Atheism

That's pure cynacism.

At worst, it's slightly hyperbolic. You said it yourself:

The Christian faiths have a very well-defined ideological framework based on a number of canonical texts with established interpretations.

The bible conflicts with itself, which is why interpretation is necessary. Many of those interpretations are in direct conflict. That is not well-defined at all.

To say people fail to live up to these values isn't particularly shocking. To claim the values don't exist is ignorant.

The core value of christianity is to do and say whatever your ego wants you to.

It's aspiration. You set the bar high and try to clear it, knowing it's a hard thing to do but still believing its worth doing.

Pretending to know things that cannot be known is arrogant narcissism.

Or that public health care isn't routinely included in modern state functions. To feed the poor? We've got everything from SNAP benefits to Food Banks.

I live in the United States. Guess which programs were just defunded by an administration that claims empathy is a sin?

People who dedicate their whole lives to providing aid to their neighbors fucking exist.

I'm glad they do. Unfortunately, some of them choose to repeat baseless, deadly bullshit. We would all be better off if they would stop that. And many believers pray for god to feed people instead of actually taking any steps that would accomplish it.

"The only consistent christian value I can discern" Is the only value you've chosen to acknowledge.

It's the one under all the bullshit. Please stop falling for the bullshit, people are dying for this.

These people are real. They exist. They do shit, in no small part because they believe it is a religious obligation.

The cult created these problems so it could sell us the cure, but the cure is poison, they demand complete submission.

They learned these values from their Christian Parents and their Christian Neighbors and their Christian pastors. And they pass them on to their children, whether or not those kids or their grandkids hold to the spiritual end of the doctrine.

My christian parents hit me if I didn't want to go to church. They think they're going to heaven for violently brainwashing my brothers and I.

Stop defending abusive death cults. Everyone is better without superstition.