Glenn baptized a Roman Catholic as a child, lost his way completely when he became an alcoholic, spiritually, physically, the whole nine yards. He adopted the Mormon faith when he asked Tonya to be his wife.
Interesting. I had heard that he had been brought up as an Evangelical and his wife was a Mormon who he met when he was recovering from alcoholism.
In any case, I agree with him politically on many (but not all) things, but I certainly think it’s odd that he should be holding himself out as a spokesman for Christianity, because Mormons have very peculiar beliefs that are not Christian in the way that most Christians would understand them. In fact Mormonism is closer to Islam than anything else, since it has its own “Prophet,” does not accept Jesus as the Son of God and Redeemer, and is fundamentally theocratic with things like polygamy being part and parcel of it.
This is true even though the Mormon church as a whole was forced to reject those practices in the 19th century in order to retain their territory in the US. It is also one of the reasons for the survival of these bizarre Mormon groups that live on welfare, practice child marriage and hunt down anybody who attempts to leave because, like it or not, they do express the original pure Mormonism.
This is completely aside from the fact that Mormonism was founded by a man who spent much of his life looking for treasure through a “magic crystal” in the bottom of his hat, and ignoring the strange Mormon creation theory where they believe the American Indians were members of the Ten Lost Tribes - who arrived here in “cork submarines.” So if people thing Glenn Beck is a Christian leader, I think they should look elsewhere (unless he has reconverted to Christianity).
I’ve always thought the reason that there were so many computer geeks who came out of a Mormon background was that the beliefs of their “church” were so strange that they sought sanity in numbers and code.
Politics is a different matter, and I agree with him in many areas. And that’s what we have to stick to.
In Glenn Becks’ book called “An Inconvenient Book” he talks about meeting Tania and how he knew that they would be together forever. He says there was just on problem: She didn’t. “See, Tania is smart, way smarter than me. She understood that unless we shared a common faith, unless we had something deep, meaningful, and spiritual to help guide and bind us, we’d never make it.” At the time he says all he wanted was sex with her so he says he would have agreed to almost anything. Then he says: “But an amazing thing happened as Tania and I went from church to church, “shopping” for a faith: I actually started to enjoy it.” “The more we looked, the more sense her plan made, and now, years later, our commitment to God has strengthened our commitment to each other.”
In Glenn Becks’ book called “An Inconvenient Book” he talks about meeting Tania and how he knew that they would be together forever. He says there was just on problem: She didn’t. “See, Tania is smart, way smarter than me. She understood that unless we shared a common faith, unless we had something deep, meaningful, and spiritual to help guide and bind us, we’d never make it.” At the time he says all he wanted was sex with her so he says he would have agreed to almost anything. Then he says: “But an amazing thing happened as Tania and I went from church to church, “shopping” for a faith: I actually started to enjoy it.” “The more we looked, the more sense her plan made, and now, years later, our commitment to God has strengthened our commitment to each other.”