Glenn Beck Urges Listeners to Leave Churches That Preach Social Justice

[moobu2]

On his daily radio and television shows last week, Fox News personality Glenn Beck set out to convince his audience that "social justice," the term many Christian churches use to describe their efforts to address poverty and human rights, is a "code word" for communism and Nazism. Beck urged Christians to discuss the term with their priests and to leave their churches if leaders would not reconsider their emphasis on social justice.



"I'm begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them . . . are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!"

Later, Beck held up cards, one with a hammer and sickle and other with a swastika. "Communists are on the left, and the Nazis are on the right. That's what people say. But they both subscribe to one philosophy, and they flew one banner. . . . But on each banner, read the words, here in America: 'social justice.' They talked about economic justice, rights of the workers, redistribution of wealth, and surprisingly, democracy."


-crazy-

[Jennicut]

1. Well, church attendance at my progressive, socially-just church is up.

No one is leaving any time soon. We are so crowded people have to stand up in the back on Sundays.

[Critters2]

27. We're taking in 6 new members Sunday, after 7 last month,

and that doesn't count those who are worshipping with us regularly but haven't joined.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. We're actually slightly ahead of budget projections, which means that

the people who can afford it are giving more and more people are giving.

I actually stopped volunteering at our Sunday night meals for the homeless because it felt as if there were too many volunteers. I now volunteer at the Monday night meals for homeless and low-income youth, and even that is seeing more volunteers.

We're gaining new members and attendees, too. Lots of unfamiliar faces.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. I think that fool finally picked the wrong fight

The idea that doing exactly as Jesus preached (helping the poor) is somehow a step toward being a Nazi is an argument not even his simple minded followers will accept.



I expect the backlash to this to be of Biblical proportions.

[xultar]

8. You know what, the rightwing has thrown that helping the poor thing aside already...

I mean look @ the whole trickle down theory.

They gave up on Jesus' teachings a long time ago.

[trotsky]

12. They did better than throw it aside.

They just reinterpreted it. Helping the poor is done by ENDING welfare, because it's just created the "culture of dependence." A *lot* of Christians, even liberal ones, actually think that "The Lord helps those who help themselves" is a real bible verse.

[LynneSin]

3. These people need to stop calling themselves Christians and call themselves Paulists

Because they are following the teachings of Paul, which veer very strongly to the right of what Jesus actually did during his time.

[xultar]

4. So, he must also want his listeners to avoid churches that use the donations to help

the community by giving to charities, providing programs to help families in distress, provide clothes and food....

:crazy:

Hummmm inneresting.

[MadMaddie]

14. Yep you are right

Their big thing is the churches and neighbor's helping their down trodden neighbors.

[cap]

5. so Beck wants to split the Catholic Church now does he?

There's a lot of social justice parishes in the Catholic church. A lot of people love their local parishes.

[sasquatch]

7. He did that a long time ago, Beck is a mormon

[xultar]

9. I think he means split in another way...as in divide. But I may be wrong.

[donquijoterocket]

18. tithe

Given that Glennda the Beckerhead is a member of the LDS church I wonder what he thinks of their required tithe? I suppose in his shallow little universe that's something entirely different. It's certainly not like anyone would expect logic from this brainless twit.

[iris27]

21. I think he rests secure in the knowledge that his tithe goes to fund things like

Prop H8, rather than any soup kitchen or shelter.

[CatholicEdHead]

23. There is a crackdown going down there as well

The extreme right wants to make it just about abortion and gay rights (not just marriage anymore). There is a fringe group calling to reform the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) (http://www.reformcchdnow.com/). Only on the gay rights and abortion issues. From my time at the Catholic Answers form, to them that is what "Social Justice" meant to them. The GOP party line "pro-life" and anti-gay rights ("pro-family"), helping the poor much less any mention of Liberation Theology were disdained.

The extreme right are going after the poor as they are a easy target to try to get at Obama, going by the "community organizer" attack points during the 2008 election. They figure no more community organizers of the poor, then no more future Presidents like Obama.

[Zoeisright]

6. I hate that pig.

If there was a devil, BlecKKK (sic) would be his mouthpiece.

[murray hill farm]

10. Oh Christ!

Glen Beck must now be the official "antichrist"! He is beyond wierd!

[H2O Man]

11. It's true, gosh darn it!

Please: attend only those churches that teach social injustice.

[DeSwiss]

13. Rupert Murdoch.....

...should be stripped of his citizenship and kicked out of the country.

:mad: Fucker.

[ironbark]

28. OH NO YA DON’T!

We bred him, you bought him. Strict ‘NO RETURNS’ policy.

Murdoch, the Dirty Digger, is payback for decades of US cultural imperialist pap, from Rin Tin Tin to I Love Lucy we suffered…now it’s your turn ;-)

Sell him on to China.

Now...Can I interest you in a six legged kangaroo with built in DVD burner?

[progressoid]

15. Wow, this guy is totally unhinged.

Scarier still is the millions that listen to his pablum

[Canuckistanian]

16. Glenn and a swasitka seem to go together well

I automatically associate him with one anyways.

[mzmolly]

17. "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."

Perhaps he's unfamiliar with the "founder" of the Christian Church?

"'For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.

Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?'

And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'"
(Matthew 25.35-40 ESV)

Ahhh, Jesus PREACHED SOCIAL JUSTICE Mr. Beck.

[deutsey]

19. He's becoming like Howard Beal at the end of Network

Well, the time has come to say:

is dehumanization such a bad word?

Because good or bad, that's what's

so. The whole world is becoming

humanoid, creatures that look human

but aren't. The whole world, not

just us. We're just the most

advanced country, so we're getting

there first --





HOWARD (ON TV)

-- The whole world's people are

becoming mass-produced, programmed,

wired, insensate things useful only

to produce and consume other

mass-produced things, all of them as

unnecessary and useless as we are --





HOWARD (ON TV O.S.)

-- that's the simple truth you

have to grasp, that human existence

is an utterly futile and purposeless

thing --





HOWARD (ON TV)

-- because once you've grasped that,

then the whole universe becomes

orderly and comprehensible --




HOWARD (ON TV)

-- We are right now living in what

has to be called a corporate

society, a corporate world, a

corporate universe. This world

quite simply is a vast cosmology of

small corporations orbiting around

larger corporations who, in turn,

revolve around giant corporations --






HOWARD (ON TV)

-- and this whole, endless, ultimate

cosmology is expressly designed for

the production and consumption of

useless things --

[AwakeAtLast]

20. Wow, he just proved he's never read the Bible.

[iris27]

22. Whenever I see Beck, he always reminds me of Prothero from "V for Vendetta".

[eppur_se_muova]

24. Good idea. It will make them better churches. nt

[struggle4progress]

25. I guess he never read the Magnificat: "My soul glorifies the Lord ... He has pulled down the powerfu

from their seats and raised up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty handed."

I guess he never read the Beatitudes either: "Blessed are you who hunger for you will be satisfied ... But woe to you .. rich ... Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry."

And I guess he never read the parable of the sheep and goats: "Then the King will say .. 'Go away, you accursed ... I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink ... I was naked and you gave me no clothes ...' And they will answer, 'When did we see you, hungry or thirsty or .. needing clothes .. and we did not help you?' And he will reply, 'Honestly, if you did not do for any of the least of these, you did not do for me.'"

And surely he has not read James: "Suppose someone is without clothes and daily food. If you say, 'Get along! I wish you the best; stay warm and well fed!' but do nothing to help, what good is it? So faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."

[cap]

26. so who gets the church property when you leave the parish?

do the Social Justice types get to keep it all?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. In the Episcopal Church, the church property belongs to the diocese

Whoever is left in the parish gets to control it.

[TheLiberalNovelist]

31. Screw him

Glenn Beck is a propaganda speading, right wing radical. He lies about socialism and the democrats saying by pushing social justice we want America to be destroyed and we all worship satan, that we have no morals, and we have all been brainwashed by Obama the antichrist! :eyes:

He's a facist retard. Anybody who watches him and believes the lies he spews are no better.