Why religious fundamentalists make good Neoconservatives (and vise-versa)

It shouldn’t be a surprise that religious fundamentalists wholeheartedly support the neoconservative political movement in the U.S. Both groups share one characteristic that defines them at their core: faith.
There are several definitions of the word ‘faith’, but this definition applies broadly to many contexts and is particularly relevant here:
Faith = Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
Faith is the absence of reason. While reason requires logic, evidence, and rational thought to draw conclusions, faith is the antithesis of critical analysis.
It’s obvious how this applies to religious fundamentalism. Fundamentalists’ arcane systems of belief, regardless of which religion you choose, are based entirely on dogma.
So how does this apply to politics, and why do so many religious fundamentalists flock to (neo)conservative politics? The neocon movement in the U.S.—especially as manifested in the current Bush administration--doesn’t require reason to support its beliefs. In fact its members shun reason. Much like the creationist crowd, they start with a premise and if some fact appears that contradicts their premise, they discredit the source. And much like the folk that believed (still believe?) in a flat earth, no amount of evidence, no apparatus of data, will ever compel them to change their path. No stark reality will ever convince them they were wrong.
The Iraq war is only the most obvious example where virtually everything they believed has been proved false, yet they persevere in their beliefs. The litany is long, but the obvious will suffice: WMDs? Nope. Will require only 30k troops for a few months to stabilize the country? Nope. We’ll be greeted as liberators? Nope. Will cost us only 1.9 billion, after which Iraqi oil will pay for the reconstruction? Nope. Thirst for democracy among Iraqis will overwhelm the tendency for sectarian violence and prevent civil war? Nope.
This type of benighted ignorance reaches into all parts of public policy in the Bush administration and the neocon movement in general.
So if these people have screwed up so royally, why hasn’t the electorate thrown them out? Well, partly because the electorate contains a significant number of “faithful” that think as the administration does, and cannot face facts. More ominously, though, I believe the reason lies here.
This is the same force that is at work in the Muslim world. It keeps them politically and scientifically in the dark ages. The ironic thing is that while Christian, Muslim, and Jewish fundamentalists hate and distrust each other, they are all governed by their common lack of reason—faith. They are exactly the same but can’t see it.