I did not see the rally but the concerns are justified if any of the following happened:
1. Did Beck propose to define God for the attendees?
2. Did Beck have officials of his religion there preaching for converts?
3. Did Beck and the religious leaders with him urge followers to create a new, inclusive faith to blend all the diverse faiths into one powerful church?
4. Did Beck give short shrift to any religious leader who disageed with his theology?
5. Did Beck condemn anyone who doesn’t believe as he does to Hell?
6. Did Beck utilize mind-altering methods to proselytize?
If not, then it wasn’t a religious ecumenical meeting and wasn’t a threat to any specific religion. If it was a general call for each person to commit to God as he or she conceives God, then I don’t see why people feel threatened by that. Something good happened here and I see far too many trying to tear it down. If it energized people to start thinking of how God might bless this nation to come through its difficult times, I don’t see that as evil.
But maybe that’s just me. I can certainly hear a call to holiness, whether it comes from the Pope, or a Muslim imam, or a Rabbi or an evangelical preacher, or a Buddhist monk. But I would then find holiness as I understood it in my own religious beliefs, not in that particular “caller’s” belief. Are we so unsure of our own beliefs that such a call would be threatening? As posters on similar threads have pointed out, God uses many means to bring us to holiness. If he can use a donkey as a mouthpiece, why not a talkshow host?
RE: then it wasn’t a religious ecumenical meeting
I believe Rev. Mohler’s concern is not with Glenn Beck’s rally per se... his main cocnern is with CHRISTIANS who cannot discern between moral, social and theological issues.