Religious scholars say Glenn Beck is ignorant

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Last week, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck called on Christians to leave their churches if they heard any preaching about social or economic justice because, he claimed, those were slogans affiliated with Nazism and Communism.

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Mr. Beck, in vilifying churches that promote “social justice,” managed to insult just about every mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, African-American, Hispanic and Asian congregation in the country — not to mention plenty of evangelical ones.

Even Mormon scholars in Mr. Beck’s own church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said in interviews that Mr. Beck seemed ignorant of just how central social justice teaching was to Mormonism.

The controversy began when Mr. Beck said on his radio show: “I beg you, look for the words ’social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.

“Am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!

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Religious bloggers, from the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the liberal Jesuit magazine America, to Joe Carter, at the conservative magazine First Things, took Mr. Beck’s decree as possibly an attack on Catholic teaching, and definitely an affront to Christianity.

Father Martin wrote on the Huffington Post: “It is not enough simply to help the poor, one must address the structures that keep them that way. Standing up for the rights of the poor is not being a Nazi, it’s being Christian. And Communist, as Mr. Beck suggests? It’s hard not to think of the retort of the great apostle of social justice, Dom Helder Camara, archbishop of Recife, ‘When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.’ ”

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Kent P. Jackson, associate dean of religion at Brigham Young University, said in an interview: “My own experience as a believing Latter-day Saint over the course of 60 years is that I have seen social justice in practice in every L.D.S. congregation I’ve been in. People endeavor with all of our frailties and shortcomings to love one another and to lift up other people. So if that’s Beck’s definition of social justice, he and I are definitely not on the same team.”

Philip Barlow, the Arrington Professor of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University, said: “One way to read the Book of Mormon is that it’s a vast tract on social justice. It’s ubiquitous in the Book of Mormon to have the prophetic figures, much like in the Hebrew Bible, calling out those who are insensitive to injustices.

“A lot of Latter-day Saints would think that Beck was asking them to leave their own church.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03...ott-glenn-beck/

[chri'stina 190]

You can't be offended if you don't take everything he says so seriously.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Yes. Journalist are not specialists in religion, education, science, mathematics. They just report. Their opinions are irrelevant except full of poop.

[Matt&Cui 0]

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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You can't be offended if you don't take everything he says so seriously.

Well yes... but how on Earth can there be an audience for that sort of garbage? It's insane!

[chri'stina 190]

Well yes... but how on Earth can there be an audience for that sort of garbage? It's insane!

Maybe if he offended them, there isn't anymore?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Religious scholars say Glenn Beck is ignorant

Just goes to show what they know!

[Niels Bohr 72]

I didn't get what you said.

Just goes to show what they know!

[Obama 2012 1,714]

""Religious scholars say Glenn Beck is ignorant""

Pot meet Kettle

Kettle meet Pot

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Journalist are not specialists in religion, education, science, mathematics.

I'm confused. Here we seem to be talking about Religious folk and Glenn Beck. Where did the journalists come into this discussion?

[Niels Bohr 72]

Isn't Glenn Beck a journalist expressing his opinions?

I'm confused. Here we seem to be talking about Religious folk and Glenn Beck. Where did the journalists come into this discussion?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Isn't Glenn Beck a journalist expressing his opinions?

No. His show is entertainment.

[NickD 203]

I prefer to limit my description of Glenn Beck to simply that he is an a$$hole.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Huh. Obama left the Trinity United Church Of Christ. Is it because they preached 'Social justice'? Or because the rest of us found out.

[Ali G. 37]

Isn't Glenn Beck a journalist expressing his opinions?

No, he has stated on numerous occasions, that he is not a journalist - well he did on CNN. He is basically like a Rush.

Edited March 12, 2010 by Ali G.