Why are we letting the Radical Republicans co-opt us into accepting the religious radical right as Conservative Christians? They are no such thing! They are a radical doomsday cult expecting the rapture to take righteous fanatics into a naked ascension with their clothes neatly folded where their ascension begins. The series of best selling books called "Left Behind" is at the core of these crazy beliefs that are not conservative at all. They believe there is no future to conserve.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17852 Bill Moyers discussed the doomsday cult that begins with President Bush in a NY Review of Books article.
The Airforce Academy is rife with complaints about the fanatics who harass anyone who doesn't share the beliefs of this apocalyptic cult.
The Left Behind scenario has a very short shelf life in historical terms. Now these fanatics are successfully highjacking US policy, media, politics and education. In a generation or so when the world is still here in whatever shambles they may have left it without discernible loss of the righteous to rapture their children are going to have to return to reality.