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Faith-Based Group Fires Back at Glenn Beck
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/07/15/faith-based-group-fires-back-at-glenn-beck/ | Thursday, July 15, 2010 | .time

Posted on 07/16/2010 11:08:55 AM PDT by JoeProBono

One hundred thousand faithful Americans are telling Glenn Beck that enough is enough. This summer as Beck travels the United States solo and with Bill O'Reilly, Faithful America--a multi-faith justice organization--has rallied its members to push back against Beck's anti-Christian-social-justice message. When Beck makes stops in South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and Washington D.C., the group's provocative new ad will follow his trail and challenge his words as “piecemeal gospel” on local Christian radio stations.....


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1 posted on 07/16/2010 11:09:02 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Bet you $100 that “Faithful America” is funded by Soros or the like....


2 posted on 07/16/2010 11:12:23 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: JoeProBono

He’s exposed their game. He’s shining a light on them and they don’t like it.

He’s doing what no one else in television is doing. God protect him.


3 posted on 07/16/2010 11:13:16 AM PDT by marron
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To: JoeProBono

got link?


4 posted on 07/16/2010 11:13:17 AM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Now 100% flag free.)
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To: JoeProBono

Of course it’s not a “faith based group” it’s a socialist Soros funded smear group.

Beck blew them out of the water on his radio show this morning.

The forces of evil do not like Glenn.

God Bless Glenn and protect him as he fights for the truth and for America.


5 posted on 07/16/2010 11:14:38 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Everytime a democrat loses, a Moonbat gets its wings burned off.)
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To: JoeProBono

6 posted on 07/16/2010 11:16:08 AM PDT by stormer
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To: smokingfrog

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/07/15/faith-based-group-fires-back-at-glenn-beck/


7 posted on 07/16/2010 11:16:43 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

The premise of this blog is wrong. Beck is right.

He is saying is that this so-called “social justice” gospel attempts to turn over our personal responsibility for good works to the collective, i.e. the government.

It’s a socialist/Marxist ploy to twist scripture.

Jesus spoke often of our responsibility to take care of each other, to help our fellow man. But he was NEVER talking to government. He was talking to individuals, preaching individual responsibility.

This article is socialist propaganda.


8 posted on 07/16/2010 11:17:03 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: JoeProBono

Faithful America? Never heard of ‘em.

So I googled them....
http://www.faithfulamerica.org/about/

I ain’t too impressed.


9 posted on 07/16/2010 11:17:59 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: JoeProBono

Beck’s anti-Christian-social-justice message?

WTF? Um, no. More like anti-socialist-social justice message. Get it straight you PROGRESSIVE Christian wannabees.

Pffft


10 posted on 07/16/2010 11:18:08 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
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To: JoeProBono

Another pseudo Christian group to lock arms with the ones claiming to be Progrssive Catholics.


11 posted on 07/16/2010 11:18:52 AM PDT by rj45mis
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To: PGR88
Wow, 100,000 "faithful" Americans!

Encouraging, that means only 1 out of 3,000 is an outright Socialist/Progressive! LOL

Let 'em have it, Glenn!

12 posted on 07/16/2010 11:19:44 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.)
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To: Jedidah

“But he was NEVER talking to government. He was talking to individuals, preaching individual responsibility.”

Sir, you are dead on right! These commies will feign anything and anybody to discredit those speaking out for truth!


13 posted on 07/16/2010 11:21:58 AM PDT by rj45mis
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To: JoeProBono
"Faithful America--a multi-faith justice organization--has rallied its members."

Yeah, what members, the SEIU thugs?

14 posted on 07/16/2010 11:22:18 AM PDT by Dem Guard (Throw the trash out on November 2nd!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Progressive Propaganda is an understatement:

What is Faithful America?

Faithful America is an online community of tens of thousands of citizens motivated by faith to take action on the pressing moral issues of our time. We come from diverse faith traditions but share a unifying commitment: to restore community and uphold the common good in America and across the globe. In service to this core commitment, we seek to:

* end poverty and promote economic security for all
* promote peace and restore America's commitment to human rights and diplomacy
* prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change
* counter hate speech and misinformation in the media pertaining to people of faith
* work for welcoming communities where immigrants and people of all faiths are welcome


By speaking out, mobilizing and taking action in the public square, we are building a powerful grassroots movement to put justice and the common good back at the center of the American values debate. At this critical juncture, when our actions or inaction will have profound and permanent global consequences, our faiths demand nothing less.

15 posted on 07/16/2010 11:22:25 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
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To: TheConservativeParty

http://catholicadvocate.com/tag/faithful-america/


16 posted on 07/16/2010 11:22:27 AM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Now 100% flag free.)
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To: PGR88

‘the group’s provocative new ad’

What group?


17 posted on 07/16/2010 11:23:50 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: JoeProBono
Beck's anti-Christian-social-justice message

Since when is he anti-Christian? The social justice message needs to be exposed for what it is. Reallocation of wealth, hand in hand with the socialists....

18 posted on 07/16/2010 11:24:08 AM PDT by b4its2late (The Lord made man before woman to give him time to think of an answer for her first question.)
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To: JoeProBono; wagglebee

http://www.faithfulamerica.org/about/

What is Faithful America?
Faithful America is an online community of tens of thousands of citizens motivated by faith to take action on the pressing moral issues of our time... In service to this core commitment, we seek to:

...prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change

Faithful America was founded on June 15, 2004, when Americans of faith raised $36,000 to place an advertisement on Arabic-language satellite television expressing regret to Muslims for the abuse committed by Americans at Abu Ghraib prison.

...Since its foundation, Faithful America has mobilized its tens of thousands of members to take action on issues ranging from poverty to health care to Iraq


19 posted on 07/16/2010 11:24:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

These people are as liberal as it gets. They are the liberal far-left with a Progressive agenda. Tell me if you see anything about abortion, homosexuality and pornography as part of the immorality they are fighting.

These people are counterfeits.

Deacon Francis


20 posted on 07/16/2010 11:24:36 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Patrick Henry and Joe Wilson...Patriots past and present!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yeh, after reading that on their website, I need a shower.

Ugh...I feel sick. Just BARF!!


21 posted on 07/16/2010 11:25:08 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
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To: Lucky9teen

No one should be surprised at this. We’re at the top of the arc of the Gramscian “long march through the institutions,” and those institutions include most, if not all mainstream religious institutions. Pick any chruch website and you’ll find yourself at most only a couple of clicks away from doctrinal declarations of commitments to social and economic justice, redistribution of your wealth civilian disarmament. You’ll even find appeals to stop global warming on some of them.

More importantly, listen to the messages you’re getting from the pulpit. When you hear those leftist tropes, it’s time to get up and leave. The man in the pulpit is serving another Master.


22 posted on 07/16/2010 11:25:22 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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To: JoeProBono

Time / CNN — blah blah blah...


23 posted on 07/16/2010 11:25:25 AM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Now 100% flag free.)
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To: Freddd

‘Faithful America—a multi-faith justice organization’

justice organization...???

Whatever.


24 posted on 07/16/2010 11:25:36 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: Jedidah

Class envy and theft are both against the 10 commandments.


25 posted on 07/16/2010 11:25:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: JoeProBono

Social Justice and Liberation Theology are the two biggest dangers to Christian churches.

Watching some of my beloved Roman Catholic Church leadership adhere to this garbage breaks my heart.


26 posted on 07/16/2010 11:27:33 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Lucky9teen

The “religious left” trying to close the “god gap” this election.

It’s been the stated Rat ploy since they lost the 2004 election.

They cast political issues (like Obamacare) in religious terms.

Except if we are to fund socialized medicine because “I am my brother’s keeper”, then I am not required to tithe my taxes to government for religious purposes because of the “establishment” clause of the first amendment.

Besides, look at how Barack treats his own brother living in povery in Kenya.


27 posted on 07/16/2010 11:27:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: PGR88
Yes, Soros it is. These folks jump from board to board, as Beck has been detailing for the past 1&1/2 years.

Dr. New has notified me Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good receives funding from George Soros..
http://www.jillstanek.com/political-antilife-bias/catholics-in-al.html.

John Gehring, Senior Writer and Outreach Coordinator John spent almost ten years as an education reporter before leaving newspapers to blend his passion for writing, politics and faith. He joins FPL after three years at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, where he helped broaden the media narrative about Catholicism and connected reporters with inspiring social justice leaders doing work that is too often ignored..

Nick Sementelli, Communications Associate Nick joined Faith in Public Life because he believes that working for justice in the public sphere is the best way to put his faith into action. As communications associate, he appreciates the flexibility his position gives him to work in so many different program areas, but particularly enjoys writing for the Bold Faith Type blog..

Before joining FPL Nick worked at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. He first came to DC in 2005 to study at Georgetown University where he majored in Culture and Politics. While in school he worked as a research associate for the Berkeley Center for Religion, Politics and World Affairs and interned at Beaconfire Consulting, helping non-profit clients with web design and online campaigns..
http://www.faithinpubliclife.org/about/staff/
28 posted on 07/16/2010 11:28:04 AM PDT by jobim
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To: PGR88

“Bet you $100 that “Faithful America” is funded by Soros or the like....”

.
More likely Beck is.

He’s just not believable.
.


29 posted on 07/16/2010 11:28:25 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: smokingfrog

Boycott Time-Lies-Warner-Turner-CNN.


30 posted on 07/16/2010 11:29:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: JoeProBono

“Faithful America—a multi-faith justice organization”

Yeah, right. You messed up my interest in your organization by using the word justice as part of your mission.

Losers


31 posted on 07/16/2010 11:31:48 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Jedidah
He was talking to individuals, preaching individual responsibility.

Nope. He was speaking to his people as a group. God has always been about redeeming a people, not a bunch of isolated individuals.

Ephesians 3:10 "His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms"

32 posted on 07/16/2010 11:31:49 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: ThomasMore

The Sex Positive agenda sees nothing wrong with abortion, homosexuality or pornography.

They seek no moral judgements over ANY sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s).

And like the Soros fronts and those who’ve worked their way within church hierarchies to hijack the message to push for “socialist” justice, you will find close ties to SEICUS, Planned Parenthood, and other Sex Positive advocacy groups within our centers of academia, public health, and hospitals.


33 posted on 07/16/2010 11:32:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Noumenon

Yeh, I’ve heard Beck say this over and over. I get it.


34 posted on 07/16/2010 11:33:32 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
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To: rj45mis; Jedidah

I know that whole democracy thing can be difficult, but we ARE the government.

35 posted on 07/16/2010 11:33:40 AM PDT by stormer
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To: Jedidah
Absolutely!

Jesus did not say “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's (pay your taxes), and he will render unto the Lord on your behalf (government social policy as a proxy for Christian charity).”

‘Caesar’ will do what ‘Caesar’ thinks is important.

We must do what our Lord Jesus the Christ thinks is important.

36 posted on 07/16/2010 11:35:07 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: b4its2late

Saying he is anti-Christian because he is exposing the “social justice” movement for what it is — the hijacking of Christianity for the purpose of promoting Marxism — is very similar to their tactic of accusing anyone who opposes the Obama agenda as being an anti-government radical.

These people and their playbook are incredibly transparent.


37 posted on 07/16/2010 11:36:09 AM PDT by wolf24
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To: smokingfrog
the Pacific Institute for Community Organizations (PICO), a progressive national network of faith-based organizations, is once again taking money from the Bishops’ CCHD fund to support the President’s financial reforms.

I refuse to give to the CCHD (Catholic Campaign for Human Developement) specifically because it uses charity money for political/demogogic reasons. As a deacon in the Church, I also advise anyone who asks to give to local charities that have no political ties. Give to known charities that give ALL of the donation to those in need.

I am so sick of some Bishops pushing this liberal agenda by appealing to the masses good will and hoodwinking those who are not aware of where their donations are going.

38 posted on 07/16/2010 11:38:04 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Patrick Henry and Joe Wilson...Patriots past and present!)
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To: Vendome
They expressed outrage at Abu Ghraib under US control (while the guilty were already undergoing prosecution) but never bothered to comment on the abuses at Abu Ghraib under Saddam or those that go on there now under Iraqi control.

Phony concern, Abu Ghraib was all about getting the public riled up to kick out President Bush. The protesters really didn't care about treatment of prisoners.

President Bush meets with Iraqis Amputated by Saddam Hussein (ABC News - Ann Compton June 2, 2004)

President Bush met with a group of Iraqi citizens this morning whose hands were amputated by Saddam Hussein's regime in the Abu Ghraib prison and then recently replaced with American prosthetics by a Texas foundation....

The doctor also called the amputations "nothing less than torture. They were poorly done, with minimal anesthesia."


39 posted on 07/16/2010 11:38:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: editor-surveyor
More likely Beck is.

He’s just not believable.

You believe that Beck is funded by or in league with Soros? Are you suggesting that when Beck exposes Soros' financial ties to leftist organizations on a daily basis that Soros wants him to do that?

40 posted on 07/16/2010 11:39:31 AM PDT by wolf24
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To: allmendream
Right, there is no charity or free will in forced taxation.

When the million dollar marxists who insist that I'm not paying enough taxes START giving their money to charities (REAL foundations, nothing they set themselves on the board of as tax dodges), then they may have a place from which to speak.

41 posted on 07/16/2010 11:40:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: PGR88

Being described as a faith-based group would seem to imply that religion is probably not part of it. The “faith” is political, not religious.


42 posted on 07/16/2010 11:40:48 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: Lucky9teen

The other night my kids and I read the bible scriptures which call on Christians to combat global warming.

It’s in the book of Gore.


43 posted on 07/16/2010 11:41:14 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
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To: arthurus
Being described as a faith-based group would seem to imply that religion is probably not part of it. The “faith” is political, not religious.

Wow. Excellent observation.

44 posted on 07/16/2010 11:41:24 AM PDT by wolf24
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To: wolf24

Really, no, but he is tacky and strange.
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45 posted on 07/16/2010 11:43:04 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: rj45mis

These folks don’t even seem to claim to be Christian, just faithful, which suggests a question- faithful to what?


46 posted on 07/16/2010 11:43:18 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: PGR88
Bet you $100 that “Faithful America” is funded by Soros or the like....

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!!!!

The parent organization is Faith in Public Life (FPL)

Co-founded by Jim Wallis of Sojourners
Was originally established to counter the “religious right”

Founded in 2006, Faith in Public Life (FPL) is a tax-exempt charity which was originally launched to strengthen the progressive evangelical movement....

FPL’s sister organization is Faithful America... FPL also has a close relationship with John Podesta's Center for American Progress (CAP) - funded in part by George Soros.

47 posted on 07/16/2010 11:43:25 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: TheConservativeParty
Beck blew them out of the water on his radio show this morning.

Stupidest. Attempt. At. Character. Assassination. Ever.

That *ominous warning* ad was ridiculous, I was laughing with Glenn and Pat too! The shaky intonation of fake outrage, I think the worst part was lumping Glenn in with "our leaders" -- since when is a guy who does radio and/or TV commentary a "leader"?

(Well, unless you're a mind-dulled lefty who can't think on your own, okay, maybe they've got a point there).

48 posted on 07/16/2010 11:46:40 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: andy58-in-nh
Co-founded by Jim Wallis of Sojourners

Once again, the ties to the White House.

49 posted on 07/16/2010 11:51:25 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: JoeProBono
Their web page lists their address as "1101 Vermont Avenue, 9th Floor" in DC.

They share a floor with "America Votes" and "America Coming Together", both lefty front groups. This appears to be a lefty front group masquerading as a Christian group.

50 posted on 07/16/2010 11:51:25 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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