What I am Asking

The religious right is selective about what "values" it advocates.

The religious right advocates values it labels as "Christian" which are, in fact, antithetical to values expressed in the Bible.  This, then is on their part, either hypocricy, or a profound cynicism predicated on the belief that anything they may say or command will be done by believers, so long as they predicate their statement by saying that it has the approval of their god, channeling the power of the idol they worship.

It is just that it seems that many people in America who claim to be Christians know very little about what Christ actually said (in the Bible).

Rather, they behave more like Christ-idolaters, who may truly feel an attachment to their idol, and that attachment is the core of their belief or theology.  If professing the Nicene Creed is all that is needed to qualify as a Christian, then everything that Jesus taught or the Bible says is irrelevant to being a Christian.

The second commandment or the Muslim proscription against pictures of Muhammed recognize the threat of idolatry to their teachings.