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Beck: "They have infiltrated our churches -- all of our churches" and "confused the gospel with government-run programs"

June 22, 2010 1:28 pm ET

From the June 22 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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Previously:

Beck attacks social justice

Continuing his assault on social justice, Beck says "if they get our churches, we're done"

Beck warns that "your churches" may have been "infiltrated" by "Marxists" pushing "nasty things"

Beck and crew warn progressives are trying to "hijack churches" with "social justice"

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    • Author by nerzog (June 22, 2010 1:32 pm ET)
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      All churches? Then where can a self-respecting Troglodyte go for a weekly dose of superstition and Right Wing propaganda?

      Let me guess...

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      • Author by vysotsky (June 22, 2010 1:41 pm ET)
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        Totally off topic, but the 1/4 zip mock-neck sweater under the sportcoat is such a timeless style, isn't it?
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        • Author by soze169880 (June 22, 2010 1:43 pm ET)
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          It's better than that bizarre First Communion navy blazer/khakis thing he normally has going on.
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          • Author by dogbreath (June 22, 2010 1:52 pm ET)
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            Remember the Freddy Krueger sweater? Man, that will live in infamy.
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        • Author by nerzog (June 22, 2010 1:49 pm ET)
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          I thought that was his Magic Underwear...
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      • Author by Mr. Katanga (June 22, 2010 1:51 pm ET)
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        What is he thinking when he points at me like this?
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        • Author by soze169880 (June 22, 2010 1:53 pm ET)
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          "Does this smell like AIDS to you?"
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        • Author by bilbo_dies (June 22, 2010 1:54 pm ET)
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          Well, it looks like they caught him at the start of a wink so he is probably thinking: "You're cute, come over here big boy!"
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    • Author by AC_Mem (June 22, 2010 1:39 pm ET)
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      What an idiot.
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    • Author by soze169880 (June 22, 2010 1:40 pm ET)
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      I assume this is distinct from George W. Bush making the government a gospel-run program.
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    • Author by carlh (June 22, 2010 1:40 pm ET)
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      I really must say that at the church I attend we really don't ever delve into the politics of the day. It's mostly...you know...worshiping the Lord.

      Beck's blatantly, atrociously, and dangerously casting Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt out there so that people will think their faith is under attack...which it is not.
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      • Author by cugagcmu805031 (June 22, 2010 1:44 pm ET)
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        Thanks, carlh,

        "Beck's blatantly, atrociously, and dangerously casting Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt out there so that people will think their faith is under attack...which it is not."


        The only reason some people think their faith is under attack is because many far right blow hards have said it so many times until they believe it.

        My church services are also centered on worshiping the Lord. It is the far right that has politicized religion.

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        • Author by nerzog (June 22, 2010 1:55 pm ET)
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          I would dare to speculate that the vast majority of churches do what they were originally created to do... promote religion.

          As you indicated, this paranoid political activism in fundamentalist churches was carefully cultivated by the Republican party years ago. If you investigate the history of it, you'll see names like Rushdoony, Schaeffer and Dobson popping up.

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    • Author by cst (June 22, 2010 1:43 pm ET)
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      ALL of them? You're going on record as telling your listeners that WHATEVER church they attend, it's corrupt?
      Yeah, THIS'll help ratings.
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    • Author by bintx (June 22, 2010 1:51 pm ET)
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      At my church, we don't discuss politics of any sort. We following the teachings of Christ and practice social justice as He did.
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      • Author by srichardson (June 22, 2010 9:03 pm ET)
           
        I think Beck has a completely different bible from mine. My bible does talk about helping those less fortunate, helping those in need and on and on and on.
        I have never been to a church that discusses politics with the exception of one. That church was full of old, grumpy, hateful people who most likely were on SS and medicaid. WHAT! If they knew the real agenda of the republican party they would be soooo surprised!
        During the '08 election our pastor and some of the church body did discuss a little politics, and of course it was far right, and of course it was for one or two reasons only.
        In my opinion, politcs should NOT be mixed with worshipping. We left that church soon after the election(other issues were involved but when the preacher tried to tell us for whom to vote it was the last straw.)
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        • Author by John Paradox (June 22, 2010 11:17 pm ET)
             
          when the preacher tried to tell us for whom to vote it was the last straw.)


          That could lead to the church's loss of tax exemption, at least for a while. I used to be a member of Americans United For Separation Of Church And State, and actually notified them of one church that did directly endorse a candidate (issues are allowed, specific candidate mentions pro or con are not). More than one of the mega-cults er churches have lost tax exemptions for direct endorsement.
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    • Author by David2012 (June 22, 2010 1:54 pm ET)
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      I can hardly wait until August 28th, when Glenn reveals the 100 Year Plan God has given him, which someone at the Vatican told him was "incredibly important."

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      • Author by nerzog (June 22, 2010 1:57 pm ET)
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        Hitler had a 1000 Year Plan. Beck's God is such an amateur.
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      • Author by bintx (June 22, 2010 2:12 pm ET)
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        I read earlier that there is going to be a counter-rally lead by various civil rights groups who are angry that Beck is desecrating the memory and works of Martin Luther King.
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      • Author by blueline99 (June 22, 2010 3:20 pm ET)
           
        My dream come true is that on 8/28, it's like that ABC Afterschool special "The Wave"

        For those who didn't see it, it's worth seeing on youtube...

        then all the Beck followers could be exposed for the lemming, cultist that they are.
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    • Author by Litwiz (June 22, 2010 1:55 pm ET)
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      In my church on Sundays we focus on the red words in the New Testament....Jesus' words. Big-time social justice guy. "When I was hungry, you fed me; when I was naked, you clothed me." Yeah, so go ahead and crucify Him all over again Beck. Let's see how well that works for you. If "faith without action is dead", to quote the Bible--and a key tenet of the Mormon "religion"--we are commanded to do social good. If that means that my church is "political", it is only because we care about people--poli=people. Maybe Beck is worried that if justice is done by the people, he'll be run out of town wearing the proverbial tar and feathers, like the scheissters in Huck Finn. I'm willing to sacrifice my feather pillow.....
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    • Author by Leftym0m79 (June 22, 2010 1:55 pm ET)
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      So let me get this straight... Acording to Glenn, public education is bad. Now organized religion is bad, too. What's left...oh wait, guns, guns are what's left.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (June 22, 2010 1:57 pm ET)
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      Glennie, just a reminder, they attacked you because you told people to leave their churches if they heard or saw anything about the great, evil, Progressive plot of Social Justice. But social justice goes back before 1800 and was championed by that radical bastion of liberalism, the Catholic Church beginning in the 1840s, and published in an encyclical called Rerum Novarum in 1891. By the way, that Pope, Leo XIII did not endorse capitalism or socialism but did endorse unions, and State protection of human rights. Of course people like Jim Wallis would smack back at your attacks, they are trying to protect the good work being done by churches from being dropped or perverted by you and your spoiled, self-centered fans who look for any excuse to profit off their neighbors.
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      • Author by bintx (June 22, 2010 2:13 pm ET)
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        Actually, if you want to get technical, social justice in the Christian Church goes back to the teachings of Christ.
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        • Author by epkklk851 (June 22, 2010 2:28 pm ET)
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          True, I just did a look up to see when the term showed up, and it is around 1800, it is implied in The Federalist Papers. But, really, Social Justice goes back before Jesus, it goes back to Judaism in the concepts of Tzedakah and Tikkun Olam. But regardless of where it started, Social Justice is quite contrary to the hateful, selfish, fearful, self-centered view of the world that Glennie wants to pass on to his followers. And we, who believe in it, need to protect the concept and raise a loud hue and cry against the Beckies who would pervert it.
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    • Author by txthinker (June 22, 2010 1:59 pm ET)
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      Beck: "They have infiltrated our churches -- all of our churches" and "confused the gospel with government-run programs"
      People like John Hagee, Joel Osteen, and Fred Phelps will be rather surprised to hear this.....
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (June 22, 2010 1:59 pm ET)
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      Glenn, is that the same gospel that told you to devote your life to becoming a rich, successful capitalist?
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    • Author by Brian Griffith (June 22, 2010 2:01 pm ET)
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      I'm at the point where I can't even call Beck a propagandist. That isn't the methodology he's using. Rather, his rhetoric has far more in common with a cult leader. Isolate your followers from dissenting views, cause them to distrust every voice but yours...
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      • Author by srichardson (June 22, 2010 9:06 pm ET)
           
        Brian, I agree. If he comes to church with his head shaved and a long beard, you know it's time for him and his followers to go live in the mountains, off of the land and far away from us liberals.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (June 22, 2010 2:13 pm ET)
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      Go hide in the attict, the NAZI's are everywhere, and don't make a sound. ( stolen from Lewis BlACK )
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    • Author by draftedin68 (June 22, 2010 2:22 pm ET)
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      A bigger lie:

      The evil, horrible "they" is just Beckian paranoia for sale; the "Nobody denies that this (Earth) is his (their god's) creation..." is just a great big pull-it-outta-your-assism.

      I deny it.

      And I'm not alone.

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