'Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus?'

time.com:

When Glenn Beck told listeners of his radio show on March 2 that they should "run as fast as you can" from any church that preached "social or economic justice" because those were code words for Communism and Nazism, he probably thought he was tweaking a few crunchy religious liberals who didn't listen to the show anyway.

Instead he managed to outrage Christians in most mainline Protestant denominations, African-American congregations, Hispanic churches, and Catholics--who first heard the term "social justice" in papal encyclicals and have a little something in their tradition called "Catholic social teaching." (Not to mention the teaching of a certain fellow from Nazareth who was always blathering on about justice...)

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Comments

[berrycooda]

11:51 PM on 03/25/2010

I didn't hear Beck say that..however...reading this article...
Don't take everything out of context....get the gist of what he is saying.

Talking about the government running every aspect of our life and if the church preaches that, then this is what he meant.

The Bible states that the poor would always be with us.
So if you think the Bible is wrong, then go about judging
someone else at your own peril.
In the Lord's Prayer it states "Don't judge lest you be judged"
(Forgive our trespasses or debts as we forgive others)

So watch out....you will be judged by the same standard that you judge someone else.
Maybe some of you wealthy people should go about handing out money to the poor people....that way, the government won't have to
take it from you and do it.
That way, you could live up to your social justice by giving it yourself
instead of giving it "when the tax man cometh"

[applescruff]

09:48 PM on 03/20/2010

The only talent Beck has is figuring out how to simultaneously claim to be a Christian while spitting on the teachings of Christ. There is no lower life form then this huckster of hate.
He will keep trying to devide the American People until his job and those pulling the strings have succeeded. Beck is the epitome of an enemy combatant and should be treated and shunned accordingly.

[applescruff]

09:29 PM on 03/20/2010

Beck is a coward who always starts backing off from what he actually spews from his putrified brain.
First he warned us of the broken Health Care in America about a year ago, now he says it's the best in the world. Then it was that Obama was a racist, then he says he really didn't say he was a racist, now its the condemning of the churches and thier helping of the poor(ie social justice) . Beck is like a
the little boy who likes to yell fire for the attention it brings him and the fear it instills and then claims he never said it because of the response his ignorance gets.

[garagenoir]

04:44 PM on 03/18/2010

Love Jesus? U.S. Out of Glennbeckistan NOW! on Facebook.

[qaan]

08:26 AM on 03/18/2010

BOYCOTT ALL COMPANIES WHOSE COMMERCIALS APPEAR ON FOX NEWS. WRITE THE COMPANIES AND TELL THEM WHY YOU ARE DOING IT.

The rantings of Glenn Beck must get good TV ratings from the clueless and bamboozled. That ups their advertising rates. But if the companies advertising their products on Fox News are suddenly hit with decreasing sales and a slew of letters from people boiycotting their products, they might rethink their decision to advertise on that channel.

[gulopartisan]

03:43 PM on 04/01/2010

If you have the misfortune of watching Beck's program recently (which I had), you'll discover that he effectively has no advertisers to boycott. His show is "sponsored" by Ginzu knives and gold hawkers. Clearly the show is being run on a subsidy basis by Fox News. We need to extend the boycott to ALL Fox News sponsors, saying that we won't support companies that contribute to Fox News' promotion of Beck's hate-filled rants. Hefty, but it's time.

[lmab]

07:17 AM on 03/17/2010

That's easy....because he is the Anti-Christ.

[ConstitutionWorks]

02:37 AM on 03/17/2010

Jesus didn't teach about social justice; he presented "the gospel of salvation." The word "justice" doesn't even appear in the New Testament. Social justice is a concoction of radical liberals, and is implemented in programs like "liberation theology" which is unbiblical, if not marxist. Jesus, Paul, and the disciples would gag on today's perversion of the gospel.

This baseless criticism of Glenn Beck is mainly leftist propaganda.

[editorjuno]

06:46 PM on 03/17/2010

If you combine the many admonitions to aid the poor and cure the sick in the canonical Gospels with the fact that the American republic is "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people" plus the clear intent of the framers of our Constitution voiced by the phrase "to promote the general welfare" in the preamble, our obligation to pursue "social justice" for all citizens is perfectly clear. Jesus lived in a Roman colony where slavery was perfectly legal and not in a (more or less) democratic republic -- had he lived in such a republic, he would have certainly seen it as the logical vehicle to care for "the least among you." (Matthew 25:41-45). A government that responds to the will of the governed is simply the best available means, compassion for "the least" and the upward mobility for which America was once justly famous (and from which all of us stand to benefit tremendously) are the goals.

[qaan]

08:18 AM on 03/18/2010

OK, for this I have to fan you. Great response.

[limberwulf]

02:55 PM on 03/20/2010

Based on the history of government care for the poor, the nameless, faceless results of a welfare state versus a charitable and caring community, the resentment of those stripped of their funds by corrupt and wasteful governments and see tons of hurting people fall through the cracks while others take advantage of the system, the passing responsibility to the government instead of actually caring about people, and a host of other problems with the government being the "logical vehicle" for caring for the poor, I would think that Jesus would have spoken of our social justice and political leaders in similar fashion to the way he spoke of the religious leaders of old.

It is all well and good to have great intentions, but its not just about feeding the poor. It is about caring for them, it is about opportunity and hope, not hand-outs and dependency. Social justice has not brought a solution, only more problems, division and strife among classes, lack of caring for one's neighbor, and an ever increasing cost on the not poor in order to support and ever expanding poor class. That is not helpful to the "least" among us. Even the least among us used to be better off than the rest of the world, and the least of other places came here for opportunity and a chance at a better life. We lost that when we stopped caring about our neighbor and started caring about who was taking care of us.

[applescruff]

09:16 PM on 03/20/2010

You obviously don't have aclue waht "social" or "justice" mean.

[Zelyony1750]

01:58 AM on 03/17/2010

Hi, friends!
Let us all be merciful and pity poor Glenn who has truly lost his way! You can't be a Christian and still maintain a heart full of hate! Somewhere in the N.T. Jesus is quoted as saying to forgive your enemies and those who have wronged you 7X70. (an infinite #)
Peace!

[tartentart]

07:45 PM on 03/16/2010

Gosh Glennie boy you have had a rough week: first the Massa interview that turned into a train wreck, then you so called take on "social justice" and then you go after the "Boss". Didn't anybody tell you 3 is a jinx!

[SpaceboySD]

07:03 PM on 03/16/2010

Only Glenn Beck could be capable of figuring out a way to hate his own imaginary friend.

[elijah24]

12:11 PM on 03/30/2010

Thats beautfiul! fanned!

[EF3]

06:38 PM on 03/16/2010

If it were true, and Jesus actually did return to earth, most of the people who claim to follow him would look at him and treat him as if he was a crazy moonbat hippie talking about peace and love, and they would yell and scream at him to take a bath, get a haircut and go find a real job.

Those are the type of people who look at Glenn Beck as if HE was the true king of kings.

[copestir]

06:25 PM on 03/16/2010

i am sure that is is social justice to just turn Glenn Beck OFF. God would want it that way. lol.

[ZenBastard]

06:07 PM on 03/16/2010

I think a better question is; "Why does Glenn Beck continue to draw breath every day?"

[Poorsarah]

12:17 AM on 03/17/2010

Because of the CO2, causing our respiratory mechanism to require O2?

[NomadicView]

05:40 PM on 03/16/2010

http://nomadicjoe.blogspot.com/2010/03/nomadic-view-vs-glenn-beck.html The battle lines are drawn between Glenn Beck and me.

[OswegoKayaker]

01:15 PM on 03/16/2010

It really is the logical conclusion to his hate-filled rants. He is the murderous brother Cain in the Bible who belligerently asks, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Apparently he would be scribbling terrible connections to vilify Christ if he were preaching today. I mean could you imagine him tearing apart this: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another." Wow, what a pinko, commie, fascist, socialist thing to say.

[Margo Arrowsmith]

06:16 PM on 03/16/2010

Well right on and fanned for that one! Glenn 'Cain' Beck.