That's why it's important to remember that the Bible has Christ saying & doing lousy things, too. Most of my Christian friends lean on the good stuff, but Evangelicals lean on, say, his actual treatment of an outsider (the Canaanite woman, whom he calls a dog when he was sent for the children of Israel), and where he says he's come to divide families, and plenty more lousy parts. No "gotcha" here! Just the key reminder that Evangelicals have Biblical backing for their awfulness, too.
@MLClark @kenc313 in regards to scripture, your examples lack a bit of context. The dog reference was an explanation as to his focus. Afterwards the daughter was healed. The woman wasn't directly called a dog. It was a term for gentiles, in that period. As for division, that was referencing the choice people had to make to choose the godly path or to choose the godless path. Evangelicals pick and choose chop shop scripture to excuse their hate. They have ears, but do not hear
But in general, I would just add that a person shouldn't need to defend someone referring to someone else as a dog. It's a hateful thing to do, full stop - *and* the fact that Christ does it gives license for hateful actions to US Evangelicals, who have their own idea of the correct hierarchy of different ethnicities. That's the issue we're dealing with when it comes to their extremism: they have plenty of Biblical fodder from Christ himself for their views.