The Faulty Theology of Joy Behar
This week, world renown theologian and general spewer of nonsense, Joy Behar, said that people who expect God to speak to them are mentally ill. You know, nutso—hearing voices. Well, here is how she put it.
“It is one thing to talk to Jesus. It’s another thing when Jesus talks to you…that’s called mental illness, if I’m not correct. Hearing voices.”
The Theology
Before we talk about how demeaning this is to the Vice President, let’s just examine her words theologically.
Behar has no problem with your religion. “It’s one thing to speak to Jesus.”
Her problem is when you actually believe that your God is real. It is mental illness if you think that Jesus is talking back to you.
So, according to Joy Behar, it is fine to pretend that God is real, as long as you don’t believe it. The God of the Bible speaks to people. He has sent his Holy Spirit to guide us. John 16:13 specifically says He will speak to us. Paul, the writer of most of the theology in the New Testament visited heaven (I Cor. 12:2), had visions (Acts 16:9), heard the voice of Jesus directly (Acts 9:4) and lived life as if God still speaks to men.
The Offense
Vice President Pence rarely defends himself against a steady onslaught of attacks against his faith. But this time was different. The insulated talk show host, who probably never has real conversations with people of faith, assumes that most of America is like her. Faith is a toy—something to entertain us, but not real. This time Behar didn’t merely attack Vice President Pence for not being willing to put himself in compromising positions, by being alone with women (something I call common sense or wisdom), but she criticized all Americans who believe that God plays a role in our lives and destiny.
Pence defended people of faith.
“ABC has a program that compared my Christianity to mental illness. And I liked to laugh about it, but I really can’t.“To have ABC maintain a broadcast forum that compared Christianity to mental illness is just wrong. It is simply wrong for ABC to have a television program that expresses that kind of religious intolerance…It is an insult not to me, but to the vast majority of the American people…My faith sustains me in all that I do…“It demonstrates how out of touch some in the mainstream media are with the faith and values of the American people that you could have a major network like ABC permit a forum for invective against religion like that.”
The Faux Apology/Excuse
Taking a page out of disgraced comedian Kathy Griffin’s book, she turned this into an attack on comedians. When Griffin committed career suicide by holding up the supposed bloody, decapitated head of President Trump, she sought to say that it was the Trump’s family that was attacking her and that it was only because she is female. “Cut the crap, this wouldn’t be happening to a guy — this is a woman thing.”
Behar too, takes no responsibility for the outrage against her. Instead, she sought to justify her comments, while backtracking, saying she doesn’t think all Christians are mentally ill. Thanks Joy.
“That would make me mentally ill since I’m a Christian myself; it would make my mother mentally ill, my mother, my aunts, my daughter, of course not. I don’t mean to offend people, but apparently, I keep doing it. It was a joke. Comedians are in danger these days.”
First, of course she is not a Christian in the biblical sense. She is a cultural Christian—in name only. She is pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, pro-transgender, pro-everything-not-biblical. Secondly, instead of apologizing for going too far in her comedy (by the way, The View is not primarily satire, but political) she says, “Comedians are in danger these days.” Yes, we should not be offended when she equates our relationship with God as being mentally unstable. It’s a joke! You are hilarious Joy!
This is the same left, that crawls into the fetal position at any perceived micro-aggression.
And she felt the need to say the stupidest, most manipulative thing: “We also have a first amendment in this country.” She takes advantage of her naïve audience by pretending (I hope she was only pretending!) that this is a free speech issue.
Or is Joy Behar suggesting that the first amendment guarantees everyone a million dollar a year job to spout their views on politics and religion, with no repercussions? No one has ever threatened Joy Behar’s freedom to declare her offensive views. She seems to think, if offended believers respond to her hurtful words, it is somehow unconstitutional? So, in her world, the first amendment guarantees her freedom of speech, but not mine or yours, if we want to respond.
Megan McCain got it right before Whoopi Goldberg shut her down:
“As a Republican, I feel like liberals say we need to be tolerant of everyone, we need to be tolerant of everyone except pro-lifers, except Trump supporters, except gun owners, except for everyone in the red and middle of the country.”
Mic drop for Ms. McCain.
