On his television program last night, Glenn Beck sat down with Rabbi Daniel Lapin to discuss Lapin’s contention that Donald Trump represents the only hope for saving America.
Beck, of course, has been a consistent and vocal critic of Trump and has repeatedly vowed never to vote for him, but Lapin did his best to sway Beck away from this position by bizarrely claiming that the Bible says that it is okay to behave unscrupulously when dealing with unscrupulous people.
Citing the passage from Genesis where Jacob meets Rachel, Lapin told some story that does not actually appear in the Bible but which he claimed gives believers permission to ignore their own moral principles when confronted with immoral situations.
As Lapin told it, when Jacob met Rachel, she warned him that her father, Laban, was a notorious scoundrel who could not be trusted. Jacob’s response, according to Lapin, was that he would be her father’s “brother in scoundrelhood.” Lapin said that Jacob then quoted a passage from Scripture that says “do not get involved with unscrupulous people, but should you inadvertently find yourself with unscrupulous people, then you don’t have to allow your scruples to bring about your defeat.”
The message of this passage, Lapin said, applies directly to the election in November and means that since those who are seeking to defend the Constitution are going up against “someone with limitless ambition, limitless avarice and a complete absence of any kind of scruple” in Hillary Clinton, they are not bound by any moral law that obligates them to play fair if it is going to lead to defeat.
Beck, understandably, couldn’t quite believe what he was hearing, which prompted Lapin to explain that he simply refuses to accept that God has given up on this nation and since Clinton is “sheer evil,” the only alternative is to believe that God has raised up someone as ruthless as Trump as the final hope for redeeming America.
