{"id":1269,"date":"2010-08-30T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2010-08-30T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T04:00:11","slug":"glen-becks-hazy-restoring-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/glen-becks-hazy-restoring-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Beck\u2019s hazy &#8220;Restoring Honor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129535008\">All Things Considered today<\/a> gave the usual calm treatment the remarkably incongruous claim by news anchor Glen Beck to the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King this weekend. An minister who had attended the \u201cecumenical\u201d political gathering pointed to how the number of children born without married parents had gone up dramatically since the 1960\u2019s, as indicating the nation taking a \u201cwrong turn\u201d then, and what a new religious revolution was needed to heal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My comment<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t take Mr. Beck any more seriously than I take a drunk with a loaded gun\u2026 but the point he makes that something is wrong if most children are born without married parents, and implicitly not being taught successful ways of living, seems quite valid.<\/p>\n<p>If we are looking at the great turning points that coincided with the 60\u2019s, as showing<strong> a nation taking a wrong turn<\/strong>, shouldn\u2019t we be \u201cecumenical\u201d about it. How about considering the way the nation quite ignored the main messages OF the 60\u2019s. For one we let our economic religion take over, completely ignoring that the rigid physical limits of the earth had already started getting in our way, despite quite loud protest.<\/p>\n<p>Why not acknowledge the great harm being done by economic institutions that treat everything on earth that is either out of sight or not tied down as being as exploitable and disposable. That is now quite visibly and actively causing the physical world we rely on to be slipping from our grasp.<\/p>\n<p>The earth is a sacred trust. Our spiritual failure to acknowledge the need to stop consuming it ever faster, which \u201cgrowth\u201d unavoidably directly means, devalues every human institution that tolerates it.<\/p>\n<p>To end the growing impacts of our consuming the earth we\u2019d have to end our growing investments in doing that, whether it is seen as the mainstay of our crazy economic scheme for the crazy, or not. Yes, discussing it is also a taboo, though, so maybe we shouldn\u2019t talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s better we just leave it unsaid\u2026 ignore it knowing it\u2019ll just go away anyway sometime and so there\u2019s no real reason to bother.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Things Considered today gave the usual calm treatment the remarkably incongruous claim by news anchor Glen Beck to the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King this weekend. An minister who had attended the \u201cecumenical\u201d political gathering pointed to how the number of children born without married parents had gone up dramatically since the 1960\u2019s, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/glen-becks-hazy-restoring-honor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glen Beck\u2019s hazy &#8220;Restoring Honor&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}