You’d think the one good thing about merging church and state would be that politics would be suffused with glistening Christian sentiments like ‘love thy neighbor,’ ‘turn the other cheek,’ ‘good will toward men,’ ‘blessed be the peacemakers’ and ‘judge not lest you be judged.’

Yet “somehow I’m not getting a peace, charity, tolerance and forgiveness vibe from the conservatives and evangelicals who claim to have put their prodigal son back in office.

I’m getting more the feel of a vengeful mob – revved up by rectitude – running around with torches and hatchets after heathens and pagans and infidels.

One fiery Southern senator actually accused a nice Catholic columnist of having horns coming up out of her head!” — Maureen Dowd (New York Times op-ed)