Beck: "You must tithe" because the Black Robe Regiment is "going to come under attack"
From the August 30 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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BECK: "With firm reliance on divine providence we mutually pledge to each other our lives." Well, that's MLK, that's Lincoln, that's all the veterans. But it's also George Washington, who didn't die; he just gave everything to his country. He served and served and served and served and served, and then served some more. And then he went home and then they knocked on his door, and he answered the door and he said, "Have I not yet done enough for my country?" The answer is no. And he got onto his horse and he served, and he served, and he served. We're going to have to give things up to serve, but it's good.
"We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes." It means we must do the hard things now. We may not be able to retire at 65. We may not be able to go and live our dreams. We may not be able to have that -- that house or that car or whatever it is. We may not be able to afford X, Y, or Z, but that's OK because we will sacrifice our fortunes so our children don't have to pay for our lifestyle today. It's immoral to stick them with this bill. It's immoral.
As a father of a special needs child -- I know when my daughter had strokes at birth, I got down on my knees and I said, "Lord, give it to me, please. I'll take it on. Please let her have a life, please." Where are those parents now? I'll tell you where they were this last weekend -- they were in Washington, D.C. You know and I know, we will all take the hard hit for our kids. Our fortunes, our -- our benefits, our perks, our soft lifestyle. And I know a lot of people say, "I have worked and I have struggled my whole life," I know that. I know that. I know. But you're going to be asked to struggle a little more. Not only for your children, but for your grandchildren. Tithe 10 percent.
I introduced the Black Robe Regiment. These people are in trouble. They're in trouble. The media hasn't noticed them yet, quite honestly, because the adversary hasn't noticed them yet. We're not battling flesh and blood. The great thing is, darkness does not understand light. They have no idea -- it has no idea where we're headed. And that's good. But understand, once it does, the very gates of Hell are going to open up. These people are going to be challenged in court, they're going to be challenged with the IRS, they're going to be challenged in their own -- in their own pulpits they're going to be challenged. People will leave their churches because they're going to start saying, "Look, there are certain absolutes." There are certain things -- all men are created and created equally, and they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, which means you can't take them away, you can't destroy them. These rights are -- my right to life, and that means all of it -- my right to life. You do not diminish life at the end, you do not diminish life in the inside. My right to life, my right to liberty. Which means you can't just pick me up, you can't do these things. I have a right. It's given from God. It's unalienable, which means you cannot take it away. And pursuit of happiness. I have a right to keep the sweat from my own brow. I have a right to dream. I have a right to pursue my dreams. I do not have a right to success. I have the right to pursue what will make me and my family happy.
That's what they're going to preach, and if Americans understand those things, everything else will solve itself. You must tithe because these people are going to be in trouble. They're going to come under attack. You must seek these people out. You must seek these rabbis, these priests, these pastors. If they're teaching you about politics, that's another story. Run from them if they do. If they say vote for a Republican or an Independent or a Democrat, run from them.
















In all seriousness, will this security force intimidate voters at the voting both?
George Carlin
A belief in God is not inherently inseparable from religion. While religion usually asks for complete unwavering adherence to a set of beliefs, the belief in God requires only the faith in a supreme being. One can believe in God without being an adherent to an organized religion. And a fear of death can lead one to a belief in God and and afterlife without detrimental effects.
The sad thing about some religions is the way they abuse that belief in a higher being for their own benefit. Beck for example. This guy is sounding more and more like an anti-Christ every day, if you believe in that sort of thing.
No we don't. Relevant quotation from Douglas Adams, ho!
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
I would argue further that a belief in god(s) and an afterlife does indeed have a very detrimental effect on a person. When you accept into your life a belief/opinion that isn't backed by evidence or logic, I would argue that such is harmful to you. When a person believes that if they're living according to a god's rules, and that they'll be rewarded with some paradise, then they've inherently accepted the fact that the current life will never actually be that paradise. There's a certain malaise that sets in about 'earthly life', knowing that it will never be as perfect or as splendid as the afterlife, where your chosen god is waiting to embrace you and where you spend your days in bliss and happiness and harmony.
You see it even here, in how people say that things like 'god will judge' or 'he'll get his eventually' or other things like that. That indicate that we needn't bother pursuing justice or right against some person to the utmost of our abilities, because God will take care of it in the end (usually they mean when whoever it is has died and is 'judged'). This is, admittedly, a set of examples thought up on the spot, but hopefully you can see how even the seemingly benign belief that there's an afterlife causes some seriously detrimental side-effects.
That's to say nothing of the fact that, once you start trafficking in beliefs with no proof or evidence, that other people won't start doing the same but with more dangerous elements to it. And if you yourself are embracing fiction with the belief in a creator, you have zero standing to claim that those other people are wrong and incorrect when they go about killing and maiming other people. At least not on any grounds that use a god as reasoning. No, you must instead turn to logical and reasonable reasons as to why those people doing those things are bad. You can't claim god as a reason that they should stop, because you have no proof that god exists (beyond your belief, which is precisely what THEY have in return. How do you tell who is right in their belief? You can't, because there's no proof nor evidence nor logic nor reason to either one).
This is, mind you, a very truncated post. There've been entire books on the very subject that we're talking about here. But hopefully that gives at least a brief glimpse of the type of viewpoint that I'm advocating, without being too confusing or engaging in too many logical faults in the interest of brevity.
George Carlin (con't)
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"I just can't go around with my Birth Certificate plastered to my forehead" bumper sticker?
The president kicked a little right-wing tooshie.
The long-form birth certificate that Hawaii gave out in 1961 wasn't given to the infant Barack. It was given to his parents. And who knows - did the Dad take it with him when he left town? Did the Mom lose it after she got a passport for Obama, or take it to Indonesia with her, and have it get lost when they packed him up to move him back? Did the grandparents lose it while Barack lived with them?
Or does it still exist, but Obama wants to rely upon the direct document from the Hawaii Dept of Vital Statistics that exists today?
Who knows. But the fact is that it's been verified that he was born in Hawaii, and the controversy should never have been raised, yet it still exists!
That's something that's always puzzled me about religious right wingers. Their anti-government screeching is centered so much on not wanting anybody telling them what to do, and keeping all of their money.
Then on Sunday, when I'm having a nice sleep-in, they voluntarily get up early, dress up in their nice clothes, and go meet in a building where somebody tells them what to do and takes their money.
As for the rest of it, as I've mentioned before, Glenn continues to give me a new definition for the term, "Holy Sh*t."
Bet old David Barton hasn't got this quote in any of his books of lies.
Okay, I'm not getting this whole concept. When I give my offering to my church [tithing is Old Testament, not New Testament and is not a requirement for Christians], it is for the use of my church with a certain percentage going to both the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Southern Baptist Convention for missions projects. The remainder [the majority] goes to funding my church. We will not have any Black Robe Regiment idiots in our Baptist church. At least, not for long. We are a missional church which believes in the social justice message of Christ.
Good luck with your phony movement, Beck. I'm not giving them or YOU any of my money.
You know, because giving to the poor and needy would be a form of social justice and the Beckster cannot abide that.
So IF he tithes so he can get the magic ticket into the tacky temple of eternity where God lives (and with so many temples, how does he do that? Is it like a Mormon poligamist--one night with each wife in succession?), his money goes to the support of the Church buildings and hierarchy.
"You must give!"
Really, Glenn?
Then why oh why wouldn't you "sacrifice" some of your "fortune" to foot the bill for yesterday's shindig?
Same question for Sister Sarah.
But yeah, "Black Robe" makes it sound like the God he's talking about isn't exactly the same one other Christians believe in...
Santa Klan says: "And you get a hood and you get a hood and you get a hood and..."
I don't understand how living a Christian life is blaspheming the Scripture since it is how Jesus taught that his followers should conduct themselves.
It just goes to show that some who use the title "Christian" are CINO, and the truth doesn't matter to them.
Sounded a lot like our friend BJF with his constant statements that Catholicism was the only true religion.
This man needs to be investigated by the IRS. And a mental health specialist.
INDIAN: It's a cross. The Symbol of the Quartering of the Universe into Active and Passive Principles.
FATHER CORONA: God have mercy on their heathen souls.
And he was Lillian Wroth in his extremity.
Merrily merrily he said unto them saying,
"Where am I?"
But there was no one there to answer him.
Not even Noman saying,
"Nowhere yea, but in the land of reversible cups,
And sanitary pedistals."
And he lay in that land a long time.
Like worms out of a hot cheeze log.
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The Midnight Review
What does that mean? Is it about climate change? He has the right to keep the a/c at 65 regardless of how much energy it uses?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprjmoSMJ-o
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FYI, your "Show Jew" Rabbi Lapin should know that in Judaism we don't necessarily "tithe." On the other hand, Rabbi Lapine doesn't need the dough unless he failed to squirrel away the money he helped...ummmmm...."invest" for his his good friend Jack
Good friend, Rabbi Lapin
Beck, as usual, said nothing.
And what's with the "you MUST tithe 10%" crap? Who cares? I don't even belong to a church so that doesn't mean squat to me. And how are people tithing 10% going to help the BRR? His whole talk is nonsense.
Glenn Beck’s Black-Robed Regiment
Now send me that check for my NEXT cockamamie scheme, and make sure you spell MY name right! -Glenn Beck