"Economic conservatives," Kevin Phillips notes, "often warm to sects in which a preoccupation with personal salvation turns lower-income persons away… - Robert S. McElvaine

Both the Christian Right and the Muslim Right condemn freedom, seek to impose rules from their highly selective reading of their holy book on everyone, believe in theocracy, want to keep women subordinated, generally oppose the modern world, believe killing “infidels” is part of God’s plan—the list of agreement goes on and on. About the only things they disagree on are what name to call the God they distort and who the infidels are.

Of all the multitude of threats in the world today, the greatest peril comes from religious fanatics who believe that a violent, vindictive god is on their side.

They are so certain that they know God’s mind because they equate their own minds with that of God.