Glenn Beck boo-hooing persecution
27 January 2009 by StardustThis guy has to be one of the biggest asshats on the planet, and is interviewing another superstitious asshat, Jim Dobson. Dobson’s take on the constitution is outrageous! Our “rights”, he says, come from Gawd, not government because he says Gawd doesn’t take our rights away, but the state can. Beck says that atheists are “stealing America” and that even though (he claims) 90% of the country believes in a magical sky boss, we atheists are “pushing around” Xians and “forcing our beliefs on Xians”. Boy does this dude have things ass-backwards! And while we atheists and secular humanists are merely upholding the Constitution and the Separation of Church and State, he says that we are the ones “boo-hooing” about god beliefs being expressed in public. Beck conveniently leaves out the fact that judges who are god botherers who understand the laws of the land are the ones upholding the Constitution and the ones making the rulings in favor of Separation of Church and State, as they should.
Interesting how a caption at the bottom of the screen in the video says “Progressives want to remove God from America”. Well, most progressives are god believers so how does that add up to only 10% of people who are persecuting the poor Xians and wanting their own way, as Beck claims? The judge he refers to in Illinois who struck down the moment of silence in public schools is a god believer who understands separation of church and state.
Beck also states, “Are children of atheists so fragile that the idea of prayer could actually warp their minds?” I have a question for Beck…Is the faith of Christians so weak that they cannot just pray their prayers without public display and government endorsement? And it really pissed me off that he is reporting that atheists get violent when asked to pray. Beck is a fool and a number-one idiot and a liar.
Warning to those who have high blood pressure problems!
Glenn Beck Attacks Atheists and Interviews James Dobson on School Prayer
H/T to The Perplexed Observer
27 January 2009, on 11:57 am
It’s sickening watching these two losers complimenting each other. Where’s my Pepto!
27 January 2009, on 12:03 pm
Beck is a fool and a number-one idiot.
Quite right, and worth repeating.
27 January 2009, on 12:32 pm
The whole Xmas card conversation at the beginning only makes sense when your realize that Beck is a Mormon and …
Danny, could you please repost your comment, it was accidentally deleted except for the part above…thanks. Mods
27 January 2009, on 12:39 pm
Beck certainly shows off his ignorance and bigotry in that clip. I expect him to be a bigot, but the extent of his displayed ignorance is what truly amazes me.
27 January 2009, on 1:34 pm
Wow…Somehow it wouldn’t surprise me to see “brain seepage” exiting from either one of those idiots ears. You know…from some kind of undiagnosed religious brain rot?
Star…seeing “boo-hooing” in your title; generated a…Tuesday variety?…creative mind warp of my own.
I’m referring to the making up of words. Specifically…”boo-hooing warping”:
Word warps like…
boo-poohing…pooh-hooing…pooh-hoeing…pooh-spewing (I know…cheating!)…boo-hewing…pooh-hewing…Boo-huing…hue-poohing…you-poohing (almost missed that one)…ho-hooing (whores only?)…ho-poohing…ho-hoing (only at Xmas?)…
What’s that, GifSters?…”Stop that!”…? (ala Python Sun-god)…Yeah…you’re right…
I think, after watching that video, my blood pressure went up and…
now my brain hurts?
(checks ears for brain seepage)
27 January 2009, on 2:36 pm
Ted Bundy was born in a home for unwed mothers before Roe v Wade. It is not known who his father was, but one of his biographers believed Bundy was the product of an incestuous relationship between his mother and her father; a tyrannical Methodist preacher. Bundy was raised believing his mother was really his older sister. Bundy was raised to believe in a vengeful god and forced to pray.
In the death-bed interview with Dobson, Bundy did blame “violent pornography” and “detective magazines,” while still hoping Dobson might get him a pardon.
Ted Bundy is a notorious example of how teaching kids the existence of a violent god and forcing them to pray to and worship the same did not prevent one of the most disgusting and perverted serial murders ever. Forced parenthood, deception and religion were more likely causes than girly magazines.
To suggest prayer is good for kids and then hold up Bundy as an example of the evil of porn on the same TV show shows the ignorance of both Beck and Dobson.
27 January 2009, on 3:41 pm
I wonder what rights Dobson is talking about because they seem gung-ho to remove certain ones.
27 January 2009, on 5:48 pm
Hilarious! Glenn Beck and Jim Dobson show just how simple-minded and ridiculously inadequate they are to discuss legal issues.
The decision was so very clearly explained by Judge Gettlemen that even a high school student should be able to understand why the law is unconstitutional. Read his decision here if you haven’t already: http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2009/01/moment-of-silence-case-decision.html
Since the law’s introduction in 1969 there have been a number of amendments that reveal the intent to deceptively force children into religious instruction. Those two nitwits are just pissed that the scheming and underhanded devices of their religion were cleverly pointed out by people of greater intelligence. Stupid religious zealots were not content with a moment of silence as provided in the original law and fit within the parameters of constitutionality. No, they had to find a way to push their religion and — hee hee — they pushed themselves right out of the classroom.
Glen Beck’s “green room child” and plastering of the word “prayer” (which, by the way, also has a perfectly secular meaning) on the screen to “offend” atheists really shows how ignorant and vile he is. Where the hell did he get his journalism degree?
27 January 2009, on 6:20 pm
Beck over estimated the number of Americans believing in god too. A Harris Poll conducted in 2003 found that 79% of Americans believe in god. http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=408
Of those 79% of Americans believing in god, 15% are agnostic or atheist. ???? So I gather some people taking the survey really didn’t quite get the questions. This brings down the total of committed believers to more like 68%.
I suspect that many of the remaining god-believers prefer to perform rites in front of an idol rather than pray silently to thin air. Or they have set places where they must pray and the classroom is not one of them. So by the time you whittle away at the numbers you have a figure that looks more like the minority, contrary to Beck’s hypothesis, are forcing the majority to observe their particular religious practices.
27 January 2009, on 6:28 pm
Oh, and while you’re scrunching the numbers consider that many god believers do not send their children to public school in the first place. They go to Jewish, Muslim, Catholic or private Christian schools. Beck and Dobson and the rest of that devious bunch just want to force their religious practices on our atheist children. Beck is a liar! He DOES care whether someone prays to brooms.
27 January 2009, on 6:51 pm
Lynda,
A couple of survey results.
Barna Research Group found 45% of Americans read their bible in a typical week.
A Gallup poll found only 36% of Americans could name the 4 gospels.
Somebody is telling lies to the pollsters!
27 January 2009, on 7:14 pm
Damn! I really wanted to see their
mutual masturbationconversation degenerate into a Whose is the True Xianity (TM) argument, given that each one really believes the other is going straight to hell, despite their agreement on atheists…27 January 2009, on 11:52 pm
“Hey, Beck…It’s “…COULDN’T care less…not…care less!”
It’s amazing to me that total irrational idiots like Beck have such high paying gigs, essentially blabbing complete nonsense, whilst thousands of honest, more intelligent people…doing much more valuable things for society…are losing jobs, etc.
I was totally amazed at CNN’s stupidity, when Beck was on that network. Being with the bottomless cesspool at Faux News makes more sense; but even THAT just adds to the evidence of Faux network’s gaping, and yawning, intellectual void.
So much money is still being bandied about…for so many utter, babbling…even socially dangerous…fools!
27 January 2009, on 11:56 pm
^ Correction: “…COULDN’T care less…NOT…could care less!”
[I think y'all probably knew what I meant...?]
28 January 2009, on 12:03 am
Hogarm, that’s hilarious!!! Whenever I visit the folks for Christmas they like to read the whole magical baby story before we get to open presents (sooo awkward, not to mention boring… why is it that with science, math, etc, you’re expected to learn and remember, but xtians have to have the stupidest stories repeated over and over again? anyway…) so I feel like reciting the names of the 4 gospels is a phrase that rolls of the tongue… Matthew, Mark, Luke, John…
How is it that in such a fundamentally xtian nation… so many xtians are utterly oblivious to what’s actually in the Bible? This baffles me all the time. I know it shouldn’t, since it the fundie world ignorance is a virtue… but still. Astounding.
28 January 2009, on 12:05 am
I saw this photo of these two together and for a moment I thought that the gates of hell really do exist. Then I came to my senses.
I’d rather slam my head into a brick wall than click on that arrow for this vid. I know what is hidden behind there. I read a comment elsewhere regarding Beck and I agree. It said that when the commentor watches Beck he feels overcome by a feeling that he needs to punch Beck in the face. He certainly should not be on a news team. Maybe something like a radio program that airs around midnight.
And then there is Dobson. A Gladragger if I ever saw one. All dressed up with nothing to say and he knows even less than that. The guy is a total schmuck. A bonified liar and falsifier.
28 January 2009, on 12:07 am
I saw this photo of these two together and for a moment I thought that the gates of hell really do exist.
Jimmer, that made me laugh out loud! Omfsm, that was funny!
28 January 2009, on 12:32 am
If our rights come from god, how come we have to fight so hard to presever them – against the likes of these two double-talking retards?
28 January 2009, on 8:19 am
I admit — I am too much of a coward to watch that video. I am truly afraid my head may explode by listening to those seriously deluded and/or lying self-serving blowhards. I know them already.
I think actually MOST people educated and living modern lives are atheists for all practical purposes. However among these a majority of them THINK they believe. They are enthralled with the notion of an all-loving and all-powerful sky-daddy and an afterlife. They are also very comforted by the social structure and perks an active religious affiliation brings.
Furthermore many love the order of the black and white world religion allows and secretly love the control it gives them indirectly over OTHER peoples lives – thus how righteous they can feel being on the “white” side of issues.
It is scary to admit non-belief in our society which is heavily invested in the notion of a god and the need for a god.
Given those reasons to believe so-called believers easily cling to the fantasy that they really believe in the fantasy. Their actions speak to the lie though; their actions of crucial importance speak to the truth. And they will not apply logic and “science” to the subject because they KNOW in their hearts those will destroy their fragile faith or make it an obvious lie on their lips.
Many really don’t attend church regularly, and many more -most – would not take the power of prayer over the power of secular modern medicine if you get my drift. Oh – there would be rationals like “god will guide the hand” or “god does not work like that” or “god is there to give you strength” or some other excuse.. but down deep when their beloved sick child is at stake there is their sane and rational “atheist” voice guiding them … telling them “now is not the time and place for FANTASY and WISHFUL thinking .. now is the time for reality”.. and that voice — the voice atheists have in their forefront — is the one they listen to.
Actions speak louder than words.. now flying jets into buildings — that is REAL FAITH demonstrated by action — and BTW – thank god will all do not have such!!
28 January 2009, on 9:10 am
Beck is Mormon. Enough said. When you believe that crap, you lose all credibility. I mean all religions are crap, but the Mormon “faith” is the biggest crock of shit of them all.
28 January 2009, on 9:14 pm
Is it just me or does Dobson’s voice sound like it has the strain one’s voice gets when trying to pinch a stubborn loaf?
29 January 2009, on 1:08 am
Just thought I’d check back in as a believer who agrees with the condemnation of this kind of behavior. These radio guys don’t contribute anything valuable to the discourse of American society. They simply serve their own agenda. Which has little to do with God or Secular needs. The hateful speech I have heard from Glen Beck should leave everyone aghast. Unfortunately, he gets the benefits of free speech as everyone and we must suffer his ignorant rantings.
Hope all is well with my atheist friends. Hope I haven’t overstepped my bounds by joining in.
Thanks,
Luckydog
30 January 2009, on 1:14 am
Luckydog
Thanks for commenting. We always welcome believers responses to our posts. We do not allow proselytyzing is all. In fact many of us are former Xians and Believers.
We also do not take for granted our own acceptance of traits that are exclusively Atheistic. There is no such thing. So while I could respond vigorously to your comment and write much I will only say this. While you are waiting for your Messiah or Saviour. We are waiting for you to come to your senses. You have the capacity to understand yet refuse to based on conditioning of your religous ethic. Which most of us on this site have found wanting. Good luck and remember We will always be here waiting for you. The only thing I need say about that is that we are not an organization which you can join. Well not really. We do have groups in various cities but not like church.
30 January 2009, on 11:15 am
They simply serve their own agenda. Which has little to do with God
Hi Luckydog,
To state that Beck and Dobson are merely serving their own agenda doesn’t properly recognize the origin of their hatred. I have no idea which god you profess to believe in, but the god that Beck and Dobson believe in has, according to most Christians, apparently inspired a book with all sorts of similar statements of hatred, namely the Bible. So your idea that “God” has little to do with this is questionable. These types of rantings are all too common from religious believers.
Unfortunately, he gets the benefits of free speech as everyone and we must suffer his ignorant rantings.
True, Beck does have the benefit of free speech, but we do not have to suffer his ignorant rantings. We can protest and promote logical and critical thinking. The company (Fox Network) that pays him for espousing his bigoted hatred can be boycotted and petitioned to provide viewers with more balanced and sane reporting. If, as a Christian, you stand by and let such maniacs represent you in the public arena without protest then you are as guilty of their bigotry.
30 January 2009, on 1:22 pm
[Pardon an old personal, desperate...and, of course...futile...cry...?] (feigns sobbing)
“WHEN will we ever have a worldwide ‘Freethinker’ channel to subscribe to (or preferably…included in a provider’s lineup?)?
I pay a rather high price (rip-off?) for Comcast Cable/Internet/Phone…and, cable-wise, have to accept several totally bullshit religious channels. There’s absolutely no choice regarding that shit.
[Asinine Shopping channels are a whole other issue!...
"Sarah Palin Moose Hunting knife set...anyone?"]
Related to this Post…has anyone else noticed how few times an atheist is EVER allowed an appearance on any talk show. Larry King…frn’stance…will feature a whole hour with various preachers, and clowns like Haggard, even this week: “Blogo”; but NEVER an hour with a Dawkins, Dennett, or even Hitchens. Since the “book selling tours”, mostly in 2007, atheists have pretty much been totally shut out of any attention. Hitchens is about the only one who’s been on at ALL, lately; and that was quite late in the pre-election race. On one CNN show, when he slightly touched on the subject regarding all the election “Faith” crap; he was rather viciously attacked with shtick like…”Oooooh, the UNBELIEVER who lacks ANY Faith!”…an immediate blabbing of dismissive nastiness.
As I’ve said before on GifS, it might be time to spread the word for increasing the emailing of networks like CNN; specifically shows like Larry King, asking for some programming of things like a panel of JUST atheists…without any fucktards on board…ala “The Four Horsemen”.
Even that title, no doubt, would raise a bunch of well deserved “fundy hackles”.
Hmmm…”Hackle away…I say!”
[NO...Not a Pirate naval tune...but perhaps...
A Retro/crossover Country/Rock/Bebop Vibes/Miles-Funk/Rap Fusion Tune, perhaps?]
(fires up “Band-In-A-Box 2007″)
“Yeah!…I mean…Yeowza!”
30 January 2009, on 8:47 pm
Beck is a wonderful addition to the Fox lineup. He’s all the wingnuttery of O’Reilly but with a smaller vocabulary. Fox is getting better and better (for the liberal viewer) everyday, just another reason to enjoy Obama’s leadership. If Fox’s TV personalities really want to be taken seriously, they should have a moment of silence at the beginning of each program.
13 February 2009, on 6:03 pm
Why do Christians get so upset when they are put under the microscope and / or confronted by secular humanists and those who believe in reason? The right wing and conservative dominated media (Fox News, etc.) constantly attack atheists and those with no beliefs and our basic rights as Americans to not worship any God and voice our own worldview. Why do Christians cry persecution when their beliefs are challenged. Could be that their faith isn’t really all that strong. I cannot understand why Christians cannot comprehend the simple idea of separation of church and state. Freedom of religion does not mean that Christians can force their own beliefs down the throat of others and demand it be injected into our secular government. No one is suppressing the liberties and rights of the god believers, they have millions of mythology temples to worship, and can pray openly any time they choose. Conservatism and the Religious Right are an assault on the freedoms of us all.