Posted on 05/18/2011 9:08:43 AM PDT by delacoert
Bill Keller, the controversial Liveprayer.com Internet minister who once announced, "If you vote for Mitt Romney, you are voting for Satan!" has turned his attention to another Mormon in a new press release today, Fox News television and radio personality Glenn Beck.
Keller is calling Glenn Beck's upcoming August "Restoring Courage" rally in Israel "his latest scam on the Christian community, and an exploitation of Israel."
Keller's press release says he "takes the evangelical position that Mormon doctrine is 100 percent inconsistent with Biblical Christianity and that a Mormon is no more a Christian than a Muslim is."
Keller was just getting started. The release states that "Mormon cult member Beck has morphed his media conglomerate from sharing a conservative political ideology into a quasi-spiritual movement that makes him tens of millions of dollars by brainwashing the watered-down, compromised and Biblically illiterate Christian community who has bought into the lie that Mormons are another strand of Christianity."
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
Yeah right.
“....the lie that Mormons are another strand of Christianity.”
right on the button on that one...
> although I hear he has a sordid past...
So do I.
Jesus saved me, and now my sins are as far from Him as the East is from the West.
Unfortunately, men do not see things the way God does.
Great. Another Bible thumper assasinating the character of a nobel man just because he’s not a Christian.
Just what we needed.
Ain’t it the truth....sure makes people take conservatives seriously...
Beck wants you to question what he wants you to question but he doesn't want to question Mormon history. Read about Mormon blood atonement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_atonement
Not to mention how hard it is to take serious the “love” of someone with the bearing and tactics of a witch hunter.
How about dealing with what Beck actually says and does instead of stroking your pet peeve of mormonism.
You people are an embarrassment.
Beck was brought up Catholic, and I believe was baptized as a Catholic, sooooooo, all his Mormon shennanigans only mean that he is not practicing his Catholic faith.
Read his book “The Christmas Sweater” for the proof.
So let me get this straight. We who "question with boldness" are an embarrassment. OK, got it. /sarc
Harvard, in fact, was founded as a divinity school to train people in the Puritan ministry. In many ways, it hasn't deviated from its course; it has just been co-opted by the politically correct crowd of our day who seek to impose their vision on America much as the Puritans did in the days of the Salem Witch Trials.
When I was a kid, it was common for these extreme fundy bigots to spew their hatred mainly at Roman Catholics. That became unfashionable sometime in the 1960's either due to the Kennedy presidency and assassination, their connection with Harvard or what some of these fundies saw as "sheep stealing" with the growth of Mormon converts. The sect which I grew up in (ELCA) was more concerned with fighting Mormons than with the decay which was evident to most of us not plugged into that mission, namely the far left politicization by peaceniks then and the gay lobby now.
Interestingly, these same extreme fundies still look back to the phlisopohical teachings of the Mathers, who were instrumental in perpetuating the Salem Witch Trials.
Another honest Puritan minister sent by the Colony to prosecute was so disgusted by the proceedings that he resigned but remained to witness and record the travesty of justice for posterity. Many of the constitutional protections which we enjoy (no double jeopardy, no cruel and unusual punishment, etc.) actually can be traced to this man's careful record.
His great-grandson became an American Revolutionary War hero. Can anyone name this good Reverend who fought the fundy bigots of 1692?
Do you see any “questions” in post #7?
Remember that Beck renounced Christianity to take up Mormonism and is now probably the most widely heard religion speaker in America.
So what’s your point?
And I dare say Beck would disagree on renouncing Christianity. I think he has, but HE does not. He is never shy about refering to himself as a Christian.
Frankly, i regard him in much the same way as an evangelical who accepts the Incarnation, but somehow believes the Real Presence is some sort of offense to the dignity of God.... Neither one truly understands the metaphysical implications of the doctrines he approves.
What Mormons Believe:
From: Articles of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Number 13.
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul-We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
Number 12.
We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
Number 11.
We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
From: Joseph Smith History
24. However, it was nevertheless a fact that I had beheld a vision. I have thought since, that I felt much like Paul, when he made his defense before King Agrippa, and related the account of the vision he had when he saw a light, and heard a voice; but still there were but few who believed him; some said he was dishonest, others said he was mad; and he was ridiculed and reviled. But all this did not destroy the reality of his vision. He had seen a vision, he knew he had, and all the persecution under heaven could not make it otherwise; and though they should persecute him unto death, yet he knew, and would know to his latest breath, that he had both seen a light and heard a voice speaking unto him, and all the world could not make him think or believe otherwise.
25.....I have actually seen a vision; and who am I that I can withstand God, or why does the world think to make me deny what I have actually seen? For I had seen a vision; I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it, neither dared I do it; at least I knew that by so doing I would offend God, and come under condemnation.
33 He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do; and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people.
That is the heart of the evil Mormon cult message that he is proselytizing to millions of Christian conservatives.
I doubt that Glen Beck really knows the significat problems with Mormon theology and I especially doubt the leadership of the Mormon church is going to expose him to all the lies and fraud.
Beck could simply be a Cristian who got sucked in by the “friendshipping”.
He is NOT proselytizing.
You people need to get that through your heads, because you are showing yourselves to be nothing more than bigots.
I follow his programs almost daily AND I have a background in the cult ministry. I KNOW what mormon doctrine is, and Beck NEVER refers to it other than tagentially. Futhermore, without my background what I have heard would have slipped by all but unnoticed.
When you attribute something to Beck because “that’s what mormons do” rather than by direct citation...you are L Y I N G !
And you haven’t even got to the Planet Kolob and cork submarines yet.....
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