"I'm sure few of even the most devout Christians think like that and it does little good to pretend they do."

And Ake is certainly right about that. But, apart from the obvious misuse of one word which is really an irrelevant slip of the tongue, Akin has made it apparent that he does "think like that", or at least thinks that a statement like that will go over well with his constituancy. And Rick Santorum, who definitely thinks a lot like that, won several state primary elections, which is still apalling.