Posted on 03/13/2010 11:22:58 AM PST by mgist
March 12, 2010
IS GLENN BECK ANTI-CHRISTIAN?
Catholic League president Bill Donohue weighs in on the flap over Glenn Beck's comment that people should leave their church if it is promoting "social justice":
Glenn Beck has been slammed all week for his flip remark, and some have accused him of being anti-Christian. Let's examine what he said.
Beck said that "social justice" and "economic justice" are "code words." Of course they are: they are code for economic redistribution. "Pro-life" is also a code word—it means anti-abortion. For the record, the Catholic Church embraces both a social justice and pro-life position. It is pro-union, believes in universal health care, promotes a "preferential option for the poor," and is opposed to abortion, assisted suicide and embryonic stem cell research.
Many are hammering Beck for saying, "Am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!" A closer read of what he said shows he followed that quip with, "If I am going to Jeremiah Wright's church. If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish."
Beck didn't say Christians should abandon their religion. He recommended shopping around to find a more conservative parish if one is dissatisfied with hearing left-wing sermons. Nothing new about that. In the Catholic Church, there are priests who are stridently left-wing and stridently right-wing; many parishioners shop accordingly. Protestants shop by leaving one denomination for another. And so on.
Some of those who have criticized Beck have done so in a sincere way. Others are just phonies. Just yesterday, we dealt with an issue which is far more serious than a sarcastic remark—we called out a radical feminist leader for branding pro-life Catholic congressman Bart Stupak "un-American." And the day before we protested news stories accusing the bishops of "polluting" the health care debate. But we heard nothing from the social justice crowd about these matters. Wonder why.
The history of mormonism is one that is against orthodox Christianity and believes it of satan ... I suspect there is a little of that in Glenn.. but I wonder if this is an attempt to pull Glenn to the left?
Why does the Catholic Church promote “social justice” if it means economic redistribution? Is the Church socialist and statist?
This much like the 'phony soldiers' remark the left tried to twist and then use to convince Americans that Rush Limbaugh was anti-military. That didn't work, either.
Whenever you are ready to change your heart, the true Church of God is ready to embrace you.
May you find the peace of Christ.
Well said...
THEY LIE!
nuff said.
I really dont know. IIRC I once heard him say that this is his second marriage, his wife said they had to have a religion, she picked Mormonism and he went along.
promoting “social justice”: such as racial equality Glenn ???
How about women ???
Do you mind equality amongst males and females Glenn ???
How close do you follow that religion of yours ???
This is accurate. There is a wing of the catholic church that has it's feet into liberation theology which is intertwined with "social justice"...which is a code word for socialism and economic redistribution.
This is what Wikipedia says on that topic...
Social justice is the application of the concept of justice on a social scale. The term "social justice" was coined by the Jesuit Luigi Taparelli in the 1840s. The idea was elaborated by the moral theologian John A. Ryan, who initiated the concept of a living wage. Father Coughlin used the term in his publications in the 1930s and 40s, and the concept was further expanded upon by John Rawls' writing in the 1990s. It is one of the Four Pillars of the Green Party upheld by the worldwide green parties. Some tenets of social justice have been adopted by those on the left of the political spectrum. Social justice is also a concept that some use to describe the movement towards a socially just world. In this context, social justice is based on the concepts of human rights and equality and involves a greater degree of economic egalitarianism through progressive taxation, income redistribution, or even property redistribution, policies aimed toward achieving that which developmental economists refer to as more equality of opportunity and equality of outcome than may currently exist in some societies or are available to some classes in a given society.
Well here’s the deal...Pedophiles are everywhere and in any place there are children. I was in another church (protestant) and molested by one of it’s members. They (pedophiles)are like vultures and go where there are children. It’s not just catholic...That’s a very narrow view you have and that’s a shame...
No, it’s an attempt to discredit and destroy him.
Yeah...its right there in the catechism. Support child molesters. Its right in the Bible too.
< / sarcasm >
answer: no
“IS GLENN BECK ANTI-CHRISTIAN?”
STUPID question to begin with. Too bad some people can’t find a real boogyman to worry about. (Like the dozens of examples trying to destroy us everyday! ....and it ain’t Glenn Beck!)
First, Mormons aren’t Christian. Before you react to that, check their secret doctrines and their history.
Second, Beck is right. If a church is teaching social justice, it is time to leave. Such churches are collectivists with a veneer of gospel doctrine.
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