If you really want to follow Jesus, sell everything you own and give the $5 million to the poor. Until then, don't be preaching to me.

What else would you expect?

Perhaps we can find common ground and allow some gray areas of history to be covered by his god, to make real history more acceptable. You know, like you think we should do with science to make it more palatable to religious believers.

So in that regard, since we don't know who fired the first shot of the American Revolution, and in all likelihood never will, should we just say that Huckabee's god did it?

on a taxpayer funded book tour.

If they had wanted to amend the constitution to overturn that decision and reject the idea that the Supreme Court is the final official interpreter of the meaning of the constitution, they could have. He also forgets that the founders knew what it meant to have an established religion. The Thirty Years War had just happened the previous century, and it was born out of Catholic-Protestant rivalry. Making every election about religious supremacy is still a recipe for endless civil war, as in the case of Iraq today.

But most of all, he ignores that this isn't the 19th century and that "civil religion" can't be justified as a bland, non-sectarian uniting force when the U.S. is a far more religiously-diverse country today.