You Beck Baiter You. And on the day of testimony meeting. You should be ashamed of yourself./s
Posted on 06/06/2010 10:18:56 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
Glenn Beck is one of the most popular political commentators in the United States. Between his TV show, and nationally syndicated talk-radio show, Beck reaches millions of Americans every day with his commentary about politics.
Glenn Beck is also a convert to the Mormon faith, joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1999 along with his wife and children. If you do one thing on this site, be sure to watch the video where he talks about his conversion story in more detail!
Beck cites the influence of many Mormon friends throughout his life as one of the primary reasons he joined the Mormon Church. His wife, Tania, also told Glenn that she wanted them to share a faith before they were married. At the time, neither Tania nor Glenn were active in any faith, despite Glenn’s upbringing in the Catholic Church. At that point, Glenn and Tania went on a “church tour” to find the faith that they could share as a family.
An old friend, Pat Gray, invited Beck to visit the Mormon Church. Despite hesitations, Glenn visited soon after, resulting in he and the family immediately becoming interested. However, Beck struggled with the decision to join the Church—telling God he didn’t want to be a “Mormon”, as he describes it. After earnest study and prayer, Glenn knew that he wanted to be baptized and requested that his best friend Pat Gray baptize him.
Watch the video.
Beck has promoted and written the forward for "The 5000 Year Leap" by Cleon Skousen.
"Willard Cleon Skousen (January 20, 1913 – January 9, 2006) was a Mormon American conservative author and political commentator. A prominent figure in some strains of American conservatism (associated with the John Birch Society), Skousen authored books on politics and Mormonism. In 2008, political commentator and Mormon media personality Glenn Beck began recommending Skousen's works, sparking new interest in his ideas and publications."
Disclaimer: I am in neither camp for Beck. However, I believe his admiration for Skousen and Skousen's ideology, (see this thread A summary of What We Might Expect in the Next Twenty-Five Years), particularly the idea that the "mormon elders" will "save the constitution" influences Glenn into wild speculation.
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I’m glad Glen is there to expose the current occupant. I’m
also sorry about his involvement in mormonism - for an
addictive personality, mormonism’s rigidity and legalism may
seem to bring stability to his life. It is simply another form
of addition - the exaltation of oneself through self-righteousness.
I myself feel torn on the issue of Beck’s Mormonism. On one hand it did help him straighten his life out, but on the other hand Mormon teachings are so un-biblical they are scary. It is some of the teachings like “Families forever” that often lure people in and they are the most un-biblical. The point of the after life is to be spent in the presence of God and not the family first idea that the Mormons believe.
Heads around here will be exploding when (not if) he endorses Mittster.
Even the “family first” idea is a joke; they had to invent “family home evening” one night a week because the fathers have to spend the rest of their evenings at meetings!
Beck probably has leeway as a spokesman to get out of a lot of those obligations, IMHO.
You Beck Baiter You. And on the day of testimony meeting. You should be ashamed of yourself./s
I can just see this at F&T meeting.
I knew you had that one ready to go. LOL
Heads around here will be exploding when (not if) he endorses Mittster.
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I have a bet going with a fellow freeper on that very thing.
I am not expecting a full out endorsement (fox doesn’t seem to like that) but Beck WILL be showing more and more support for Mitt as the only ‘viable’ candidate.
I also expect more of Becks Mormonism to be creeping in, like the other day when he made a stupid comment about the Dead Sea Scrolls and how Constantine corrupted the Bible.
Glenn Beck stated (which is verbatim LDS propaganda):
When Constantine decided that he was going to cobble together an army, he did the Council of Nicea, right, Pat? Pat: Yea. Glenn: The Council of Nicea, and what they did is brought all of the religious figures together, all the Christians and then they said, “Ok, let’s put together the Apostles’ Creed, let’s you know, you guys do it.” So they brought all their religious scripture together, that’s when the Bible was first bound and everything else. And then they said, “Anybody that disagrees with this is a heretic and off with their head!” Well, that’s what the Dead Sea Scrolls are. The Dead Sea Scrolls are those scriptures that people had at the time that they said, “They are destroying all of this truth.” Whether it’s truth or not is up to the individual, but at that time those people thought that this was something that needed to be preserved and so they rolled up the scrolls and put them in clay pots and they put them in the back of caves where no one could find them. They were hidden scripture because everything was being destroyed that disagreed with the Council of Nicea and Constantine. That’s what those things are.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2524510/posts
Back in the 50s I had a Mormon friend in the military who did not smoke, drank alcohol, tea or coffee and never used bad language. I was impressed by his sincerity.
I thought it strange when he told me, “In the end, only one of us two can be right, but no one else will be.” I never felt any inclination to join his religion.
According to them, the Gospel of Jesus Christ was taken from the earth and God chose to "restore" it to an unlearned, 14-year-old occultist money-digger, the only way to salvation is through obedience to the many rules and regulations and partaking of obscure rituals in mormon temples, which are only to be accessed by members who have paid their full tithe.
Anyone who leaves mormonism is absolutely going to the lowest level of numerous "kingdoms" which function as filters allowing only the most absolutely "worthy" entry to dwell with God and Jesus, and Joseph Smith will be standing at the "gate" judging your worthiness to enter Heaven...
Your inclination was correct.
“In the end, only one of us two can be right, but no one else will be.”
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Let me guess, you are Catholic, right?
Amen
When Constantine decided that he was going to cobble together an army, he did the Council of Nicea, right, Pat? Pat: Yea. Glenn: The Council of Nicea, and what they did is brought all of the religious figures together, all the Christians and then they said, “Ok, let’s put together the Apostles’ Creed, let’s you know, you guys do it.”
When I saw this posted before, I thought it was a joke. If Beck was Catholic, he must have been taught by a George Harrison / John Lennon style catechist. Let's see....
If the Nicene Council put together the Apostle's Creed, does that mean that an Apostle's Council put together the Nicene Creed? Do the LDS profess the Nicene Creed? They sure cannot profess the Athenasian Creed, at least not with a straight face...
I like a lot of Becks ideas but I believe he is potentially dangerous in that he teaches Mormon doctrine without overtly identify it as such.
If the Nicene Council put together the Apostle’s Creed, does that mean that an Apostle’s Council put together the Nicene Creed? Do the LDS profess the Nicene Creed? They sure cannot profess the Athenasian Creed, at least not with a straight face...
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LOL. If I hadn’t been LDS I would have thought Beck’s comments were a joke as well.
The LDS probably think the Lateran councils were so called because they were laying down (lateral).
I thought so. A VERY common statement by the LDS is “Either the Catholics are the ‘true church’ or we are, the Protestants don’t have a leg to stand on’.
What they don’t take into account is that Christ is who is True.
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