Glenn Beck is fed up with American Christians largely ignoring the plight of their brothers and sisters in the Middle East.
“Why does no one care?” he asked on his television program. “When we talked about a Christian pizza parlor just the other day, Christians responded in large numbers. … Here people are getting executed. Shouldn’t the response be exponentially greater when Christians are literally being beheaded and crucified, children being raped and killed every single day?”
Beck’s making his comments after the Islamic State shot and beheaded 30 Ethiopian martyrs.
He points to the Christian support of Memories Pizza, an Indiana pizzeria that closed its doors and then reopened them after their support of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
More than $800,000 was raised through crowdsourcing for the mom-and-pop shop to reopen, a campaign that has influenced more donations for Christians who face legal action for their beliefs in America.
But is there a Kickstarter to help Ethiopians? What about a GoFundMe for Coptic Christians? For Beck, he believes the disconnect may lie within denominational lines.
“Maybe we don’t react to these things because we don’t think of the Greek Orthodox or the Coptic Christians—we don’t know what the Coptic thing is,” Beck says. “Because would we care if the victims were Methodist or Baptist or Catholic or Mormon? I guarantee you we would.”
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