Cow State Hallucinations
Yet the media’s response to all of this nonsense [in the Left Behind books] has been remarkably polite. In America, of course, with commercial success comes a degree of cultural respectability. If millions of consumers succumb to a childish revenge fantasy that takes the Christ out of Christianity and treats the Bible as a cosmic Daily Racing Form, we dare not scoff at the merchandise. Indeed, the religious right is the biggest beneficiary of the “political correctness” it affects to deplore. Views H. L. Mencken once derided as the “idiotic hallucinations of the cow states” now command respect more or less proportionate to their market share.
[From "The Apocalypse Will Be Televised: Armageddon in an age of entertainment", Gene Lyons' excellent review of the Left Behind series of books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.]