Catholicism permits liquor. Mormonism forbids it.
Beck is more comfortable in a religion that considers his greatest enemy to be an "evil" substance rather than a foodstuff. It helps his recovery in a very uncomplicated way.
Also, Beck has a very grandiose sense of self - a religion which teaches that he may one day be the deity of his own universe would be very attractive to him, I would think.
Who is this glen beck you speak of.. I have a vague memory of some hysterical semi funny huckster by that name but nothing real clear..
[Glenn Beck]”...he may one day be the deity of his own universe...”
In his own mind he already is. Check out his website.
I’m Catholic & it doesn’t bother me that the Mormon doctrine about alcohol is a major difference (not as major as LDS notions about the Divine). Didn’t start out that way as Joseph Smith drank & his followers used tobacco but Mormon revisionism knows no bounds.
Jesus’ first miracle was to change water into wine. Teetotalling denominations are at a loss to explain that away. Catholicism teaches alcohol should be used in moderation and that drunkeness is a sin.
Catholicism permits liquor. Mormonism forbids it.
"Wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
I'm kinda conflicted here. While it's true that the Torah does not forbid alcohol (in fact prescribes it on certain occasions) and that it is forbidden to add to the Torah, temperance/teetotalism/prohibitionism is one of those American Fundamentalist Protestant distinctives I love so much. And while it was originally a left-wing reform movement, it is now considered conservative because it has stubbornly retained its original moral positions when other social reformers turned against the very concept of morality. And ironically, the anti-alcohol churches are the pro-Jewish ones.
WCTU
The former Anti-Saloon League
Prohibition Party: Faction A
Prohibition Party: Faction B
May Neal Dow forgive you, widey, you Commie, you.