Beck: People don't recognize 'Obama's version of Christianity'

[mike r]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/beck-people-dont-recognize-oba.html

Beck: People don't recognize 'Obama's version of Christianity'
By Matt DeLong

Just one day after he drew a sea of conservative activists to see him speak on the National Mall, Fox News host Glenn Beck appeared on "Fox News Sunday" to discuss the event. Beck said his rally -- at which former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin also spoke -- drew "on the low end 300,000" attendees up to "as many as 650,000." Beck said there is 'not a chance' of a Beck-Palin GOP ticket in 2012. He said he has "zero desire" to run for president. "I don't think I would be electable," he said.

Beck explained that the gathering, which took place on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in the same location, was intended to reclaim the mantle of the civil rights movement from politics for "people of faith." Beck dismissed his critics who say that he has frequently engaged in racial politics by saying "race should not be in politics."

Beck said he didn't agree with King's calls for economic justice. "The real agenda should be equal justice, an equal shot," Beck said. "The dream was to judge man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin. I don't know that we've done that." He added that the Justice Department is "certainly not doing that" in the case of the New Black Panther Party, referencing an alleged incident of voter intimidation on Election Day in 2008 -- a controversy driven in no small part by Beck's television show that many on the left have cited as evidence of Beck's willingness to stoke racial fear among white people. Beck said "African Americans should be equally outraged" over the incident.

The conservative commentator said he regretted his infamous comments that President Obama is a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred of white people." He said he was "miscasting as racism" the president's "liberation theology" ideology, which he said relies on the lens of "oppressor and victim" to understand the world. Beck said Obama made the case in a speech to students that "your salvation is directly tied to collective salvation," which Beck said was "a direct opposite of what the gospel talks about ... Jesus came for personal salvation." Beck said "people aren't recognizing (Obama's) version of Christianity."

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All faith, love and holiness yesterday. Back to his true vile racist code-talking self today.

[rocktivity]

1. Rocktivity: Rocktivity doens't recognize Beck's version of

people.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[MadMaddie]

2. Beck is a vile piece of shit

He gets interviewed and makes claims and is never challanged.

[Sparkly]

3. "Collective salvation" vs. "Personal Salvation"

That's right, I think there's a passage in the Bible stating:

"Thou shalt not concern thyself with thy neighbor, for who cares about anybody else? Thou shall be greedy and self-centered since it is all about THOU."

It's in the book of Gasbaggians.

[BayouBengal07]

4. Am I my brother's keeper?

Nah; I got mine. This is ironic because at the rally yesterday some counter-demonstrators were playing MLK's speeches and one of them went on about how the fates of the US and poorer countries were intertwined. He even quoted Donne's "no man is an island." what would beck say about that?

[Andy823]

5. Amazing isn't it?

Beck is a Mormon, he gets most of his strange beliefs from radical Mormons, and the vast majority of those idiots that idolize him would slam the door on any Mormon that came around to their house trying to convert them, yet Beck is doing the same thing on a larger scale, trying to convert them to his "super radical" views which are from not only radical Mormons, but his own warped mind! This guy is dangerous, and for him to say something like this about the president's "version" of christianity while he himself is trying to start his own cult movement, is simply insane!

People listen to Beck for his fear and hate rants! He cons them into buying his books and coming to his "big event" yesterday, but it's still his hate and fear tactics that keep brining them in. Yesterday was a joke, and those who came wanted read meat, not a sermon. He will be right back doing what works best for him on Monday, spreading hate and fear!

[valerief]

6. I don't recognize Beck's version of Mormonism. My underwear never protected me from anything. nt

[saracat]

7. Funny considering the vast majority of people don't consider Mormanism

Christian. What a slime. I despise Beck.

[livetohike]

8. Do his followers even know anything about Beck's religion?

I doubt it. Do they know that Palin was exorcised, or whatever it was the guy was doing to her. I wonder if their worshippers even care.

[QC]

11. The Mormons desperately want to be thought of as all American mainstream Christians,

so they don't talk about their doctrines much, especially the more bizarre ones, like the part about how a flesh-and-blood God literally copulated with the BVM (kinda like Leda and the swan) to produce Jesus.

Instead, they like to emphasize their clean-cut good looks and patriotism. I mean, just look at Donny and Marie! So wholesome and scrubbed! So respectful and patriotic! They would never believe anything really weird, would they?

[QC]

9. Most people don't recognize Beck's 19th century space cult as Christian,

so I guess we're all even.

[otohara]

10. LOL

he's just out to convert more whites to Mormonism - and they are too stupid to recognize it.

From what I'm reading, he talked more about religion than politics.

[QC]

12. Yeah, I hear that teabaggers wanting red meat left disappointed. n/t

[David Zephyr]

13. This is from a Mormon? Wow, that's some nerve.

This guy is as crazy as Palin.