Glenn Beck has managed to piss off religious folk by ordering his listeners to “run as fast as you can” from churches that talk about “social justice and economic justice.” That doesn’t sit too well with Catholics, people who like to quote that justice-loving hippie Jesus and even Beck’s own Mormon church.

Christians talk about social justice all the time, but those are code words, Beck explains. “It’s a very good chance that people don’t know what it is. That’s why you have to educate yourself.” Sounds like Dr. Beck needs to take his own prescription.

More on the story in the Swampland.

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