Not that this is a surprise

Glenn Beck is an idiot.

Seriously. I don't know what's happened to him over the last 8-9 years where he went from an intelligent person with a more right-wing, but not lockstep view, to the current incarnation of Beck where facts have no more bearing on anything he says than they do for Rush.

Its quite bizarre and disturbing.

Is it ego run wild? Has he really been this insane all along?

I'm referring to these 2 instances where he appears completely out of touch with the reality of American history.

This weird far right movement of turning the Founding Fathers into pseud0-religious figures is creepy and terrifying. They were very human men, with very real flaws, firmly set into their time. That's simply fact, not a knock on who they were or what they did.

But to attempt to say the 3/5th clause was an attack on slavery is simply insane, or to use a term that the right has used so often "revisionist" to the point of lunacy.

I still wonder though, what's happened to him. He used to be able to at least discuss and listen to other points of view. Those skills appear to have left him. Strange.

Pray For Glenn Beck

I'm serious. He is seriously lost and confused. I may not like his politics, but the lies he is spouting about Jim Wallis, and the teachings of Christ are, well, I'm glad God is the arbiter of salvation, because then its up to God. Beck needs to stick to bad political diatribes and stay out of theology which he apparently knows very very little about.

Seriously, Glenn Beck needs to be prayed for.

Listen to where he says that "Jesus' message was about choice." It was? Interesting take on the Gospel message. Especially following a 1 line response from Jim Wallis saying the Gospel message was about the redistribution of wealth. Just going from what I've read of Rev. Wallis's books, I'm pretty sure there was a lot more to that statement then a single line snippet showed.

Anyway, here's the video clip.

And here is a link to a column Rev. Wallis wrote in response to Beck's show. Note the difference in tone between the two.

So...Social Justice is bad?

Glenn Beck, that bastion of logical thinking, stated on his show last week that any Christian should leave a church that teaches "social justice." Apparently wanting a more equitable and better life for the less fortunate is really just a code word for communism and nazism.

To quote Dave Berry, "I am NOT making this up." Of course, he usually was, and this is totally true.

So, here is a lovely rebuttable from a Jesuit priest to Mr. Beck.

Oh, also, from Sojournor's website you can send Glen Beck an email message saying how you believe what he said to be very wrong and completely missing the point of much of the Gospels.