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Mormon Beck Assails Obama's "Version Of Christianity"

By Big Tent Democrat

WaPo:

During an interview on "Fox News Sunday," which was filmed after Saturday's rally, Beck claimed that Obama "is a guy who understands the world through liberation theology, which is oppressor-and-victim." "People aren't recognizing his version of Christianity," Beck added.

Beck made the remarks in answer to a question about his previous accusation that Obama was a "racist" who has "a deep-seated hatred for white people." He contended that that statement "was not accurate" and that he had "miscast" Obama's religious beliefs as racism.

Heretic! Burn the heretic! Pretty funny coming from a Mormon. I'm pretty sure Beck has not the first clue what liberation theology actually means. Hell, I doubt it has any political potency (who in the hell in America knows what liberation theology means? I do but that comes from my college days, which were not yesterday.) If he did, he'd know better than to associate Obama with it (for better or worse), but no matter. Ross Douthat fluffed Beck in today's NYTimes. Do we expect any comment on this from Beck from Douthat?

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).