I think Beck’s programs can be seen a day late, however, at http://www.watchGlennBeck.com.

Thanks for that close-up report of your church. And, I agree with you.

“Social Justice” originates in the days when here in the UK one was born to a “place” in society and could not rise above nor fall below it.

In the legal system that meant in any dispute the court would have a bias towards the higher born contestant. Worse than that evidence took second place to breeding. The smoking gun (or bloodied sword) did not carry as much weight with judge or jury as the “word of a gentleman” against a low born person. Well a gentleman or woman was not capable of lying.

That is the world the concept of social justice was born in. It was always irrelevant in the US due to a statement on the opening paragraph of the Declaration Of Independence.

But think how some of the ideas considered by the Obama administration suggest a return to the authoritarian injustices of eighteenth century Britain. Court cases being decided on the basis of social class and wealth for example; Privileged minorities being required to abide by different rules… fortunately, as the healthcare debacle has shown, such ideas would never get through congress so just as here where the “progressive” Labour Government’s plan to make us all carry ID cards loaded with RFID chips that would enable the authorities to locate us to within 6 feet at any time fell to public opinion and just as a suggestion from Revenue and Customs that they be given access to every bank account is going the same way, we can show that power still resides with the people.

They can’t put us all in prison.

Thanks for sharing your views. I have to say that I find them bizarre. Glenn Beck flip-flopped on the bail-out bill? So did I. The economics made sense, which is why everyone from President Bush to Glenn Beck to me was fooled. In fact, the economics *still* make sense. The theory is sound. The problem is that in practice the US didn’t end up with a legit bail-out bill. We ended up with a grab-bag of progressive expenditures. I learned a lesson from that. Beck learned a lesson from that. From what I’ve heard Bush learned a lesson from that.

As far as the global warming goes: I’m with Beck 100% on that as well. You can read here at AR my attacks on the global-warming hysteria. But that doesn’t mean that there is no global warming at all. I don’t know the answer to that question. Maybe there is some, but it’s not human caused. Maybe there’s none. Maybe there is some, it is human caused, but there’s nothing we can do about it. Those are all reasonable questions to have, and I’m not going to attack Beck for having them.

Off the top of my head I can’t recall the details of the VAT-tax.

But – based on 2/3 – I’m going to have to say you sound like a crank. If you expect perfection from your pundits then you’re only pundit is God the Almighty. When he gets a spot on Fox let me know. In the meantime the only thing a rational person can expect of any other human being is sincerity and competence. Beck has demonstrated both consistently.

Glenn Beck is a Benedict Arnold. He tells about 85% truth just to get you roped in only to stab you in the back later. Did you know that he was from the VAT tax during climate gate? Or that he flip-flopped on global warming and now supports it. Or that he was for the banker bail-out (until the bill passed and then pretended to be against it)?

This guy is a snake and cares nothing for our nation. He is a complete hypocrite.

HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=MRYNE4TGEOW

I’m going to be working on pulling material together for another piece, because this is a huge issue with enormous political ramifications.

The first thing that struck me, once again, by all this outrage is that people get too offended way too easily any more. With all his high amounts of energy it is no wonder that he ‘spouts’ off sometimes in ways that could shock people. As much responsibility as there is on the individual delivering the message, there is also responsibility on the individual receiving the message. Look for the nuggets of truth and go from there. If you can’t find the truth in the message then you can disagree with him. To disagree solely on the method of delivery is, to me, your problem and not his.

I heard him today state that social justice was about equalizing people. He went further to state that from his reading of the Bible that there is only one person who is the great equalizer of people and that is Jesus Christ. I couldn’t have been happier to hear these words, and on a national platform.

From my perspective, many churches have changed their messages over the years. In order to attract and retain more “bodies” in their pews they have watered down the message in order to not offend anyone. Last time I checked the Bible is offensive and very well should be. I should have been offended by my own actions to drive me to the relationship I have with the Lord now.

I don’t take any offense from Beck at all. I happen to have an ADD child and can easily recognize his “bounciness”. I pray for him all the time as I truly believe his heart is in the right place. He is a man of God and has no problem declaring such.

Thank you Nathaniel for engaging us once again.