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norvech Donating Member (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-10 01:17 PM
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Glenn Beck "The Nation's Spiritual Leader"
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Glenn Beck and the God Squad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2LIC305GQ4


"Glenn Beck and the God Squad" is a Critical Remix Video that pokes a little fun at Glenn Beck and the judgmental attitudes that accompany so much of religious thinking within the current political arena.

Beck's got a good little slogan there until things get deeper than the all-inclusive "let's all just return to God" meme.

Picture, for example, a conversation between Martin Buber (A Jew who did not believe Christ was the savior of the world), Deitrich Bonhoeffer (a Christian who did), and Malcolm X (a convert from Christianity to Sunni Islam, a belief system that rejects the divinity of Christ and holds that Allāh has one true prophet in Mohammad, the founder of Islam).

The meme Beck is using to collect attention and momentum to himself would work with these 3 for only a brief time, and what of the devotees to nontheistic religions?

He's sort of a spiritual McDonald's if you ask me.
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  -Glenn Beck "The Nation's Spiritual Leader" norvech  Sep-05-10 01:17 PM   #0 
  - I want to see that pasty fuck raise someone from the dead. n/t  Vickers   Sep-05-10 01:19 PM   #1 
  - He reminds me of Jim Jones  MadMaddie   Sep-05-10 01:24 PM   #4 
  - Right, then there's that whole thing of  norvech   Sep-05-10 01:28 PM   #6 
  - His belief in Mormonism makes him unacceptable to many on the religious right  RainDog   Sep-05-10 01:22 PM   #2 
  - I agree, but..  Andy823   Sep-05-10 01:39 PM   #7 
     - his attack on social justice is an attack on liberal Catholicism  RainDog   Sep-05-10 02:14 PM   #12 
  - In the same way that half-baked sci-fi writer L Ron Hubbard was a "Spiritual Leader"  Amerigo Vespucci   Sep-05-10 01:24 PM   #3 
  - Deplorable. How does this possibly work on people? N/T.  norvech   Sep-05-10 01:39 PM   #8 
     - Intro to the book (same URL as above):  Amerigo Vespucci   Sep-05-10 01:47 PM   #9 
        - Yes. It is absolutely absurd.  norvech   Sep-05-10 01:55 PM   #10 
  - As Bill Press said last week...  Dappleganger   Sep-05-10 01:25 PM   #5 
  - Did they include his endorsement of legalized marijuana?  gulliver   Sep-05-10 02:03 PM   #11 
  - Magic underwear is the ticket to salvation  Angry Dragon   Sep-06-10 08:20 AM   #13 
 

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