From Buzzflash: Is the FOX Host Trying to Create a Church of Glenn Beck

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by Jeffrey Joseph

After having already tried to influence his fans to abandon broad Christian humanitarian efforts, Beck hardly waited long to show how he might fill the void those Christians otherwise filled with their churches -- he appears to be creating a faith all his own.

For a guy unwilling to even accept the label of "journalist" for fear of being found obviously lacking the moral integrity to live up to the title, Beck's attempts to act as some kind of spiritual guide to his viewers seems altogether disturbing. On his radio program, he told his listeners and presumed acolytes of the Church of Beck, "You've got to be an evangelist for this message." The message, of course, hearkens to a conservative ideal, but more specifically, to the one Beck propagates. As a mere radio and TV host with no college degree, Beck could hardly have referred to himself more clearly when he said, "The answer is not going to come from the elite in Washington. It's not going to come from the elite in the schools." He goes on to say the answer would come in the form of "you," his listeners, but he follows with his own instructions on how to make it so, such as telling each to be "an evangelist" for his cause twice within a few minutes.

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