Pat Gray is a chess player – that’s my guess. This “Some Christian leaders are Marxists” thing is busy percolating out there, now drawing in Roger Ebert. What the ACORN experience should have taught people is that Glenn is playing several steps ahead. The first ACORN video came out and he let it sit there for a couple days, to get the outraged “That’s an isolated incident!” responses on the record and condemations on the record – knowing he had half a dozen more outrageous videos all queued to play… a woman telling how she got away with murdering her husband, another explaining how she had run her own prostitution ring, etc…
If Glenn is making the assertions that he is, he has video – count on it. After he shows the video of church leaders embracing Marxism, you can accept that you support Marxism, you can leave your church, you can work to get the Marxists out of positions of power – but you can’t plead ignorance.
Marxists are not shy about telling you what they believe.
http://www.ncccusa.org/news/oscarbolioli.html
But if he is critical of church pragmatists, he also questions those, such as himself, who were influenced by the trends of liberation theology, which emerged from Latin America in the 1970s, incorporating elements of pastoral and social action with Marxist economic analysis.
A few days ago, I predicted that the people who would be howling the loudest about Beck would be people who are not Christians…
Glenn confirmed today this is exactly what is going on. He’s been collecting video for the past 8 weeks, with people all over the world providing material. He’s just waiting for the right time to “drop the hammer”
Add to the list Amy Sullivan, editor of Time Magazine. She’s not new to the subject of Politics and Christianity. In Washington Monthly in 2004 in an article titled “Jesus Christ Superstar”, she bemoans the problem that Mel Gibson and right wing conservatives have filled the void created by Hollywood’s failure to produce positive movies about religion. She seems to have the impression that her inside the beltway evangelical friends are typical of right wing Conservatives…. Worth a read – she may be open minded enough to “get it” when Glenn connects the dots.