He has, however, gotten increasingly more political over the last year, and today's blog post is a big FU you anyone that claims that the US is a Christian nation "founded on the Ten Commandments."
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/08/are-the-ten-commandments-really-the-basis-for-our-laws/#more-16925
Phil Plait wrote:
I was thinking about this recently. People seem to accept that our laws are based on the morals of the Old Testament laid out in the Commandments, but as a proper skeptic, I decided to take a look myself. Why not go over the Commandments, said I to myself, and compare them to our actual laws, as well as the Constitution, the legal document framed by the Founding Fathers, and upon which our laws are actually based?
He compares each commandment to the Constitution, or if the commandment in question isn't mentioned in the Constitution, finds an appropriately related state law (as is the case for the Blue Laws.)
The result is that not even half of the Commandments are reflected by the Constitution, and some are even expressly forbidden by it. Zing!