On his daily radio and television shows last week, Fox News personality Glenn Beck set out to convince his audience that “social justice,” the term many Christian churches use to describe their efforts to address poverty and human rights, is a “code word” for communism and Nazism. Beck urged Christians to discuss the term with their priests and to leave their churches if leaders would not reconsider their emphasis on social justice…. “I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them … are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. 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. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!”
My pet name for Glenn Beck has long been The Dumbest )&^%$#@ Human Being On The Face Of The Planet ©. While there can be little dispute that Beck is as bat-s—t crazy as anyone else at Fox Noise Channel, he’s truly outdone himself. His latest assault on reason is truly one the dumbest diatribes I’ve ever had the misfortune to be exposed to. Just thinking about it, I can feel brain cells dying as I try to contemplate how anyone in their right mind could seriously have any issue with the idea of social justice, particularly if it means having to compare those things to Communism and Nazism. There simply is no logical means by which any rational mind can tie those loose ends together into a closed circle. Yet, I’d wager that a significant portion of Beck’s loyal, knuckle-dragging fan base are now absolutely convinced that he’s right…and are actively looking for a Church completely devoid of Christian charity and compassion as we speak.
I have to wonder…when did Beck last crack open a Bible? Considering that his theological base would seem to make the Old Testament look like a kindergarten warm milk and cookie break, I’m guessing the parishioners in his Church all show up for Sunday services wearing brown shirts and Sam Browne belts.
How Beck can possibly weave social and economic justice together with Communism and Nazism is something I can’t even begin to wrap my head around. This travesty represents a descent into something far closer to insanity than anything I really care to explore. My fear is that if I get to a place where I can actually explain Beck’s argument in rational terms, the question will then become which one of us is actually insane? Even more disturbing is the reality that millions of knuckle-dragging troglodytes treat Beck’s every utterance as if it’s Gospel. Only in America can you make millions for being so thoroughly bats—t crazy, eh?
