TYT: God Wrote The Constitution And Created America?!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

*Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) urged Americans to realize that God "wrote the Constitution" and predicted an upcoming "awakening" during an interview on John Hagee Ministries' Global Evangelism Television network on Wednesday.

"I think we got off the track when we allowed our government to become a secular government," DeLay told host Matthew Hagee, the executive pastor of the Texas Cornerstone Church. "[W]e stopped realizing that God created this nation, that he wrote the Constitution, that it's based on biblical principles."

DeLay, who was convicted of money laundering and conspiracy charges before a Texas appeals court overturned the conviction in 2013, said that he has been trying to lead members of the House to Bible study...* What do atheists think about all this? Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (host, TYT University and Common Room), Ben Mankiewicz (co-host, What The Flick?! and TYT Sports), and Richard Eskow (Senior Fellow, Campaign For America's Future) break it down on The Young Turks.

Watch the full Tom Delay video here via Right Wing Watch:

*Read more about this story here from Shadee Ashtari / The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/20/tom-delay-god-constitution_n_4826503.html

[Deep13]

1. I knew it! Madison is God!

Our founding father who art in Philadelphia, give us this day our secular nation and establish our Rights, just as we file suit against those who deny them, and lead us not into theocracy, but deliver us from oppression, amen.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Wow, Now that's an unholy hoax!. n/t

[Chakab]

3. Would you believe that this drunken loon was one of the most powerful politicians in US

history if you didn't know any better?

[JHB]

4. The only thing I wonder is...

...is that just the standard charlatan practice of knowing what your marks want to hear and feeding it to them? Or does he believe his own advertising?

[drynberg]

5. House of Cards Past, now a swilded out lush saying bullshit to bible thumpers, talking nothing but

"Foam from the mouth", to use Dylan's term. Boys and Girls, this is what John Barleycorn can do to you if you let him, so resist!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. ...

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

7. Dang

That must be why Jeeeezus is on our zillion-dollar bill!