text: The fraction of American evangelical Christians who hold dominionist opinions is negligible. Likewise the fraction who believe in the prosperity gospel or have ever heard the Catholic Church called the you-know-what of Babylon. Anybody who thinks or pretends to think these opinions are characteristic of American evangelical Christianity is displaying abysmal ignorance and prejudice.
  
  In fact, a significant fraction of American evangelical adherents are former  Catholics. They think they have a lot in common with Catholics because they have brothers and sisters and friends and neighbors who are Catholic. And also because the average American parish and the average evangelical church just aren't all that different anymore. The Vatican trying to demonize evangelicals is just going to make most American Catholics laugh.