Beck admitted he regrets calling President Obama a racist who hates white culture, calling the statement inaccurate. He has since read Obama's books and believes the president is a believer in liberation theology, a movement popular in Latin American that interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of liberation from unjust social, economic and political conditions.
"[Obama's] viewpoints come from liberation theology. At a gut level I sensed that, but miscast it as racism," Beck said."I want to amend [that statement], I think it is much more of a theological question."
Beck said President Obama has also expressed his belief in collective salvation in four different speeches, the idea that an individual's salvation is directly tied to that of the collective. He said most Christians look at collective salvation as the direct opposite of the Gospel's teachings.
"I'm not judging President Obama, I would love to have a conversation about collective salvation," Beck said, adding that "Jesus came for personal salvation."
Finally, in response to the question "Who is Glenn Beck?" he positioned himself as a father, a concerned citizen and a reformed alcoholic who found himself washed up and ignorant at the age of 30 and has attempted to reform his life by finding God and educating himself.
"Only because I bottomed out I realized I didn't believe in anything," Beck said. He also pointed out that he spent the last three years of the Bush Administration "telling people to run for your lives." Beck called comedian Jon Stewart's jabs at him on the "Daily Show" funny and said he cries so often publicly because since cleaning up his life "I got all mushy inside."
