I wasn’t talking about Mormonism, Colo. I was using sarcasm to impart my distaste for FReepers of other Christian faiths who seem fit to not just proselytise but go so far as to say that my religion is useless, worthless, or otherwise condemned.
Glenn Beck used to be a Catholic. I knew him when he started his career on radio here in the Tampa Bay area. He’s a good man. He’s an honest man. He’s a teacher. He’s an American. The fact that people cast him off as a kook tells me that intolerance of other religious sects is alive and well on “the Right,” and we’re now forced to bicker over matters of faith when a GOD DAMNED MUSLIM IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE TRYING TO DESTROY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
Get over the petty, infantile, ridiculous religious differences and get with the damn program! We’re ALL AMERICANS. I don’t give a damn about what Beck believes. He’s teaching us history as our Founders intended, and that is infinitely more important in this time of our history than whether or not he believes in gold tablets of scripture or some idiot who started a religion in the US on false pretenses.
Nothing in this post is directed at you specifically Colo, but I’m with airborne; I’m tired of non-religious threads getting hijacked by the proselytizing FReepers among us. You’re not going to convert me. You’re not going to convert Beck. Get over yourself, find the proper forum to preach, and let’s get back to focusing on life as Americans, regardless of faith.
What an utterly ridiculous statement! You make it sound like either what Christianity is, or what Christianity's pretenders proclaim, is tantamount to Sci-fi Scientology...where everything is "out there" and isn't rooted in history.
The incarnation of Jesus Christ is a historical claim. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a historical claim.
Likewise, Beck's belief system points to historical claims, too, about the Book of Mormon, or what Beck said on TV last week, that the Mormon jesus came to the Americas and lived there for a while and taught "scriptures" peculiar to the Mormon belief system.
If you had a university history professor who was just "marvelous" at proclaiming U.S. history -- and yet his claims about world history showed flunking potential, I don't see how you could claim that would be somehow irrelevant to his credentials and reputation.