Glenn Beck Upset About Media Coverage of Atheist Story

January 19, 2009

During the debut of his new show on FOX News, Beck implied that Atheists don't represent Americans and should not be given any attention by the media.

via http://AtheistMedia.com

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[SmackontheWeb]

2:02 "89% of us believe in god"

99.9% of the people used to believe the world was flat.

2:56 "America... that holds common sense above poll numbers"

This from the guy that just spit out some poll numbers as some kind of proof of his assertions.

[samuriguy909]

if glenn beck were a potato, he would be a bad potato.

[potter1s]

I'm an atheist, but after seeing this cunt disappear up his own arse, concede that miracles do exist!

[robvlob]

The irony within a minute he talks about not removing the 'under god' in the national pledge, & upholding the constitution above anything else.

Does he mean uphold the constitution above everything else unless that else(real or imaginary) is above the constitution?

[evilEKegg]

@nnjhansen I'll tell you what's wrong with "in god we trust", our gov officials wasting time to re-affirm it as our national motto while the economy shit's the bed. There is a broader social aspect to government establishment of religion than the all mighty greenback and or vote. it, the gov's job it to govern, not get involved with religious matters.

[nnjhansen]

@evilEKegg The establishment of religion is not simply the endorsement of religious ideas. What religion is established by "In God We Trust"?

The establishment of religion entails the imposition of an obligation on the people, the exclusive support of one church's activities by public funds, or the investiture of civil power in church officials or vice versa.

[evilEKegg]

@nnjhansen If the state supports/endorses any particular religion in any form or fashion, is that not establishment of religion by the government? Could you imagine the shit storm that would fall out if " allah hu akbar" replaced "in god we trust" ? Why? b/c it would be GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHMENT of a not so popular religion. The only and best way for the gov to respect the 1A and it's people is to just stay the hell out of peoples personal business all together, it doesn't belong there anyhow.

[IsupportBP]

America will be another Europe. Most of young people are atheists, abortionists n bisexuals. So the future is dark, very dark

[Jakster840]

What does any god have to do with the constitution? How did he make that connection? Wtf?!?

[dlandon2000]

Ugh glenn what's this "WE" stuff... YOU ARE THE NUTJOB!!!

[TheDano1947]

Washington is supposed to answer to america not specific parties

[ChipArgyle]

11% don't believe in any gods.  The other 89% might come around...eventually.

[nnjhansen]

@daSchoof 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof'.' does three things:

Prohibits Congress from establishing a national religion,

Prohibits Congress from interfering with (then existing) state establishments of religion and,

Prohibits Congress from prohibiting the free exercise of religion.

Nothing more, no requirement that the state stay away from religion and religion away from the state.

[daSchoof]

@nnjhansen Are you actually looking for the words 'separation of church and state'?

It's amendment number one: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof'. Couldn't really be any more clear, the state will stay away from religion and religion away from the state. Unless you're looking for a physical wall that's pretty much as straight forward as it gets.

[mythreligion]

no god, no god,

[nnjhansen]

@Ap0Th3 The Constitution states no such thing.

Try again?

[tokenbrit123]

Love the way he quotes the constitution - it's there to protect Americans from people like him

[Ap0Th3]

Old Principles of America:

-Constitution states a separation of Church and State

-Original Pledge of Allegiance (1872) had no reference to God

I also believe in the old principles of this country Glenn Beck, now tell me as an atheist I'm not alone.

[dolerbom]

So, Glen Beck thinks we do not deserve freedoms because we are a minority... Well, i guess he probably feels black people should still be slaves...

[MrSirwolf2001]

@MrSirwolf2001 Even Glen Beck.

[MrSirwolf2001]

At what percentage number does a person's beliefs become valid? If 11% are Atheist, and only 15% are either hard core Republican or Democrat, And since the 11% can so easily be ignored as invalid, then shouldn't both the Republican and Democratic parties be ignored as invalid as well? hmmmm.......but wait, we live in a democratic republic with freedom of speech where EVERYBODY gets a voice!

[mzyzer19]

I've never seen or heard someone dillude a valad premiss to that degree.

[McTaggStar]

Atheists are nut jobs, apparently. Hm. Maybe I should go check myself into the psychiatric hospital, cause I'm just a crazy old nut job. Wait, who believes that a virgin gave birth, a man was brought back to life after three days, and that there's a big white bearded man in the sky we can communicate with telepathically?

[MitchStarRepublic]

Glenn Beck is the nut job on the fringe.

[SmackontheWeb]

@lion575 You list a few select individuals who were persecuted for their view of a round earth. Who was persecuting them? The societies in which they lived. Why were they persecuted so? Because most of the people during those times thought the planet was flat.