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2010-03-20 06:01:30 UTC
http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_14701480
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Conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck recently urged his viewers to leave churches
that preach social or economic justice, saying they are code words for communism
and Nazism.
"Look for the words social justice or economic justice on your church Web site,"
Beck said. "If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic
justice, they are code words."
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Beck, who is Mormon .....
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20000771-503544.html
"Glenn Beck, Steve King: Health Care Bill Vote an Affront to God"
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... Rep. Steve King of Iowa and Fox News personality Glenn Beck are adding one
more to the list -- the vote scheduled for Sunday.
Democrats are scrambling to get the bill to the president before leaving for
Easter recess, prompting the House to schedule a vote for the bill this Sunday.
"They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that
we have right from God," King said on Beck's radio program Thursday, the Hill
reports.
Beck chimed in, "Here is a group of people that have so perverted our faith and
our hope and our charity, that is a -- this is an affront to God."
"I think that it is absolutely appropriate that these people are trying to put
the nail in the coffin on our country on a Sunday," he added, "something our
founders would have never, ever, ever done. Out of respect for God."
The liberal blog Think Progress points out the Senate in 2005, under Republican
control, passed a bill on Palm Sunday that allowed a federal court to intervene
in the Terri Schiavo case, the controversial case surrounding keeping a brain
dead woman on life support.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_14711457
".... Flee the Gospel according to Glenn Beck"
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"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness ..." Matthew 5:6
Ultimately, I suppose, what we're talking about is a clash between "the sweet by
and by" and the "fierce urgency of now."
The former is the refrain from a venerable gospel song that meditates on the
bliss of life after life. The latter is a phrase from Martin Luther King Jr.'s
"I Have A Dream," a passionate demand for justice, equality and freedom "now."
Into the tension between these two disparate views of Christian mission stumbles
one Glenn Beck. The Fox News showman recently ignited an uproar in the world of
Christian ministry by attacking churches that preach a gospel of social and
economic justice, i.e., a gospel that doesn't just promise relief in the sweet
by and by, but seeks to effect change in the hard here and now. If your church
preaches that, Beck told his radio audience, "run as fast as you can." Social
and economic justice, he said, are "code words" for communism and Nazism.
In response, the Rev. Jim Wallis, a preacher of the social gospel and president
and CEO of the liberal religious activist group Sojourners, suggested on his
blog that what Christians should run from is Beck himself. Beck, he wrote,
attacks the very heart of their faith.
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Conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck recently urged his viewers to leave churches
that preach social or economic justice, saying they are code words for communism
and Nazism.
"Look for the words social justice or economic justice on your church Web site,"
Beck said. "If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic
justice, they are code words."
.....
Beck, who is Mormon .....
]
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20000771-503544.html
"Glenn Beck, Steve King: Health Care Bill Vote an Affront to God"
[
....
... Rep. Steve King of Iowa and Fox News personality Glenn Beck are adding one
more to the list -- the vote scheduled for Sunday.
Democrats are scrambling to get the bill to the president before leaving for
Easter recess, prompting the House to schedule a vote for the bill this Sunday.
"They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that
we have right from God," King said on Beck's radio program Thursday, the Hill
reports.
Beck chimed in, "Here is a group of people that have so perverted our faith and
our hope and our charity, that is a -- this is an affront to God."
"I think that it is absolutely appropriate that these people are trying to put
the nail in the coffin on our country on a Sunday," he added, "something our
founders would have never, ever, ever done. Out of respect for God."
The liberal blog Think Progress points out the Senate in 2005, under Republican
control, passed a bill on Palm Sunday that allowed a federal court to intervene
in the Terri Schiavo case, the controversial case surrounding keeping a brain
dead woman on life support.
]
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_14711457
".... Flee the Gospel according to Glenn Beck"
[
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness ..." Matthew 5:6
Ultimately, I suppose, what we're talking about is a clash between "the sweet by
and by" and the "fierce urgency of now."
The former is the refrain from a venerable gospel song that meditates on the
bliss of life after life. The latter is a phrase from Martin Luther King Jr.'s
"I Have A Dream," a passionate demand for justice, equality and freedom "now."
Into the tension between these two disparate views of Christian mission stumbles
one Glenn Beck. The Fox News showman recently ignited an uproar in the world of
Christian ministry by attacking churches that preach a gospel of social and
economic justice, i.e., a gospel that doesn't just promise relief in the sweet
by and by, but seeks to effect change in the hard here and now. If your church
preaches that, Beck told his radio audience, "run as fast as you can." Social
and economic justice, he said, are "code words" for communism and Nazism.
In response, the Rev. Jim Wallis, a preacher of the social gospel and president
and CEO of the liberal religious activist group Sojourners, suggested on his
blog that what Christians should run from is Beck himself. Beck, he wrote,
attacks the very heart of their faith.
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