Wednesday, November 17, 2010

WHEN WILL THE MOTU TURN AGAINST BECK?

Preacher Beck may be running into the same problem Preacher Huckabee did: insufficiently capitalistic.  In Beck's retelling of the Nimrod story, he seems to argue that the materialism that capitalism is built upon is evil:
Nimrod says let's make bricks. He's talking about people, let's make them all equal, let's make them all exactly the same. Because then everybody is equal, everybody will have the same and they will be interchangeable. And what did they use as mortar? In the ancient Hebrew, mortar, the word "Mortar" actually means "Materialism." So materialism. It's what holds the bricks together.
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We don't celebrate freedom anymore. It's all about materialism. If you take away our mortar of materialism, do the bricks stay together? What binds us? Our materialism is about to disappear. That's why we must replace and put real mortar between us. We must break ourselves out of what they're trying to build now and that is everyone is exactly the same.

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