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Glenn Beck: “Americans Unite!” (Atheists Need Not Apply. Gays Probably Shouldn’t Either.)

Glenn Beck is up to his shenanigans again. He wants Americans to unite and take back this nation and he has a master plan by which it will be achieved. Of course you’re only invited to join if you believe in God, because in Glenn Beck’s world atheists and anyone else who doesn’t believe in his god isn’t an American. Funny, I could swear he was the one whining not so long ago about atheists allegedly trampling Christians’ beliefs or some other such nonsense. But when he pretends belief in his god is a requirement to be a True American that’s no problem it seems. Then again he wouldn’t be a RRRWer without the stunning hypocrisy.

Do you watch the direction that America is being taken in and feel powerless to stop it?

Do you believe that your voice isn’t loud enough to be heard above the noise anymore?

Do you read the headlines everyday and feel an empty pit in your stomach…as if you’re completely alone?
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Once you pull the curtain away you realize that there are only a few people pressing the buttons, and their voices are weak. The truth is that they don’t surround us at all.

We surround them.

I notice Beck didn’t feel this way while GWB was in office. My, how things have changed in a few short months.

Below are nine simple principles. If you believe in at least seven of them, then we have something in common. I urge you to read the instructions at the end for how to help make your voice heard.

The Nine Principles

1. America is good.

Dogmatic thinking is dangerous. America has both positive and negative attributes. The rah-rah nationalistic America is great no matter what thinking is one of the worst things that came out of the GWB administration. People who believe unfailingly in the inherent “goodness” of their nation refuse to question things done by its leaders and anything done on behalf of it. Hence travesties like Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and the Iraq War.

2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.

To people like Glenn Beck only belief in his god will do; there are no substitutes Yet everybody else is
persecuting him for his belief.

3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.

Not working for Fox “News” and pimping for the RRRW would be a start.

4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.

This, coming from someone who advocates governmental bans against same-sex marriage and other rights for same-sex families. Who is Beck to preach about “government authority” and family? Furthermore where was Beck when it came to garbage like the Homeland Security Act? Funny how he only cares about government interference in his private life when the Republicans are no longer in power.

5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.

I take it, then, that Beck will be demanding GWB and his administration be brought to justice for their myriad crimes? Or do crimes committed by the RRRW not apply?

6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.

He’s trying to excuse the RRRW’s blatant denial of equal rights to people they don’t like (such as LGBT people), and refusal to provide adequate assistance to the needy (whom they write off as lazy, unworthy, etc.).

7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.

Then why hasn’t Beck fought for the Faith-Based Initiatives to be disbanded? Oh right, it gives taxpayer money to churches, that’s why. Apparently Beck only objects when he’s “forced” to donate to hungry children and homeless families.

8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.

Yet for eight years people who disagreed with GWB and his cronies were branded un-American, traitors, enemy combatants, Commies, unpatriotic, terrorist enablers, subversives, and more. Now that a Democrat is president Beck decides that Dissent is Patriotic once again.

9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
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See #4 and #8.

Beck then issues an invitation:

If you agree with at least seven of those principles, then you are not alone. Please send a digital version of your picture to: wesurroundthem@foxnews.com and then stay tuned to the radio and television shows over the coming weeks to see how we intend to pull back the curtain.

So I sent in a picture though I highly doubt it will ever show up on his site (at least not for anything positive). In Beck’s world, same-sex couples aren’t family, and atheists aren’t Americans. Strangely enough, it’s he and his fellow Christians who are being “persecuted”–at least in their own minds.