The thing that surprises me, Amos, is the number of people who are surprised to find out about this--it isn't like these people just crawled out of the sewer yesterday--they have been around for a very long time-Remember Hal Lindsey and "The Late, Great, Planet Earth"--he layed all this stuff out thirty years ago--and it was not new then--

The funny thing of course, is that, though 59% may claim to believe that the prophecies in the book of Revelation will come true, most of them have never read them, or any part of the Bible--

I grew up in a place where there were a lot of these folks, and, though they may be very sincere in their beliefs, their leaders have always struck me as cynical opportunists, not religious at all--in fact, more than a few of them create the feeling of real and significant evil when they walk into a room--If you really want to meet Satan, your best shot to start hanging out with fundamentalist evangelicals--

The people who are truly in denial about this whole business are the majority of Republicans who
haven't got a clue as to who they have invited to join their party--