In Numbers 16, YHWH kills nearly 15,000 Israelites — the equivalent of about 15 Jonestowns, or 400 Heaven's Gates.

Unlike with those crazy cults, he had an iron-clad reason to snuff out his people: they had murmured their displeasure about being dragged into a wilderness and condemned to rot there, and not receiving the promised birthright of a land of milk and honey... and also about seeing 250 of their princes summarily buried or burned alive.

Can you believe how sick some people can be? Complaining about that! Thank God, literally, for the moral values and system of justice to make things right.

Which of our candidates will propose that grumblers are dealt with in that uplifting and noble manner?

Let's say some gloomy Gus is displeased about having his city washed away, about a third tour of duty in Iraq, or having his house seized by predatory lenders. Or maybe he want his primary votes to be counted?

Do you think God wants to hear that bellyaching? Puh-leeze!

Now, knowing that the Good Book says that God damned America, we may have to set a higher standard than Moses and Aaron upheld.

They stopped God after he'd given a deadly plague to a mere several thousand people. Imagine standing in the way of justice and God's luminous love like that! So, let's not go doing anything of that sort. When the Blessed Almighty visits bio-terrorism upon his creations, who are we to criticize?

When you get down to it, is there another path to our salvation as a nation than recommitting ourselves to good, ol' fashioned Biblical values?

Only a heretic would say there was. And, believe me, you don't want to be one of those.