I grew up in a Conservative Baptist family, and my brother and sister still belong to Baptist churches, don't believe in evolution, think climate change happens all the time anyway, believe the Bible is literally true, and so on. I can tell you that these are not stupid people. As somebody said, what they are is ignorant. The scariest thing to me about it is that they are just simply not interested in information. They're interested in how they feel, and Fundamentalism makes them feel good. My sister has quoted to me more than once the adage that "If you're a Republican before you're 30, you haven't got a heart; if you're a Democrat after 30, you haven't got a mind." How do you respond to that? What's the comeback? When *I* got interested in information, I had to leave the church and break my mother's heart. To her it was unfathomable that what you think about, say, evolution could possibly matter more than how you feel about it. ("I don't understand why you'd rather believe people came from apes than that God made them." Rather think??? You can't argue with that mindset, and it can't be changed. And it is exactly as scary as you think it is. These people VOTE.