Reading further, I found Mr. Toad’s “Politics, Tribalism, Religion – the Usual Light Relief” post and comments quite interesting. Here’s a sample:

“I have never entirely understood how Evangelical Christians can almost invariably end up as Republicans, apart from the unavoidable conclusion that for a great many of them terms like ‘the love of Jesus Christ’ seems to rather oddly translate as ‘vicious, petty, small-minded bigotry’. I have my doubts as to whether that was quite what a bearded Jewish hippy would have had in mind, to be honest.”
—Mr. Toad