Interesting review of Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, David Kuo's wide-eyed, first-hand disillusionment with the Bush Administration's cynical exploitation of faith-based initiatives for political purposes.

Great clip. Wolfe's writing gets harsher as it goes along...

Unlike people from religious traditions with long histories of involvement with politics, evangelicals have no firm foundation in history, theology, or experience against which they can judge the words that so easily come out of the mouths of politicians. Sincerity, for them, is everything, which is another way of saying that facts are nothing. The proof of their faith is its credulity.

How did the evangelicals start? Anyone know? They seem prety new.