Glenn Beck says to run away from churches who preach social justice?

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Well, I am new to CA so maybe I have no right to comment, but I am shocked at the uncharitable tone to some of these posts. I realize that it is very easy to misunderstand and take things the wrong way in a forum like this and I am certainly not perfect, but can we all please take a step back and realize what we’re doing to each other? Please don’t misunderstand - I do not intend any of this to come across in a scolding or arrogant tone. I am just saddened by what I’m reading.

We are being divided in this thread over Glenn Beck??? Why??? He made a statement, the OP posed it here, I thought, for clarification on what was meant by it. Social Justice is a huge issue, as it should be. Instead of arguing back and forth, let’s please focus our attention on what the Church actually teaches on these issues. Some wonderful readings have been suggested here and some really good posts have been made, and I have learned from them…and continue to do so.

Obviously, there are fans of GB in this thread as well as those who don’t give him a second thought. It shouldn’t matter either way. It doesn’t matter to us what Glenn Beck does or does not advise us to do. We are Catholic - we don’t look to Glenn Beck for advice on navigating social issues because we look to the Church. No matter where the message is coming from - GB, Rush Limbaugh, Tim Matthews, Rachel Maddow, or Andersen Cooper - we listen to what’s being presented and then we go back to the teachings of the Church for clarification and Truth. We use things like these forums to help each other in charity to learn what the Church teaches so that we are not misled by the talking heads of our society.

Authentic Social Justice as taught by the Church is not liberal or conservative, democrat or republican. It does not fall into any such category because it rises above all of them. I hope that when we come here to discuss these things, we can try to do the same because our focus should be on Truth.

I hope I have not alienated any of you by posting this. Peace to all of you.
**Yes. **
 
Once again - such a wicked thing to say.
I am at times just amazed at the dynamics of some of these threads. Not one person who spews at Beck has addressed concerns for the REAL EVIL being perpetrated under the name of social justice, (and there are plenty of links, if they had EYES to see) but it is written in Scripture that “even the elect will be fooled.” I cannot, for the life of me, see how so-called “Pro-Life Catholics” can advocate the agendas of the Socialists and Progressives, but they have bought into the lie that poverty and lack of healthcare and pollution of the planet are evils equal to the killing of the UNBORN. We are the only creatures God made who would do such a heinous thing yet they would close their eyes to this fact. Such deception in present in these End Times.
 
I am at times just amazed at the dynamics of some of these threads. Not one person who spews at Beck has addressed concerns for the REAL EVIL being perpetrated under the name of social justice, (and there are plenty of links, if they had EYES to see) but it is written in Scripture that “even the elect will be fooled.” I cannot, for the life of me, see how so-called “Pro-Life Catholics” can advocate the agendas of the Socialists and Progressives, but they have bought into the lie that poverty and lack of healthcare and pollution of the planet are evils equal to the killing of the UNBORN. We are the only creatures God made who would do such a heinous thing yet they would close their eyes to this fact. Such deception in present in these End Times.
No kidding!
 
Well, I found a link to what he actually said on the air:
youtube.com/watch?v=5c4DqdleJuY

According to what he said, we should all avoid the catholic.com website because it has a forum called ‘social justice’.
And the sound/vite clip is 6 min. I do believe his show runs longer for the full discussion and clarification. Oh if it were a full 12 min clip! He may have made his real intent clear.
Sad really when we judge upon a snippet. Someone posted that particular bite because it has wow factor impact. Makes people agitated and hostile. It worked.

Though the real meaning slips by because the next 6 mins of the clip were not posted.
How sad and deceptive the internet can be as our source of truth.

Also funny how some may call me a Glenn Beck supporter. I am supporting the truth, not the man. He talks about this topic quite frequently.
 
Post the rest of the show, or post a transcript of the show, and prove that he said anything else about this topic on that show.
 
I don’t get why some just can’t seem to understand, that taking the interpretation of someone’s words, is exactly and only that- one person’s interpretation. Yes, Colbert is funny; yes, Father Jim is a priest and hopefully is following the tenets of the Church, but if he is basing his opinions on sound bites, even people we expect to respect can be wrong. And, yes, talking heads hate GB and constantly accuse him of things he doesn’t say.

What is his critics fail to do is listen to the entire conversation he had about social justice and the Catholic Church. For your convenience:
glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/37852/
and
Code words which might be of interest
article.nationalreview.com/428189/code-words/john-leo?page=1

Giving to the poor/helping them out of poverty=good
Government Marxist redistribution policies=bad

When one side actually has heard the entirety of what he said and his comments about how what he said was purposely misinterpreted, and the other side has listened to only the misinterpretations, the conversation is bound to deteriorate.

Oh, and by the way, he ALWAYS stresses non-violence.

You want to follow Christ’s teachings? Give to the poor and try to help them out of poverty. He didn’t tell us to count on some government to do it.

For goodness sake (literally), if one is reading these forums, one has access to the internet and in this day and age, there is no excuse for intellectual laziness.

Even a little bit of Marxism is Godless.
 
Well, I found a link to what he actually said on the air:
youtube.com/watch?v=5c4DqdleJuY

According to what he said, we should all avoid the catholic.com website because it has a forum called ‘social justice’.
Originally posted by Biggie, #97 (Emphasis added are mine)
Let’s examine the website you have linked (since it is a little less well known than the Huffington Post, which you cited earlier).
First, it gives and then decries the opinion of Bill Donohue of the Catholic League, and also attempts to smear him with a sideswipe along the way:
Quote:
However, today, conservative Catholic League President William Donohue released a statement that did indeed defend and make excuses for Beck’s comments:
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.
But what Donohue (who has said that “Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. … Hollywood likes anal sex“) leaves out is that Beck also said that Christians should run from any church that mentions “social justice” or “economic justice” on its website.
Second, Beck said that if you drill down on a church’s website that contains the code words “social justice” you will more than likely be two clicks away from arriving at a linked site that advocates progressive or liberal causes in some way. Let’s test his theory using the site you provided.
The site you have pointed to here, in criticizing Beck makes his point. The lead banner on the site says “Social Justice”. Scanning down the site as you suggest, reveals that it:
opposes the conservative reform of text books,
supports government takeover of health care,
supports legalization of illegal immigrants,
opposes the health insurance industry,
opposes the Bush administration’s use of interrogation,
supports lesbian girls who attempted to attend their high school prom,
supports the Palestinian perspective on the middle east,
supports Holder’s hiring of attorney who defended terrorists pro bono,
targets and derides Fox News
Some of the linked sites from this location are:
AFL-CIO NOW
Air America
AMERICAblog
Daily Kos
Feministe
Feministing
Huffington Post
Hullabaloo
Left Foot Forward
Media Matters
Open Left
Salon’s War Room
Science Progress
Seeing the Forest
SEIU
Sunlight Foundation
Swampland
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Talk Left
Talking Points Memo
The Conscience of a Liberal
War Room
So within a couple clicks, we have gone from “Social Justice” to support of abortion, homosexual marriage, and a shopping list of left causes. In supporting abortion, for example, some of these sites have organized for radical action against Forty Days for Life by enlisting escorts to take women to abortion clinics and are vocally anti-Catholic. In what way can these be tagged as consistently Catholic causes, while Beck is being characterized by you as “anti-Catholic”?
**Beck’s point is made by you, and the problem he is pointing out is that in the context of a sermon, few people may really understand that this is the meaning of “social justice” and if they do not personally adhere to these causes, they need to change the venue of their worship. **
If our parish starts a group supporting social justice under the umbrella of JustFaith, for instance, (and many Catholic parishes all over the country have done so) we will immediately drop all financial support to that parish and register at another. We will not do so because Beck told us to, but we will do so because we are faithful to the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church and will not join some organization which touts Catholicism, while at the same time teaching heresy!

I’d like to hear your comments to the questions posed in Post #221. No one seems to want to respond.
 
After reading some of the comments, I am deeply disappointed. Glen Beck was speaking very specifically about running away from any teaching where the emphasis is placed upon social justice being dispensed by a body separate from the individual whose charity comes from God. Glen Beck is one of the most brilliant and charitable individuals working in the public sphere. He is trying very hard to educate people about the difference between human rights that come from God as opposed to the current ideology of right “deemed” from government. If anyone heard his clarification later on the Factor, you would see that what he means is anywhere rights and obligations arise from any source except God, there can be no authentic Charity. Without authentic Charity from God, we also have no Faith and certainly no Hope. Please people, listen to him very carefully. He understands well the difference between God’s role and man’s desire for control apart from God.
 
People who support using lies, conspiracies, fear and inciting violence to make their political point. Sadly past 10 years they more and more those same people are distorting our faith to support their political ideologies.

In my opinion the only difference between Mr. Beck and say author Dan Brown is that at least Mr. Brown admits his writings ARE historiacl fiction. Mr. Beck speak and writes historical fiction but presents it as fact.

Do not be suprised some one is killed because of some one like Glenn Beck spewing hatred and fear. I sincerely pray I am wrong and nothing bad happens.
Again, I hear only ad hominem attacks an an attempt to demonize and vilify a person. In my experience, this appears typical of those who try to just dismiss Glenn Beck and, particularly, libertarian and conservative commentators. Attacks, not intellectual discussion over the points at hand. This is not Christian. It is a disservice to truth.
 
I am at times just amazed at the dynamics of some of these threads. Not one person who spews at Beck has addressed concerns for the REAL EVIL being perpetrated under the name of social justice, (and there are plenty of links, if they had EYES to see) but it is written in Scripture that “even the elect will be fooled.” I cannot, for the life of me, see how so-called “Pro-Life Catholics” can advocate the agendas of the Socialists and Progressives, but they have bought into the lie that poverty and lack of healthcare and pollution of the planet are evils equal to the killing of the UNBORN. We are the only creatures God made who would do such a heinous thing yet they would close their eyes to this fact. Such deception in present in these End Times.
It seems the nuns have figured this out and took a courageous stand.
 
You couldn’t have watched it since it ran 15 minutes and you posted 10 minutes after I did. What’s your point?
Trying to understand what you like about the video!

Edit: I sent you another pm, can you see if you can read it? 🙂
 
Harvard,
Did get your message and responded twice. I’m not sure it went through. Did it?
 
Trying to understand what you like about the video!

Edit: I sent you another pm, can you see if you can read it? 🙂
I wrote, in the private message that I posted this crazy video with Jon Stewart, that I thought Jon actuallly addressed how much of a buffoon Glenn Beck is. We can take what he says to either extreme. Jon Stewart takes it this extreme. He is not the only one that takes things to extremes. Please fact check the news sources that you favor. I think we all may be in for a surprise if we follow the money.
 
How disappointing it is to endure Jon Stewart’s attempted caricature. I hear that he made an excellent point, but for the life of me I can’t find it.

Who knows, perhaps he is simply ignorant that our secretary of state, during the democratic primary-debates, described herself as an “early-twentieth century progressive.” Or, perhaps he is simply ignorant of what “early-twentieth century progressives” advocated.

Surely he’s heard of “prohibition”, but maybe he is unaware of other progressives, like Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, whose stated goals were to sterilize “undesirables” and “negros” before they could breed more like themselves. Maybe he is unaware of Woodrow Wilson’s hundred-thousand plus political prisoners, later released by that “evil republican” Calvin Coolidge.

Perhaps he is ignorant of Edward Bernays’ (Sigmund Freud’s nephew) who worked in Wilson’s “war socialism” cabinet as propaganda minister in order to drum up support for American intervention in WWI. He also later consulted extensively with Madison avenue executives to fashion an advertising industry that capitalizes (literally) on Freudian theories of subconscious desires in order to sell the consumer society on the notion that wish-fulfillment is “your right”, not to mention profitable to manufacturers and big business----you know, those things that progressives now rail against (how ironic). He wrote a book published in 1923 called “propaganda” which Joseph Goebbel’s referred to as his “inspiration.”

It is odd that he is unmoved by self-described communists, black nationalists and various radicals in Obama’s sphere.

Perhaps “safe-schools czar” Ken Jennings, founder of GLSEN, has been missing from Mr. Stewarts radar, which I suppose is a blessing, considering that GLSEN’s recommended reading list for kids in the public schools, ages 12-17, includes graphic pornographic depictions of adult-child sex acts, you know, in order to combat homophobia and bullying (which is why Obama tapped him, according to the President). That would please Jennings’ “hero” Harry Hay, the NAMBLA supporter. Ahh “progressives.”

And obviously, should we heed any notion of Mr. Beck’s that the US Constitution is the law of the land, it is only “code” (oh, the irony, indeed) for a desire to establish a “theocracy.” Those Taliban-esque founders of ours were quite the stealth reactionaries, now, weren’t they?

Maybe he is unaware that Wislon’s “war socialism” was the brainchild of Edward Bellamy (yet another self-described socialist), whose 1888 international bestseller “Looking Backward” describes the Fabian approach also advocated by HG Welles, George Bernard Shaw and other fashionable leftists of the era, which our current secretary of state wishes to associate herself with. Incidentally, I am certain that Mr. Stewart is totally unaware that Mr. Bellamy’s cousin, Francis was the author of the “pledge of allegiance” and that, oddly enough, the original “pledge of allegiance” salute was eerily reminiscent of another future national socialist leader’s party who would rise to power spouting similarly progressive and statist ideas in the post-Weimar Germany of the 1930’s.

I mean, after all, who cares that Mussolini’s domestic program is nearly identical to that of Hitler’s Germany, minus the “Jewish solution” and the Aryan paganism, or, more incredibly, almost identical to the political goals of the American progressives of the “early-twentieth century,” whom Hillary Clinton chooses to associate herself with. I guess Jon Stewart missed all of that in history or in his personal study. I mean, all progressives really want is to keep lead out of toys and to monitor toxins in water, right? Equality and justice for all, right?

Who needs to concern themselves with the brutal facts, such as the fact that Hitler himself said he was “inspired by the American eugenicists of the progressive era” in structuring his own eugenics programs.

Who would want to relive that horrible anti-progressive, reactionary “McCarthy era” and the “red scare” even though Venona cables confirmed that not only was McCarthy (oh and liberal icon’s RFK and JFK) right, but he had vastly underestimated the levels of espionage within the federal government. Surely he is unaware of the “useful idiots” as Lenin and later apparatchiks referred to countless Western journalists (like Walter Lippman, also in Wilson’s propaganda department) and academics who offered ready apologia for the Soviet system and it’s crimes. They even pined for Hitler’s glorious national socialist experiment, that is, until after Hitler broke the pact he signed with “Uncle Joe” Stalin (he of the Kulak genocide and the Ukrainian “wholecaust”). See, once Hitler defied Uncle Joe, well, he was on his own—a “right-wing reactionary” in the minds of his former supporters on the left in America and Europe and Soviet Russia.

But still, I am certain that Stewart did have an excellent point in there somewhere.

I am STILL waiting for evidences of ANY of the derogatory charges leveled against Beck in this thread. The crickets are getting tired by now. 😉

PS. Google video hosts a highly-recommended and very revealing four-part series entitled “The Century of the Self”, which deals extensively with “early twentieth century progressive” ideas, as set forth by Freud, Bernays and Freud’s daughter Anna, and the influence those ideas carried into social science, psychiatry, advertising, the ‘human potential movement’ and politics. Must-see TV, if you know what I mean. It is produced by BBC documentaries.
 
How disappointing it is to endure Jon Stewart’s attempted caricature. I hear that he made an excellent point, but for the life of me I can’t find it.

Who knows, perhaps he is simply ignorant that our secretary of state, during the democratic primary-debates, described herself as an “early-twentieth century progressive.” Or, perhaps he is simply ignorant of what “early-twentieth century progressives” advocated.

Surely he’s heard of “prohibition”, but maybe he is unaware of other progressives, like Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, whose stated goals were to sterilize “undesirables” and “negros” before they could breed more like themselves. Maybe he is unaware of Woodrow Wilson’s hundred-thousand plus political prisoners, later released by that “evil republican” Calvin Coolidge.

Perhaps he is ignorant of Edward Bernays’ (Sigmund Freud’s nephew) who worked in Wilson’s “war socialism” cabinet as propaganda minister in order to drum up support for American intervention in WWI. He also later consulted extensively with Madison avenue executives to fashion an advertising industry that capitalizes (literally) on Freudian theories of subconscious desires in order to sell the consumer society on the notion that wish-fulfillment is “your right”, not to mention profitable to manufacturers and big business----you know, those things that progressives now rail against (how ironic). He wrote a book published in 1923 called “propaganda” which Joseph Goebbel’s referred to as his “inspiration.”

It is odd that he is unmoved by self-described communists, black nationalists and various radicals in Obama’s sphere.

Perhaps “safe-schools czar” Ken Jennings, founder of GLSEN, has been missing from Mr. Stewarts radar, which I suppose is a blessing, considering that GLSEN’s recommended reading list for kids in the public schools, ages 12-17, includes graphic pornographic depictions of adult-child sex acts, you know, in order to combat homophobia and bullying (which is why Obama tapped him, according to the President). That would please Jennings’ “hero” Harry Hay, the NAMBLA supporter. Ahh “progressives.”

And obviously, should we heed any notion of Mr. Beck’s that the US Constitution is the law of the land, it is only “code” (oh, the irony, indeed) for a desire to establish a “theocracy.” Those Taliban-esque founders of ours were quite the stealth reactionaries, now, weren’t they?

Maybe he is unaware that Wislon’s “war socialism” was the brainchild of Edward Bellamy (yet another self-described socialist), whose 1888 international bestseller “Looking Backward” describes the Fabian approach also advocated by HG Welles, George Bernard Shaw and other fashionable leftists of the era, which our current secretary of state wishes to associate herself with. Incidentally, I am certain that Mr. Stewart is totally unaware that Mr. Bellamy’s cousin, Francis was the author of the “pledge of allegiance” and that, oddly enough, the original “pledge of allegiance” salute was eerily reminiscent of another future national socialist leader’s party who would rise to power spouting similarly progressive and statist ideas in the post-Weimar Germany of the 1930’s.

I mean, after all, who cares that Mussolini’s domestic program is nearly identical to that of Hitler’s Germany, minus the “Jewish solution” and the Aryan paganism, or, more incredibly, almost identical to the political goals of the American progressives of the “early-twentieth century,” whom Hillary Clinton chooses to associate herself with. I guess Jon Stewart missed all of that in history or in his personal study. I mean, all progressives really want is to keep lead out of toys and to monitor toxins in water, right? Equality and justice for all, right?

Who needs to concern themselves with the brutal facts, such as the fact that Hitler himself said he was “inspired by the American eugenicists of the progressive era” in structuring his own eugenics programs.

Who would want to relive that horrible anti-progressive, reactionary “McCarthy era” and the “red scare” even though Venona cables confirmed that not only was McCarthy (oh and liberal icon’s RFK and JFK) right, but he had vastly underestimated the levels of espionage within the federal government. Surely he is unaware of the “useful idiots” as Lenin and later apparatchiks referred to countless Western journalists (like Walter Lippman, also in Wilson’s propaganda department) and academics who offered ready apologia for the Soviet system and it’s crimes. They even pined for Hitler’s glorious national socialist experiment, that is, until after Hitler broke the pact he signed with “Uncle Joe” Stalin (he of the Kulak genocide and the Ukrainian “wholecaust”). See, once Hitler defied Uncle Joe, well, he was on his own—a “right-wing reactionary” in the minds of his former supporters on the left in America and Europe and Soviet Russia.

But still, I am certain that Stewart did have an excellent point in there somewhere.

I am STILL waiting for evidences of ANY of the derogatory charges leveled against Beck in this thread. The crickets are getting tired by now. 😉

PS. Google video hosts a highly-recommended and very revealing four-part series entitled “The Century of the Self”, which deals extensively with “early twentieth century progressive” ideas, as set forth by Freud, Bernays and Freud’s daughter Anna, and the influence those ideas carried into social science, psychiatry, advertising, the ‘human potential movement’ and politics. Must-see TV, if you know what I mean. It is produced by BBC documentaries.
Unless YOU are writing flat-out satire, I can’t imagine what you’re saying about Stewart.

Clue?
 
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