How Can Glenn Beck Be Right on So Much and Yet Still Believe the book of Mormon? (serious question)

[Scythian]

I'm a huge Beck fan, in fact I'm listening right now here

http://www.ksfa860.com/common/gap_streamer.php

but something really confuses me. It takes the ability to use real critical thinking to know what Beck (and most of us know about the state of the country and where we are heading). That is, we have the ability to discover the truth no matter how much the media or conventional wisdom try to hide it. Yet on Mormonism, Beck is cleary wrong. Any Christian knows that the book or momonism is severely flawed and that Joseph Smith was no prophet. How can Beck cut through all the chaff of what is going on in our world and come to the truth and yet believe the writings of Joseph Smith? It doesn't make sense? I'm not saying he's up to something secret, not by any means, it's just that he's so right about so many things and completely wrong on the most important thing. Now, he just said on the air that he believes Jesus is the Savior of the world and that he is Mormon.

I also think that because he is Mormon he is not attacked near as much if he was a Evangelical Bible only believer. Anyway, am I nutz or does Beck being a Mormon seem bizarre?

[47samurai]

Glenn Beck has not only read the Book of Mormon cover to cover at least 3 times, he has taught the Book in his home congregation. ( I knew someone from his ‘ward’ who sat in on his ‘gospel doctrine’ classes and attests that his personal testimony of the BOM is “awesome”.)

[Publius6961]

Deflect from the issues and attack his religion?
I had no idea Beck was Mormon.

I guess the loser liberals are desperate enough to try anything.

I still watch Beck.

[Dan(9698)]

yet when it comes to his religion he he doesn't dig deeper than the book jacket.

A couple of years ago, Preident Hinkley, Preident of the LDS Church asked the members to read the Book of Mormon before the end of the year.

We are encouraged to read ALL the scriptures on a regular basis. Most of the active members do that.

[Safrguns]

>>> A curious observation since Beck can best be charaterized by the way he seeks out and synthesizes information. He delves so deeply into everything he touch upon, yet when it comes to his religion he he doesn’t dig deeper than the book jacket. That would seem a bit of a contradiction wouldn’t it?

You would think so.

However, compartmentalization is a very tricky psychological phenomenon. As long as the prevailing needs of the individual do not force them to reconcile contradicting positions, they will never be resolved.

Beck seems to be a very humble person.
He does not strike me as one who is ‘spiritually prideful’.
His personal convictions regarding faith and the whole works vs Grace based salvation conclusions may not even line up with LDS teachings and the BOM. I would love to hear him answer the question “what justifies your entry into heaven”.
That would answer a lot for me.

[CodeToad]

“What do his religious convictions have to do with anything?
“

Religion is not some altered form of thought. It is nothing but beliefs, so what a person believes is extremely important to understanding who they are, where they are coming from, and if their ideas can be believed.

Beck is dead-on 99% of the time and I appreciate his efforts despite his Mormon beliefs. The Mormon thing does call into question his ability to rationally think.

[Old North State]

Everybody has a blind spot.

Religion is, by it's nature, transcendental. It is beyond logic and observation because divine agency passes human understanding. You can either accept it or reject it but you cannot constrain it. You cannot posit a god and they demand that he act in ways that we can understand. I think religious belief must always be exceptional, we can judge human activity, politics, society, etc. by human standards and leave room for religious beliefs beyond our sight, a blind spot to be sure, but as W Blake put it,
“May God us keep
From single vision
And Newton's sleep.”

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Southpark explains the history of mormons

video here: http://www.videosift.com/video/History-of-Mormonism-by-South-Park

[Publius6961]

What do his religious convictions have to do with anything?

So long as they're not part of his daily show, I agree. And it's not.

Strange, how even old time Freepers are jumping on the liberal wagon on this one.

[Scythian]

Thanks, finally someone understood the question and didn’t react to it like the media ... I appreciate it.

[Red Boots]

A co-worker asked me last year “how can someone as intelligent as you not be a ‘progressive’?”

I have a client who is a big lib and it's been sort of fun to watch him try to massage his lib vs conservative narrative to fit me.

First he excused me by saying well I guess you want your bookkeeper to be conservative....then later he excused me by postualting that people basically just vote the way they were raised to vote by their parents. He was pretty satisfied with that one until I informed him that I was raised a big lib.

When I told him that you really have to look into the facts behind the cultural myths we are taught at collge, he whined that he didn't have enough time to do all that research.

I have an anwser for every dumb lib myth he flings at me, and I think that unnerves him. He can't just say that I'm stupid because I've proven otherwise and he likes me. He's really quite smart and I think that eventually he'll come around.

[Natural Law]

"How Can Glenn Beck Be Right on So Much and Yet Still Believe the book of Mormon?"

Who ever asks this question understands nothing about faith. Having read the Book of Mormon and the Old Testament I really can't say which is more bizarre to the non-believer.

[MinuteGal]

Mormans on the whole are good people. I remember decades ago when there was a huge nation-wide battle against the ERA led by Phyllis Schafly, I worked the hustings in my Illinois county. We got the most volunteers from Morman women. They were also active in pro-life, pro-family causes whenever needed. They were educated and dependable.

That being said, Beck chooses to occasionally interject Mormanizing into his radio and TV shows, making him fair game for pot shots. He's unwise to do so, but then, if I was his advisor, I'd be making big bucks, LOL.

I have never heard Rush airing his religious denomination, if any, in the over-twenty years I've been a consistant listener. Smart man.

Stick a cork in it, Glenn. We love ya, man.

Leni

[tgusa]

Dittos, this was entertaining while I was eating lunch. Now on to something with some meaning - like, Virginia’s upcoming election, where we are gonna hand 0’s boy Deeds his @ss.

[Colofornian]

my faith is a religion, yours is a sect and that guy over there whom we don’t like, well, his is a cult.

Hey, you haven't kept up with current & historical assessments:
my faith is a relationship with God/Jesus Christ;
yours is a religion,
Joseph Smith, Glenn Beck's prophet, thought ours were apostate sects from the very founding vision of his -- which later Mormons turned into Lds "scripture"
and, for this and many other reasons, including the belief that temple Mormons think they can become gods,
they really are a cult

[top 2 toe red]

I think his religion is none of your damned business! [And, for the record, NO, I am NOT a Mormon!}

[humblegunner]

He delves so deeply into everything he touch upon

No, his research staff does. He just talks about their results.

when it comes to his religion he he doesn't dig deeper than the book jacket

Obviously, he has not set that task before his research staff.

You didn't really thinks he comes up with information on his own?

[Tenacious 1]

I am FoxNews for merely asking a very logical question,...

You asked a question about whether or not a man is crazy for aligning himself with a different religion than yours. Either that or you insulted Mormons by suggesting they are all stupid through innuendos.

Now you answer this question. Are you a bigot or do you think all Mormons are crazy? I'm just asking a "very logical question" here.

[Night Hides Not]

I guess the loser liberals are desperate enough to try anything.

The First Amendment is a real beyotch.

My question for liberals is: "how do you reconcile your hatred of Glenn Beck being Mormon, yet remain silent over the fact that the Senate Majority Leader is of the same faith?"

[madison10]

...and he probably knows more about The Book of Mormon than many of us Christians know about the Bible, yet here we are spouting off. Been awhile since I’ve read mine cover to cover.

[Sudetenland]

Right. He can't possibly understand what his religion teaches and not think as you would have him think or believe as you believe...afterall, you are the sole arbitor of all that is truth and what is false...such arrogance is truly frightening.

How does it feel to be god?