Origins of an Evangelical Hit Piece

Depending on what day it is, the Religious Right is viewed as being full of unintelligent buffoons incapable of grasping simple facts of science or they are shrewd political geniuses secretly leading our nation to become a full-fledged theocracy. Some days, they’re both.

Apparently, that was the case when Politico decided to run Randall Balmer’s piece on conservative evangelicals – “The Real Origins of the Religious Right.”