Beck is a lunatic. It was an insane thing to say. Beck is no more a mouthpiece for God than the Pope is.
This is true. Beck is quite eccentric, at least.
On another matter, at this moment the US is not unusually divided politically - it’s been like this more or less since 2001, and I don’t see it changing except for the worse. The only change since 2001 is that people are beginning to realize that this is the new normal. Americans are Serbs and Albanians living together.