Posted on 08/30/2010 3:22:50 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
Not only did a lot of people show up at the Lincoln Memorial and around the reflecting pool on Saturday, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s famed “I have a dream speech”, but the mainstream media drew criticism for reporting the obvious. They were mostly white.
Maybe I just wasn’t paying attention in the weeks leading up to the event, but I assumed Glenn Beck was going to use the platform to call attention to the key issues with which the nation is struggling and which will influence the outcome of the forthcoming November midterm elections. Obviously I was wrong.
I have been to an evangelical tent meeting. I actually met the late Oral Roberts long ago in Columbus, Georgia where he invited me to attend. I can still recall the fervor of that evening and I was reminded of it while watching Beck.
There was a lot of talk of God, but I don’t recall that Dr. King, a preacher of astonishing power, was preaching Christ Jesus that day forty-seven years ago. King focused on the problem that had been troubling the soul of America since the days of the Revolution, the days of the Civil War, the Reconstruction, and the hundred years that had passed since then.
Yup samtheman,
I was agreeing with you!
It wasn’t a disagreement about supporting Beck or not, it was the troll’s blatant misstatement of what Beck’s position on collective redemption was, support him or not.
Could be. He's come an amazing distance from where he was ten years ago. The extraordinary success he has been experiencing must necessarily affect him profoundly, for good or for ill. His enemies are hoping and praying--and even offering hundred thousand dollar contracts--to ensure that it affects him for ill.
Even if he manages to salvage and maintain sufficient emotional and mental balance, he would be wise to watch his steps very carefully. Powerful, vile, ugly, and vicious people will be setting traps for him at every opportunity.
That causes a person to be branded a troll?
Taking cheap shots at a man who hasn't had a drink in over a decade is very troll-like.
Leftist often tell us that Conservatives are filled with hate speech. Looking at the hate filled venom laden crap that some have posted regarding Glenn Beck, it would be hard to disagree with them. Leftist tell us that Conservatives have no place at the table...and now we have Conservatives telling us that professing Mormons have no place at our table? God help this Republic, we do not deserve His favor nor His mercy if we do not expose such people as the vermin they really are.
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