{"id":4171,"date":"2010-03-13T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/03\/boycotting-beck.html"},"modified":"2010-03-13T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T12:55:00","slug":"boycotting-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/03\/boycotting-beck.html","title":{"rendered":"Boycotting Beck?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe controversy over Glenn Beck’s remarks<\/a> last week continues, with some Christian leaders speaking out: <\/p>\n

\nAn evangelical leader is calling for a boycott of Glenn Beck’s television show and challenging the Fox News personality to a public debate after Beck vilified churches that preach economic and social justice.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, a network of progressive Christians, says Beck perverted Jesus’ message when he urged Christians last week to leave churches that preach social and economic justice.<\/p>\n

Wallis says Beck compared those churches to Communists and Nazis.<\/p>\n

Wallis says at least 20,000 people have already responded to his call to boycott Beck. He says Beck is confusing his personal philosophy with the Bible.<\/p>\n

“He wants us to leave our churches, but we should leave him,” Wallis says of Beck. “When your political philosophy is to consistently favor the rich over the poor, you don’t want to hear about economic justice.”<\/p>\n

Wallis says he wants to go on Beck’s show to challenge the contention that churches shouldn’t preach economic and social justice.<\/p>\n

Social and economic justice is at the heart of Jesus’ message, Wallis says.<\/p>\n

“He’s afraid of being challenged on his silly caricatures,” Wallis says. “Glenn Beck talks a lot when he doesn’t have someone to dialogue with. Is he willing to talk with someone who he doesn’t agree with?”<\/p>\n

Beck did not answer numerous requests for an interview.<\/p>\n

But a prominent evangelical leader says he, too, is suspicious of churches that preach economic and social justice.<\/p>\n

Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, a Christian college in Virginia, says Jesus wasn’t interested in politics. He says that those pastors who preach economic and social justice “are trying to twist the gospel to say the gospel supported socialism.”<\/p>\n

“Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor’s hand and give it to the poor,” Falwell says.<\/p>\n

Falwell says that Jesus believed that individuals, not governments, should help the poor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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