They are coming out in full force to try and make Christians hate Glenn Beck and their main tactic is to suggest that Beck is against social justice, a ‘perceived’ core tenant of the Bible. But the problem with this argument is that the Bible doesn’t say that the government should take care of the poor or that we should advocate for the government to solve our poverty problems, i.e. social justice. The Bible instructs us as individuals to love the poor and to take care of them. It’s called charity. Further more, it isn’t some law that we must obey because it’s there, it something that we do because Christ changed our hearts and we want to do it.
I love how people like to use the section in Acts where everyone in the community sold what they had so that no one would be poor. They like to use this as an example of what Obama is bringing to the table. But it’s not. It was charity. They as individuals did it of their own accord without the government telling them what to do or doing it for them. It wasn’t government wealth distribution as Obama wants to enact (on a larger scale than present). It was charity.
It’s clear, if you listen to Beck, that he is talking about social justice from the standpoint of government being the answer to our needs. In fact the photo labeled ‘charity’ in this post is one that Beck painted himself. But those who want to smear him will continue in this vain because their motives are evil. It’s that simple. They need to shut him up and they are doing everything in their power to make it happen.
I guess they think that the American people are stupid, that we who listen to Beck aren’t smart enough to distinguish between their smear and what Beck is really saying. And that is why come November that they will lose their super majorities and perhaps even their majorities.