THIS is the the crowd god chooses to talk to?

[DirkGently]

12. Because "god" is a voice inside their empty heads?

The convenient thing about appealing to the authority of an invisible deity is that it can be anything you want it to be. For Mike Huckabee, God is clearly a jowly Southern man who thinks women could only possibly need birth control because liberals are

making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing or them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government,

Rick Santorum's god is likewise obsessed with people's sex lives and doesn't want them being gay or using birth control.

Pat Robertson's god is a vengeful meteorologist, sending storms around the planet to punish everyone for not listening to Pat Robertson.

Ben Carson's god is okay with waging a war on "what's inside of" women.

I don't know what Sarah Palin's god wants. Probably more caribou meat and snow machine rides.

At bottom, though, it's always a pretty bizarre claim that people with really bad ideas are somehow simultaneously pious and good, because they say they are getting them from a magical being who is the boss of everyone. If they said they were taking these instructions from an invisible pink space monkey, or a hamster named Richard, we would laugh them off the national stage and perhaps suggest a sedative.

So why don't we?