text: Don't forget obliviously hypocritical, Paul Conte.
  Douglas Card, my take on your question:
  Sadly religion, from the cave to the internet, is more about social and economic control in opposition to spiritual comfort.  Evangelical Christians seek converts (read tithing) and manage to insult everyone who lives decent lives without whatever brand of brainwashing their particular sect is selling.  When their evangelical efforts fail they pervert the political process in direct violation of law to force us all to behave as if we believe.  They refuse to accept realities that conflict with their dogmas so that, for instance, Trumps' obvious antithesis to their professed values goes unnoticed as long as he pretends to care about their interests.  Without their "blinded by the light" approach to the world there would be no conditions a Trump could rise in, no nation on the brink of corporate oligarchy and no underpinnings for the racism and bigotry that subsumes justice and human progress.