So the criticism is of the Beck rally is:
1. Not enough like an evangelical tent meeting
2. Not enough like MLK’s original speech
3. Both 1 & 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2
5. I don’t have the slightest idea, actually, and neither does the author, but I just hate Beck, like the author does.
The clear problem is that too many peps showed up.
As a former drug & alcohol abuse counselor, I see reflected in Glenn Beck the same mindset that destroyed many of my clients - a mystical belief they must surrender to the collectivists of AA to save themselves instead of using their God given ability to reason their way to complete recovery.
Therefore, what I saw Saturday wasn’t a prayer meeting, it was a massive AA meeting.
No doubt the next thing Beck will be telling us next that we are all suffering from the “disease” of socialism, and that we must attend his “meeting” daily if we are to be in “recovery” (never recovered) from the disease of socialism.
Beck, for all of his American Revolution preaching, seems to have missed its central thesis which was that man should use his God given ability to individual reason and not the sanction of a “group consiousness.”
In effect, Beck says that a “mystical collectivist conciousness” is needed to oppose “socialist mystical consiousness” - I’d say Beck’s cure is worse than the disease.
Yes, Beck, like most AA Nazis, is creepy.
Wow,
Really overthionking this one.
It was what it was.