Did he actually call himself a pacifist? I missed the first hour, so maybe he did, but what I heard was a caller describing HIMself as a pacifist. I think that the term is being thrown around recklessly. There are actually very few true pacifists in the world, because as I understand it, a true pacifist is somebody who wouldn’t attempt to fight back if he or a loved one were being raped or murdered, who doesn’t want the U.S. to hit back after Pearl Harbor(Jeanette Rankin). Even very few libertarians are pacifists. Actually a lot of libertarians believe that a person has a moral obligation NOT to be a pacifist.
He did in a roundabout way. First the caller said he was a pacifist like Beck, and Beck didn’t correct him. But then when the caller went a direction Beck didn’t like, he told the caller that he wasn’t a pacifist. You’d have to hear it, but the way he said it was like he was saying you aren’t “one of us”.
But he also went on to say how he would not in any way advocate any violence unless God told him to, personally. So, since to my knowledge God hasn’t done that since the Old Testament, I dont know what any practical difference is between Beck’s stance and a pacifist. Also his two prime heroes, MLK and Gandhi were damn near if not pacifists.