text: The divide isn't between evangelicals and everyone else, it's between devout Christians - both Protestant and Catholic - and everyone else, including tepid Christians.
  
  Devout Christians are intolerant of dishonesty, because that's what Holy Scripture teaches: Lies are the devil's language. God detests lying lips. Jesus is the Way, the TRUTH, and the Life.  Someone who can't be trusted in small matters shouldn't be trusted in weightier ones.
  
  Bearing false witness against another person even made God's "top ten list" of sins, along with murder & idolatry.
  
  Most other people take a softer line. If you say, "everyone lies," you'll get no argument from them.
  
  So scandals like Climategate & Fakegate, which revealed leading alarmist climate scientists hiding & manipulating data, blackballing & smearing skeptics, and behaving more like political activists than dispassionate scientists, discredit the climate scare, in the eyes of devout Christians, more so than in the eyes of other people.