Crossposted from Hillbilly Report.
I posted these vids the other night to show our readers just how much contempt the supposedly "Christian" right actually has for Christianity. Now, it appears as if the comments in the Beck video is raising a little fuss among some Christians who feel that he has insulted their faith. Even those within his own faith question whether Beck knows anything about his own religion.
Here is the comments by Beck as told by The Young Turks:
Rev. Jim Wallis was not in the least bit amused by such lunacy, and called on Christians to boycott Beck:
This week, the Rev. Jim Wallis, a liberal evangelical leader in Washington, D.C., called on Christians to leave Glenn Beck.
"What he has said attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show," Mr. Wallis, who heads the antipoverty group Sojourners, wrote on his "God’s Politics" blog. "His show should now be in the same category as Howard Stern."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/...
He was quickly joined by other religious bloggers who felt that Beck's call for people to leave any faith that promoted any kind of social justice as and affront on many different denominations:
Religious bloggers, from the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the liberal Jesuit magazine America, to Joe Carter, at the conservative magazine First Things, took Mr. Beck’s decree as possibly an attack on Catholic teaching, and definitely an affront to Christianity.
Father Martin wrote on the Huffington Post: "It is not enough simply to help the poor, one must address the structures that keep them that way. Standing up for the rights of the poor is not being a Nazi, it’s being Christian. And Communist, as Mr. Beck suggests? It’s hard not to think of the retort of the great apostle of social justice, Dom Helder Camara, archbishop of Recife, ‘When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.’ "
Worse yet, showing just how idiotic Beck's statement really was, it appears now that if he were to follow his own advice that it would be time for him to find himself a new denomination to worship under also:
Philip Barlow, the Arrington Professor of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University, said: "One way to read the Book of Mormon is that it’s a vast tract on social justice. It’s ubiquitous in the Book of Mormon to have the prophetic figures, much like in the Hebrew Bible, calling out those who are insensitive to injustices.
"A lot of Latter-day Saints would think that Beck was asking them to leave their own church."
Mr. Barlow said that Mr. Beck’s comments were particularly ill-timed because just this year, the church’s highest authority, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, issued a new "Handbook of Instructions" to church leaders in which they revised the church’s "three-fold mission" and added a fourth mission statement: care for the poor.
Hopefully this should show at least a few of his adoring fans who consider themselves Christian just how much scorn Beck and the Republican talking heads have for you. Real Christians that believe in Christian teachings should probably consider themselves pretty insulted by Glenn Beck. Beck should find another church in which to worship, because he has ignored the tenets of his own faith.
Oh well, I guess he could always reform his death metal band: