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I am watching this on C-Span and I got on FreeRepublic to participate with others who are also watching but after reading the comments on this post I can honestly say that the crappola being written about this gathering makes me want to scream.

This gathering is simply about trying to unify and encourage those of us who feel alone in our desire to restore our country to principles set forth by our Founding Fathers and in the Bill of Rights and Constitution.

I am out here in the netherland...surrounded by those who are dumber than dirt about how this country is being destroyed. How Christians such as myself are being forced back into the catacombs....and here is a huge crowd of people who have gathered to simply say....we are Americans...we are all colors...we are also Christians as well as other religions...Christians who want to be able to shout our pride in our God and in our Christ....it is simply a means to pull us together...and, yet, these people posting miss the whole point by yakking about things that continue to divide us.

Can’t we...just once....forget our individual thoughts in order to join together in this fight against those who want to take away our freedoms? Can’t we just say we are Americans...Christian Americans....a kalaidescope of American colors...and we are damned proud of it!!

Unity comes through a shared commitment to the same principle. But unless that principle is true, the long-term result is not good. It certainly won't be in keeping with God's character.

I wouldn't have a problem with this event if the foundation was a return to common-sense concepts that informed the foundation of the country (i.e. a political thing). So much of what he's saying is good, and I agree that people are hungry for it. But Beck and others are rooting this faith in God, and saying this is His working.

Who is God though? We don't get to define Him ourselves; God's already done that in His word, the Bible.

If Mormonism and orthodox Christianity don't have the same God (and according to every Mormon I've spoken with and every Mormon teaching I've ever read, we don't), then commitment to God isn't unifying in anything but a superficial and ultimately idolatrous way. Frankly, that'd be true for any religion which isn't orthodox Christianity; Mormonism has the spotlight because of Beck, that's all.

Whatever cultural and political encouragement Beck is fostering will ultimately be poisoned by the ecumenism with which he's delivering it.

Hear! Hear!

Unfortunately, there are posters among us who do do NOT want conservatives to unify around these great themes. They pretend to be conservatives, but they really work for and in behalf of liberals and the liberal agenda.