Sarah Palin talks about our Bible-based Government on O'Reilly

When some politicians talk about America as a "Christian nation", it sounds like cynical pulpit-politicking and smells like a pander. But she just seems so very, very sincere about this, which I do find disquieting. It's also the sort of thing her admirers just love about her. That, too, I find disquieting.

Pretty much everything she says is completely wrong. The Constitution is a government charter that founds the United States as a democratic republic. Democracy was a form of government that goes back to ancient(pagan, need I add?) Greece and Rome--you will not find it in the Bible. And our Bill of rights has no resemblance to the Ten Commandments. Whether the founders were Christian or not has no bearing on the sort of laws they wrote because they were not aiming for a theocracy. If they wanted one, they could have just thrown a copy of the Bible on the table and been done with it.

(I do suspect O'Reilly of pandering to his audience and to her a bit....)