~This to me is a good thing!

Talk show host Glenn Beck has made some enemies in a corner of American society where most Fox News pundits would prefer to have friends: The Christian community.

Beck has upset the socially-conscious, activist side of the Christian movement with comments last week that listeners should "run" from churches that talk about "social justice" because they are espousing ideas that came from communists and Nazis.

On his radio show last week, Beck told his audience that churches which use the expression "social justice" are following an extremist agenda.

"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," Beck said. "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!"

Download an audio clip of the segment here.

Then, on his Fox News TV show, Beck explained why he felt so strongly about the issue.

"Both the communists, who are on the left -- they say -- you know, these are communists. And the Nazis are on the right," Beck said. "That's what people say. But they both subscribed to one philosophy, and they flew one banner. One had the hammer and sickle; the other was a swastika. But on each banner read the words, here in America, of this -- 'social justice.' They talked about economic justice, rights of the workers, redistribution of wealth, and surprisingly -- I love this -- democracy."

Beck's linking of socially conscious churches to communism and Nazism hasn't sat well with some Christian groups.

Bread for the World, a Christian group devoted to eradicating world hunger, has started a petition to demand that Beck stop spreading "misinformation and fear" through his radio and TV broadcasts.

"Economic and social justice are central to the gospel of Jesus Christ," the petition reads. "Quit using your bully pulpit to spread misinformation and fear by comparing faithful Christians who care 'for the least of these' to Nazis and communists."

The New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, a group advocating -- among other things -- nuclear disarmament and responsible environmental policies, has started a campaign to raise money towards a video rebuking Beck's assertion.

"We are launching a campaign to reclaim love of neighbor, especially the least, last, and lost, as an Evangelical Christian value. We believe love is central to everything Jesus taught, and we think Glenn Beck needs to hear about it," the group stated on its Web site.

Beck has been railing against "progressive" churches for some time now. Last December, he said churches where preachers supported health care reform had been "infiltrated" by un-American ideas.

"If you see things that are now being preached about from the puplpit in many churches about health care, warning. Warning. Many churches have been infiltrated with this line of thinking that is absolutely against the freedoms that our founding fathers designed," Beck said.

"Social justice" was a favorite term of Hitlers and Stalins.

No shit.

Anonymous Coward  Wrote:

"Social justice" was a favorite term of Hitlers and Stalins.

No shit.

Maybe Hitler and Stalin were the good guys.

Glen is right albeit slightly overwhelmed by the complexity of the topic he's addressing.

But, that's to be expected.

Churches are indeed one of the main controlling arms of the elite, the other two being the banks and government.

Anyone believing that America is anything like they were taught in the propagandist American schools is akin to those "dreaming" in "vats" in the Matrix.

Steak?

Why thank you Mr. Reagan ,wonderful steak.

yum  Wrote:

Why thank you Mr. Reagan ,wonderful steak.

No, thank you.

As a Christian I agree with Mr. Beck (unfortunately), but I have a problem with the fact that he lacks attacking the ultra-right of the Church as well.

You see, non-christians are very correct. The Church is hypocritical. It is aweful. It is anything but true Christianity. It is disgusting. I agree with those who say the Church (mainstream anyway) is hypocritical. Where I disagree with them is when they paint a broad brush and say that all Christians are hypocritical because of this, or when they try to claim that because paganism is found in the Church the Church must be created from paganism (which shows complete ignorance of the issues the Church has always struggled with from its beginning - paganism has always been trying to be in the Church). Now, I know Christian haters will even disagree with that, but that is not my point here anyway.

My point is that the Church (mainstream) is corrupt. It has a false left-right paradigm. It has a controlled opposition. The major leaders of the Church are not Christians in any way shape or form.

The real Christian teachings, those of Yahushua, are pro-democratic REPUBLIC (see the Book of Judges), pro-giving, pro-meekness, pro-CONTROLLED capitalism (not socialist or laissez faire capitalism), anti-war (no killing except in self-defense), anti-gluttony, etc.

Today we have no political ideal that meets the Christian faith, so no one should be supported by the Christian faith. Christians should vote on principles alone and not support any party or what any one man says. In fact, Christians shouldn't support what any man/woman says, but instead what God says.

As a Christian, I would say beware what ANY Christians say because most don't have a clue what they are talking about anyway - they blindly follow. Probably less than 1% of all Christians even know any of the names of the early Church fathers let alone what they thought about various things that are blindly accepted by Christians today.

If I were Beck I wouldn't be so worried about political and economic mumbo jumbo circulating through the Church. If he were a real believer in Yahushuah he'd be more worried about all the false doctrine circulating through the Church nowadays and the hypocrisy taught that is driving people away from YHWH and the Truth of His Word.

Maybe Mr. Beck (if he really cares and really does believe) should be more interested in the Pre-Tribulation lie and all the other doctrinal lies taught? Maybe he should be more interested in how the vast majority of Christians are going to "think" their Messiah has returned when he hasn't because they are blinded fools who hate the Truth?

http://voiceofelijah.org/library/Wanna_Hear_10_96.pdf

That's just my opinion on the matter. Take it for what it is worth to you...

The Evil AC  Wrote:

I am not sure why but that really makes me laugh!

Socially conscious Christians and Glenn Beck sounds rhetorical to me.