{"id":5643,"date":"2014-02-14T15:09:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/formerlyfundie\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2014-02-14T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:09:22","slug":"glenn-beck-god-told-me-to-sit-down-shut-up-and-zip-your-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/formerlyfundie\/glenn-beck-god-told-me-to-sit-down-shut-up-and-zip-your-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck: &#8220;God told me to sit down, shut up, and zip your mouth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/385\/2014\/02\/glenn-beck1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5647\" title=\"Glenn Beck\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/385\/2014\/02\/glenn-beck1-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"297\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glenn Beck and I haven\u2019t been friends in a really, really long time. Well, we were never really friends to begin with, but when he suggested that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5c4DqdleJuY\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">people need to leave their churches and report their pastor<\/a> if the church used the term \u201csocial justice\u201d or \u201ceconomic justice\u201d on the church website, I decided that we\u2019d probably always be on opposite sides of\u2026 well, everything.<\/p>\n<p>When Beck was still on Fox, his program was extremely damaging to the cause of Jesus followers as it incited selfishness, hatred, and all sorts of other nasty stuff that have no place in the Jesus movement. Yet, so many Christians flocked to him.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Beck says that God is speaking to him\u2013 and I can\u2019t help but agree with much of what God apparently said. On a recent program, Beck claims that God has told him to \u201csit down, shut up and zip your mouth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds about right.<\/p>\n<p>He goes onto say, however, that shutting up is for the purposes of doing something bigger and better, but maybe Beck just misheard him?<\/p>\n<p>A guy can dream.<\/p>\n<p>Just a friendly reminder to my Christian friends: please don\u2019t get your theology from Glen Beck, because even God is telling him to sit down and zip it.<\/p>\n<p>See the original here (skip the first 40 seconds or so):<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Zbuj2EOEt0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/beck-god-told-me-sit-down-and-shut-because-he-has-absolute-miracles-store-blaze\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">via RWW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Beck says God told him to shut up&#8230; which, sounds about right to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Glenn Beck: &quot;God told me to sit down, shut up, and zip your mouth&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Glenn Beck says God told him to shut up... which, sounds about right to me.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Glenn Beck: &quot;God told me to sit down, shut up, and zip your mouth&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Glenn Beck says God told him to shut up... which, sounds about right to me.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/formerlyfundie\/glenn-beck-god-told-me-to-sit-down-shut-up-and-zip-your-mouth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Official Blog of Benjamin L. 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