Posted on 10/26/2009 7:51:02 AM PDT by 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?
Who cares what the poster thinks. Trying to marginalize Beck. Not going to work with many of us. Just not thinking people !
Glenn is brilliant and has a lot of guts for doing what he is doing exposing a lot of the evil doers in Washington. He is pointing out the evil in both parties and is not by any means one sided.
“How Can Glenn Beck Be Right on So Much and Yet Still Believe the book of Mormon? (serious question)”
No...STUPID question. And totally irrelevant to the good works Beck does. As long as he upholds the constitution and this nation, he can worship at the alter of the polka dot zombies for all I care.
The thing is, I look at most other religions besides mormonism and islam as not being overly bizarre. Those two really stand out as being wrong and kooky.
Beck chose to discuss his faith today - so it seems no one is picking on him by using his own topic as a topic here at FR.
I LOVE Beck’s show and his impact on our culture. But I find his Mormonism to be tragic.
“How Can Glenn Beck Be Right on So Much and Yet Still Believe the book of Mormon? (serious question)
What do his religious convictions have to do with anything?”
It’s arbitrary to cut them off from a belief system.
Do you really believe Beck ignored investigating his religion, given the type of investigating that he has done in the political arena? He was Mormon before he was a famous political commentator.
I imagine Beck doesn’t talk a lot about being Mormon because a lot of conservatives would tune him out, just because he is Mormon. I also think that Beck has, and will continue to study and read all he can about his religion. If he is still Mormon after that, at least we have a good ally.
I find doctrines in all religions to be seriously disturbing (like transubstantiation for Catholics). That doesn’t mean I won’t stand by them when we’re fighting the right fight together. Their religion doesn’t matter to me.
Scythian,
I’m glad you brough this up. I understand your intention is not to slam Glenn for being Mormon, but to deal with the thought that someone who has so brilliantly dug into economics and politics could believe something that is false according to your belief system. I actually have had the same thoughts. If he can believe something I believe is deeply flawed, can I trust his research on other topics?
I think his Mormonism actually makes me look harder at what he says on political and economic issues - and that’s a good thing! I love listening to him and have since 2001, but I also take time to think about his ideas. Use your doubt that way.
I’m Baptist and I’m an American and also a huge fan of Glenn Beck. I have no problems with him being a Mormon, it’s his choice, we have freedom of religion, he doesn’t use his radio and tv shows to slam it down peoples throats. Let it go.
Huh? I was defending Glenn and am also a huge fan. I have no problems with him being Mormon. I was saying if he is not against Jesus, he is for him. Guess what I said was way over your head...Baptist. :) Please go back and read what I said. Are you sure you weren't responding to someone else?
That’s sort of like asking, “What does she see in him?” In matters of the heart, and in matters of the spirit, an intellectual approach is the wrong approach. Far as I’m concerned, Beck’s religion is between him and God, and only God is fit to judge the connection.
"I must ever believe that religion substantially good which produces an honest life, and we have been authorized by One whom you and I equally respect, to judge of the tree by its fruit. Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our God alone. I inquire after no man's, and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life ti know whether your or mine, our friends or our foes, are exactly the right." - September 26, 1814, Thomas Jefferson to Miles King
yeah— it is pretty amazing.....I was very surprised when he shared that on the radio a few years ago.....
people who are new to Beck (like media and liberal baching hounds) truly do not understand who they are dealing with.
Beck is very comfortable in his skin. There really is no chink in his armor. Personal attacks on him just will not work. All his skeletons are out of the closet and have been for years.....and he has no problem with us knowing about them....
“Why bring religion into it? Whatever you might think of the Mormons, they are honest and productive, and don’t go around shouting “jihad” every second. You wanna pick on an idiot religion, try Islam - who’s principal prophet would be jailed for child molestation were he to be in this country.”
Exactly, Islam is a threat to everything this country was founded upon....like religious freedom.... NOT so with Mormons.
my faith is a religion, yours is a sect and that guy over there whom we don’t like, well, his is a cult.
“...because Glenn Beck hasn’t fact-checked the Book of Mormon as thoroughly as he’s fact-checking the Obama czars.”
That isn’t how Glenn Beck operates. I bet he knows much more about the LDS than your average LDS member...
The real question is what religion is Flap Jackson in the Morning this Morning?
Freegards
I would say it's none of my business if I didn't take seriously so much of what he says and that his opinions about worldly matters resonate with me. He comes across as sincere about that.
But what is your cultural exposure to these other religions? Hinduism, for example, to me is extremely bizarre- I have very little cultural exposure to Hinduism. However, to a Hindu, they see nothing strange or bizarre about what they believe, it is as normal as making coffee in the morning. To a Hindu who hasn’t been exposed to Christianity- they may view it as some bizarre cannibalistic religion where it is common practice to consume one’s God- What we see as perfectly normal communion.
Thank you for stating so well, what I was attempting to say in my post.
That line is a keeper. I'd like to use it sometime over on the Religion forum, when things get especially heated up.
Quite possibly my favorite verses in all the scriptures, Revelation 3:15-16
15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Yes, those are good verses, but why quote them to me?
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