Unlimited "Glenn Beck is a nutter" thread

[Requia ☣]

I had the kind where my mom gave me a library card and a bus pass.

I left and never came back because I was 18. It was time to go. I never did understand that whole "moving back in with the parents" thing.

I' doing it because I haven't had a full time job in um... 20 months now?

[Remington]

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/08/glenn-beck-urges-listeners-to-leave-churches-that-preach-social/

Blaarrrgghhhh

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/08/glenn-beck-urges-listeners-to-leave-churches-that-preach-social/

Blaarrrgghhhh

JESUS WAS A COMMIE NAZI BASTARD!!!!!!!

[Iason Ouabache]

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/08/glenn-beck-urges-listeners-to-leave-churches-that-preach-social/

Blaarrrgghhhh

SOCIAL INJUSTICE FOR EVERYONE!!!

[Kai]

I think Glen Beck's job is simply to confuse people, and make the confusion seem rational.

[Cain]

Watching Glenn Beck purposefully miss the point or misunderstand the theories he purports to subscribe to is constantly fascinating. 

For instance, he has a real gripe with equality of any sort.  Now, most advocates of capitalism, for example, advocate it because they think it is the most equitable and moral economic system, all things considered.  Yes there will be measures of difference, but by and large, capitalism will make everyone wealthier (via trickle-down, philantrophy, whatever) and improve everyone's lives.

Glenn Beck, on the other hand, is the sort of person who would agree with critics of capitalism that it isn't equitable or moral, but then go on to endorse it anyway, since inequality is the goal.  Anything that even aims at some sort of fairness or balance is suspect and must be destroyed.

That's what marks him out to me as a purposeful tool, rather than an idiot who drank too much kool aid.  I've noticed this with a few others, like Limbaugh as well.  In fact, I think I might be basing the above example on something I heard Limbaugh say.  It seems utterly bizarre to me that you can get people to go along with such a premise, but I suppose if you put them in a position of relative power in this future schema (ie give them someone to pound on), then you can get people to go along with just about anything.

[Cramulus]

well that's a chilling thought

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Well, you have to say *something* in order to get people to tune in and see your advertisements. 

[Telarus]

Damn, Cain. Welcome back. Missed that. Hope you're feeling better.

[Cain]

Um, thanks, but I've been well for over a week now.

I was staying away from this place because of all the shitting blog threads that were pissing me off, and making it more likely I was going to go into troll mode.

[Cramulus]

welcome back I just bought new shoes and there is a coffee mug on my desk and when I woke up this morning my shoulder kind of hurt



/troll mode

[Iason Ouabache]

Some Christians are fighting back on Beck's insistence that his listeners leave churches that promote "social justice"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/12justice.html

Last week, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck called on Christians to leave their churches if they hear preaching about social or economic justice, saying they were code words for Communism and Nazism.

This week the remarks prompted outrage from several Christian bloggers. The Rev. Jim Wallis, who leads the liberal Christian antipoverty group Sojourners, in Washington, 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 wrote on his blog, God's Politics. "His show should now be in the same category as Howard Stern."

In attacking churches that espouse social justice, Mr. Beck is taking on most mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, black and Hispanic congregations in the country — not to mention plenty of evangelical churches and even his own, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mr. Beck said on his radio show on March 2, "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."

"Am I advising people to leave their church? Yes! If I am going to Jeremiah Wright's church," he said, referring to President Obama's former pastor in Chicago. "If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop."

Religion scholars say the term "social justice" was probably coined in the 1800s, codified in encyclicals by successive popes and adopted widely by Protestant churches in the 1900s. The concept is that Christians should not merely give to the poor, but also work to correct unjust conditions that keep people poor. Many Christians consider it a recurring theme in Scripture.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

I keep thinking that maybe he'll finally say something so outrageous that his followers will abandon him.  Maybe this time..........

[Cain]

Nazis were well known for their fortright defence of social justice.  No, really.  Always harping on about human rights and how bad racial discrimination was.

[LMNO]

Whoa, whoa, whoa-- Beck is LDS?