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To: MozarkDawg; Jess Kitting

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.


69 posted on 08/29/2010 2:34:29 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
The constant refrain throughout these threads is making me crazy -- as Glenn himself has reminded us often what Samuel Adams said when everyone was so certain his religion was the superior:

"I'm no bigot, I'll pray with anyone."

73 posted on 08/29/2010 4:52:55 PM PDT by MozarkDawg
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“Does not accept Jesus as the savior and redeemer” ... I don't know what you are smoking, but it Can't be legal, as for prophets, polygamy and the rest... have you read the bible? FYI, the urim an thummim were seer stones used to see the future and receive revelation. They were worn in the breastplate of Aaron by the high priest...
98 posted on 08/30/2010 6:35:14 AM PDT by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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