The day after calling for "Restoring Honor" in America and for all of us to come together as a people, we get this...
During an interview on "Fox News Sunday," which was filmed after Saturday's rally, Beck claimed that Obama "is a guy who understands the world through liberation theology, which is oppressor and victim."
"People aren't recognizing his version of Christianity," Beck added.
Gee, that didn't take long.
Already back to bashing anyone who does not see the world through one very specific and twisted conservative prism.
Beck, on his Fox News show Tuesday, said that liberation theology is at the core of Obama's "belief structure."
"You see, it's all about victims and victimhood; oppressors and the oppressed; reparations, not repentance; collectivism, not individual salvation. I don't know what that is, other than it's not Muslim, it's not Christian. It's a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it," Beck said.
I don't remember anyone ever voting for Glenn Beck, except perhaps, Rupert Murdoch.
The only upside is that smart Democrats are pointing out that the GOP has now been taken over by the most reactionary, hateful elements. The far right wing is now the center of the GOP.
Because of Saturday's rally, Democrats have gone on the offensive against Republicans by claiming that the event was evidence that the GOP has been overtaken by extreme elements in the party. Republicans have taken a more muted approach to the event, with some avoiding any mention of it altogether.
On CBS' "Face the Nation," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., said that the rally made clear that "there is a raging battle going on within the Republican Party for the heart and soul of the Republican Party."
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What a hateful little man.
Who is he to determine which houses of faith are legitimate in the USA?
UPDATE: Rev. James Martin, S.J., a Jesuit priest, explains explains what Liberation Theology is really about.
Liberation theology (there are many definitions, by the way) is a Gospel-based critique of the world through the eyes of the poor. Contrary to what Beck implies, the liberation theologian doesn't see himself or herself as victim; rather proponents call us to see how the poor are marginalized by society, to work among them, to advocate on their behalf, and to help them advocate for themselves. It has nothing to do with seeing yourself as victim. It is, like all authentic Christian practices, "other-directed."... [According to Jesus] the poor, the sick and the outcast "got" him better than the wealthy did. Perhaps because there was less standing between the poor and God. Less stuff. Maybe that's why Jesus said in the Gospel of Matthew, "If you wish to be perfect, sell all you have, and you will have treasure in heaven, and follow me." Like I said, pretty disturbing, then and now. It's hardly "the opposite of the Gospel," as Beck said. The opposite of the Gospel would be to acquire wealth and fail to work on behalf of the poor.
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