Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has taken to injecting religion into his political speeches, a mixture that Democrats usually oppose—when their opponents do it.

It’s interesting to note that when Edwards invokes Jesus, he does it to slam the United States by saying Americans are selfish. This coming from a man with a 28,000 square foot multi-million dollar mansion bought with money he collected as a lawyer whose racket was suing doctors into bankruptcy.

One of the reasons that health care costs have been rising so precipitously is because of trial lawyers like Edwards. So maybe he should spare us the lectures on selfishness and take the advice that Democrats usually give: keep religion out of politics.