Lawrence O'Donnell Goes After Beck's Religious Beliefs Again (VIDEO)

Lawrence O'Donnell escalated the feud between himself and Glenn Beck, saying that he has "gotten to Beck as no one has before" and diving once more into the murky waters of his and Beck's religious beliefs.

O'Donnell and Beck have been trading attacks ever since O'Donnell took Beck to task last week for wondering if the Japanese earthquake was a sign that the apocalypse is coming. While doing so, O'Donnell called the Book of Revelation, which Beck cited in his statements about the earthquake, a "book of fiction," and said that "no sane person believes the Bible in its entirety."

In response, Beck called MSNBC an "anti-God network" on three separate occasions in the past week. He also called O'Donnell "anti-God-fearing," but refused to say his name.

On his Tuesday show, O'Donnell responded once more. He said that Beck was avoiding saying his name because he was worried that people would be driven to his non-apocalyptic message, and because he had "gotten to Beck as no one has before" because he has been willing to go after the Fox News host's religious beliefs. O'Donnell then turned to those beliefs, repeating his charge that modern Christianity has evolved to cast aside those parts of the Bible that do not conform to current values—and that Beck is not telling the truth if he claims to take the whole book literally.

Finally, O'Donnell wondered whether Beck would be able to choose between the "businessman side" of himself which didn't want to mention O'Donnell, or the "religious fanatic" side which did.

"Knowing what I know about Beck, his money and his religion, I'm betting on the businessman to win," he said.

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Beck seemingly chose another way to decide whether or not to mention O'Donnell: he polled the readers of his website, The Blaze. To vote in the poll, click here.

Comments

[jacobisrael]

06:06 PM on 05/06/2011

Now you know what's wrong with Catholics. Can we even imagine how Catholic O'Donnell would react to the following:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Get over it, O'Donnell. You Catholics will NEVER impose your amorality on this mostly PROTESTANT nation (up to and including promoting to the Vatican the very priests who sexually molested hundreds of THOUSANDS of our children).

[jacobisrael]

05:59 PM on 05/06/2011

Ah, so, O'Donnell's problem is that he's a CATHOLIC, people who score 200 SAT points LOWER than Protestants, whose view of God comes from a homosexual priest rather than Scripture. He can't even quote Mr. Jefferson, who wrote numerous times "I am a REAL Christian", correctly.

[oftenon]

11:31 PM on 03/27/2011

This opiate of the masses is alpo, served up by a barking mad hedgehog. C'mon, Rapture already!

[valboski]

07:21 PM on 03/27/2011

If you cannot denounce facts, slander religion you Socialist.

[Irene Solnik]

12:23 PM on 03/27/2011

There is NEVER an excuse to go after someone's religion.

[April22]

01:08 PM on 03/27/2011

Then Beck needs to take his religious show on the road or move to a religious channel.

[mollymac]

09:15 PM on 03/27/2011

Oh please dear, this is a secular country. We are not, a religious nation.

[Pennstategirl]

10:23 AM on 03/27/2011

USA ready for a Mormon President? Probably not, given the far right. Can't wait until he is the nominee.... Have you seen the Mormon commercials since the last election, showing regular Mormons doing regular things, like you and me.... Their just regular guys, who get their own planet when they die....Is that for real?

[Pennstategirl]

12:43 PM on 03/27/2011

Definitely not an authority, but love the press they're getting. Equal rights for women, blacks? Not so much.

[waynesmyer]

07:27 AM on 03/28/2011

PLEASE CHECK IT OUT! Keywords: Mountain Meadows Massacre. Blood Atonement:Tenents of LDS,

[Pennstategirl]

11:10 AM on 03/28/2011

fascinating. So they become gods? Women are godesses? Nah, I didn't think so.

[drillsgtmark]

10:15 AM on 03/27/2011

The problem is that Back is so isolated from reality, he wouldn't even know he is being attacked...

[hoagie76]

04:32 AM on 03/27/2011

aren't beck, rush, o'reilly, and hannity the four horsemen? i think sooooo.....

[hawhite2000]

02:34 AM on 03/27/2011

Someone should tell Beck that I'm pretty sure I didn't see any horsemen of apocolypse, nor did I see any of the four seals being opened.

[Lahonda]

12:46 AM on 03/27/2011

Beck's a religious lunatic.

[JailNeoconVicts]

12:28 AM on 03/27/2011

Almost everything these modern right-wing so-called Christian blowhards support is almost literally in direct contradiction to what Jesus taught. They are also precisely the kind of false prophets he warned against. Sadly, too many people are driven by fear and paranoia to realize they're buying the snake oil that's going to poison them.

[chaallus]

06:22 PM on 03/26/2011

I think that is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent things I've ever heard from LO. Kudos!

[theMightyT v3]

11:59 AM on 03/26/2011

I think B.e..c.k is one of the forerunners of the Ant.c.h.r.i.st mentioned in Revelations.

One of those false pro.ph.et guys.

[CynAnne]

11:51 AM on 03/26/2011

Thank you, Lawrence. Beckles (and his repugnant brand of hubris-ridden pseudo-piety) deserve every drop of scorn being heaped upon his ill-willed and incoherent head...in short: he's loathsome.

[EvoMan]

09:48 AM on 03/26/2011

Here's an old book but a good read with some interesting insight into Mormonism:

http://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Murders-Story-Forgery-Deceit/dp/0517079542/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1301147229&sr=1-2