Beck: "There's a lot of people that will say 'social justice,' and some people don't mean Marxism, but others do"
March 12, 2010 10:12 am ET
From the March 12 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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A metric on the acceptability of social justice based on unsupported statements against an organization would look like what?
Don't you get tired of defending this bogus, uneducated liar? What's in it for you, Mag? Seriously, what is in it for you?
What is Marxism to you? To me it's about the struggle between the different economic classes. Marxists seek to pit different classes of society against each other. Am I wrong?
“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.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/12justice.html
Are you saying that Wright hasn't done great things for Chicago?
And you are incorrect. Since you are the one who is always bellyaching about taking comments out of context, why did you not read the next sentence in Beck's statement about Rev. Wright's church? You know, where he refers to priests and bishops? And then the next sentence where he says he doesn't care WHAT kind of church it is?
You need to read your Bible. Jesus Christ's message was about the struggle between the classes . . . he was on the side of the poor and told the rich to give to the poor. Was Jesus Christ a Marxist? You don't know what you're talking about Mag.
As for the rest of your BS:
Please point out to me where Beck was referring to the government in this statement.
His words this morning are backtracking and backpedaling because his A** is in a sling. Fox and his syndicator are getting e-mails and telephone calls from Christians who are incensed at this man's ignorance of the past few days. Fox and hate talk radio depend upon those self-same folks for their ratings and revenue. The Republican Party depends on them for their votes. Beck is really trying hard to explain away his very, very, very stupid comments and in the process is just digging a bigger hole. Like I said, kiss his backside if you want, but the man said what he said and now he's having to pay the piper.
"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. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. 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!"
How does Wright's church advocate Marxism?
Christianity focuses on the struggle between the different economic classes. As Christ told the rich young ruler: "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." This was after he told the rich young ruler to give all of his possessions to the poor. So, by your definition and Beck's, Christ was a Marxist.
Do you really know how foolish this sounds, Mag?
Beck has basically decided to backtrack on his previously STUPID remarks about Christianity by making even more STUPID remarks about black Christian churches. He's digging a hole he, hopefully, can't climb out of this time.
What you describe is not what most Christians believe.
"Mr. Barlow said that just this year, the church’s highest authority, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, issued a new “Handbook of Instructions” in which they revised the church’s “threefold mission” and added a fourth mission statement: Care for the poor."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/12justice.html
Is the Mormon church really a front for Marxism?
While Beck, on the other hand, advocates a political economy in which more than one third of all wealth is owned by 1% of the population. That condition pits the lower classes against the upper classes.
"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. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. 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!"
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_03/022774.php
Magcynic, paging Magcynic, you never answered this on the other thread, why is Beck encouraging his listeners to abandon their religions? You said he wasn't doing this in the other thread, but here are his words, please respond.
Social Justice means opposing most wars.
Social Justice means opposing the death penalty.
Social Justice means opposing police brutality, torture, political oppression, and totalitarianism.
And Social Justice means equal pay for equal work - and a living wage for a full day of work.
It also means taking a stand against child labor, unsafe working conditions, and an end to racism.
I know of not one church that advocates larger government. I do know of churches that advocate justice for all.
Big Effing Difference.
Beck, of course, would argue that ending these practices is up to the private sector and individuals, not a social body with legal authority. And this is the problem. For Beck, big government is a nearly empty epithet so broad that he can apply it to any government restriction on business. Child labor laws? Nothing about it in the constitution, so that's a big government intervention. Racism? Sure it's bad, but people have a right to be racist, and only the market can hope to really end racism. Unsafe working conditions? Hey, nobody ever promised you that every job would be safe, you have to take chances in life, and the government's not your nanny.
"member in the "Manchurian Cantidate", it was the actual Commies who branded every body else as communists to misdirect..
Or when a "Family Values " politician denounces anybody who doesn't think like him, you know he's JUST exited a Gay Bar...
So if I denounce Beck as a "commie", does that make me one?
heh heh