It Has All Happened Before And Will Happen Again
For students of history, what Glenn Beck has recently provided is something that has seen before. I wanted to note something which hasn’t been talked about much. Beck said,
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop and tell them, “Excuse me are you down with this whole social justice thing?” If it’s my church, I’m alerting the church authorities: “Excuse me, what’s this social justice thing?” And if they say, “yeah, we’re all in that social justice thing”—I’m in the wrong place.
Let me ask you a question – what happens if the church authorities don’t do anything about it? What do you think the next level should be? Or rather, what do you think Beck’s eventual level would be? When a loud mouth with a microphone is telling you to report your minister to anyone for the sermons that they are preaching, there is going to be trouble. That brings us to Fr. Steve’s excellent post.
As a student of history, as a military man, and as a priest, he has a rather unique point of view:
During this time I was not expecting to begin to see certain commentators actually attempt to blatantly attack a key part of the witness of the Christian Church in telling Christians to place political ideology over faith and recommend that church members leave their church if it does not conform to those commentators’ political ideology. As a historian as well as a Priest I can only draw parallels to the Nazis who placed their ideology above the Church and persecuted those who stood against them, even before they took power.
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In: Religion and Politics · Tagged with: civil religion, glenn beck, nazi germany, social justice
