Glenn Beck's perversion of Christianity

This article in the Washington Post says it all. Glenn Beck says President Obama's interpretation of the New Testament leans too heavily on helping the poor and dispossessed. Say what? I endured four years of New Testament classes at a Jesuit college many decades ago. My memory is not as acute as it once was, but I vaguely remember stories in the gospel about Jesus feeding hordes of people, healing the sick (even to the point of bringing a few of them back to life after they'd already died,)
feeling sorry for women who were being mistreated by their husbands, telling people not to throw stones at each other, etc. I thought Jesus was all about peace, love and compassion.

Glenn Beck has made the case that "real" Christians don't fall for that kind of malarkey. In fact, he claims that the majority of American Christians don't believe as President Obama does that it is noble and good to feel empathy for those who are suffering. I don't have the ability to read the hearts of millions of Christians as Beck obviously does, but I know most Christian churches have all kinds of mission work that they do. And the goal of those missions is to help poor people, sick people, people who have been imprisoned unjustly, people who have lost everything they owned in a natural disaster, and people in general need of some hope and reassurance that life is worth living.

This is not about religion at all, folks. This is about corporations, LARGE, POWERFUL corporations and individual billionaires who don't want Congress and this President to bring some balance back to our economic system. They are mad as hell that health insurance reform passed and that Congress is putting the brakes on wildcat gambling with our pension money. They want to privatize Social Security so they can get their hands on that money for their own greedy purposes. They're quaking in their dirty little boots about climate change legislation because they've gotten rich from keeping us slaves to fossil fuels.

Glenn Beck says President Obama has perverted the meaning of Christ's message. If Beck wants to see the real pervert, he need only look in the mirror.

Those of you who attend a Christian church that still holds to the gospel of helping others had better start yelling from the rooftops because charlatans like Beck are spitting on the cross and getting rich doing it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/29/AR2010082903889_2.html?sid=ST2010082903985

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.