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by Jim Wallis
When Glenn Beck promised to devote a whole week of his television show to come after me, I wasn’t sure he really meant it. I guess he did. Last night he began to make good on the threat he made on his radio show that “the hammer will fall.”
I confess to having never really watched Glenn Beck’s show before being told that he equated the term “social justice, highly respected in the Christian world and embedded in all of our traditions,” with Communism, Marxism, Nazism, and a completely totalitarian view of government. He said “social justice” is a “perversion of the gospel” and told Christians to leave their churches if they heard that term used by their pastors or even found it on the Web site! Whew.
I responded on my blog that instead of leaving all our churches, maybe we should just stop watching his show and the insults against a teaching at the core of the gospel and integral to biblical faith, and I suggested that instead of turning pastors and priests in to “church authorities,” we turn ourselves in to Glenn Beck (since our church authorities also regard social justice as core to their faith). Well, he apparently got angry and promised that the hammer would “pound over and over through the night” on “your cute little organization and the cute little people who work for you.” Some of them are indeed very cute, but they felt a little uneasy about the context of the compliment.
But tonight’s first installment of the hammer proved that Beck isn’t just angry or merely misguided; he really does completely misunderstand the Christian teaching of social justice and is indeed insulting us.
Read the entire article at The Huffington Post…
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