It was only a matter of time, given Glenn Beck’s current obsession with Israel, before he dedicated a program to Biblical history, which is just what he did last night, spending his opening monologue tracing Western Civilization back to the twelve tribes of Israel and explaining that all of our contemporary laws and society are directly rooted in the Kingdom of Judah.

In Beck’s telling, following the defeat of the Assyrians, the lost tribes of Northern Israel fled across the Caucus region and settled on the coastlines of Europe where they created Western Civilization and eventually became the Pilgrims that founded America.

“All of Western Civilization,” Beck declared, “is based on the laws of Israel and our entire history is directly tied to this moment” before going on the explain that our Statue of Liberty is, in reality, a representation of Moses proclaiming the Ten Commandments.