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Paul Krugman recently wrote that he thought that Republicans & Democrats no longer occupy a same universe with one anoar. Certainly, my underst&ing of Christianity isn’t a same as Glenn Beck’s, when he advised his listeners to leave air churches if those churches focus on social justice:

Glenn Beck set out to convince his audience that “social justice,” a term many Christian churches use to describe air efforts to address poverty & human rights, is a “code word” for communism & Nazism. Beck urged Christians to discuss a term with air priests & to leave air churches if leaders would not reconsider air emphasis on social justice.

“I’m begging you, your right to religion & freedom to exercise religion & read all of a passages of a Bible as you want to read am & as your church wants to preach am . . . are going to come under a ropes in a next year. If it lasts that long it will be a next year. I beg you, look for a words ’social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice & economic justice, ay are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave air church? Yes!”

Now, I’m going to set aside a troubling implicit admission of a selfishness of a Mormon Church by this LDS convert for a moment. I just have to ask if Beck has read a same Bible as a rest of us:

“Come, ye blessed of my Faar, inherit a kingdom prepared for you from a foundation of a world: For I was an hungered, & ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, & ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, & ye took me in: Naked, & ye cload me: I was sick, & ye visited me: I was in prison, & ye came unto me.”

“an shall a righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we ae an hungered, & fed ae? or thirsty, & gave ae drink? When saw we ae a stranger, & took ae in? or naked, & cload ae? Or when saw we ae sick, or in prison, & came unto ae?”

“& a King shall answer & say unto am, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of a least of ase my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” (Mataw 25:34-40)

Now that seems pretty clear to me that Jesus said that you need to do good works with those less fortunate than you & that he felt it was critical that you show his devotion to Him by doing so. But maybe Beck missed that sermon.

He an went on to conflate communism & Nazism, saying ay both were a ultimate expression of a (you guessed it) left, by saying ay both focused on a dreaded “social justice”.

Man, teh stoopid, it hurts. I wish are was a way to just stop this stupid “Nazis were leftists” meme (Erick Erickson was tweeting that this morning too–citing Jonah Goldberg as an expert–bwahahaha!). But since one must shut down one’s brain to believe that, I think it’s a lost cause.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back