Well, frogprince, you're certainly entitled to your opinion -- an opinion borne of experience. You must have found something distasteful enough in it to have separated yourself from it. Too bad, but understandable.

They are my friends and family -- the people I grew up with. Oh, not particularly (what I would call) extreme ones -- we didn't handle snakes or have healing services or speak in tongues. We mostly read C.S.Lewis and Tolkien and dry theological stuff -- were forced to memorize Westminister Shorter Catechism and lotsa Bible chapters at our summer Bible schools (while the liberal kids got to spend their time doing crafts -- I got even -- I make my living as a potter).

I don't like 'em all. Don't hate 'em all. Don't even see them as terribly monolithic. If there's ANYTHING we do well as a group, it is disagree with each other. One thing I can assure you though -- of the ones I am most familiar -- they don't feel empowered by the current government. They mostly feel taken advantage of. At this point more than a little embarrassed at the extent to which they've been betrayed.

When you vote for the lesser of two evils and get burned, who do you have to rub your nose in it? We have Moyers.

To the extent that "fundementalist" Christianity feels betrayed by the political right, Moyers doesn't "get it". When it is convenient to play to your fears he writes as though the fundamentalist Christian is the horse before the right wing political cart. He scores big because he plays to a crowd that is quite happy to hear the tales of the sheep-humping fundamentalist they believe to be the case (and WANT to fear in order to justify their hatred).

But he can turn on a dime and put that cart before the horse as well -- all the while still maintaining that picture of a truly detestable Christianity.