Glenn Beck is encouraging people whose ministers speak of social justice to leave their churches.

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.

Read the full article (audio file is there too).

We've got to hope that people don't get in the habit of watching Glen Beck for theological guidance. The starting place for interpreting scripture should never be a political ideology (left or right).

If we start with scripture, we have to deal with passages like this one:

Then he will say to those at his left hand, “You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.” Then they also will answer, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?” Then he will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.”   (Matthew 25: 41-45)

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Fear...
written by jckeeper, March 08, 2010

I'm sick and tired of people using fear to get their agenda across.

surprised?
written by Bullwinkle Q. Pettigrew, March 08, 2010

This same guy referred to Jimmy Carter as a "waste of human flesh;" shared on national television his fantasies of killing Michael Moore; put a guy on the air to advocate for terrorists attacks on American soil; and told his audience that the government bailed out General Motors so they can use On-Star to spy on us. How can we continue to be surprised by the crazy and, yes, evil things that he says for fun and profit? As he and his teabag-toting minions have become ever more vociferous about the fact that Christians cannot abide some of the things they stand for, you should expect more of this, not less.

one more reason
written by ben thompson, March 08, 2010

One more reason to not watch Fox I guess - when journalists become "personalities" they seem to read their own press releases and it swells their heads so there is less room for a working brain.

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written by Frank Zaveral, March 08, 2010

Why should we be surprised. To these people at Fox and those like them, everything smacks of communism, socialism, nazism. They are crackpots. They are not followers of Christ who very clearly, in a number of passages, urged compassion and good works. Matthew 25 is a perfect example, but there are others. And it's not Christians only who do good works. I suppose the many Jewish charitable organizations are similarly works of the devil. Stay away from Fox. It will corrupt not only your views on the U.S., but it will cripple your soul.

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