You and I are similar. :-) I'm actually an atheist now but I find I still feel a sort of cultural kinship with Catholics after 12 years of Catholic elementary/high school. And I too was flabbergasted when I met Evangelicals. So *these* were all those people I always wondered about whenever I'd flip by a televangelist program in the 80's and think "Where do they get these audience members from? Who would sit through this?". Made me appreciate just how sane most Catholics were at the time. In all the years I went to church I never once heard any kind of politics coming from the pulpit.