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I; for one, thank God that Beck has been given the time, money, and inclination to do the research he has and to travel the path he has chosen. He has taken to exhorting people to find God, turn to God, pray to God, and above all, listen to God. He is not recommending an avenue or a religion to achieve that. He is not proselytizing or insisting that his religious view is the only one. He is pointing out that the stakes are so high, and the danger so great that without God as an anchor, you will be swamped. If you are offended that the Catholic Church is wrongly accused of an excess, I can respect that. Your assertion that the only possible explanation for the error is hatred is simplistic. Your sly declaration that the Catholic Church is the Christian Church is insulting. The progressives are the enemy. Reigniting the debate on transubstantiation vs. consubstantiation (a metaphor) is not going to accomplish anything except victory to the unfaithful. My faith in God, my love for Jesus the Christ, and my gratitude that he would extend his sacrifice to a miserable sinner such as I am is not likely to be shaken by a TV historian, an extinct sect, or a gathering of Bishops 1600 years ago. To have freedom, there must be free will. Without it, there can be no virtue. There can be no good and no evil. Without free will, temptation is meaningless.

The statements about the Dead Sea Scrolls were not in error. He had a point, and he was willing to either count on Anti-Christians as his source or he was making it up. He clearly intended to demean historic Christianity. Listen to the clip again.

I am not Catholic so you must be mistaken.

"The progressives are the enemy" No, I believe all falsehood is the enemy, from wherever it comes.

"To have freedom, there must be free will. Without it, there can be no virtue. There can be no good and no evil. Without free will, temptation is meaningless."

I know that Glenn Beck holds this view; it is the reason he thinks that disobeying God and obeying Satan was a good idea way back in the garden of Eden. To him, and some other Non-Mormons, freedom to choose is more important than doing what is right.

My full reply to this is found in another post on Free Republic.