I don't know why I do this to myself...

As you can probably tell from previous posts, I'm not the type that "follows" Glenn Beck. But I do listen to him on occasion. I was listening to him on the way in to school this morning, and he started talking about this "spiritual journey" that he's about to embark on.

This whole journey thing was no doubt prompted by some health problems he's having - something about his eyes, his voice, and a tingling sensation in his extremities. He talked about how his doctors are going to test him for "poisons" - not that he's being poisoned (which may be disappointing to hear, for some...), but that he is somehow consuming/being exposed to poisons due to his environment, something he's eating, etc.

He went on to talk about how he thinks he knows what those poisons are - how he "reads up" on his political, spiritual, etc. competition to "understand" them, and how doing so is affecting him to his very core, how he is not trying to become that which he exposes himself to, etc. but he's failing, because it's "poisoning" him.

And then it hit me. This is no spiritual journey, at all. If the things he disagrees with are somehow "poisoning" him, that's an indication that he's already chosen the destination for his spiritual journey. If he was really, truly open-minded to the things "God" wants to teach him, he'd be really, truly open-minded to the possibility that he's wrong. And he's just not.

That is precisely the reason I can't respect him, or Rush Limbaugh, or any of these other rock-solid, religious righties. Sure, there are people on the Left that are the same way in different respects, but I never hear anyone speak as loudly as these jackasses that are all, "GOD IS MAKING A SPECIAL REVELATION TO ME," when, really, they are just using God as a scapegoat to reinforce the things they already believe to be true, and to make them feel better about the fact that they are getting old, getting sick, and falling apart. They're not learning anything - if they were, they wouldn't insist that they are 100% correct all the time. 

Spiritual journeys are about letting go of all of your inhibitions and prejudices and LEARNING something, about yourself, about the world, about spirituality itself. They are about being humble, not exalting yourself to the station of Right Light of the World, and they are about realizing that ALL of this - all of reality - is SO FAR beyond you that your opinion is only that - an opinion - and that opinions can be and often are WRONG.

I don't think Glenn Beck would know a spiritual journey if it danced naked in front of him. He thinks he's here to be a light to the world and make "Right" everything that's "Wrong/Left." Well la de fuckin da, what if your spiritual journey is meant to take you somewhere else, Mr. Beck? Would you let it? Would you let God tell you that you're wrong? Or would you just contort his message to further your agenda? Yes. You absolutely would. That is what you do, every single day.

I hope you can prove me wrong, Mr. Beck. I hope that you learn something valuable - I hope that you can learn to be wrong, and to ADMIT that you are wrong. In what respect? I don't know. I think you're wrong in so very, very many ways. But, the difference between you and me, is that I don't let my opinion become absolute.

Unless you're Pat Robertson, then my opinion on you is that the title "Scum of the Earth" is too good for you.

And, Mr. Beck, you are getting very, VERY close to becoming that same kind of monster. You may already be.

Please, please prove me wrong.