Glenn Beck calls Jesus a "Communist".

[Snide]

Jesus healed the sick...for free.

Jesus gave sight to the blind....at no charge.

Jesus fed the hungry....no credit card required.

Jesus gave water to the thirsty.....no cash needed.

....had Glenn Beck existed in Jesus' time....he'd call him a Communist and turn him over to High Priest Caiphas.

If Jesus did all those things, that makes him a swell guy, not a Communist.

If Jesus preached a government to take money from everyone to do all those things and more, you might have a point.

 

[Ducky]

So, just to be clear, Glenn Beck is a jackass. Also, he didn't actually call Jesus a Communist.

Gotcha.

Thanks for the rhetoric, parky. We don't get enough of that in this forum section.

 

[brodski]

"This video contains content from bbc, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. "

That's cos the BBC are communists.

 

[dudalb]

I wonder if Parky gets that he is giving Glenn Beck just Beck wants..publicity and Notoriety.

 

[Thunder]

So, just to be clear, Glenn Beck is a jackass. Also, he didn't actually call Jesus a Communist.

nooo....really???

 

[Schrodinger's Cat]

If Jesus did all those things, that makes him a swell guy, not a Communist.

If Jesus preached a government to take money from everyone to do all those things and more, you might have a point.

We already have programs which do all these things. We have medicare and we have WIC and we have food stamps and medicaid, etc etc.

Are you suggesting that the United States has been a communist country for decades?

I'm not asking whether you approve these programs, that's a matter of opinion.

But having programs in which some taxes go towards the needy is not communism. If that's communism, every country in the western world is communist and has been for decades.

Communism is the forfeiture of private ownership of business and property to the government.

Tax collection may be unsavory. But it is not communism.

 

[Thunder]

Our Constitution gives Congress and the President the duty to promote the general welfare of the American people.

sounds pretty Commy....to me.

 

[Ducky]

nooo....really???

Please accept my sincerest and heartfelt sympathy on your suffering under the delusions that you're funny.

 

[dirtywick]

haha that is awesome.

 

[Thunder]

Please accept my sincerest and heartfelt sympathy on your suffering under the delusions that you're funny.

my friend, you have no ****ing clue how funny I can be.

 

[Undesired Walrus]

I'm not just criticizing Beck on this. He's too excitable. But if you hear someone use the phrase "social justice", that really is a good indicator that they're engaging in fuzzy thinking. Not the worst of sins, perhaps, but its use really should put you on guard.

I don't find it that objectionable. Injustice persists throughout society, I don't think anybody contests that. It isn't outrageous to suggest it needs to be beaten back.

 

[Ziggurat]

I don't find it that objectionable. Injustice persists throughout society, I don't think anybody contests that. It isn't outrageous to suggest it needs to be beaten back.

What you describe is just plain "justice".

 

[Undesired Walrus]

Indeed.

 

[Captain.Sassy]

What you describe is just plain "justice".

"Social justice" is strongly associated with the notion of 'positive rights', which is a notion generally rejected by small-governmentalists.

 

[KingMerv00]

Our Constitution gives Congress and the President the duty to promote the general welfare of the American people.

Technically, the general welfare clause only applies to Congress.

 

[a_unique_person]

What you describe is just plain "justice".

The term "social justice" was coined by the Jesuit Luigi Taparelli in the 1840s. The idea was elaborated by the moral theologian John A. Ryan, who initiated the concept of a living wage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice

The concept of a living wage seems reasonable to me. If do the right thing, obey the law and work hard, yet starve, then something is wrong.

 

[Ziggurat]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice

The concept of a living wage seems reasonable to me. If do the right thing, obey the law and work hard, yet starve, then something is wrong.

Good thing that pretty much never happens in the US now, isn't it? We must be an extremely socially just nation, far more socially just than almost all of human history until now.

 

[a_unique_person]

Good thing that pretty much never happens in the US now, isn't it? We must be an extremely socially just nation, far more socially just than almost all of human history until now.

You just moved the goalposts. Is a living wage something that people have a right to?

 

[Grizzly Bear]

I don't think this controversy is what the OP thinks it is. I don't think the OP read much into the article.

 

[Pardalis]

Jesus healed the sick...

Jesus gave sight to the blind...

Jesus fed the hungry...

Jesus gave water to the thirsty...

No, no, no and no.

It's so strange that people just assume he existed.

BTW Parky, aren't you supposed to be Jewish?