‘Outrageous’: Glenn Beck Responds to Media Accusations

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The Blaze:

Glenn Beck, who has been in South Carolina campaigning for Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz this week, called in to his eponymous radio program Tuesday to talk about the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. What he said garnered a strong reaction from the media, which he is now calling “outrageous.”

 

Beck’s radio show co-host Pat Gray could not wrap his mind around why God would allow Scalia to have passed away in a moment when the U.S. is so divided politically. Beck, hoping to provide an answer, called into The Glenn Beck Radio Program from the road to explain his view.

 

“You’re welcome. I just woke the American people up. I took them out of the game show moment, woke enough of them up to say, ‘Look at how close your liberty is to being lost,’” Beck said, trying to articulate what he believes would be God’s point of view. “You replace one guy and you now have 5-4 decisions in the other direction. And just with this one guy, you’ve lost your liberty.”

 

Beck went on to say that the Constitution is “hanging by a thread,” adding that, with Scalia’s death, “that thread has just been cut.” The radio host said that the only way to “survive” is by appointing a “true constitutionalist.”

 

Shortly after his radio show ended, several media outlets — including Mediaite and Raw Story — reported that Beck said “God killed Scalia” — a claim the radio show host pushed back against strongly late Wednesday night.

 

“Apparently the [mainstream media] is reporting that I said ‘God killed Scalia to help Ted Cruz.’ Outrageous,” Beck wrote in a Facebook note. “What I did say is ‘perhaps God allowed Scalia to die at this time to wake America up to how close we are to the loss of our freedom.’”

 

Beck went on to write that he believes in “divine providence,” something he says Americans have historically endorsed, which he uses as the linchpin for his argument that God might have “allowed Scalia to die.”

 

“Are we awake to our sorry state? I am not sure. If the freedom that we are about to lose belongs to God for future generations, it would only make sense that He would try to wake us. No?,” Beck wrote.

 

The conservative firebrand added that God “gives us free choice” and wrote that he is not sure who God wants to be elected president.

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Beck is off his medication again...

[SrWoodchuck]

Beck is a conservative. His appeal is to the Christian Right. Those comfortable with the steady loss of freedom guaranteed by our Constitution (which calls these freedoms "unalienable rights"*) are understandably worried about the loss of the "conscience of the court."

 

*What Thomas Jefferson Meant by 'Unalienable Rights' http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/09/23/what-did-thomas-jefferson-mean-by-unalienable-rights/

 

When Thomas Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, he pointed to “certain unalienable rights” with which we were endowed by our “Creator.”

 

What did he mean when he wrote the phrase “unalienable rights,” and what rights are “unalienable”?

Jefferson understood “unalienable rights” as fixed rights given to us by our Creator rather than by government. The emphasis on our Creator is crucial, because it shows that the rights are permanent just as the Creator is permanent.

 

Jefferson’s thought on the source of these rights was impacted by Oxford’s William Blackstone, who described “unalienable rights” as “absolute” rights–showing that they were absolute because they came from him who is absolute, and that they were, are, and always will be, because the Giver of those rights–Jefferson’s “Creator”–was, and is, and always be.

 

Moreover, because we are “endowed” with them, the rights are inseparable from us: they are part of our humanity.

 

 

The state of our country is in flux, with a large percentage of the population favoring socialism. Make no mistake, if a progressive is selected to replace Scalia...the 2nd Amendment is gone. With the 2nd Amendment gone, the rest are just negotiable points. Will it happen immediately? Probably not, but "rights" will become privileges, with special circumstances, enforced at whim by elites.

 

Your secular horror at the mention of God, by Beck, is sad. Secular America is death of the American Constitutional Republic. It assumes that man, and not God, is the final arbiter of lawful, ethical, moral & polite life. It represents the lack of conscience, and the hope that man will be as enlightened as the Creator...something that is impossible. We have "devolved" under progressive rule. Whole cities are now 3rd world hell-holes, under progressive, secular rule. You've heard the biblical phrase, "...the wages of sin is death?" That is secularism & progressivism in a nutshell. Only, it is a miserable, living death. JMO