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Japan disaster ‘a message from God’, warns Beck
Has Glenn Beck given Fox the excuse to finally ditchconservative TV host?
Has Fox TV's Glenn Beck gone too far this time? Showing his trademark understanding and light touch, the populist polemicist used his daytime radio show on Monday to suggest that the millions of Japanese reeling from the triple horrors of an earthquake, tsunami and now nuclear meltdown were suffering from the wrath of God.
"I'm not saying God is causing earthquakes - well I'm not not saying that either!" he told listeners to The Glenn Beck Program, which is syndicated to more than 400 stations.
The born-again Beck, who discovered God after wrestling with drug and alcohol abuse, went on: "What God does is God's business. But I'll tell you this... there's a message being sent. 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."
Luckily the 47-year-old, whose nightly Fox show is one of the network's top-billed strands, had "the answer".
"Buckle up! Because it's going to be a bumpy ride," he said, before advising that his listeners should treat the 10 Commandments as "10 rules of thumb".
"What do you say we start doing those things?" he asked. "Because the things we are doing really suck. And they're not getting better."
Beck joins the exalted company of such televangelists as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell in popping up after a truly shocking global event and suggesting that finer adherence to the teachings of the Bible might have led to a different outcome.
Falwell suggested after the September 11 attacks: "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'You helped this happen'."
Last January, Robertson said that the nation of Haiti, which had just endured an earthquake that killed 300,000 people, was paying for a "pact to the devil" struck in the 19th century to rid the country of French occupation.
But while Falwell and Robertson's more devout acolytes lapped up their comments, Beck may find his bosses at Fox - ultimately Rupert Murdoch - don't look so kindly at his remarks.
There has been a welter of stories recently suggesting that the shock-jock's days at the network are numbered. Today, Time magazine's Alex Altman wrote: "The comment isn't that surprising, I suppose; Beck has made a fortune sussing out conspiracies most of us can't detect."
But after this "odious" outburst, Altman says that "if Fox is pondering life beyond Beck, this could be the nudge they needed." ·
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God's not the only one who's got the hump with the Japanese, poor lost souls. Apparently Allah wants to put the boot in too: http://www.islam21c.com/islamic-thought/2387-reasons-behind-the-japanese...
Sadly Glenn Beck is probably correct. Anyone that knows the truth of God's reality, and has read the Bible will realise that God is true to His Word. All the responsibility lies firmly with us. Our lack of ability to live with eachother, as human beings, is evident. The total lack of respect, and love, for our fellow human beings, is obvious.
Through our own selfish desire for more and more and more, better and bigger, has produced an overpopulation of this planet that cannot be sustained.
In the beginning we were told to go forth and multiply, to populate and take care of this garden of plenty. We have certainly done the first part to excess, because of this, we have to continually rape and destroy that which sustains us, to survive. People have to endure conditions of hardship and danger because of the lack of space. Poor people that do the work, have to live in boxes stacked on top of eachother (highrise/skyscrapers) in places that should never be inhabitated, whilst others live on their sweat without a care or concern. God is emphatic on how we should be towards one another. He warns us about greed and it's consequences. Sadly we all want to dance to the music, but who wants to pay the Band?
My heart goes out to the people of Japan for their terrible loss and the hardship they have to endure, but as the icecaps melt and the incredible weight of that ice is removed, the earth's crust will respond by movement, causing pressure and releasing pressure across the world as the tectonic plates respond to that movement. Unfortunately, there is alot more to come.
The cause is us, because we are unable to live as God intended us to. Sorry Dominic, if you know about prayer, perhaps you should read the Bible and see for yourself. The Truth simply Is. Maybe the Mayor of Tokyo and Glenn Beck have seen something you do not.
Love, Light and Peace
John
Actuall he was just parroting what the Mayor of Tokyo had already said, that the earthquake was a disaster given by God due to Greed.
So....? Where's the beef with the Mayor of Tokyo?
The man is almost certainly certifiably insane. It's the drugs doncha kno'. But sadly he is a ratings winner so I can't see him being given the heave ho anytime soon, but we can pray :)
Glenn Beck? Part company with Fox? Surely not. Perhaps the Fox News network will discover that the coming financial downturn in the US will cause the good folks of the US of A to reconsider their secular socialist ways and he will become even more popular. Or perhaps he will calm down and just go back to his slightly-less outspoken ways. This is a lot of ifs, buts, and maybes, but then the article above has the sort of ifs, buts, and maybes, and wishful thinking of a 'let's hope Glenn Beck takes a fall soon' type.