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Posted on 09/09/2012 10:23:41 AM PDT by Mozilla
On Thursday night, Glenn Beck tackled an issue that has come up frequently throughout the 2012 presidential campaign — Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith. Prior to the show, the radio and television host invited TheBlaze readers and viewers to submit their questions, as he sought to address the myths that often surround The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Beck, who is also a Mormon, told viewers that his faith is inherent in all that he does. In fact, it is his personal relationship with God that guides his actions and sustains him.
“I do what I do, because of my faith,” Beck told viewers. “Because of my faith, I’m not afraid.”
He also went on to highlight some of the elements that people need to know about his personal faith and its central underpinnings. From a belief in Jesus Christ to the notion that helping one’s fellow man is essential, these values lay at the center of the Mormon experience.
“God lives. We survive. America flourishes,” he continued, listing off the other sentiments that Mormons embrace. “The Messiah came and he will come again. Be good to one another. Give until it hurts. Give to the poor, the hungry and the underprivileged. Obey God. Make a covenant with him. He keeps his word. But be on his side. Don’t try to get him on your side.”
The first issue — or myth, rather — that Beck tackled was polygamy, a marriage that includes more than two individuals. Since there is mass confusion surrounding Mormons and plural marriage, Beck provided in-depth background and historical analysis on the issue. While he explained that Mormons did, indeed, practice polygamy at one point in time, he notes that this dynamic ended 122 years ago and that the church takes a strong stance against it today.
GlennBeck.com has more about Beck’s statements surrounding historical constructs of the former practice:
He explained that in the 1800s, there was massive persecution of Mormons wer driven out of New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. In Missouri, the governor even issued Executive Order-44 which ordered that all Mormons be exterminated or driven out of the state, resulting in 10,000 Mormons who lived there either being killed or forced to flee. Executive Order-44 wasn’t overturned until 1976. As a result of this persecution, there weren’t many men left. The desire to repopulate played a role in the decision to practice polygamy, but only about 5% did it before the practice came to an end in 1890.
He called polygamy ”a perversion of everything we believe in.”
“The media would have nothing more to have Americans believe that anybody who believes what I believe is [Warren Jeffs],” Beck said, referring to a cult leader who is serving a life sentence for having relationships with underage girls.
Contemporary polygamists aren’t Mormons, Beck explained. Watch the host tackle the polygamy issue, below:
Next, he delved into the so-called “magic underwear” discussion. He was, of course, referring to the undergarments that Mormon adherents wear. Many times, this element of the faith is mocked and ridiculed, as non-believers don‘t understand the significance and haven’t necessarily been exposed to the reasoning behind wearing the clothing.
“It is to remind us of something very sacred,” Beck explained. “It’s a reminder of the promises we make at the Temple.”
Rather than serving as a secretive and elusive tool, the underwear represent the personal promises that Mormons make to be “faithful, modest, and temperate.”
While it’s not always easy to wear the undergarments, especially when it comes to finding clothing to wear over them, Beck said that the difficulty makes it more sacred and meaningful. Considering the importance of the underwear to the Mormon faith, it also become more painful, the host admitted, when others mock the practice:
Beck also tackled the purported “secretive” activities that unfold in the temple. While many critics have alleged that the church is elusive and that some of the activities are top-secret, Beck made it clear that there’s nothing surprising or startling going on behind closed doors.
“There’s no secret stuff,” Beck explained. “There‘s nothing you will find in the temple that you won’t find in the Old or New Testament.”
Marriage and baptism are two of the practices that take place inside Mormon houses of worship — elements that most other Christian denominations can relate to. Beck did delve into “baptism for the dead,” a practice that he said has roots in 1 Corinthians.
See him tackle these subjects, below:
There is also, of course, the question of Mormon missionaries. Beck described the fascinating, two-year trips that young believers make to help spread the faith, while simultaneously embarking on a journey to find themselves.
During this time, young Mormons find themselves “preaching the word and reading the scriptures,” as they go door-to-door to discuss their faith. While sharing an example of a friend’s son who just left for Finland for a mission, Beck encouraged others — regardless of their faiths — to engage in similar experiences.
“He will live the exact opposite of a trophy society. In a culture where ‘I’ve got to go find myself, while spending $50,000 a year and listen to a bunch of liberal Marxist professors at some liberal college…these guys do find themselves,” Beck proclaimed. “Please, do this in your faith. It changes your children…it’s one of the reasons that Mormons are so successful. They know why they are at an early age.”
“It’s not weird to be a Mormon. And it‘s not weird to be president if you’re Mormon,” Beck concluded.
This special episode comes as the nation prepares to potentially elect its first Mormon president. While some biases certainly continue to color Romney’s candidacy, the impact appears to be minimal. As we’ve previously reported, November 2011 Pew Research Center results found that, while Romney may have experienced some negative results due to his Mormon faith in the primary race, his general election chances likely won’t be impacted.
Unfortunately, this hasn’t stopped anti-Mormon attacks from unfolding in media. Beck’s goal, of course, was to dispel some of the myths that drive and fuel these incidents.
I'm sorry that you think stuff straight from the MORMON publishing house is BS; but it appears that you are not alone in this, as much Mormon BS has been excised from this thread.
When either of these two groups start claiming that THEY are 'christian'; and the ONLY true ones at that; THEN you might have a valid point.
MORMONism is an imposter. People who have chosen to be a member of it are deceived.
MORMONs who are smart enough to amass millions of dollars in this life, and have actually researched their chosen religion vs Chrsitianity, are no longer deceived, but DECEIVING.
55,000 of them, pounding on doors across the land; sure as hell does!
But 'men' waste more, uh, ammo, than EVER hits the target.
My flock of hens only needs ONE, 'man', to take care of ALL their needs!
A Mormon tour guide there told me the reason they embraced polygamy was to increase their numbers.
They actually ADMITTED that grown adults could NOT be seduced into MORMONism and that little children were needed to be brainwashed?
AMAZING!!
Or honesty.
Thanks Elsie for faithfully exposing heretical Mormonic doctrines. Unlike what Mormonism would end up doing if in control (and others have also done), we are not to war after the flesh in order to silence theological opponent, but expose the hidden things of darkness in the light of the Scriptures of old.
You might want to list some resources in that regard, first and formost i presume would be http://www.utlm.org/. Thanks be to God.
Tell us more.
HMMmm...
Isn't this the same thing that MITT says?
While using the liberal tactic of portraying themselves as the victim of Christian hate, what is avoided are the historical statements of their founders in exalting Mormonism and denigrating all others. When you do that then you are attracting lighting.
And as for tolerance, this is something that Mormonism has had to do, not what it would if in control, which i think you can substantiate quite easily.
As Smith said during the Missouri “Mormon War” of 1838, “I will be to this generation a second Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was ‘the Alcoran [Koran] or the Sword.’ So shall it eventually be with us—‘Joseph Smith or the Sword!’ ”[Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History, second edition, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), p. 230–231.]
As in this past thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2454176/posts
Too close to this animated parody: http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/03/liberal-universities-explained.html
I personally couldn’t care less if he believed in purple monsters from Venus. The fact that he has some faith in a higher power, something other than a self-centered belief such as atheists have, is fine by me.
What I don’t get or approve of is Mormons, which have a history and beliefs far more like Islam, trying to claim they are Christian when they do not believe in Christ.
As for the celestial harem thing, as I read their literature, you must be a member of the LDS in good standing with temple service if you are to be elevated to the highest (celestial?) heaven. I don't think my Baptist wife would qualify. She was a nice person, but since she hadn't ever been LDS, she (as most of us) can only get to the second (telestial?) heaven where we get to be the servants to those in the highest heaven.
Maybe he was picking out a maid?
ALLAH thanks you!!
Sorry; but I do n ot think there will be ANY interaction between levels...
Do you think you should be able to tell someone what they must believe in? I don’t, and our founding fathers didn’t, either. No one has the right to tell anyone else what to think. If you want to go down that road, OK, I know plenty of Christians that would say you are not one.
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