel of "John" - obviously written by some one who surmised correctly that claiming to be the otherwise unmentioned favorite disciple would get his writing farther than its message - what's left is some one who in many ways resembles a modern bleeding-heart liberal. It's obviously easier to pay lip service to him while loudly condemning others than cope with one's failure to follow - indeed, contemptuous dismissal of - such embarrassing commands as "every one who has two shirts must give one to him who has none," and "love your enemies and do good to those who hurt you."
And thus we see that the "Prince of Peace" is the "favorite political philosopher" of one who counsels and conducts pre-emptive war, that one who came "to tell the truth to make men free" is cited by those who can't seem to stop lying and undermining the freedom of those they rule, that the man who had no use for the grasping rich and the self-righteous fanatics is the now claimed as exclusive property by both.
While the Fundamentalist Protestants have essentially thrown away the bulk of the teachings actually attributed to their ticket to heaven, the Catholic right has undermined their church's attempt to avoid doing so with their indefensible rules governing sex - another subject of apparently minimal interest to the man Jesus - and birth control, their partial replacement of him by his mother and her allegedly miraculous abilities, and their overriding determination to preserve the earthly power and wealth of their institution.