Posted on 03/15/2011 3:50:05 PM PDT by woofie
Wrath of God or natural disaster?
When it comes to Japan, Glenn Beck won't claim it's the former, but can't tell you it's the latter.
"I'm not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes," Beck told his radio listeners on Monday, before throwing in, "I'm not not saying that either."
"What God does is God's business. But I'll tell you this -- there's a message being sent," Beck continued. "And that is, 'Hey you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.' I'm just saying."
Beck's comments, which led Time Washington correspondent Alex Altman to write "Glenn Beck pulls a Pat Robertson," aren't the only ill-conceived remarks straddling the line between compassionate and inappropriate in the wake of Japan's tragedy.
Here are five more regrettable comments made during the aftermath of the earthquake, compliments of Surge Desk.
1. 50 Cent evacuates his "hoess" The rapper caught his share of criticism on Friday after tweeting his thoughts in anticipation of the natural disaster: "Wave will hit 8am them crazy white boys gonna try to go surfing."
"Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate all my hoess from LA, Hawaii and Japan. I had to do it. Lol" Of course, 50 clarified his remarks shortly after: "Nah this is nuts but what can anyone do about it. Let's pray for anyone who has lost someone"
"Some of my tweets are ignorant I do it for shock value. Hate it or love it. I'm cool either way 50cent."
(Excerpt) Read more at aolnews.com ...
50 Cents also dissed Japan.
To hear the Left spin it, the Japanese quake is a sign the world should abandon nuclear power.
I always thought the message being sent by God during a natural disaster is :
Life’s a Bi#%& and then you die
Or, it could be Evil.
This sort of thing always sounds crazy to people who don’t believe in God, me included. Then again, we rationalist, materialist, atheist types say crazy things ourselves. It couldn’t have been 3 seconds after the news broke before someone blamed it on global warming, err, climate change. And now we have ‘round the clock coverage of the Folly of Man in the guise of kinda, sorta, maybe, possibly, potential nuclear disaster. So how insensitive was Pat Robertson, really?
But we’re supposed to believe that when some loonie pops off and shoots a bunch of people, its because we vocally disagree with Obama.
If God is trying to send us a message he needs to find a new email program!
The one he’s using tends to cause people to die on this end...
When any Christian makes any public statement about some horrible disaster like that I always cringe.
One I actually wonder about myself though was that tornado in MN about 2 years ago (didn’t kill anyone). I was a block away from it. It was while the ELCA was having their vote for allowing gay priests. I kid you not, this tornado came out of nowhere, totally unannounced at 3, the exact time the ELCA had the scheduled vote, and it hit that church and split the cross on top. I saw this one for myself. Totally weird it was.
God does not appear to be sending messages of retribution at this time.
If that is the best “offensive” quote from Beck they could find, lol.
Blah blah blah. The religion hating lefties chime in.
They will really hate todays show. Beck showed the suffering Janpanese patiently standing in line for supplies, vs the pathetic site of “college” students destroying a car just for the H of it.
Not to mention, the thugs in WI complaining about collective bargaining “rights”, when some Japanese don’t even have homes.
But hey if the Japanese aren’t able to send those giant flat screens at a reasonable price, I guess they will demand higher wages for THAT.
Boy are we in for a rude awakening.
Funny, I was going to make a post on FR two weeks ago, to the effect that I
had a growing feeling that Glenn Beck had peaked, and that we wouldn’t be hearing so much about or from him in the months to come, and I was going to offer some potential reasons, but this latest offering expresses and explains it better than I could: the stupid and illogical side of Beck grows larger day by day, and is hardly offset by the sensible side.
Yikes. That sounds like a REALLY clear message to me.
God never explains the presence of evil in creation (see the book of Job) - what scripture does declare is the He's dealt with it ... TOTALLY.
If God were really that angry and had complete control he'd probably have found a more appropriate place to strike, but I don't get a feeling that Beck was saying the people there deserved what happened.
It certainly wasn't on the level of Gilbert Gottfried's joke, maybe more on the level of those people who link earthquakes with global warming. Maybe that's bad enough, though it's not like he was mocking Japan or making light of the catastrophe.
I think Beck has a sort of mental problem this President has. To a lessor degree to be sure, but he seems to have to be in the “center” of it all.
In his journalism thing, he is infamous for “Borrowing” things without permission. He was caught red handed this past winter by one of his radio comrades on patriot network.
Well, I will agree that it’s a subtle hint that building nuclear power plants in a tsunami zone is a bad idea. They just need to be built in safer places is all.
says it all
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