Peter, I read the article, but it had a hard time convincing me that it's a real 50% where those "evangelicals" are all or mostly of the Pat Robertson type. Even living here in Texas, it's obvious that most Christians aren't that demonstrative or scared even if a disturbing number are.

As for Pat Robertson, I suspect that he was quite a bit different as a younger man. Something happened to turn him into more of a bitter reactionary. Had he been at Yale Law in the 1990's, it might have been tougher for him to get along socially. But in the 50's, I'm sure it was a different world . . . a bit more hands off on politics. That's not a bad thing, by the way. I found Yale to be dangerously politicized in the late 80's and early 90's. If affected everything: friendships, associations, grades . . .

My experience was that the right wingers would throw out data and stand on ideology. The left wingers were happy to turn data inside and out, but the BITTERNESS if, in the end, you disagreed with their interpretation of the data . . . This was unique to the left side.

In the end, I think far too much is made over Robertson's "they deserved it" type of comments. He's not as significant a player on the right as the media would have us believe.