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Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus?
Time.com ^ | March 14, 2010 | Amy Sullivan

Posted on 03/15/2010 12:07:15 PM PDT by Colofornian

Edited on 03/23/2010 6:15:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

When Glenn Beck told listeners of his radio show on March 2 that they should "run as fast as you can" from any church that preached "social or economic justice" because those were code words for Communism and Nazism, he probably thought he was tweaking a few crunchy religious liberals who didn't listen to the show anyway. Instead he managed to outrage Christians in most mainline Protestant denominations, African-American congregations, Hispanic churches, and Catholics...


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TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Other Christian; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: aclumia; america2point0; asocialistamerica; beck; christian; churchandstate; godgap; lds; mormon; mormon1; obamacare; religiousleft; slime; socialgospel; socialjustice; timelies
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To: narses

I had never heard of it either.


201 posted on 03/15/2010 6:45:54 PM PDT by reaganaut (ex-mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: narses

Clergy is composed of generally well meaning but flawed men. My particuar experience is indicative of a bad priest, not of a bad Church.


202 posted on 03/15/2010 6:46:15 PM PDT by Doohickey (I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
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To: Tennessee Nana; reaganaut

203 posted on 03/15/2010 6:50:10 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: narses
At all.

I have never heard of that.

204 posted on 03/15/2010 6:51:02 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: ejonesie22

LOL. I like that one, but don’t worry, I won’t steal it. :D


205 posted on 03/15/2010 6:51:58 PM PDT by reaganaut (ex-mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: Doohickey

And I was denied baptism as a Catholic when I was a child because my mother was unmarried.
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That’s OK kid...

Once ya dead the mormons will dead dunk ya...


206 posted on 03/15/2010 6:52:06 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
What is sad is a good thread about Beck and “social justice” has been hijacked into a theology thread

Yet the thing that links "social justice", uh, 'religion' and Obama is Black Liberation Theology. BLT is a revolutionary communist ideology concocted by communists to advance their cause through the church. Even the Weather Underground promoted "Black Liberation", although obviously not via a bogus religion.

"Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal".
--James (Jim) Cone,
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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Photobucket
Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

207 posted on 03/15/2010 6:53:12 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: All
And let us not forget that it was Glenn Beck who was primarily responsible for exposing Van Jones to the nation.

VAN JONES (Obama's former 'Green Jobs Czar'):

YouTube:
"Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama, speaks [lovingly] about Green Job Czar, Van Jones, at the Netroots Convention on August 12, 2009. Then Van Jones speaks about [a COMMUNIST] transforming [of] the whole society."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnDxzvc0OXk&feature=related
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"Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. That group, together with Jones' Elle Baker Center for Human Rights, led a vigil Sept. 12, 2001, at Snow Park in Oakland, Calif.

STORM's official manifesto, titled, "Reclaiming Revolution," surfaced on the Internet."--via TheObamaFile
http://www.leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf
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VAN JONES SHOCK ADMISSION [in his own words]: "Goal is Complete Revolution"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh4Z0V0zNQg
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Here is the transcript of the above YouTube video:

“Right after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat if the civil rights leaders had jumped out and said OK now we want reparations for Slavery, we want redistribution of all the wealth, and we want to legalize mixed marriages. If we’d come out with a maximum program the very next day, they’d been laughed at. Instead they came out with a very minimum. “We just want to integrate these busses…”

But, inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1964 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country.

And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages.

Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we’re not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression all together. But, that’s a process and I think that’s what’s great about the movement that is beginning to emerge is that the CRISIS is so severe in terms of joblessness, violence and now ecological threats that people are willing to be both pragmatic and visionary.

So the green economy will start off as a small subset and we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society.

SOURCE for this transcript (it matches the video):
http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/2009/09/02/van-jones-obamas-green-czar-%E2%80%98green-jobs%E2%80%99-goal-is-%E2%80%98complete-revolution%E2%80%99-away-from-%E2%80%98gray-capitalism%E2%80%99/
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Here's the original source for the Van Jones quote about the time he spent in jail following the Rodney King/LA riots (Jones was arrested in "peaceful" protests in San Fran). It was in a 2005 interview he did with East Bay Express. They of course (what else?) claim he "renounced his rowdy Black Nationalist ways" since then (yet he's calling for "complete revolution" in Aug 2009! ...see above):

But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the-new-face-of-environmentalism/Content?oid=1079539&showFullText=true
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The 1992 LA/Rodney King riots were instigated by the Revolutionary Communist Party...

From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197

208 posted on 03/15/2010 6:56:31 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Doohickey

Well yes, thankfully there are many priests. I assume your mom found another that did the right thing?


209 posted on 03/15/2010 6:57:15 PM PDT by narses ("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
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To: Ingtar

That sounds like bloody revolutionary theology.


210 posted on 03/15/2010 7:00:44 PM PDT by Perdogg ("Is that a bomb in your pants, or are you excited to come to America?")
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To: Colofornian

Regardless, complete or partial like or dislike of Glenn Beck the man or his opinion(s) -take any left wing media attention for what it clearly is —the leftists are trying very hard to kill a messenger of messages they so not like...


211 posted on 03/15/2010 7:02:47 PM PDT by DBeers ( †)
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To: Doohickey; reaganaut; Tennessee Nana; Godzilla
You stopped donating because of tolerance of the truth?

Wow, things like "Obama is a socialist" or "McCain is a RINO" or "Muslim Terrorist have to be stopped" must have driven you nuts then.

Surprised at that point you didn't ask for FR to pay YOU...

212 posted on 03/15/2010 7:03:26 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: Perdogg
The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

["(Jose) Diaz-Balart is the son of Rafael Diaz-Balart y Guitierrez (a former Cuban politician). He has three bothers, Rafael Diaz-Balart (a banker), Mario Diaz-Balart (a US Congressman) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (also a US Congressman). His aunt, Mirta Diaz-Balart, was Fidel Castro's first wife."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Diaz-Balart]

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

213 posted on 03/15/2010 7:03:50 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: narses

No, except for weddings and funerals she never set foot in another church.


214 posted on 03/15/2010 7:03:51 PM PDT by Doohickey (I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
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To: narses
That sounds like the Priest needed a talk with his superiors, both in the Church and higher..
215 posted on 03/15/2010 7:04:30 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: DBeers
—the leftists are trying very hard to kill a messenger of messages they so not like...

Exactly! And there seems to be no shortage of useful idiots available to help them.

216 posted on 03/15/2010 7:05:50 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Tennessee Nana; Colofornian
"what did you mean in your #147 to Colofonian (sic) ???"

Why, has Colofornian bypassed me and contacted you for clarification, or is it that you posted your brilliant #152 response to me without even understanding what it was I was writing in the first place?

217 posted on 03/15/2010 7:07:58 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Doohickey; Godzilla; Tennessee Nana; Invincibly Ignorant; reaganaut; Colofornian
Let's all remember that this was started by a Time magazine article. They do not have the interests of conservatives or churchgoers at heart. Further, all religious organizations that consider themselves Christian (yes, this includes you Mormons) have had since the 1960s some attempt to have disguised Communism displace normal teaching. Whatever else he may be wrong about, on this point, Beck is right. Yes, 'living the principle' means putting everything into a common pot under a Mormon prophet (and perhaps Beck should know a little more about the religion for which he left Catholicism), but the point of the article was to legitimize the leftist wolves in sheep's clothing who politicize our religious organizations today. Not Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Jeremiah Wright, but the nameless theorists who staff middle management and run seminaries, and whose 'outrage' in this article tells us that they are more concerned about preening as progressives than about saving souls.

I admit that I am one of the 'anti-Mormons' that 'pounce' upon the Mormons and atheists on these threads. I also have come to be tired of, and disappointed in, Beck (mainly because his shtick as the only sane person in the building only worked on CNN, when he was the only sane person in the building). However, Beck was right when he attacked these Rev. Wright wannabes, and wrong to backtrack.

218 posted on 03/15/2010 7:09:00 PM PDT by mrreaganaut (In practice, the 'social gospel' always violates the commandments against stealing and coveting.)
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To: mrreaganaut

Agreed, sir. ;)


219 posted on 03/15/2010 7:11:39 PM PDT by reaganaut (ex-mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: JustaDumbBlonde; Colofornian

Why, has Colofornian bypassed me and contacted you for clarification, or is it that you posted your brilliant #152 response to me without even understanding what it was I was writing in the first place?
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1. Colofornaian didnt ...I can read...Thank you Mum...

2. Yes my # 152 was rather brilliant wasnt it ???

3. I believe I asked for c”clarification in my # 142

4. Still needing clarification, I asked you again in # 194

Do you have an answer yet ???

Or will you continue to back pedal ???

US is dizzy...


220 posted on 03/15/2010 7:15:36 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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