On Glenn Beck

Andrew,

While I understand the point you are trying to make with regard to Beck (essentially, making a distinction between religious mandates and a welfare state), you are making a distinction Beck himself is not making.

One can argue whether a "socialist state" is the best way to deliver on the promise and mandate of social justice for the religious (of whatever persuasion). But one cannot argue that such a mandate is just cause for leaving a particular church.

Beck's ham-fistedness wasn't that he was talking about politics and wanted to ensure the religious were a part of his Rand-like vision. It was that he tried to separate the religious from their own beliefs.

Your pal,

Fred